SPEAKERS OF TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON INTEGRITY 2016
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SPEAKERS OF TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON INTEGRITY 2016
We seek to lead by example and offer top-notch quality. To do that, over the past five years we have invited nearly half-a-hundred outstanding experts to teach at the TI School in Vilnius. School lecturers are anti-corruption and accountability leaders that come from the public, private, NGO and academic sectors and offer students unique perspectives on how to address corruption and promote transparency. While the team of lecturers changes slightly every year, over time TI School has welcomed speakers from the World Bank Institute, OECD, OSCE, Global Witness, Global Integrity, MySociety, Sunlight Foundation, Global Advice, U4, various Transparency International chapters and many others.
Cobus de Swardt | South Africa
Tackling Corruption Together: Every Person Counts
Elena A. Panfilova | Russia
Taking a Stand Against Corruption: Have You Got What it Takes?
Elena is an inspiring activist and established researcher in charge of the Laboratory for Anti-Corruption Policy. She has been an academic, consultant and activist, held positions in the OECD and the Institute for Economy in Transition, and became a member of the Russian Governmental Commission on Open Government. Elena is also Vice-chair of TI's International Board of Directors and Chair of TI Russia. Elena was elected to Transparency International's International Board of Directors for the first time in 2011. She is also the chair of the Center for Anti-corruption Research and Initiative Transparency International, TI's Russian chapter, which she founded in 1999. She served as its Executive Director until July 2014, when she became the Chapter's Chair. In August 2014, she became head of the Laboratory for Anti-Corruption Policy (which she founded in 2008), working to promote transparency and civil society. Since 2007, she has taught anti-corruption at the State University Higher School of Economics in Moscow.
Confessions of an Anti-Corruption Pioneer: Setting Roles and Expectations
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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.
Marcin Walecki | Poland
Frank Vogl | USA Frank is one of the founding fathers of the anti-corruption movement and is a co-founder of Transparency International. Frank has more than 40 years of experience in anti-corruption, governance and banking. He has worked as a journalist, a World Bank senior official, an anti-corruption civil society leader, and a top level adviser to financial institutions. Frank is President of Vogl Communications Inc., which has provided advice to leaders of international finance for more than two decades. He also served as Vice-Chairman of the Partnership for Transparency Fund and a member of the TI Board of Directors.
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Political Parties and Political Corruption
Marcin is currently the Chief of the Democratic Governance and Gender Unit at the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. He has over 15 years of democracy assistance and governance experience working in more than 35 countries around the world implementing programs ranging from anticorruption and political finance, political party assistance and development, to gender equality. Prior to joining the OSCE, he was the Executive Director of the Brussels based European Partnership for Democracy (EPD). He has written for numerous publications on democratization and democratic governance. A graduate of Oxford University, Dr. Walecki studied law and political science.
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