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Yoojin Choi (Republic of Korea) is Head of IACA's Training and Capacity Development Department. She previously served in the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission (ACRC) of the Republic of Korea, where she launched the APEC Anti-Corruption and Transparency Working Group and organized the G20 Anti-Corruption International Conference. In addition, she served in the Korean delegation for the OECD Working Group on Bribery and as a reviewer for on-site visits for New Zealand and Greece, and was in charge of projects with the World Bank and UNDP. She holds a Ph.D. in Education and Human Development from the University of Minnesota.

Elena Helmer is Associate Professor and Senior Expert at IACA and is a law professor and practicing lawyer with experience in Kazakhstan, Russia, and the United States. She is an expert and a published author in the field of anti-corruption as well as international business and dispute resolution. Ms. Helmer co-chaired the American Bar Association Section of International Law's International Anti-Corruption Committee for three years. She is a graduate of the Kazakh State University Faculty of Law and Yale Law School.  

Prof. Dr. Eduard Ivanov is senior researcher at the IACA. He has a solid academic and practical experience in compliance, preventing of and combating corruption, money-laundering, and terrorist financing. Eduard Ivanov lectured at DIREITO GV (Sao Paulo, Brazil), the University of Nice (France), the University of Muenster (Germany), the Ca’ Foscary University of Venice (Italy), and the National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia). In 2013 - 2016 he was a chair of the Law Schools Global League’s Study Group on Combating Corruption, and a member of the International Law Association’s Study group on Cybersecurity, Terrorism and International Law. From 2005 – 2008, he served as co-chair of the Working Group on Typologies in the Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism and was a member of the FATF Working Group on Typologies. 

Pawan Kumar Sinha (India) has been the Director of Academic Programmes since 2018. He oversees the development and implementation of IACA’s academic programmes, such as four master’s programmes, post-graduate diplomas, post-graduate certifications, and Open Online Training programmes. He frequently participates and speaks at international conferences. He is a member of UNODC’s Anti-Corruption Academic Initiative (ACAD).  He is also curator of the World Economic Forum’s Transformation Map on ‘Corruption’ under IACA-PACI collaboration. He had a career in civil services in India spanning almost three decades. He held several senior positions in the areas of administration, including anti-corruption, tax assessment, customs processes and automation, intelligence and investigation, research, and training. He specializes in and teaches courses on asset recovery, corruption in customs, Collective Action, Economics of corruption and role of technology in anti-corruption etc.

Martin Zapata is Academic Programmes Senior Officer at IACA. He is an anti-corruption professional and academic with extensive experience working as an expert and consultant for international Organizations, such as the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Inter-American Development Bank, Japan International Cooperation Agency, Anticorruption Center - UDESA, and the Bolivian Ministry for Anti-Corruption, where he also served as Director-General of Ethics, and Transparency. He was also the Regional Coordinator for Latin America of the Fisheries Transparency Initiative, leading projects in four countries in the region. Martin has collaborated and lectured at academic institutions in Argentina, Austria, Bolivia and Germany.