Organisers
The International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) series is jointly organised by the IACC Council, IACC Programme Committee, Transparency International and its local chapter in the country.
Transparency International – Secretariat
TI acts as Secretariat to the IACC Council and to the Programme Committee of each conference. TI provides advice and assistance to the host of each conference on behalf of the IACC Council. TI is also responsible for preparing and implementing the conference programme; this includes communicating with a wide range of organisations and individuals involved at the forefront of anti-corruption work. TI also collates programme suggestions, and prepares the conference‘s plenary sessions and workshops. Additionally TI helps the host country with marketing issues, advises on logistics and makes efforts to raise funds for the participating delegates.
The IACC team at TI-S:
Miklos Marschall
IACC Director, TI
Miklos Marschall (1953) joined TI as Director for Eastern Europe in July 1999, and now serves as Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia, and as responsible Director for International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC). Before joining TI, from 1994 through 1998, he was the founding executive director of CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, a global network of NGOs and foundations to promote civil society. Between 1991 and 1994, he served as deputy mayor of Budapest, Hungary. Dr. Marschall was a Fulbright Visiting Fellow in 1988/89 at Yale University. He graduated as an economist from the Karl Marx University of Economic Sciences in Budapest in 1977. He received his doctorate from the same university in 1984.
Roberto Perez-Rocha
IACC Manager, TI
Roberto Perez-Rocha joined TI on October 2003 as Program Manager for the Corruption Online Research and Information System and a few months later was appointed Online Communications Manager. Since January 2006 he is managing the International Anti-Corruption Conference Series. From 2000 to 2003 he lived in Barcelona where he did PhD studies on Political and Social Sciences at the Pompeu Fabra University, participating in various research projects. During this time he did volunteer work for the Catalan Federation for Non Governmental Organizations. From 1993 to 2000 he worked in different areas of the Mexican public sector including the ministries of Social Development, Agriculture & Rural Development and Interior. Roberto holds an MSc in Development Studies from the London School of Economics and a Bachelors degree in Political Science and Public Administration from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico.
Paula O’Malley
IACC Team, TI
Prior to joining the IACC team for the Athens preparations, Paula worked with the Water Integrity Network (WIN), a network devoted to collective action against corruption in the water sector. Paula is a literature graduate from Trinity College Dublin and recipient of a STIBET scholarship where she studied at Universität Konstanz. Paula speaks Irish, German, French and English.
Kelly McCarthy
IACC Team, TI
Kelly has has a masters degree in Public International Law (Human Rights) from the National University of Ireland, Galway and an undergraduate degree in International Relations and Latin American Studies from the State University of New York. She began her work with Transparency International by doing research for TI Ireland in 2008 and later came to the Transparency International Secretariat in February 2009 to work on the International Anti-Corruption Conventions Programme. Her other work experiences include an internship with the US Department of State in the US Embassy in Guatemala City and an internship with UNDP in Brasilia, Brazil.
Transparency International – National Chapter
Transparency International is a global network including more than 90 locally established NGOs know as TI national chapters. Each IACC is jointly hosted and organised by a TI national chapter. The national chapters hires and oversees the work of the Conference Organising Company. The national chapter is responsible for reporting to the host government, Co-chairs the IACC host Committee and participates in the Programme Committee.
IACC Council
The IACC Council oversees the IACC Conference series. It was established in September 1996, with Transparency International as its secretariat. The council's principal goal is to provide advice and assistance to the host of each conference and to ensure that the conference is conducted in accordance with the principles contained in the established guidelines. Along with TI, the Council contributes greatly to the success and follow-up of every IACC. They both provide integral support for the objectives of the conference. The guidelines state that the objectives are "...to stimulate the global exchange of experience and methodology in controlling corruption and foster international cooperation among citizens and institutions from all parts of the world".
Council Members
Barry O’Keefe
Chair, IACC Council
Barry O'Keefe AM QC is a highly accomplished barrister, arbitrator and former judge. He currently works as a consultant for Clayton Utz law firm. Having retired from the New South Wales Supreme Court with a distinguished career as an advocate, Commercial Court Judge, Commissioner of the New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption, and subsequently as a Supreme Court Judge. Barry has been a Fellow of the Institute of Arbitrators since 1990 and was a Governor of the Australian Advocacy Institute for seven years. During this time he was pre-eminent in the field of construction disputes, having appeared in many of the major leading cases in Australia and abroad.
José Ugaz
Benites, Forno & Ugaz Abogados
During the past 10 years, Mr. Ugaz has had special involvement in corruption and money laundering issues. As senior partner of one of the six largest law firms in Peru, Mr. Ugaz is in charge of all cases involving criminal activity. Also a professor of law at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and president of PROETICA, the Peruvian chapter of Transparency International, he champions the fight against organized crime and for human rights and social justice. Mr. Ugaz has represented the state several times as Special State Attorney during the investigations into the Fujimori regime which resulted in hundreds of investigations and 120 incarcerations, including 14 Generals,
Jermyn Brooks
Chair, Business Advisory Board, TI
In 2000 Jermyn retired from PricewaterhouseCoopers as Global Managing Partner. He is a Board Member of International IDEA, the democracy-promoting IGO; Non-executive director of Mott MacDonald, an employee-owned international engineering firm offering also environmental, educational and healthcare consultancy services. Jermyn has worked 50% of his time for Transparency International from 2000 to January 2009: first in TI-S as CFO, then six months as managing director and from 2003-2006 as a Board member. Chair of the Finance Committee, active fundraiser. Leader of Global Private Sector Programmes: As chair of the Steering Committee leads the Business Principles for Countering Bribery (BPCB) project with its growing suite of supporting tools. BPCB has become the authoritative standard in our work with the World Bank/MDBs, the UN Global Compact and GRI initiative, stock exchanges (FTSE4Good) and industry groups (e.g. WEF). Worldwide, over 40 BPCB workshops and conference presentations held, most involving NCs including a “train-the-trainers” workshop in Latin America. All of this work was financed without use of TI-S funds.
Katherine Marshall
Georgetown's Berkley Center for Religion
Prof. Marshall has enjoyed a long career working in many reaches of international development, primarily in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Katherine is Senior Fellow and Visiting Professor at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs at Georgetown University. Held leadership positions in the World Bank from 1979, with a front-line operational focus, handling a broad spectrum of development issues. Strong and long-standing interest in issues for human dimensions of development, including poverty reduction, conflict prevention and resolution, gender issues, institutional development and governance issues, communications issues, social cohesion, and issues of ethics and faith in development.
Medhi Krongkaew
Commissioner, NACC
Prof. Krongkaew was appointed as a National Anti-Corruption Commissioner in 2006. He formerly taught at the National Institute of Development Administration and Thammasat University, and is one of one of Thailand’s most respected economists. He was also a Senior Fellow in the Division of Economics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU, and has written dozens of articles on a wide range of Thai economic issues, with a particular focus on poverty.
Akere Muna
Vice Chair, Transparency International
Akere T. Muna is founder and former president of Transparency International Cameroon. A lawyer by training, he is President of the Pan African Lawyers Union and former president of the Cameroon Bar Association. In October 2008, Akere Muna was elected President of the African Union's Economic, Social and Cultural Council. 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 appointed as a member of the High Level Audit Committee of the African Unit in August 2007, who undertook a general audit review of the Organs and Institutions of the African Union as well as the nature of the relationships among them. The Committee concluded its work in February 2008. Mr Muna 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. He was elected to the TI Board at the 2004 Annual Meeting, elected as Vice-Chair of the TI Board in 2005 and re-elected to that office at the 2008 AMM.
Augustin Ruzindana
APNAC
Hon. Augustin Ruzindana has a B. Com from University of East Africa (Nairobi), Diploma from the Helsinki School of Economics and has worked as a Teacher, Banker, Political activist against the dictatorial regimes in Uganda since 1971. During the 1980’s, Ruzindana worked in Barclays Bank and Grindlays Bank in Uganda along with the Public Service in Tanzania and Uganda. From 1986 – 1996 Augustine served as Inspector General of Government (Cabinet Ministerial position). From July 2006- 2008 Augustin served as a Member of Parliament and Chairman of Public Accounts Committee. Augustin is currently on Advisory council of Transparency International, has been involved in activities of Amnesty International and International Alert. Chairman Board of Trustees, Uganda Think Tank Foundation and has been published in a number of books, journals and reports.
Michael J. Hershman
President and CEO
Michael Hershman is an internationally recognized expert on matters relating to transparency, accountability, governance and security. The Fairfax Group, founded in 1983, has been retained by governments, corporations and international financial institutions to assist on matters relating to the conduct of senior-level officials and/or the entities with which they do business. In December 2006, Mr. Hershman was appointed as the independent compliance advisor to the board of directors of Siemens AG, a company with more than 400,000 employees.
Chair Hon. Justice Barry O'Keefe AM (ret)
Miklos Marschall, Acting Secretary
IACC Programme Committee
The IACC Programme Committee provides guidance for the design of the Conference programme. The Committee is composed of up to 15 members which includes the Chair of the IACC Council, one representative of the Host Government, TI National Chapter and TI. The remaining members include representatives of international partner institutions or other independent institutions that are distinguished in the area of anti-corruption. The Government and TI National Chapter are actively involved in the design of the programme through their representatives.
Programme Committee Members
- Prof. Pakdee Pothisiri, Commissioner, National Anti-Corruption Commission of Thailand
- Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona, Research Director, International Council on Human Rights Policy
- Phil Matsheza, Anti-Corruption Advisor, UNDP
- Maria O'Donnell, Investigative Journalist
- Dr. Utis Kaothien, Deputy-Secretary General for the National Economic and Social Development Board, Thailand
- Christiaan Poortman, Director of Global Programmes, Transparency International
- Dr. Juree Vichit-Vadakan, Transparency Thailand
- Åse Grødeland, Senior Researcher, Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI)
- Jacob Werksman, Program Director, Institutions and Governance Program, World Resources Institute
- Diane Kohn, Anti-Corruption Adviser, US Department of State
