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Masood Ahmed
www.dfid.gov.uk
Director General for Policy and International at the Department of International Development (DFID)
Masood Ahmed is Director General for Policy and International at the Department of International Development (DFID). He was formerly Deputy Director at the Policy Development and Review Department, at the International Monetary Find (IMF). Before then, he was Acting Vice President of the Private Sector Development and Infrastructure in the World Bank.
Kiyo Akasaka
Deputy Secretary-General, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
www.oecd.org
Mr Akasaka has been closely involved throughout his career with the work of multilateral organisations. He was Deputy Director-General in the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Multilateral Co-operation Department from 1997 to 2000, participating as one of his country's top negotiators in the Kyoto Conference on Climate Change in December 1997 and in various follow-on conferences. He was Japan's Ambassador to the U.N. between 2000 and 2001, and he has also held posts at the Secretariat of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the precursor of the World Trade Organisation, from 1988 to 1991, and at the World Health Organisation, from 1993 to 1997.
Mr. Akasaka joined the Japanese Foreign Ministry in April 1971, immediately after graduating from Kyoto University, where he obtained a B.A. degree in Law. From 1972 to 1974, he was an affiliated student at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained a B.A. and M.A. in Economics as part of the Ministry training programme.
Inge Amundsen
Senior researcher, Chr. Michelsen Institute
www.cmi.no
Director, Utstein Anti-Corruption Resource Centre
www.u4.no
Political scientist with PhD in comparative African studies, Mr Amundsen has specialised in comparative politics, comparative development studies focusing on democratisation, neopatrimonialism, institutionalisation, civil society, political parties, and corruption. His areas of study are francophone West Africa (Senegal, the Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon and Mali), Angola, Zambia and the Middle East (Palestine).
Amundsen is scientific co-ordinator of two CMI co-operation programmes; one with MUWATIN (The Palestinian Institute for the Study of Democracy), and one with the Instituto de Pesquìsa Económica e Social (A-IP).
Peter John Aitsi
President, Media Council of Papua New Guinea
www.png-simediacouncil.org
Peter John Aitsi is a media professional from Papua New Guinea where he lives and works
in the capital city Port Moresby, specialising in radio broadcasting. He is General Manager of PNGFM Ltd an FM broadcaster that owns and operates 2 Nationwide FM radio stations broadcasting to an estimated listening audience of some 2 million people.
He spearheaded the formalising of the Media Council of PNG, and the establishment of the Constitution, Industry Code of Ethics, including a broadcast policy and the establishment of an Independent Media Standards Council to receive and adjudicate on Media complaints. He has been the President of the Media Council of Papua New Guinea for the last 4 years and was previously the Secretary of the Council for 2 years.
Abdoulaye Bio Tchané
Director of Africa Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
www.imf.org
Mr Bio Tchané, formerly the Minister of Finance and Economy in Benin, became the head of IMF’s Africa Department in 2002. He holds masters degrees in economics from the University of Dijon and in banking from Centre ouest-africain de formation et d'études bancaires in Dakar. He began his career as an economist in the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO) where he rose to become Director of the Economic and Monetary Survey Department, a post he held until being appointed Minister of Finance in 1998.
Nicola Bonucci
Deputy Director, Legal Affairs, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
www.oecd.org
Brian Cooksey
Transparency International
www.transparency.org
Brian Cooksey has lived in Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, and Tanzania. For the last 25 years he has been based in Dar es Salaam, where he has been a university lecturer, researcher, consultant and occasional investigative journalist. He is an active member of Transparency International and a founder member of the Tanzanian chapter. He holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Birmingham, UK.
Serge Chappatte
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
www.ddc.admin.ch
Serge Chappatte is a native of Saignelégier, Canton Jura, and grew up in La Chaux-de-Fonds. He studied at the University of Neuchâtel where he graduated in 1965 with a degree in economics. Up until 1972 he worked in the International Metalworkers' Union in London, Frankfurt am Main and Geneva. Subsequently he entered into the services of the SDC where for many years he worked as Programme Officer in the Asia Division and Field Coordinator in Islamabad and New Delhi. In 1992 he took over the head of the Africa and Latin America Division, and in 1997 he became Deputy Head of the Department of Bilateral Development Cooperation. In 2001 Mr. Chappatte was appointed Assistant Director-General of the SDC and Head of the Multilateral Cooperation and Development Policy Department.
Luc Damiba
Programme Coordinator, Réseau National de Lutte Anti-Corruption, Burkina Faso
www.renlac.org
Formerly a journalist, Mr Damiba is the programme coordinator for the Ouagadougou-based National Anti-Corruption Network.
Xavier Darcos
Minister-delegate for Cooperation, Development and the French-Speaking Countries, attached to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, France
www.france.diplomatie.fr
Peter Eigen
Chairman of the Board, Transparency International (Germany)
www.transparency.org
Mr Peter Eigen is a lawyer by training. He has worked in economic development for 25 years, mainly as a World Bank manager of programmes in Africa and Latin America. Under Ford Foundation sponsorship, he provided legal and technical assistance to the governments of Botswana and Namibia, and taught law at the universities of Frankfurt and Georgetown. From 1988 to 1991 he was the Director of the Regional Mission for Eastern Africa of the World Bank. He is founder and chairman of Transparency International.
From 1999 to 2001 Peter Eigen was Adjunct Lecturer at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is also a member of the Advisory Council of the Center for International Development at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is a Trustee of Crown Agents Foundation as well as a member of the Advisory Commission on the UN, the Global Compact and the Commission on Globalization of the State of the World Forum.
In 2000, he received the award of Honorary Doctor of the Open University. In September 2001, he joined the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace as Visiting Scholar while teaching at Johns Hopkins University/ SAIS. In 2004, Peter Eigen received the Reader's Digest Award 'European of the Year 2004' and became an Honorary Professor of Political Science of the Freie Universität, Berlin.
Londa Esadze
Chairwoman, Independent Board of Advisors of the Parliament of Georgia
Dr Esadze is active in anti-corruption work in Georgia as well as through specialized organizations, including the Washington Center for Study of Corruption and Transnational Crime (TraCCC), US Department of Justice, Global Organization of Parliamentarians against Corruption (GOPAC), and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). She holds degrees in international criminal law and journalism. She is the author of several publications on corruption: International Legal Standards against Corruption and Money Laundering and their Implementation in Georgian Legislation (2004), Gender and Corruption (2004), Anti-corruption Context of Corporate Governance in Transition Economies (2003).
Dr Esadze is the recipient of the Grand Prix of the American Bar Association, as a winner of the international writing competition: The Role of the Rule of Law Addressing Corruption in the Emerging Democracies.
Munir Hafiez
Chairman, National Accountability Bureau, Pakistan
www.nab.gov.pk
Fritz Heimann
Chairman, Transparency International US
www.transparency-usa.org
Fritz Heimann is a founding member and chairman of Transparency International, US, and is the vice-chair of the International Chamber of Commerce’s Commission on Anti-Corruption. He was an associate general counsel for the General Electric Company.
Robin Hodess
Director of Policy Research, Transpareny International (United States of America)
www.transparency.org
Ms Robin Hodess, TI's Director of Policy and Research since December 2003, joined TI in June 2000 to manage the Global Corruption Report. She came to Berlin from New York, where, since 1998 she had been a program officer for the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, responsible for the Council's program on economic globalization, "Justice and the World Economy", since 1998. Prior to this, she taught media and politics at the Free University Berlin and Leipzig University (1997-98) and served as assistant director for international security programs at the Center for War, Peace and the News Media at New York University (1992-94). Ms Hodess holds a Ph.D. and M.Phil in international relations from Cambridge University (UK) and a B.A. in history from the University of Pennsylvania (USA).
Kamal Hossain
Chairman of the Advisory Council, Transparency International
www.transparency.org
Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh since 1980, Mr Hossain was formerly Minister of Justice and Minister of Foreign Affairs for Bangladesh. He is the Special Rapporteur for the United Nations Commission for Human Rights in Afghanistan and Chairman of the United Nations Compensation Commission. He holds a B.A. and a Bachelor of Civil Law degree, as well as a Ph.D. in International Law from Oxford.
Ruth Jacoby
Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden
www.sweden.gov.se
Ruth Jacoby is Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden. She joined the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1970 serving as First Secretary (UN Agencies) in the Office for International Development Cooperation, Multilateral Department from 1972 – 1976; First Secretary (International Financial Institution) Office for Development Cooperation, Multilateral Department from 1976-1980; First Secretary, Swedish Delegation to the OECD in Paris, Swedish Representative to DAC and Development Centre, Vice Chairman of the Public Management Committee, OECD from 1980-1984; Deputy Assistant Under-Secretary Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Office for International Development Cooperation (Policy Evaluation) 1984-86; Deputy Assistant Under-Secretary, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Trade Department (Debt Issues) 1986- 1988; Deputy Assistant Under-Secretary, Ministry of Finance, International Department (Debt negotiator, Paris Club, Bilateral Debt Negotiations) 1989-1990; and Assistant Under-Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Head of Secretariat for Cooperation with Central and Eastern Europe from 1990-1994.
In 1994 she was elected to serve as Executive Director to the World Bank Group for a constituency of countries including Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, and Sweden. She served on the Bank’s Executive Board until August 1997. Ambassador Jacoby has also served on the Boards of the African Development Fund, the Swedish Export Credit Guarantee Board, SwedeCorp, the Social Development Fund of Europe, SwedFund International AB, and the Nordic Environment Finance Corporation.
She was educated at the University of Uppsala, Sweden, where she received an MA in Economics, Economic History and Philosophy, and also lectured.
Ketut Putra Erawan
Director, Post Graduate Programme on Political Science
Postgraduate Program on Local Politics and Regional Autonomy, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia
http://plod.ugm.ac.id/en
Ketut Putra Erwan is the Director for the Post Graduate Programme on Political Science and is also a lecturer Lecturer at the Postgraduate Program on Local Politics and Regional Autonomy, and the Department of Government, Faculty of Social and Political Science at the Gadjah Mada University in Indonesia. He holds a Ph.D. from Northern Illinois University (USA) and a Master’s degree from Ohio State University in political science. He also has a Drs. from the Department of Government, Gadjah Mada University. His areas of specialisation are comparative politics, public policy, regional political economy of South East Asian countries, election and legislation.
Huguette Labelle
Chancellor, University of Ottawa, Canada
www.uottawa.ca
Member of the Board of Directors, Transparency International
www.transparency.org
Huguette Labelle holds a Doctor of Philosophy, Education. She is a Companion of the Order Canada. She has been awarded honorary degrees from 10 Canadian Universities and has received the Vanier Medal of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada, the Outstanding Achievement Award of the public Service of Canada and the McGill Management Achievement Award.
She has served as Deputy Head of different Canadian Governments Departments including Transport Canada, the Public Service Commission and the Canadian International Development Agency.
She has served on more than 20 councils and Boards. She is currently Chancellor of the University of Ottawa and is serving on the board of a number of organisations such as the International Institute for Sustainable Development, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the African Virtual University, and Chair of the Financial Services Ombudsnetwork.
She is also a Commissioner on of the World Commission on Globalisation. She is providing advisory services to several national and international institutions.
Richard Manning
Chair, Development Assistance Committee, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
www.oecd.org
Mr. Richard Manning, a British national with extensive experience in the development field, is the Chair of the OECD's Development Assistance Committee (DAC). Mr. Manning was former Director General for Policy at the U.K. Department for International Development (DFID). He has worked for DFID and its predecessor agencies since 1965, including periods spent serving in West Africa and South East Asia and as Alternate Executive Director of the World Bank. He has worked with the DAC over many years, and was previously Chair of a DAC Task Force on Donor Practices which in 2003 produced a report on "Harmonising Donor Practices for Effective Aid Delivery.”
Simeon Marcelo
Ombudsman, Republic of the Philippines
www.ombudsman.gov.ph
Simeon Marcelo was appointed Ombudsman of the Philippines by the President in October 2002 for a seven year term. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Marcelo was the Solicitor General of the Philippines. He also was a lawyer in private practice and is a former seminarian.
Miklos Marschall
Regional Director for Europe, Transparency International
www.transparency.org
Miklos Marschall is Regional Director of Transparency International for Europe. His responsibilities include East and Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. He is also responsible for the bi-annual International Anti-corruption Conference (IACC). Between 1994 and 1998, he was the Executive Director of CIVICUS, a global network of NGOs and foundations created to promote civil society. From 1991 to 1994, he served as Deputy Mayor of Budapest, Hungary.
Mr Marschall is a Board Member of several International and Hungarian NGOs. He is Chairman of the Hungarian Non-profit Information and Training Center (NIOK) and a Member of the Board of the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL). He has a strong interest in the arts and is Chairman of the Board of the Budapest Festival Orchestra.
Mr Marschall graduated from the University of Economics in Budapest in 1979. He received his doctorate from the same university in 1984. In 1988 and 1989, he was a Fulbright fellow at Yale where he studied the US not-for-profit sector.
Phil Mason
Team Leader, Anti-Corruption Team
Department for International Development (DFID), United Kingdom
www.dfid.gov.uk
Henry Malinga
Chief Director, National Treasury, South Africa
www.treasury.gov.za
Mr Malinga is the chief director responsible for supply chain policies in government in South Africa. He has worked in supply chain management and related areas for 25 years, previously for a mining organisation.
Valeria Merino Dirani
Executive Director, Transparency International Ecuador
Corporación Latinoamericana para el Desarrollo
www.viviendolademocracia.org/index.htm
Valeria Merino-Dirani, is an Ecuadorian lawyer that has dedicated the last fifteen years towards the promotion of the strengthening of democracy and transparency in Ecuador and Latin America.
Once she obtained the title of Doctor in Jurisprudence from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador in 1987, she obtained a Masters Degree in Law from the University of Pennsylvania in 1988. While she had the opportunity to reside and work in the United States, she decided to return to Ecuador and create a non-profit organization dedicated to public interest issues.
The Latin American Corporation for Development (CLD) is a leading organization, established in Ecuador in 1990 to impulse the Strengthening of Democracy and the Rule of Law in Latin America. Dr. Merino has been the executive Director of CLD since 1990. CLD is the chapter of Transparency International in Ecuador.
Philippe Montigny
Executive Director, International Development and Strategies, France
Chairman of Working Party on Preventing Corruption of the French Council of Investors in Africa -CIAN
www.id-strategies.com
Philippe Montigny is the Executive Director of International Development & Strategies, a Consulting Group dealing with Economic Intelligence, Strategic Development and Governance. He has extensive expertise of Prevention of Corruption and Fight against Extortion both with companies’ CEO’s and Ministers of African Countries. Since 2001, he has been chairing the Working Group on Corruption Prevention within the French Council of Investors in Africa (CIAN). He co-authored a book on Fighting Corruption with Abdoulaye Bio Tchané (Paris, Harmattan – 2000)
Until 1997 he worked with the OECD, first as Principal Administrator in the Private Office of the OECD Secretary General, and then as Special Advisor to the President of the OECD Development Center.
He was previously Head of the Evaluation Department at the French Ministry for Industry and Research (1985-1987).
Akere Muna
Transparency International, Cameroon
Muna and Partner
www.transparency.org
Akere T. Muna is founder and president of Transparency International Cameroon. A lawyer by training, he is chairman of the Accreditation Committee of the Pan African Lawyers Union and former president of the Cameroon Bar Association. Muna is a member of several national commissions on legal reform and curbing corruption. He was a member of the National Ad-hoc Commission for the Fight against Corruption and has served as a Commonwealth Observer for Zanzibar's elections in 2000. He was actively involved in the TI working group that helped to draft the African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption and has written a guide to the convention published by TI.
Over the last ten years, Mr. Muna has been a member of the Arbitration Commission (GICAM) and a member of the National Ad-hoc Commission for the Fight Against Corruption. He has been a member fo the National Commission against Fiscal Fraud and president of the Cameroon Bar Association. He was also the Editor-in-Chief of Le Monde Judiciares.
Since 1992 he has been a managing partner of the Law Chambers of Muna & Partner. Mr. Muna is fluent in several language including English, French and Spanish. He holds a BS in International Studies from American University in Washington, D.C. He also holds a Barrister-at-Law from Lincoln’s Inn London and a diploma in maritime law from the International Centre for Ocean Development Canada and Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco.
David Nussbaum
Chief Executive, Transparency International
www.transparency.org
David Nussbaum is the Chief Executive of Transparency International. Prior to joining TI, he was Finance Director and a Deputy Chief Executive of Oxfam, from 1998-2002. A chartered accountant, Nussbaum has degrees in theology from Cambridge and Edinburgh universities, and an MSc in finance from London Business School.
Juanita Olaya
Programme Manager for Integrity Pact and Public Procurement Programme Manager
Transparency International Colombia
www.transparenciacolombia.org.co
Before joining TI in October 2002, Ms Olaya worked for the Government of Colombia holding different executive and advisory positions within the National Planning Department, the Ministries of Transportation, of Economic Development and of Finance. She has also undertaken various research and academic activities with the University of Los Andes in Colombia and with Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has alternated her work with private consulting in the areas of government reform, capital markets and anti-corruption. Ms Olaya is a lawyer with a Masters degree in Economics and a Masters degree in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (USA).
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Minister of Finance, Nigeria
www.nigeria.gov.ng/ministries/finance.htm
Dr Okonjo-Iweala, a Nigerian national is the Minister of Finance for the Federal Republic of Nigeria, a job she assumed on July 18th 2003. Prior to this appointment,
Dr Okonjo-Iweala was Vice President and Corporate Secretary of the World Bank Group. She joined the World Bank in 1982 through the prestigious Young Professionals Program, and made a career of over 20 years there working on various operational regions from the Middle East and North Africa, to East Asia and Africa. She rose through the ranks from an Economist to Vice President and Corporate Secretary. In 2000, she took a leave of absence from the World Bank to serve as an Economic Adviser to President Obasanjo of Nigeria.
Dr Okonjo-Iweala graduated with a A.B. magna cum laude in Economics from Harvard University and holds a Ph.D. in Regional Economics and Development from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has published several papers in development journals, the most recent of which she co-authored with some Bank colleagues on “The Impact of the East Asian Financial Crisis on Laos and Cambodia”, published in Finance and Development. Dr Okonjo-Iweala is also co-editor of a recent book entitled “The Debt Trap in Nigeria: Towards a Sustainable Debt Strategy” and co-author of March 2003 biography of the famous Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe entitled “Teacher of Light”. She is on the Board of several NGOs and Foundations in Nigeria and abroad and has participated in numerous international conferences where she has also represented Nigeria and during her time in Washington, the World Bank. She is the recipient of numerous awards and honours, the latest being the Euromarket Forum award for vision and courage on the design and implementation of Nigeria’s Economic reform program.
Stefan Oswald
Deputy Head, Financial Affairs Department
Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ), Germany
www.bmz.de
Alan Perry
Head of the Public International Law Group, Kendall Freeman
www.kendallfreeman.com
Alan Perry has been in commercial practice for 25 years, involved in financial sector work, litigation and cross-border insolvency issues, including the tracing of cross-border assets and international investment disputes. He is a significant linguist, and has worked in both Paris and London for a wide range of clients, including some dozen governments and a number of oil companies.
His non-contentious work in recent years has tended to focus round offshore resources, particularly hydrocarbons, of which he gained early experience in North Sea oil. In recent years he has been the principal architect of the Nigeria/São Tomé e Príncipe Joint Development Zone Agreement, and assisted in the creation of the Authority set up by the Governments to administer the zone. He played an important part in the drafting and negotiation of a package of unitisation agreements relating to oil deposits straddling the maritime boundary between Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea, including the documentation agreed between the oil companies concerned. Elsewhere in Africa, Alan is actively involved on work for Somaliland and Mozambique.
Alan led the D J Freeman team in the Botswana/Namibia hearings before the International Court of Justice. He also co-led the teams handling the Cameroon/Nigeria hearings before the Court in 2002, having previously been closely involved at all stages in the preparation of Nigeria’s case.
Alan acts for Governments on complex anti-corruption and asset tracing issues, and also gets involved in State Immunity issues. He is now developing a growing interest and expertise in international disputes between cross-border investors and host governments.
Mark Pieth
Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology, University of Basel, Switzerland
Chair, OECD Anti Bribery Working Group
www.pieth.ch
Mark Pieth has been Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology at the University of Basel, Switzerland since 1993. He also completed his PhD in criminal procedure at this University. From 1989 to 1993 he was Head of Section on Economic and Organised Crime in the Swiss Federal Office of Justice (Ministry of Justice and Police). In this position he was involved in drafting legislation against money laundering, organised crime, drug abuse and corruption and also on the confiscation of assets. As an official and later as a consultant to governments he has acquired extensive experience in international fora, most notably as a member of the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF) between 1989 and 1993, the Chemical Action Task Force on Precurser Chemicals, as Chairman of an Intergovernmental Expert Group of the United Nations (UN) to determine the extent of illicit trafficking in drugs (in 1990) and as the Chair of the OECD Working Group on Bribery in International Business Transactions (since 1990).
He has published extensively in the field of economic and organised crime, money laundering, corruption, sanctioning and criminal procedure. He has served as Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Basel. He has also assumed various presidencies and memberships of national commissions in Switzerland (President of the Expert Group of the National Research Programme on Violence and Organised Crime, Former President of the Federal Commission on Data Protection in the Medical Profession, Member of the Swiss Federal Gaming Commission, Member of the Consultative Commission to the Federal Administration of Finances on the Prevention of Money Laundering etc.).
Sanjay Pradhan
Director, Public Sector Group, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network
The World Bank Group
www.worldbank.org
As Director of the Public Sector Group, he chairs the Public Sector Board and oversees network functions (including strategy, staffing and professional development, knowledge management, quality assurance, and partnerships) for the staff across the Bank who work in core areas of public sector management, public finance, and governance. Among the themes covered by this Group are administrative and civil service reform, tax policy and administration, public expenditure analysis and management, decentralization, legal and judicial reform, institutional analysis and assessment, and governance and anti-corruption.
Mr. Pradhan joined the Bank in 1986 as a Young Professional in the Industry Department. Since then he has held various positions in the Bank, the most recent being Sector Manager, Poverty Reduction and Public Sector, PREM in the South Asia Region. Mr. Pradhan was a Principal Author of the World Development Report 1997, The State in a Changing World. Mr. Pradhan completed his PhD and Bachelor’s degrees from Harvard University.
Alexandre Randrianasolo
Budget Director, Madagascar
www.mefb.gov.mg
Michael Roeskau
Director, Development Co-operation Directorate
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
www.oecd.org
Michael Roeskau has been Head of OECD’s Development Co-operation Directorate (DCD) since 2001. From 1995 to 2001, Michael Roeskau was a Deputy Director General in the German Federal Ministry of Finance with responsibility for international financial flows and currency issues. In this capacity, Mr. Roeskau was “Finance Sous-Sherpa” for the preparation of the G7/G8 Summits and, in particular, chaired the group that prepared the “Enhanced HIPC Initiative” launched by the Cologne Summit in 1999.
This brought to fruition his earlier extensive work on debt relief policies, including negotiations in the Paris Club as well as with many developing countries. Other assignments in his career included work with the German Federal Chancellor’s Office and secondments to the IMF and OECD/IEA.
Mr Roeskau was trained as a Lawyer, with university studies in Germany, France and the United Kingdom.
Jean-Michel Severino
Director-General, French Agency for Development
www.afd.fr
Geir Sundet
Senior researcher, Research on Poverty Alleviation, Tanzania
www.repoa.or.tz
Geir Sundet is an independent consultant contracted by PADCO Inc. to implement a project under the USAID Africa Bureau’s Anti-Corruption Initiative. Under the project, he works with REPOA (Research on Poverty Alleviation), an independent Tanzanian research organization, to establish the Tanzania Governance Noticeboard (TzGN). The TzGN is a new initiative that employs a combination of IT and community based approaches to strengthen accountability and public oversight of official financial affairs at the local and national levels. Geir has worked several years in the area of governance in Tanzania, including five years with UNDP as a Governance Specialist where he also managed an anti-corruption project. His experience covers public sector reform, legal reform, decentralization, anti-corruption, democracy and electoral reform and work with civil society and media. He has a doctorate in politics from the University of Oxford.
Barbara Turner
Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Policy and Program Coordination, USAID, USA
www.usaid.gov
Barbara Turner is the senior career official directing the budget and policy of the U.S. Agency for International, the federal agency responsible for the $10 billion foreign assistance program to over 75 countries. With 30 years of U.S. Government service, Ms. Turner has been a leader in international development assistance concerned with effective delivery of U.S. technical knowledge and support to developing and transition countries. Just prior to this appointment, Ms. Turner directed the Agency's Global Bureau with a staff of 400 and programs in economic growth, democracy, health, environment, and education. She led the Agency's HIV/AIDS efforts and began an effort to revitalize technical staffing within the Foreign Service. From 1992 to 1998, she set up the Agency's first assistance programs in the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union and in 1995 headed the Agency's Balkans Task Force, establishing the USAID field offices and programs following the Dayton Accords. She also has served as Senior Program Advisor to the Rockefeller Foundation organizing international programs in Environment, Health and Population. She holds degrees in International Health and Public Administration.
Surya Nath Upahdyay
Chief Commissioner
Commission for Investigating Abuse of Authority, Nepal
Surya Nath Upadhyay is the Chief Commissioner of Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA), Nepal since October 2001.
CIAA is a constitutional body empowered to investigate and prosecute all cases of corruption and improper conduct by all the public position holders. CIAA is also empowered to do whole array of activities with a view to preventing corruption in the country. It is also the ombudsman institution besides being an investigator and prosecutor in corruption cases. Being the Chief of this body, Mr. Upadhyay is responsible for planning, policymaking, directing and implementing all the functions of CIAA.
In addition to having an MA and a Bachelor's degree in law from Tribhuvan University in Nepal, Mr. Upadhyay holds LLM from London University, UK.
Mr. Upadhyay has been in government service for twenty-eight years. He joined the government in 1971 as a Section Officer and retired from the position of a permanent Secretary in 1998. During his long career in the government, Mr. Upadhyay held important positions in different line ministries of the government, commissions and committees formed by the government. He was the Secretary to the Constitution Recommendation Committee formed to draft the new constitution of Nepal in 1990. Mr. Upadhyay is also known as the chief architect of the water resource policy of Nepal when in 1990s Nepal made a U-turn in its water resource policy inviting private sector participation and investment.
Mr. Upadhyay has also worked as an international consultant in Kyrgyzstan, Sri Lanka, Swaziland and Namibia and FAO.
Dimitri Vlassis
Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Office
United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
www.unodc.org
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