The 12th edition of the Summer Academy, IACA’s flagship programme, concluded on 1 July. The programme gathered 55 anti-corruption and compliance professionals from 31 countries for 7 days of fruitful discussions and interaction with peers and world-leading experts, and was successfully implemented on IACA Campus, following two online editions in 2020 and 2021.
The audience included representatives of the public and private sectors, international organizations, academia, media, and civil society, while the speakers came from a wide variety of leading institutions, including the OECD, University of London, Vienna University of Economics and Business, University of Oxford, U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Center, DLA Piper Law Firm, and Novartis among others.
As in previous years, the interdisciplinary programme blended theory and practice, addressing topical anti-corruption and compliance issues from multiple perspectives: politics, compliance and collective action, integrity and corruption prevention, law, psychology, economics, good governance, and enforcement. The diverse, expert group of lecturers addressed trending anti-corruption topics, such as the newly launched OECD standards, the role of ethics and compliance in global business, the role of investigative journalism in addressing financial and economic crimes, how to achieve high impact anti-corruption, and how money laundering works in the art world.
This year’s Summer Academy participants now join the IACA alumni association, a worldwide network of more than 4,400 anti-corruption and compliance professionals from 170 countries and jurisdictions.
Since it began in 2011, the IACA Summer Academy has empowered more than 800 professionals from all parts of the globe.
Building on the success of the Summer Academy format IACA developed Regional Summer Academies. This November, IACA Regional Summer Academy Asia will take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and additional two editions are foreseen to take place in 2023 in Latin American and African continents. IACA held past Regional Summer Academies in Argentina (Latin America, 2015), Uganda (Eastern Africa, 2016), Kuwait (Middle East, 2017), China (East and Southeast Asia, 2018), the Republic of Korea (South and East Asia, 2019), and Brazil (Central and South America, 2019).