Visiting Faculty and Lecturers

Gemma Aiolfi is the Head of Compliance, Corporate Governance, and Collective Action at the Basel Institute on Governance. She was Legal Counsel to the Integrity Department prior and also worked as Executive Director and Global Head of Anti-Corruption at UBS. From 2001 to 2005 she was seconded by the OECD to work at the University of Basel, where she helped to establish the Basel Institute on Governance. Gemma Aiolfi had also served as an advisor to the UN Independent Inquiry Commission on the Iraq Oil for Food Programme.

Malika Aït-Mohamed Parent is an international independent anti-corruption expert specialized in non-profit organizations with 30 years’ humanitarian experience. She is member of the Audit & Oversight Committee of the UNHCR, ILO, FAO. She is the chair of the IFRC_ICRC Joint statutes commission and member of French Red Cross Foundation International Scientific Committee.
ISO 37001 and 37300 Auditor, she also performs a variety of assignments such as Chief Ethics Officer at the Global Fund (2022), Senior Advisor to the WHO Director General on Ethics (2023).
Former Under-Secretary General of Governance and Management Services at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Malika holds a Masters’ degree in economics (Sorbonne University), a Master’s in management (McGill University), an International Master’s Programme in Management (cross-continental consortium), and a Master of Arts in Anti-Corruption Studies (IACA).

Nasser Al Sane has been a member of the Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption (GOPAC) since 2002 and was Chair from 2008 to 2013. He is a GOPAC member-at-large and Chair of Management Committee as well as Vice Chairman of the International Forum for Islamic Politics, the Chairman of Synergy Corporation, and Assistant Professor at the Kuwait College for Business. He was a member of the Kuwaiti Parliament for 17 years. Nasser Al Sane holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Development from Aston University.

Sven Biermann is the Executive Director of the International Secretariat of the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI), based in the Seychelles. The FiTI is a global multi-stakeholder partnership, which strengthens transparency and collective action for a more sustainable management of marine fisheries. Sven has previously worked for the global consulting company Accenture, as Director of Anti-Corruption projects at the HUMBOLDT-VIADRINA School of Governance and he is also the co-founder of the non-profit Berlin Governance Platform gGmbH. In 2012/13, Sven served as the Senior Advisor to the United Nations Global Compact 10th principle (anti-corruption). Sven holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) with a Major in Information Management from the University of St. Thomas, Minnesota/USA.

Andrew Blasi is a director at Crowell & Moring International, where he guides the development and management of large-scale partnerships to reinforce business ethics and integrity around the world. This includes serving as Stakeholder Liaison for the Business Ethics for APEC SMEs Initiative, the world’s largest collective action initiative focused on business integrity in health-related industries, where he has aided the development of nine national consensus framework agreements for ethical collaboration spanning nearly 200 parties. He also serves as Technical Secretariat of the Inter-American Coalition for Business Ethics in the Medical Technology Sector, a member of the Business 20 (B20) Task Force on Integrity and Compliance, and an advisor to the Ethical Principles in Health Care (EPiHC) global initiative. Before joining Crowell & Moring International in 2010, Andrew served as the Pamela Harriman Foreign Service Fellow to Ambassador Robert Tuttle at the U.S. Embassy in London. Visiting lecturer since 2021.

Michael Callan has had 35 years in the Australian Commonwealth public sector, starting with 20 years in Defence as a military officer, followed by stints as an Australian Public Servant in several major departments. His roles have spanned strategic human resource management, public health policy, business management, major capability projects, integrity, governance, and human services provision at the senior executive level. Michael introduced an intelligence-led fraud prevention system, supported by enhanced digital forensics technology, and an increased focus on key risk areas. He has been a member of the AFP Fraud and Anti-Corruption Centre’s joint management committee, and serious financial crime taskforce committee. Michael also led the development of a fraud and anti-corruption network with his US, UK, New Zealand, and Canadian counterparts. In his last role, Michael was the Inspector General of Defence leading a small team in managing fraud control and anti-corruption measures, and the department’s statutory whistleblowing scheme. This team undertook complex criminal investigations, interfacing with military and civilian police investigation teams, as well as counterparts internationally.

Dr. Elizabeth "Liz" Colton, with award-winning careers in diplomacy, international journalism and education, now works promoting diplomacy worldwide. She serves as a UNITAR expert teaching a variety of courses and is a lecturer at IACA International Anti-Corruption Academy. Dr. Colton is Diplomat & Journalist in Residence at Warren Wilson College and Board-Chair of the global Reporters Sans Frontieres’ RSF-USA/North America. She’s a former UN development planner, Peace Corps Volunteer, Emmy Award journalist in all news media, including as diplomatic correspondent, a retired U.S. Foreign Service Officer, an ICFJ International Journalism Fellow, Fulbright Scholar, MacArthur Fellow in Globalization Studies, press secretary, professor of mass communications, and author of two published books and numerous articles.  Dr. Colton holds a Ph.D. in social anthropology from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Liz David-Barrett has been researching corruption for more than 20 years and was previously Director of the Centre for the Study of Corruption at the University of Sussex, UK. Always aiming to bridge gaps between research and practice, she has engaged widely with practitioners (e.g. by authoring reports for Transparency International, advising governments on anticorruption strategies, and supporting the private sector on business integrity).

Steven David Brown is a specialist in criminal justice with a particular focus on integrity, criminal intelligence, electronic evidence and computer-based crime. Although a barrister of the Inner Temple, he left the Bar to become a police officer with London’s Metropolitan Police Service later serving with the National Criminal Intelligence Service and Europol. He is a Certified Fraud Examiner, holds a Graduate Diploma in Financial Crime Prevention from the International Compliance Association and has worked in the international arena since 2001 including periods as the Senior Law Enforcement Advisor for the UN Office on Drugs and Crime in Central Asia, policy advisor on law enforcement to the EU Advisory Group in Armenia and as project manager for the EU/Council of Europe’s Global Action on Cybercrime initiative. Steven has published a number of articles in peer reviewed journals and is the editor of and major contributor to the textbook “Combating International Crime: The longer arm of the law” (Routledge: 2008).

Martim Della Valle is a professor and attorney. He is the founder of Zenith Source, a law tech dedicated to compliance, and partner of MBC Advogados. Martim has been the global head of compliance of a large multinational where he designed and implemented a compliance program that received several awards. He is a senior fellow of FGVEthics, member of the Collective Action Advisory Board of the UN Global Compact Brazil, and member of the Board of FIESP Arbitration Center. He is a former board member of Transparency International Belgium and the European Chief Compliance and Integrity Officers Forum (ECCIOF). Martim holds a PhD in International Law and has published two books on the topic.

Dr. Robert Eichler, holds PhD in law (Dr. iur.) of Johannes Kepler University. Studies at McGill University in Montréal, Canada. Is a former attorney-at-law, partner with the largest law firm in Austria and the CEE/SEE area. Worked as a foreign lawyer for Covington & Burling in New York and as a resident European lawyer with an individual law office in Bucharest. Since 2016 Senior Vice President Internal Audit & Compliance of OMV, Austria’s largest industrial company (50+ countries). Worked at OMV for more than 10 years, previously as Vice President Compliance and Head of Legal Projects & Integration. Designed and implemented OMV’s global compliance management system (IDW 980 certified). Transformed the Internal Audit Department to become a center of excellence for auditing in the oil and gas industry. Expertise covers a wide range of topics, including review of governance and controls in heavy industries and sales organizations, review of purchasing and payment processes, SAP and mass data analysis, as well as risk assessments.

Ivo Teixeira Gico Jr. is the Antitrust and Regulation Professor of the Law Graduate Program at the University Center of Brasília (UniCeuB). He is regularly invited as a Judge Instructor at the Brazilian National Academy of Judges and is the author and editor of several books. Dr. Gico Jr. founded and leads the specialized law firm Gico, Hadmann & Dutra Advogados, focusing on antitrust, regulation, and complex litigation. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Brasilia, an SJD (PhD in Law) from the University of São Paulo, an LLM (Master of Laws), summa cum laude, from Columbia Law School (United States), and a law degree from the University of Brasilia.

Adam Graycar is Professor of Public Policy at the University of Adelaide, Australia.  He is also director of the Stretton Institute.  Previously, he was Professor of Public Policy at the Australian National University (ANU) and Director of the Transnational Research Institute on Corruption (TRIC). Over 22 years, he acquired extensive policy experience through senior-level posts in both federal and state government. His most recent government position was Head, Cabinet Office, the Government of South Australia. Before joining ANU, he was Dean of the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.

Dr. Ina Kubbe is a Post-Doctoral Fellow working at the School of Political Science, Government and International Relations at Tel Aviv University, where she mainly researches and teaches on corruption, migration and conflict resolution.  She is also a founding member of the Interdisciplinary Corruption Research Network - a network of corruption researchers from different disciplinary, national and cultural backgrounds as well as of the new ECPR Standing Group on (Anti-) Corruption and Integrity. Ina also works as an international consultant for several organizations and institutions such as the European Commission, Transparency International, OSCE, OECD and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Education for Justice (E4J), where she has developed university modules on anti-corruption, in particular in the field of “Corruption and Comparative Politics”, “Corruption and Gender”, “Corruption and Good Governance”, "Corruption, Peace and Security" and “Corruption and Human Rights”.  

Katherine Hall is an expert on transnational corporate corruption and foreign bribery regulation. She is Associate Professor at the Australian National University (ANU) College of Law and Deputy Director (Law) of the Transnational Research Institute on Corruption at ANU. In addition to teaching and researching on global corporate law and transnational anti-corruption regulation, she is involved with the UNODC’s Anti-Corruption Academic Initiative (ACAD) and is a member of the Standards Australia committee. She did her PhD on Psychology and Corporate Corruption.

John Hatchard is a Barrister and Professor of Law at the Buckingham Law School, UK, and Co-Director of the University of Buckingham Centre for Extractive Energy Studies. He served as Chief Mutual Legal Assistance Officer at the Commonwealth Secretariat and was a Senior Fellow at the British Institute for International and Comparative Law. He was the Director of the University of Detroit-Mercy London Program and General Secretary of the Commonwealth Legal Education Association where he is currently Vice-President. Prof. Hatchard has published extensively in the area of criminal law, criminal justice and evidence, constitutional law, good governance, and human rights. 

Michael Johnston is a Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Colgate University. As a leading global authority on questions of corruption, democratization, and reform, Prof. Johnston has also served as a senior consultant to organizations such as the World Bank, United Nations, the Organization of American States, and the US Agency for International Development. His book Syndromes of Corruption: Wealth, Power, and Democracy won the 2009 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, presented by the University of Louisville. He holds a PhD from Yale University.

Michael Hershman is Group CEO of the International Centre for Sports Security (ICSS) - an independent and non-profit organisation at the forefront of efforts to safeguard sport - and former President and CEO of the Fairfax Group. In 2006, he was appointed Independent Compliance Advisor to the Board of Directors of Siemens AG. He served as Senior Staff Investigator for the Senate Watergate Committee and as Chief Investigator for a joint Presidential and Congressional Commission reviewing state and federal laws on wiretapping and electronic surveillance. In 1993, Michael Hershman co-founded Transparency International with Peter Eigen

Guillermo Jorge is the Director of the Program on Corruption Control at San Andres University School of Law, Argentina, where he also regularly teaches criminal law, international business and globalization, as well as anti-corruption compliance. He is also the managing partner of Guillermo Jorge & Asociados, a Buenos Aires based legal and consulting firm. In that capacity, Guillermo Jorge is an active consultant for international organizations, Latin American governments, and multinational companies operating in the region. 

Max Kaiser Aranda is the Anticorruption Director at the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness (IMCO) and also Coordinator of the Anti-Corruption Programme at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). He is co-coordinator and lecturer at IACA's Procurement Anti-Corruption Training. He is an external consultant for UNODC, an active part of UNODC's ACAD (Anti-Corruption Academic Initiative), and a member of TRACE International Faculty. Max Kaiser Aranda has been a law professor for over 12 years at ITAM and was formerly Under Secretary of Administrative Responsibilities and Public Procurement at the Federal Ministry of Public Function. 

Mushtaq Khan is a Professor of Economics at SOAS, University of London. He holds a first class degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford and a PhD in Economics from Cambridge. His research interests are in institutional economics, where he has done innovative work in many spheres relating to corruption. Mushtaq Khan is a member of the Committee of Experts on Public Administration at the UN, and a member of the Panel of Experts on Policy Implementation at the World Bank.

Robert Klitgaard is a University Professor at Claremont Graduate University, where he served as the President from 2005 to 2009. He was previously Dean of the Pardee RAND Graduate School and a professor at Yale’s School of Management and Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. His consulting work and research have taken him to more than 30 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Alexey Konov is director of the Anti-Corruption Center of the National University - Higher School of Economics. As a leading expert on matters including corruption risk assessment, conflict of interest regulation, asset disclosure, Mr. Konov is included in the Presidential Anti-Corruption Directorate Expert Council and the Russian Government Expert Council. He supported drafting the Russian anti-corruption legislation and guidelines, and was Russian Federation representative in the G20 Anti-Corruption Working Group. He took part in the fifth and sixth sessions of the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption and the APEC Anti-Corruption and Transparency Working Group meetings.

Drago Kos is Chair of the OECD Working Group on Bribery. He was an international commissioner in the Monitoring and Evaluation Committee in Afghanistan, the Chairman of GRECO for ten years and the first Chairman of the Commission for the Prevention of Corruption in Slovenia. He was also as Co-President of EPAC/EACN, member of COGEL’s Global Affairs Committee, Deputy Director of the Slovenian Criminal Investigation Directorate, and Vice Chairman of the European Healthcare Fraud and Corruption Network. Drago Kos holds a degree in law from the University of Ljubljana.

Georg Krakow is a partner in the Compliance Practice Group at Baker & McKenzie law firm in Vienna, which he joined in 2011. He headed the legal department of a major European furniture retail company until 1992, after which he became part of the Austrian judiciary and was appointed senior public prosecutor in Vienna. In 2009, he became head of cabinet of the Federal Ministry of Justice, working on economic crime cases, being involved in civil and penal legislation, and developing the central prosecution office for economic crimes and corruption.

Hans-Heiner Kühne is a Professor of criminal law, European and international criminal law, criminal procedure law, and criminology at the University of Trier. He is also Chair of the Sino-German Dialogue on the Rule of Law. Previously, he was Dean of the Law Faculty of Saarland (Trier), the university’s Vice President, and a judge at the District Court in Saarbrücken. Hans-Heiner Kühne obtained his Doctoral degree in Law from Saarland University and also holds several honorary Doctorates. 

Vladimir Lafitsky is a member of IACA’s International Academic Advisory Board, a substitute member of the European Commission for Democracy Through Law (Venice Commission of the Council of Europe), and an Honoured Lawyer of the Russian Federation. He holds a Diploma in Jurisprudence from the Moscow State University’s Faculty of Law and a PhD in Law from the Institute of State and Law of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. 

Johann Graf Lambsdorff is a Professor of Economic Theory at the University of Passau. He obtained his PhD in Economics and devoted his habilitation to corruption in global perspective. He designed the Corruption Perceptions Index on behalf of Transparency International and is recognized for his work on institutional and behavioral economics of reform. His books and articles were published by Cambridge University Press, the Journal of International Economics, and the Journal of Conflict Resolution, among many others. 

Michael Levi has been Professor of Criminology at Cardiff University since 1991 and has researched the control of white-collar and organized crime, corruption and money-laundering/financing of terrorism since 1972. In 2013, he was awarded the Distinguished Scholarship award of the International Association for the Study of Organised Crime. In 2014 he was awarded the Sellin-Glueck prize for international and comparative criminology by the American Society of Criminology. He has completed work on the detection of insider cyber threats and pathways to cyber-enabled fraud; co-led an evaluation of the criminalization of organized crime membership and special investigative measures in the EU; and researched the extent and impact of bank de-risking and anti-money-laundering evaluations.

Daniel Li was a career officer with the Hong Kong Independent Commission against Corruption (ICAC) for over 35 years, responsible for the investigation of bribery, fraud, and the prevention of corruption. He retired in 2012 as the Deputy Commissioner and Head of Operations, and was honoured for his public service in bringing the corrupt to justice. Daniel Li is a member of the IACA International Academic Advisory Board and a member of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission International Review Panel.

Roderick Macauley works as a Criminal Law Advisor at the UK Ministry of Justice. He has led the reform of the criminal law of bribery which culminated in the Bribery Act 2010. He subsequently developed the UK’s Corporate Governance Code and associated guidance published on 31 March 2011. In addition, Mr. Macauley is a barrister with extensive practitioner experience in criminal law, coupled with domestic and international legislative and jurisdictional expertise.

Ronald MacLean-Abaroa served as mayor of La Paz between 1985 and 1997 and is internationally recognized for his anti-corruption work as a local governor. He has held five national cabinet positions and was the presidential candidate of the governing party of 2002. Shortly after, he joined the World Bank as the Lead Public Sector Management Specialist and now lectures at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is also a founding member of Transparency International, and its first Chairman for Latin America.

Jeroen Maesschalck studied Public Administration and Philosophy at the UGent (Belgium) and at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the KU Leuven (Belgium). He was the founding director of the Leuven Institute of Criminology of the KU Leuven, where he still works as professor. His research and teaching focus on public administration ethics and on management and policymaking in the criminal justice system. He has consulted on ethics management both within Belgium and internationally. 

Shervin Majlessi is Senior Legal Adviser at the World Bank/UNODC Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative (StAR). He was previously Regional Anti-Corruption Adviser at UNODC's Regional Office for Southeast Asia and the Pacific. He has conducted research projects at the Harvard Program on Humanitarian Policy & Conflict Research, the Hague Academy of International Law, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and Iran's Institute for Trade Studies. He holds a PhD and LL.M. in international economic law from McGill University as well as an LL.M. in international finance from Harvard Law School. 

Klaus Moosmayer, Ph.D., has been Chief Ethics, Risk & Compliance Officer of Novartis since 2018. He is a member of the Executive Committee of Novartis. Mr. Moosmayer previously was chief compliance officer of Siemens AG, a position he held since 2014. During his career at Siemens, Mr. Moosmayer also served as chief counsel compliance from 2009 to 2013, and as compliance operating officer from 2007 to 2009. Mr. Moosmayer is internationally recognized in the field of compliance. He serves as vice chair of the Business at OECD (BIAC) executive board and served as chair of its Anti-Corruption Committee from 2013 to 2020. He is co-founder and chair of the European Chief Compliance and Integrity Officers’ Forum; and co-chair of the B20 Integrity & Compliance Task Force under the G20 presidency of Saudi Arabia. He served as co-chair of the B20 Integrity & Compliance Task Force under the G20 presidency of Argentina in 2018, and as chair of the B20 Integrity & Compliance Task Force under the G20 presidency of Germany in 2017. 

Caroline Nicholas is a Senior Legal Officer with the International Trade Law Division of the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs (the UNCITRAL Secretariat). She has served as Secretary to its Working Group on Procurement and Infrastructure Development, which drafted the UNCITRAL Model Law on Public Procurement (issued in 2011), an accompanying Guide to Enactment (2012), and other UNCITRAL documents in the field. She previously advised on international war damage claims at the UN Compensation Commission, was a UN internal investigator, and has practised law in the City of London and Hong Kong. 

Katalin Pallai has 25 years of experience as an independent policy expert, researcher and educator. Her most important fields are ethics and integrity management, leadership and the facilitation of collaborative processes. Dr. Pallai, serving as associate professor of the National University for Public Service, played a key role in developing integrity education of civil servants in Hungary. She also worked for the World Bank, European Commission, UNDP, UNODC and other international organizations. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the Central European University.

Guido Palazzo is Professor of Business Ethics at HEC, University of Lausanne, Vice Dean for programs and student affairs and director of the executive education of HEC. His research deals with corporate responsibility in global supply chains, the mechanisms of (un)ethical decision making in organizations, the fight against organized crime and the impact of storytelling on behavior. He is one of the most cited business ethics scholars in the world. The Incites Ranking 2018 (measuring the impact of research) ranked him No 137 out of 130.000 management/finance/economics scholars in Europe. Guido Palazzo has received the Max Weber Award for his research on multinational corporations by the German president. He consults and teaches on business ethics at numerous multinational corporations. Over the last 6 years he has directed a training program on sustainable leadership for senior officials of the Chinese Communist Party on behalf of the Swiss Government.  

Professor Mikhail Reider-Gordon, LL.M., M.Phil. is Managing Director of Institutional Ethics & Integrity at Affiliated Monitors, Inc. She serves as an independent integrity monitor on a wide-range of matters to corporate and public entities under court-order and regulatory settlement agreements. Ms. Gordon’s practice areas of expertise include anti-corruption; anti-money laundering; technology and privacy compliance; ethics and accountability; the public sector and international law.  Prof. Gordon began her professional career at the RAND Corporation. She subsequently took on investigative and crisis-management roles with the U.S. government before returning to the private sector where she managed an active litigation and advisory practice to a broad range of international clients centered on organizational compliance and directing internal investigations across industries in Fortune 500 corporate and large institutional settings frequently under scrutiny from regulators. She holds leadership positions in the American Bar Association, and is a noted and widely published expert on issues related to corruption, AML, privacy and technology law.  She currently has a podcast series,  Lies, Spies & Corporate Crime: Wirecard, the Saga, exploring the matter from a transnational corporate crime perspective.

Friedrich Schneider is a Professor of Economics at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz. He obtained his PhD in Economics from the University of Konstanz in 1976. He was the Dean of Social Science and Economics at Johannes Kepler University and later served as the university’s Vice President for Foreign Affairs. Friedrich Schneider has also presided over the Austrian and German Economic Associations. He has extensively published in leading economic journals and edited the Journal of Public Choice as well as Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik. 

Tina Søreide is Professor in Economics and Law at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH). She previously worked at the University of Bergen, the Chr. Michelsen Institute, and the World Bank. Her research interests include corruption, governance, markets, and criminal law. Søreide has been engaged in various international assignments for policy purposes, including for the OECD, the EU, the World Bank, development agencies, and governments. She is the author of Corruption and Criminal Justice: Bridging Legal and Economic Perspectives, released by Edw. Elgar Publishing in spring 2016.

Johannes S. Schnitzer is the founder of Schnitzer Law, a law firm specialised in public procurement law and based in Austria. He has many years of experience in the field of procurement law as well as compliance and risk management in respect of public procurement. Johannes S. Schnitzer is the Vice Chair of the International Public Procurement Committee, Section of Public Contract Law of the American Bar Association. 

Andrew Spalding is Associate Professor at the University of Richmond School of Law, where he teaches and writes in the area of international business law. His work, which focuses on anti-corruption law, has appeared in the UCLA Law Review and Wisconsin Law Review, among others. Andy Spalding is the Senior Editor of the FCPA Blog, and his research has been covered by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Economist, Atlantic, Forbes, and National Public Radio. 

Frederic St-Martin is a seasoned governance and anti-corruption practitioner who has worked for more than a decade with the private sector, international organizations and governments. Frederic currently supervises the governance of the internal threat and anti-corruption programmes of the Desjardins Group, a financial institution based in Montreal and Levis, Canada. Prior to this, Frederic worked with the OECD and as an independent consultant, where he advised governments and international organizations on enhancing their integrity and anti-corruption systems, and contributed to various publications on governance, integrity and anti-corruption. Frederic also helped private firms strengthening their governance and business integrity frameworks while working with a Canadian financial regulator, and worked with the Government of Canada on democratic governance, government transparency and accountability, as well as management of conflict of interest for elected officials and appointed senior officials. Member of the Quebec Bar since 2004, Frederic also holds a Master in Law from the University of Montreal and a Bachelor of Common Law and Civil Law from the University of Ottawa. 

Elisabeth Täubl is a Senior Prosecutor at the Austrian Central Office for Prosecuting Economic Crimes and Corruption. She was formerly Deputy Chief of Staff and Policy Advisor at IACA. Previously, she served as a judge in the departments for Substantive and Procedural Criminal Law of the Federal Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Austria and held the position of Prosecutor and Deputy Chief of the Office of the Minister of Justice.

Fabian M. Teichmann is an attorney-at-law and public notary in Switzerland. After earning an undergraduate degree in economics and finance (Bocconi University, Italy), he then earned graduate degrees in management (Harvard University, USA), accounting and finance, and law (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland). He also holds a PhD in law (University of Zurich, Switzerland), a doctoral degree in economics and social sciences (Kassel University, Germany), and an LL.M. (King’s College, UK). Fabian is managing partner of a mid-sized Swiss law firm and a board member of companies in Switzerland, Liechtenstein, the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates. He teaches courses on compliance, corruption, money laundering, and terrorism financing at various universities in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. Fabian is the author of several books and over 100 scholarly articles. Visiting lecturer since 2020.

Wim Vandekerckhove is Professor of Business Ethics at the University of Greenwich, in London. He has provided expertise on whistleblowing to various organisations, including civil society campaigning groups, intergovernmental agencies, national regulatory bodies and professional bodies. He was the convenor for ISO 37002, the first international standard on whistleblowing management systems, and remains an active member of the committees within ISO and the British Standards Institute that work on anti-bribery and governance of organisations. He is the director of the Management Inquiry Group (MIG) and co-director of the Centre of Research on Employment and Work (CREW) at the University of Greenwich. He is a founding member of the International Whistleblowing Research Network.

Ana Vasilache is an international consultant with extensive experience in anti-corruption capacity-building in local governments across Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. She was the founding President of Partners Foundation for Local Development, a Romanian NGO enhancing democratic processes worldwide and strengthening civil society. Since 2004, Ana has collaborated with Ronald MacLean-Abaroa to address corruption in local governments within the CEE/SEE anti-corruption network. The methodology they developed received the UN Public Service Award 2011.

S. Ramakrishna (Rama) Velamuri has B.Com (University of Madras), MBA (IESE Business School), and PhD (University of Virginia) degrees. He teaches Entrepreneurship, Negotiation, Business Ethics, and Corporate Governance at the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) and was on the IESE faculty from 2003 to 2007. Prof. Velamuri has carried out case development and entrepreneurship faculty development assignments for the World Bank, the International Finance Corporation, and the National Entrepreneurship Network India. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Indian School of Business, the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, Bocconi University, and IACA.

Smokin Wanjala is a judge of the Supreme Court of Kenya and a member of the Judicial Service Commission. He was a senior lecturer in law at the University of Nairobi, Assistant Director of the now defunct Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission, and Rapporteur of the Pan African Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities. He holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Nairobi, a Diploma in Law and Practice from the Kenya School of Law, a Master of Laws from Columbia University, and a PhD in Law from the University of Ghent.

Candice Welsch is Deputy Director, Division for Operations / Office of the Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). She has worked as a senior legal officer to the judges of the Special Court on Sierra Leone. She was also a federal prosecutor at the Department of Justice of Canada. Ms. Welsch holds an LL.M in international criminal justice from the University of London, a Master’s Degree in international law from Université de Paul Cézanne, and degrees in both common and civil law from McGill University.

Rene Wenk is the Head of the Anti-Corruption, Compliance, and Risk Management Department at the Austrian Court of Audit. He is a representative of the Austrian Court of Audit to the INTOSAI working group fighting against corruption and money-laundering. Dr. Wenk was formerly Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Anti-Corruption at the Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior. He holds Master of Laws and Doctor of Laws degrees from Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria, an MBA degree from the Vienna University of Economics and Business, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Corruption Studies from the University of Hong Kong.

Mark Worth has been working with whistleblowers for 36 years – as a whistleblower caseworker, advocate, policy analyst, investigative journalist and trainer. He has founded many organizations including Whistleblowing International, European Center for Whistleblower Rights, Center for Whistleblower Rights & Rewards, and the Southeast Europe Coalition on Whistleblower Protection. He has supported hundreds of whistleblowers, investigated their cases, worked to protect them from retaliation, and advocated for reforms based on their disclosures. He has led or supported the development of whistleblower laws and advised public officials in all regions. He has advised the UN, EU, OECD, APEC and Council of Europe, and was a member of the UNODC’s Expert Group on Whistleblowing. He has held leadership positions at many NGOs in Europe and the US, including Transparency International and Public Citizen. He is an award-winning journalist and publisher.

Christopher R. Yukins is the Lynn David Research Professor of Government Procurement Law at the George Washington University Law School. He is Co-Director of the school’s procurement law programme.  Christopher R. Yukins teaches on public contract formation, bid challenges, claims litigation, emerging procurement reform issues, anti-corruption efforts, state and local procurement law, foreign contracting, and international and comparative procurement law. He is counsel to the firm of Arnold & Porter LLP.

Milda Žilinskaitė is a Senior Scientist at the Competence Center for Sustainability Transformation and Responsibility (STaR) at Vienna University of Economics and Business. She received her M.A. from the University of Alabama and a Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego; and she has since lectured at universities in Austria, Germany, Indonesia, South Korea, and the U.S. Courses and workshops include, cross-cultural management, CSR and ethics, leadership skills development, academic writing, and code of conduct development. She has been teaching (and co-learning from her students!) at IACA since 2018.