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Rugilė Trumpytė | Lithuania
The Ultimate Recipe for Civil Society Transparency
Rugilė has been leading numerous TI Lithuania initiatives since 2011 on access to information, media accountability and ethics, transparency in private, public and NGO sectors. She is also responsible for the Breakfast of Journalists initiative, which started in 2009 and aims at disseminating best media practices among Lithuanian journalists. Rugilė has also worked extensively on match-fixing practices in sports. Rugilė has a Master's degree in Comparative Politics from the Institute of International Relations and Political Science at Vilnius University.
Roberto Martinez B. Kukutschka | Mexico & Germany
On Trends and Deviations: The Science of Measuring Corruption
Cobus is the Managing Director of TI, Chair of the International Civil Society Centre, member of the Board of the UN Global Compact and the International Integrated Reporting Council. He was appointed as a Managing Director in 2007. His experience spans the fields of globalisation, development policy, international relations and business management. Cobus has taught and worked at universities, multinational corporations, trade unions and research institutes in managerial and research related roles around the world. During the 1980s and early 1990s, he was active in the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa including as Chair of the African National Congress in Cape Town. Cobus is also a member and former chair of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Agenda Council on Transparency & Anti-Corruption. In addition he serves on the Board of the WEF Partnering against Corruption Initiative (PACI). He was identified as one of the 500 most powerful individuals by the Foreign Policy Power Map in 2013 and named as one of the most influential people in security in 2014 by the Security magazine. Cobus holds a PhD in Sociology from La Trobe University, Melbourne, and an MPhil in Political and African Studies from the University of Cape Town.
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