Anticorruption for Development (AC4D) Global Forum: Restoring Trust

Francis Fukuyama is Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), Mosbacher Director of FSI's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), and Director of Stanford's Master's in International Policy Program. He is also professor (by courtesy) of Political Science.

Dr. Fukuyama has written widely on issues in development and international politics.  His 1992 book, The End of History and the Last Man, has appeared in over twenty foreign editions. His most recent book, Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment, was published in Sept. 2018.

Francis Fukuyama received his B.A. from Cornell University in classics, and his Ph.D. from Harvard in Political Science. He was a member of the Political Science Department of the RAND Corporation,  and of the Policy Planning Staff of the US Department of State.  From 1996-2000 he was Omer L. and Nancy Hirst Professor of Public Policy at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University, and from 2001-2010 he was Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. He served as a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics from 2001-2004. 

Dr. Fukuyama holds honorary doctorates from Connecticut College, Doane College, Doshisha University (Japan), Kansai University (Japan), and Aarhus University (Denmark), and the Pardee Rand Graduate School.  He is a non-resident fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and at the Center for Global Development. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the Pardee Rand Graduate School and the Volcker Alliance. He is a member of the American Political Science Association and the Council on Foreign Relations.  He is married to Laura Holmgren and has three children.

The former president of Transparency International’s chapter in Argentina, Poder Ciudadano, Delia Matilde Ferreira Rubio has served as chief advisor for several representatives and senators at the Argentine National Congress and has advised the Constitutional Committee of both the House of Representatives and the Senate, and the National Accountin Office. Currently she works as an independent consultant, and has consulted on anti-corruption related issues with international organisations and NGOs, mainly in Latin America. Delia has a PhD in law from Madrid’s Complutense University and is the author of numerous publications on democratic culture and political institutions, comparative politics, and public and parliamentary ethics. She was elected to TI’s board in 2008 and 2011 and then again as chair in 2017.

Massimo Tommasoli is a policy specialist with extensive experience in democracy building, democratic governance, social development, evaluation and aid effectiveness. His main fields of expertise include: UN and democracy assistance; participatory development; social analysis in aid agencies; management training; conflict prevention and peacebuilding; gender equality.

He is responsible for developing, enhancing and strengthening strategic partnerships, policy advocacy and outreach of International IDEA at the UN General Assembly and in other multilateral policy fora, as well as with democracy building institutions based in North America (USA and Canada).

He has been International IDEA’s Director of Operation in Stockholm. He previously worked as Head of the Good Governance and Conflict Prevention Unit in the Development Cooperation Directorate at the OECD in Paris. He held positions at the Directorate General for Development Cooperation of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome, and at UNESCO in Addis Ababa.

Visiting scholar at the LUISS University in Rome, he lectured at the Colin Powell School  for Civic and Global Leadership at the City College of New York, the UN System Staff College in Turin, and various Italian Universities (Bergamo, Chieti, Milan, Pisa). He has field experience in sub-Saharan Africa (Ethiopia, Somalia, Tanzania), Latin America (Colombia) and the Russian Federation.

Author of seven books and several essays and articles on participatory development, aid evaluation and conflict and resettlement policies. His publications include: Democracy and the Pillars of UN Work (Stockholm & New York 2014); Nel nome dello sviluppo (Rome 2013); Politiche di cooperazione internazionale (Rome 2013); Sviluppo partecipativo (Rome 2001; Spanish edition, Madrid 2003; French edition, Paris 2004).

Brigitte Strobel-Shaw is the Chief of the Corruption and Economic Crime Branch at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. The Branch is responsible for providing policy, normative and substantive support to States for the implementation of the United Nations Convention against Corruption, the only global anti-corruption instrument. The Branch delivers technical assistance in various corruption-related thematic areas, such as prevention, education, asset recovery, international cooperation, integrity in the criminal justice system and sports. Prior to this post, Brigitte held several positions in the UN system, both at headquarters and in the field, on issues related to crime prevention and criminal justice, including on organized crime, counterterrorism, juvenile justice and violence against women. Brigitte is a lawyer by training.

Gavin is honored to be the Executive Director of Open Contracting Partnership, a silo-busting collaboration across government, business and civil society to open up and transform public contracting and procurement. Gavin plans to reinvent one of the largest markets in the world – covering 1 in every 3 dollars spent by government – as a smart, user-centered digital service, improving trust, inclusion and sustainability.

Before joining the Open Contracting Partnership, Gavin was Director of Campaigns and then Executive Director of Global Witness. He oversaw the organization’s groundbreaking and award-winning investigative, campaigning and advocacy work uncovering secret deals, corruption and conflict around the world. He helped create the international Publish What You Pay campaign and negotiated the intergovernmental Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative to improve disclosure and oversight of over trillion dollars of oil and mining money paid around the world.

He is also an expert on illicit financial flows and helped lead global efforts to end the abuse of anonymous shell companies for money laundering and financial crime, including at the G8 and Open Government Partnership.

He has a Doctorate from the University of Reading and has worked with Chatham House in London and the United National Environmental Programme in the past on analyzing and investigating global environmental crime. Gavin is a 2021 Fellow of World Commerce & Contracting for his work on improving trust and the emergency response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Mihály Fazekas is the scientific director of GTI, while also serving as an associate professor at the Central European University, Department of Public Policy, with a focus on using Big Data methods to understand the quality of government globally. He has a PhD from the University of Cambridge where he pioneered Big Data methods to measure and understand high-level corruption in Central- and Eastern Europe.

His research and policy interests revolve around corruption, favouritism, private sector collusion, and government spending efficiency. Methodologically, he has experience in both quantitative and qualitative methods in diverse fields such as public policy, economics, and political science. He worked at the University of Cambridge as the scientific coordinator of the Horizon 2020 funded project DIGIWHIST which used a Big Data approach to measuring corruption risks, administrative capacity, and transparency in public procurement in 33 European countries. While at University College London, he served as a co-Principal Investigator on the Global Integrity/FCDO funded research project looking at anti-corruption in development aid-funded as well as national procurement. He regularly consults the European Commission, Council of Europe, EBRD, OECD, World Bank, and a range of national governments and NGOs across the globe. He led a team of FCDO UK, GTI, and IMF which won the 1st prize at the IMF Anti-Corruption Challenge for measuring corruption and its costs globally.

Mihály’s CV & homepage

Gian Luigi Albano is the Head of the Division “The Programme for the Rationalization of Public Administration’s Spending” at Consip, the National Central Purchasing Body in Italy. The Division oversees the twenty-year old mission of implementing centralized public procurement for goods and services on behalf of the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance. He is also Adjunct Professor of Economics at LUISS “G. Carli” in Rome where he regularly teaches Industrial Organization and Game Theory.

After getting his Ph.D. in Economics at CORE (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium), he joined the Department of Economics at University College London in 1999, where he taught microeconomics, auction theory and game theory.

The passion for auction and market design drew him almost unconsciously to the world of public procurement. In 2005, he joined the new-born Research Unit at Consip in Rome, which he led until his appointment as Head of Division in 2018. Throughout more than a decade he has leveraged his academic background to contribute designing more sound procurement processes, rooting them into modern economics and thus overcoming the “traditional” perception of sign-off ridden procedures.

As Global Director, Finance in the Finance, Competitiveness & Innovation (FCI) Global Practice, Jean leads the World Bank’s work to promote the development of sound, stable, sustainable, and inclusive financial systems. His global team of experts works with governments and partners to make financial systems more resilient, to open access to finance for poor and vulnerable people, to support economic activity and to develop financial markets. Their strategy and its implementation emphasize development of digital financial services, addressing climate change and sustainable finance and creating opportunities for women by bolstering their financial inclusion.

Previously, Jean led the World Bank’s Financial Stability and Integrity global team, which assists countries in building and restoring robust and resilient financial systems operating with integrity, transparency and in compliance with international standards and recommendations. He has extensive experience working on financial sector issues, notably in the Middle East and North Africa. 

Jean is a French citizen and resides in Washington DC.

Thom Townsend is Open Ownership’s Executive Director and our chief strategist. He directs implementation efforts and works with our partners to maximise our impact. His focus is on making sure that we deliver our goal of ensuring the world has more open, usable information about who ultimately owns and controls companies.

Thom is an expert on open data and was previously Head of Data Policy for the UK government. He has led some of the UK’s biggest open data commitments at the national and global level, and has spent his career ensuring that good data is being produced and used inside and outside of government.

Thom led the open contracting elements of the 2016 London Anti Corruption Summit and it was here that the real push towards open, usable beneficial ownership data got started and Open Ownership was born. It was clear that beneficial ownership disclosure is the last link in the long chain required to follow the money and the next frontier to work on, which is why Thom left government and now leads Open Ownership.

Thom is based in Amsterdam.

Emile Van Der Does De Willebois is Lead Financial Sector Specialist and Global Lead for Financial Market Integrity, since January 2016.

In this role, Emile is responsible for setting and leading the policy dialogue related to the financial markets integrity area on behalf of the Finance, Competitiveness & Innovation Global Practice.

Emile, a Dutch national, has been with the Bank since 2004, providing policy advice to countries on anti-money laundering, combating the financing of terrorism and asset recovery and building country capacity to conduct financial investigations. Emile specializes in the abuse of legal entities, beneficial ownership issues and the use of non-profit entities for terrorist purposes. Previously he was with the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and in private practice, specializing in banking and securities law. Emile holds degrees in Philosophy and Law from Leiden University.

Chris Chalmers has been Head of DFID China since 2011.

He joined DFID in 2000 and previously worked for Voluntary Service Overseas and BBC World Service.

Chris has a degree in history.

David Bernstein is Lead Public Sector Specialist for the Governance Global Practice at the World Bank. David is presently working on justice reform and anticorruption projects for the countries in the Middle East and North Africa region, including Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and West Bank & Gaza. Mr. Bernstein is a lawyer who has worked in private legal practice, for the U.S. State Department and for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development before joining the World Bank in late 2003.  David has worked on public sector reform projects focusing on the justice sector since 1992 and on anticorruption since 2010. The majority of his work has been with the former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.  David has also worked in the World Bank's Integrity Vice Presidency where he focused on corruption prevention activities in the East Asia Pacific region and served as advisor to INT’s Policy Director.  David has a B.S. in economics and political science from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Mr. Klaus Decker is a Senior Public Sector Specialist working at the World Bank in Washington since 2002. As a member of the Governance Global Practice, he supports justice sector reform initiatives worldwide with a focus on the Middle East and Northern Africa. He is currently the chair of the World Bank’s Justice and Development Community of Practice. He has tasked managed numerous World Bank investment lending operations supporting justice sector reform, primarily in Europe and Central Asia. He has led World Bank technical assistance initiatives to justice sector institutions across a range of specific technical topics in different parts of the world. He has also led teams delivering justice sector analytical work to clients. 

Jonathan leads the work of the Global Health Programme, and joined the programme in 2019. Jonathan’s background is in public health, and he has extensive experience of working in with governments, civil society organisations and the private sector in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa on health systems strengthening, and on improving the quality of care. He has also worked as a freelance consultant and with UK royal medical colleges. He possesses an Msc in Health Policy, Planning, and Financing, and speaks German and Nepali.

Jillian Clare Kohler's research focuses on global access to essential medicines. More specifically, she focuses her research on issues that are linked to anti-corruption, transparency and accountability in the pharmaceutical sector, as well as those related to trade issues and intellectual property rights.

In addition to her role as professor and cross-appointments at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, she is the Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Governance, Transparency and Accountability in the Pharmaceutical Sector.

Gaël Raballand is the Practice Manager for Governance in Senegal at the World Bank. He holds a PhD in economics and a degree in political science and international public law. He co-authored several World Bank books on transport, trade and customs in Africa and has also been involved in several customs reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa. He has been based in East Africa in the last 5 years working on public spending efficiency, governance and aid effectiveness issues especially on fragile and conflict affected countries, in particular Somalia.

Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church is a scholar-practitioner with a lifelong interest in governance processes that have run amuck. She has significant experience working on peacebuilding, governance, accountability and learning across the Balkans and West and East Africa. For fifteen years, Cheyanne taught program design, monitoring and evaluation in fragile contexts at the Fletcher School. Prior to that she was the Director of Evaluation for Search for Common Ground and Director of Policy at INCORE. She has had the privilege of working in an advisory capacity with a range of organizations such as ABA/ROLI, CDA, ICRC, IDRC, UN Peacebuilding Fund and the US State Department. She can be commonly found in the Canadian Rockies with her fierce daughters and gem of a husband.

Ray Fisman is an Affiliate Faculty Member of the Human Capital Initiative at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center and holds the Slater Family Chair in Behavioral Economics at Boston University. Previously, he was the Lambert family professor of Social Enterprise and co-director of the Social Enterprise Program at Columbia University’s business school. Professor Fisman’s research –focused on various aspects of political economy and behavioral economics – has been published in leading economics journals including the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and Quarterly Journal of Economics; this work has been widely covered in the popular press, in such outlets as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, the Economist, and the Washington Post.. His most recent book, Corruption: What Everyone Needs to Know (with political scientist Miriam Golden), was published by Oxford University Press in 2017.

Natalie Forsyuk was appointed as Deputy Minister of Infrastructure, Ukraine in September 2019 and has acted as an adviser to the Minister of Infrastructure for the past two years. She is a member of the World Road Association’s Performance of Transport Administration (TCA 1) Technical Committee, a role in which she has promoted the value of increasing transparency, integrity and accountability in transport infrastructure. Prior to her position in government, Natalie worked as a Technical Adviser for the CoST International Secretariat and as Country Manager for CoST Ukraine. In both positions she regularly participated in large international evemments such as the Abu Dhabi World Road Congress 2019 and the Open Government Partnership Summit 2018. As Technical Adviser, she provided guidance to current and prospective countries on areas such as the multi-stakeholder approach, open data platforms and communicating key messages. As Country Manager for CoST Ukraine Natalie was instrumental in driving forward the initiative’s key achievements, such as development of CoST Ukraine’s online disclosure platform and analytical tool which hosts data from Ukraine’s public procurement platform, ProZorro. A lawyer by profession, Natalie spent four years working in corporate law and twelve years in the business sector, where she was the director of a wood processing company in Ukraine.

James Anderson (Jim) is a Lead Governance Specialist for the Governance Global Practice. Jim started his career as a development economist in Mongolia where he lived from 1993 through 1997, researching institutional reform, the informal sector, and the impacts of large-scale privatization. In 1997, Jim took his interest in institutions and empirical tools and began to apply them to governance challenges, notably anticorruption and judicial reform, in the transition countries of central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. He moved to Vietnam in 2008 and focused his attention on access to information, transparency, anticorruption, and human rights. Most recently, Jim served as the Country Manager for Mongolia from 2014 through August 2018, supporting the World Bank’s program in all fields. He enjoys taking pictures and writing things and, through it all, remains a “governance data junkie”, making no effort to kick the habit. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Maryland and did his undergraduate studies at UMBC.

Cristina Ritter is an attorney-at-law specialized in business administration with a professional career of 18 years in both the United Nations and the private sector. She recently joined the UN Global Compact, as the Head of Anti-Corruption and Governance (2022).

Prior to this position, Ms. Ritter worked for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) since 2014, where she provided technical assistance in various continents on the international standards and tools to address corruption and money laundering, while engaging in international cooperation and asset recovery. Over the years, she was designated Global Coordinator of the Integrity Component of CRIMJUST, a UNODC flagship programme against drug-trafficking, she became responsible for the Americas at the Corruption and Economic Crime Branch (CEB) and served as Regional Anti-Corruption Advisor twice. In this context, she engaged with chambers of commerce, compliance associations, private sector entities and companies in over twenty countries to promote business integrity. She also fostered private-public dialogue, achieving the adoption of multiple policies, legal frameworks and national anti-corruption strategies.

Her formal education includes an MBA in Strategic Management (Argentina / France) and a Magna Cum Laude Degree in Law and Political Science (Panama). She is fluent in Spanish, English and French.

Semereta Sewasew is the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia’s State Minister of Finance for Economic Cooperation. In this role, she leads the Ministry of Finance’s international economic cooperation policies and operations, with a focus on ensuring external resources are effectively managed and mobilized to provide maximum benefit and results for the people of Ethiopia. She also oversees the Ministry’s public-private partnership (PPP) policies and operations in an effort to deepen private sector engagement in Ethiopia’s projects and infrastructure. Prior to her service as State Minister, Semereta served in several roles within the Ministry of Finance, including Director of Public Affairs, where she managed public communications and outreach on the Ministry of Finance’s activities. She also served as a senior communication advisor for the economic reforms and Privatization Secretariat Coordinator where she managed a range of initiatives and technical work.

Semereta began her career over 20 years ago in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs where for seven years she provided guidance on strategic and diplomatic partnerships, economic and trade relationships, and related issues for countries in Asia and the Middle East.  Semereta’s passion for improving the lives of disadvantaged and marginalized groups, including children, led her to work in senior leadership positions and on the governing boards of several civil society and international development organizations, including the Jerusalem Children and Community Development Organization (2007-2009) and the Christian Children’s Fund of Canada (2009-2019).

Semereta holds a Master’s degree in Journalism and Communications and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and International Relations both from Addis Ababa University.

Mrs. Pamela Monroe Ellis was appointed Auditor General of Jamaica in 2008. In 2012 she was appointed to the Board of the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC), where she served for 6 years. During her tenure at IFAC she served on both the Audit Committee and Chaired the Governance Committee for three years. Mrs. Monroe Ellis was appointed Secretary-General of the Caribbean Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (CAROSAI) in 2016. In the same year, she was appointed to serve as Jamaica's representative on the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat Audit Committee, which she Chaired until December 2019. Mrs. Monroe Ellis served the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Jamaica (ICAJ) over 15 years combined as a member of its Audit Practice Committee, Public Sector Committee and Investigations Committee- four years as Chair. She is currently a Director on the Board of the INTOSAI Development Initiative (IDI). Mrs. Monroe Ellis has been a member of the ACCA Global Forum for the Public Sector since January 2019. In May 2020 she was appointed Chair of the International Financial Reporting for Non-Profit Organizations (IFR4NPO) Steering Committee.

Mrs. Monroe Ellis was appointed to the Integrity Commission and Commission for Prevention of Commission in 2008; she served both Commissions until the merger of both to form Jamaica's New Integrity Commission, where she currently serves a Commissioner. She is currently a member of the Board of the Governor-General of Jamaica Trust. Mrs. Monroe Ellis is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Jamaica (ICAJ) and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA, UK).

Born in Jakarta, in February 1965, Pahala Nainggolan graduated from State Accounting School in 1992 and later Master’s degree majoring in Financial Management in 2001 and a doctoral degree in Financial Management, both from the Faculty of Economics - University of Indonesia.

At the beginning of his career, he worked as a government auditor for 6 years including assignments as a tax auditor. Mr. Pahala moved to the private sector as a Finance Specialist for multinational companies. Since 2000, prior to joining KPK (Commission for Eradication of Corruption), he took assignments with USAID, AusAID, CIDA, World Bank, and ADB. In those assignments, he was seconded to several government institutions and engaged with various sectors, such as basic education, marine conservation, capacity building of non-profit organisations, public finance, forestry, infrastructure, and governance trust funds for local government. Aside from those assignments, he authored six books about finance, accounting and taxation for non-profit organisations in addition to his six pieces of research on bonds and taxation of the stock market in Indonesia. He also served as treasurer for four local foundations in providing support for the poor in rural areas.

Mr. Pahala brings 30 years of experience in the public and private sectors along with his hands-on experiences in managing non-profit organisations to his current position as Deputy for Prevention in the KPK. He currently manages about 250 staff in five working units: Wealth Report, Gratuity, Public Education and Services, Research-Development, and Coordination and Supervision.

Syeda Rizwana Hasan is an enrolled lawyer with the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. In professional life, she is working for the cause of environment as the Chief Executive of a reputed national Non Governmental Organization named Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA). Her main focus is to promote the notion of environmental justice in Bangladesh.

Rizwana did her masters and graduation in law from the University of Dhaka with distinction. She started her career with BELA in 1993 and till today is continuing with the same organization.

As the Chief Executive of BELA, Rizwana is responsible for the overall co-ordination of the activities of BELA that include research, awareness raising, public interest litigation (PIL) and advocacy. Rizwana has filed PILs on various environmental issues most of which have received favourable orders/judgments. She has fought against vehicular pollution, river pollution, industrial pollution, ship breaking, grabbing of wetlands, cutting of hills, unregulated mining, unplanned urbanization, commercial shrimp cultivation, deforestation, loss of biodiversity and so on. Her cases are redefining the current notion of development that is devoid of environmental consideration. Since she is an anthropocentric environmentalist, her efforts are adding values to conventional human rights movement by bringing in the elements of environmental justice. She places people’s legitimate rights at the center of her activism.

An environmental lawyer, Rizwana has also led successful legal campaigns against filling up of wetlands in and around Dhaka by unscrupulous housing companies, commercial and forced shrimp cultivation depriving the farmers of their traditional agriculture, depriving the forest dwellers of their traditional forest rights, vehicular pollution, industrial pollution and so on. She has attended more than 100 international, regional and national seminars, workshops etc. as resource person.

BELA, the organization that Rizwana runs has received the Global 500 Roll of Honors of the UNEP in the year 2003. BELA has won the Environmental Award (given for the first time that year) in 2007 given by the Department of Environment for popularizing environmental law. The organization has also been awarded with M. Saleem Ullah Memorial Gold Medal 2009 as a token of recognition of it’s service tot he people in providing effective leadership for the preservation and sustenance of the environment.

Rizwana has received the ‘Annanya Top Ten Award’ given by a reputed journal of Bangladesh. She is also amongst the first five South Asian women to receive the ‘Celebrating Womenhood’ award (2008) given by the Creative Statement and South Asia Partnership based in Nepal. Rizwana has received the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for the year 2009 for her outstanding contribution in protecting and conserving the environment of the country. She has also been named as one of the 40 Environmental Heroes of the World by the TIME magazine. Recognizing her impassioned leadership, hard-driving skill, and uncompromising courage in the campaign of judicial activism that has demonstrated that the right to environment is nothing less than a people’s right to dignity and life, Rizwana has been awarded with the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2012.

Daniel Ortega Nieto is a Senior Public Sector Specialist at the World Bank. In this capacity Daniel has supported projects and analytical work in Argentina, Bangladesh, Croatia, Ecuador, Mexico, Mozambique, and Uruguay, among others. Currently, Daniel leads the World Bank’s public financial management program in Indonesia; supporting reforms in areas such as budgeting, treasury, civil service, and digital government. Previously, he led the ​​public sector management operations in Brazil, as well as research and technical support in governance and public financial management. He designed and led the Subnational Pro-Gestão Program, a US$1 billion credit line to improve fiscal and public financial management across Brazil. Daniel led the development of DeCODE, an evidence-based system that leverages data to help anticipate and solve delivery challenges, and the Governance Risk Assessment System that uses artificial intelligence for extracting 200+ firm-level and agency-level corruption risk red-flags. Prior to joining the World Bank, he was an advisor to the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, a consultant to the Inter-American Bank, as well as the Ministry of Labor and the United States Agency for International Development. He has conducted research at Harvard and Sciences-Po universities. Daniel graduated from El Colegio de México, holds a Master's degree in Development Management from the London School of Economics in the United Kingdom (Chevening fellow), and holds a PhD in Public Policy and Government from Georgetown University in the United States (Fulbright fellow).

- General Director of Rationalization and Centralization of Procurement from December 2016 until the appointment in June 2018 as Comptroller General of the State Administration.

- Deputy Director General of Budgets (Ministry of Finance and Public Function): From April 2016 to December 2016.

- Director of the Cabinet of the Secretary of State for Budgets and Expenses (Ministry of Finance and Public Administrations): From January 2012 to April 2016.

- General Deputy Director of Financial Relations with the Autonomous Communities (Ministry of Economy and Finance): Last quarter of 2005 until January 2012.

- Head of Financial Advisory (Ministry of Economy and Finance): Year 2005.

- National Auditor Team Leader, National Audit Office (Ministry of Finance): From 2001 to 2005 he has held the position of Division V of Financial Control of National Subsidies.

- Various positions in the General Intervention of the State Administration (Ministry of Economy and Finance): Since joining the public administration in February 1995 until 2000.

Margarita Švedkauskienė is the Head of the Strategic Analysis Division, Analytical Anti-Corruption Intelligence Department at the Special Investigation Service of the Republic of Lithuania.

Currently Margarita is in charge of managing and providing leadership to the Strategic Analysis Division, as well as providing expertise on conducting analytical anti-corruption intelligence in detecting corruption risks and threats, conducting criminological research in the area of corruption, PEST and SWOT analysis for anti-corruption, monitoring and assessment of the national anti-corruption programme, drafting anti-corruption policy recommendations, participating in anti-corruption evidence-based policy making. Margarita’s main areas of interest are corruption risk analysis, corruption prevention, evidence-based criminal justice policy, and public criminology.

Margarita has been teaching sociology and criminology at Vilnius University. Previously, she held the position of an Acting Director and Research Fellow at the Law Institute of Lithuania, She pursued her postdoctoral research on justice reinvestment at the University of Lausanne, School of Criminal Justice. She is also a former Fulbright Scholar, and Associate Editor of the European Journal of Criminology.

Marcelo Donolo is a Senior Strategy and Operations Officer at the World Bank. In his 25 years at the Bank, Marcelo has led the development and implementation of global strategies to strengthen and modernize organizational management systems in the area of public procurement, risk management, and anticorruption. Marcelo has extensive practical knowledge and experience developing multi-stakeholder programs to foster innovation and build institutional capacity through the leveraging of data, technology, and systems. His focus has been on designing and implementing strategic initiatives, managing innovation from concept to market, building enterprise-level solutions to manage risk, and developing data science know-how to advance risk analytics in his current role in the Integrity Vice Presidency, the World Bank’s anticorruption unit.

Francesca Recanatini has focused throughout her career on integrating governance and institution building in development and economic growth. She begun working on institution building in transition countries while at the IMF in 1994 and at the Center of Institutional Reforms and Informal Sector (IRIS) in 1995. She joined the World Bank in 1998 in the Research Department focusing on measuring quality of institutions and has subsequently worked in several countries in Eastern Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Middle East to support the design and implementation of governance reforms through in-depth data collection and coalition building. Currently she is working on governance issues, institution building and performance indicators in High-income countries and fragile and post-conflict environments.

She has published several papers on indicators, corruption and governance, contributing recently to Anticorruption Policy: Can International Actors Play a Role? edited by Susan Rose-Ackerman and Paul Carrington (September 2013); to the Global Handbook on Research and Practice in Corruption, Adam Graycar, editor (January 2012); and to the International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption, Susan Rose-Akerman and Tina Soreide, eds. (December 2011). She is currently a Member of the EU Group of Experts on Corruption and holds a Ph.D in Economics from the University of Maryland at College Park.

Daniel Kaufmann is a nonresident senior fellow in the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution. For decades he has carried out policy analysis and applied research on economic development, governance, regulation and corruption around the world. He is a world-renowned writer, lecturer and analyst on governance, corruption, and development worldwide, with experience in Latin America, Europe, Middle East and Africa, as well as in industrialized and transition economies.

He is currently chief advisor at the Natural Resource Governance Institute, after having served as its president and CEO from 2013-2020. He is also currently a member of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) international board, and serves in various international advisory boards, including the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Group on Anticorruption and Integrity, the Inter-American Development Bank’s President High-Level Advisory Group on Transparency, and at the Mo Ibrahim Foundation.

Previously he served as a director at the World Bank Institute, where he pioneered new approaches to measure, diagnose and address governance and corruption, helping countries formulate action programs. At the World Bank, Kaufmann also held senior positions focused on finance, regulation and anti-corruption, as well as on capacity building for Latin America.  He also served as lead economist both in economies in transition as well as in the World Bank's research department, and earlier in his career was a senior economist in Africa. In the early nineties, Kaufmann was the first Chief of Mission of the World Bank to Ukraine, and then he held a visiting scholar position at Harvard University.  Kaufmann has also been a member of the Global Agenda Council and a member of the faculty at the World Economic Forum, a member of the board of the Natural Resource Governance Institute.

His research on economic development, governance, the unofficial economy, macro-economics, investment, corruption, privatization, and urban and labor economics has been published in leading journals. In research, policy, and media circles he is associated with innovations such as the Worldwide Governance Indicators, the Resource Governance Index, and the study and analysis of “legal corruption” and state capture. Often featured as a keynote speaker and as a guest expert in major media outlets, he has authored articles in the Financial Times, Finance & Development and other leading publications. He is also regularly featured in print, online and broadcast media interviews, such as these recently in this series of RAW Talks on resource policy and governance, and here. He is also regularly featured in print, online, and broadcast media interviews, such as this recent series of RAW Talks on resource policy and governance, and interview with the Graduate Institute Geneva.

Kaufmann is a Chilean national who received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard, and a B.A. in Economics and Statistics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His articles and blogs at Brookings are featured below; other posts can also be found here, and research writings here at SSRN. You can also follow him on Twitter.

Liz David-Barrett joined the University of Sussex in 2014, following four years at Saïd Business School and two years in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford. Liz has a DPhil in Politics from Oxford, an MA in Slavonic and East European Studies from the University of London, and a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (Oxford). Liz previously worked for London think tanks the Institute for Public Policy Research and the Centre for European Reform, political risk consultancy Oxford Analytica, and before that was a journalist in Croatia and Hungary, reporting for The Economist, the Financial Times, the BBC World Service and Business Central Europe.

As the Director of the Centre for the Study of Corruption (CSC), Liz leads the Centre's activities in research, teaching and policy impact. She engages widely with anti-corruption practitioners in governments, the private sector and NGOs. Building on her research on corruption risks in public procurement, she has organised 'hackathons' in Ghana, Uganda and Tanzania with Maths students and civil society activists on how data can be analysed to identify grand corruption in government contracting. She also engages with the governments of Jamaica and Uganda to help them improve their procurement analytics.

Liz has written several reports for Transparency International - on the UK Bribery Act, lobbying and the revolving door, and local government corruption - and has given evidence to parliamentary select committees. She advised the UK Department for International Development on its International Anti-Corruption programme and the UK Cabinet Office on the 2017-22 National Anti-Corruption Strategy. Together with Paul Heywood (Nottingham), Liz co-edited a blog symposium on Re-thinking Corruption in the 21st Century, published in Public Administration Review. In 2020, she chaired the first ever Academic Roundtable of the G20 Anti-Corruption Working Group and in 2021 she became a member of the Taskforce on a Transatlantic Response to Illicit Finance.

Ms. Haykuhi Harutyunyan is a human rights defender and lawyer, currently serving as chair of the Corruption Prevention Commission (CPC) of the Republic of Armenia, a newly established independent body that develops and implements the country’s corruption prevention policies. She previously led Protection of Rights without Borders, one of the most influential human rights organizations in Armenia. She has over 15 years of experience working with local and international civil society organizations on rule of law, judiciary, and human rights issues, including as a member of the Steering Committee of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum from 2016 to 2019. She received the 2018 Universal Rights Award in the Access to Justice category for her work documenting human rights violations, assisting peaceful demonstrators, and identifying systemic police impunity. She was a 2018 Draper Hills Summer Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law and a 2011-2012 Hubert Humphrey Fellow at the University of Minnesota Law School’s Human Rights Center. During her fellowship, Ms. Harutyunyan analyzed and proposed innovative approaches for sustaining state institutions and guaranteeing that they uphold the rule of law.

Twalib Mbarak joined the Kenya Army in 1984 as a cadet and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in 1985. He served in the military for fifteen years and undertook several assignments as an Infantry Officer and in the field of Military Intelligence. He also served as a United Nations Military Observer in Western Sahara under United Nations Mission for Western Sahara (MINURSO), and was awarded a United Nations Peace Keeping Medal. In 1999, Mbarak retired from the military having attained the rank of Major and joined the former National Security Intelligence Service, NSIS (Currently National Intelligence Service, NIS). He undertook several assignments including Head of Intelligence Analysis, and Senior Instructor at the National Intelligence Academy. He is credited with training and mentoring some of the top intelligence officers in Kenya. In 2006, Mbarak joined the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission, KACC as a Principal Officer - Intelligence and played a key role in creating the Intelligence Department which is in charge of undercover operations. In 2010, Mbarak left KACC to join Kenya Electricity Generating Company, KenGen, as the Security & Integrity Manager. He was the first Chairman of the Association of Corporate Industrial Security Management Professionals, ACISMP. He is also a member of the American Society for Industrial Security, ASIS and the first person from East & Central Africa to attain the Certified Security Management Professional, CSMP from the International Security Management Institute, United Kingdom. Mbarak is accredited with mentoring many security professionals in the corporate and critical infrastructure security. On 11th January 2019, Mbarak was appointed as the Secretary/Chief Executive Officer of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission for a six-year term after a successful and rigorous interview by the Public Service Commission followed by a Parliamentary Vetting and approval by His Excellency the President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta. In November 2021, Mbarak was appointed as a member of the Executive Committee for the International Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities, IAACA. Mbarak’s life in the military, intelligence and corporate worlds has given him opportunities to undertake several courses in combat intelligence, security intelligence, strategic intelligence, investigations, corporate security and security of critical infrastructure. He has undertaken these courses in Kenya, USA, United Kingdom, Germany, Israel and South Africa. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science and Sociology and Masters in Armed Conflict & Peace Studies from the University of Nairobi.

Juan Carlos Echeverry is the a founding partner of Econcept, Bogotá and Washington, DC, an economic consultancy with over 12 years of experience in macroeconomic analysis, public policy design and evaluation, and microeconomic research in Latin America. We provide macroeconomic and political analysis to the international financial sector. Echeverry was a former CEO of Ecopetrol, Colombia’s largest Oil and Gas producer, No. 559 in Forbes World’s Biggest Public Companies and among the 30 largest O&G producers worldwide, as well as former minister of finance of Colombia, chosen in 2011 by four international publications as The Best Minister of Finance of the Americas. He was also a former minister of economic planning, former dean of economics at Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá), and associate professor at Instituto de Empresa, Madrid, with teaching experience at New York University and other Colombian universities. He was a former weekly editorialist of CNN en Español in Atlanta. Echeverry published papers in different fields of economics, in specialized journals, and three books on the Colombian economy and other Latin American economies. He has a PhD in economics from New York University and is a noted speaker.

Mark is the Executive Director of the EITI since 2018, leading the organisation's engagement on extractives transparency and managing the International Secretariat. Mark serves as Board Secretary and is responsible for managing the International Secretariat, fundraising and financial management, and oversight of implementation in EITI’s member countries.

Mark has over 30 years' experience in governance, extractives, climate and international development, and a career spanning the worlds of policy, operations, research and philanthropy. Prior to joining EITI in 2018, Mark served as Global Director for Governance at the World Resources Institute in Washington D.C. He previously held senior positions at the Department for International Development, the Institute of Development Studies, the Ford Foundation, and the Overseas Development Institute.

Mark has held several board and advisory roles and currently serves as an Envoy for the Open Government Partnership. Mark was a founding member of the OGP Board of Directors and the first Board Chair from 2016-2020. He holds a DPhil and MA in Comparative Politics from the University of Sussex, and a BA honours degree in Social and Political Science from the University of Cambridge.

Mr. Tim Steele is a forensic accountant by training. Tim has been involved in corruption and asset recovery work for over 30 years. This has included providing practical assistance, specifically as an embedded adviser to the Zambian and Kenyan Anti-Corruption Commissions, as well as policy making, including heading the Anti-Corruption Team for the UK Department for International Development. He also established the joint World Bank/UNODC Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative. In his current role he acts as a senior adviser supporting countries to implement the United Nations Convention Against Corruption.

Roby Senderowitsch currently serves as the Practice Manager for Public Administration, Governance Global Practice at the World Bank. Previously, he has held various positions, including Practice Manager, Governance Global Practice, Europe and Central Asia (West); Manager for Leadership, Learning & Innovation; Manager of the Global Partnership for Social Accountability (GPSA); and Country Manager in the Dominican Republic. His work at the  World Bank includes a strong focus on political economy analysis, building coalitions for change, anti-corruption, and performance-based management of public institutions. He has been a lecturer in Human Resource management in nonprofit organizations, as well as director of educational programs and community development and HR management in the private sector.

Roby’s publications include “Building Effective, Accountable, and Inclusive Institutions in Europe and Central Asia,” “Democratic Governance in Mexico: Beyond State Capture and Social Polarization” (with Yasuhiko Matsuda), “Performance Informed Budgeting and Trust in Government” (with Nick Manning and others), and “From the International Financial Crisis to Inclusive Growth in the Dominican Republic.” Senderowitsch holds a Bachelor of Science in Education from the University of Buenos Aires and a Masters in Policy Studies, Public Administration/Nonprofit Management from the Johns Hopkins University.

Drew Sullivan is a social entrepreneur and co-founder and publisher of OCCRP. He founded the organization in 2007 with Paul Radu. Before that, in 2004, he founded and edited the Center for Investigative Reporting, the leading investigative center in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Under his direction, OCCRP has won numerous awards, including the Daniel Pearl Award, the Global Shining Light Award, the Tom Renner Award for Crime Reporting, the European Press Prize, and the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. OCCRP’s work on the Panama Papers with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists won a 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Journalism.

Drew is also the creator of Reporters Shield, a membership program for media outlets and NGOs that helps defend investigative journalism against SLAPPs and other legal harassment.

Previously, Drew was an investigative reporter for The Tennessean newspaper and the Associated Press’s Special Assignment Team. He has served on the boards of Investigative Reporters and Editors, the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting, and Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism.

Before becoming a journalist, he was a structural dynamicist on the space shuttle project for Rockwell Space Systems. He has a degree in Aerospace Engineering from Texas A&M University. He has also been a professional standup comedian, acted in four films, and plays bodhran in the only authentic Irish/Celtic band in the Balkans.