Huguette Labelle, Chair

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Huguette Labelle holds a Doctor of Philosophy, Education. She is a Companion of the Order of Canada. She has been awarded honorary degrees from twelve Canadian Universities and has received the Vanier medal of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada, the Outstanding Achievement Award of the public service of Canada, the McGill Management Achievement Award and l’ordre de la Pleiade.

She has served for a period of nineteen years as Deputy Minister of different Canadian Government departments including Secretary of State, Transport Canada, the Public Service Commission and the Canadian International Development Agency. She has served on more than 20 Boards.

She is currently Chancellor of the University of Ottawa, Chair of the Board of Transparency International, Vice President of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and of CRC Sogema, member of the Board of the UN Global Compact. She also serves on several additional national and international Boards.

A board members since 2003, she was elected as TI's Chair on 13 November 2005 at the Annual Membership Meeting in Berlin.

Akere Muna, Vice-Chair

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Akere T. Muna is founder and former president of Transparency International Cameroon. A lawyer by training, he is President of the Pan African Lawyers Union and former president of the Cameroon Bar Association. Muna is a member of several national commissions on legal reform and curbing corruption.

He was a member of the National Ad-hoc Commission for the Fight against Corruption and has served as a Commonwealth Observer for Zanzibar's elections in 2000.

Mr Muna was actively involved in the TI working group that helped to draft the African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption and has written a guide to the convention published by TI.

He was elected to the TI Board at the 2004 Annual Meeting and subsequently elected as Vice-Chair of the TI Board at the 2005 Annual Meeting.

Sion Assidon, Board member

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Sion Assidon, a mathematician by training and a businessman by profession, was the founding Secretary General of Transparency Maroc and remains a member of its National Council. Mr Assidon was imprisoned from 1972 to 1984 for his efforts in campaigning for democracy in his country.

He is active in several NG0s in the Moroccan civil rights movement including AMRASH which works for sustainable development in villages of the Atlas mountains and Espace Associatif which promotes the work of NGOs in Morocco.

Sion Assidon was elected as a Member of the Board of Directors of TI at the Annual Membership Meeting in Berlin, 12- 13 November 2005.

Nancy Boswell, Board member

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Nancy Zucker Boswell has been managing TI- USA since shortly after its founding and is now its President.

Her prior experience includes the practice of public international and trade law at Steptoe & Johnson, government relations at the American Association of University Women and international financial matters at Citicorp. She received her law degree summa cum laude from the American University Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C.

Ms. Boswell is a director of PACT and of the International Senior Lawyers Project and co-chair of the American Bar Association Task Force on Foreign Corrupt Practices. She is a cleared advisor to the US Government, serving on the State Department Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy and the USTR Trade & Environment Policy Advisory Committee.

Nancy Zucker Boswell was re-elected as a Member of the Board of Directors of TI at the Annual Membership Meeting in Guatemala City on 14 November 2006.

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John Devitt is founder and CEO of TI Ireland. He is a communications specialist by training. A former press officer at the British Embassy in Dublin, he was also the first Irish member of its Public Diplomacy Committee. Before joining the TI movement he served as Trade Representative at the Irish Consulate in New Zealand. He currently serves on the EU Steering Committee, NIS Advisory Committee and TI Sports Steering Committee.

A graduate of European Studies at the University of Limerick and of Public Relations at the Public Relations Institute of Ireland, he is a member of the National Union of Journalists and Institute of European Affairs, and Research Associate of the School of Business, Trinity College Dublin.

John Devitt was elected to the TI Board in October 2007 in Indonesia.

Boris Divjak, Board Member

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Boris Divjak is an economist by profession. He has been affiliated with Transparency International since late 2000 as a founder and Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Transparency International Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mr Divjak has conducted research, analysis, evaluation and design of recommendations of legislation, institutional capacities and requirements; has led the training of government officials, NGOs and media; implemented surveys and polls preparation, conducting, monitoring and analysis; and worked on public procurement and aid related corruption.

He has worked in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia & Montenegro, Kosovo, Albania since 1996 and holds a Masters in International Studies from the University of Reading, UK.

Boris Divjak was elected as a Member of the Board of Directors of TI at the Annual Membership Meeting in Berlin, 12- 13 November 2005. Since November 2007, he also chairs the TI Membership Accreditation Committee.

Geo-Sung Kim, Board Member

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Geo-Sung Kim is Chairperson and founding secretary-general of Transparency International Korea, the South Korean chapter of TI, established in 1999.

Kim is an ordained pastor of the Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea (ROK) and holds a degree in theology. For his role in the democracy and human rights movements in Korea he was imprisoned twice between 1977-1980, and has served in various civil society organisations thereafter.

In 2006, he was awarded the Moran Medal of the Order of Civil Merit by the Korean government for his contribution to the anti-corruption movement. He was a Commissioner of the Korea Independent Commission against Corruption from 2005 to 2008, and is the Standing Executive Officer of the Council for the Korean Pact on Anti-Corruption and Transparency (K-PACT Council).

Reverend Kim was elected to the Transparency International Board of Directors in 2004 and re-elected for a second term in 2007.

Chong San Lee, Board Member

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Chong San Lee has served as Deputy President of Transparency International Malaysia for the past five years. Previous to this he has worked as a tax analyst and in 1988 he was appointed the Financial Controller of the Esso Companies in Malaysia.

His many responsibilities in this role included overseeing the company’s ethics and business practices and ensuring compliance with company policies. He also participated in the company’s contracting practices. After retiring from ExxonMobil in 2001, he volunteered and worked in many projects organised by Transparency International Malaysia.

Chong San Lee was elected as a Member of the Board of Directors of TI at the Annual General Meeting in Berlin, 12- 13 November 2005.

Devendra Raj Panday, Board Member

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Devendra Raj Panday holds a Ph. D. in Public and International Affairs from the University of Pittsburgh, USA. After nineteen years in civil service, he resigned from the government post of Permanent Secretary of the Finance Ministry of Nepal, when the use of public resources for partisan political purposes became acute. He took interest in civil society activities for democracy and human rights in Nepal and South Asia and also got engaged through NGOs and as professional consultant, in economic and social development. In 1990-91, he served his country as Finance Minister.

Afterwards, Mr Raj Panday intensified civil society work, joined TI and helped establish TI-Nepal which he served as its President and an Executive Member. He faced imprisonment several times for his commitment for civil rights and democracy in Nepal, most recently in early 2006, for nearly 100 days. He authored, co-authored and edited several books, journal articles, newspaper articles and book chapters on development, democracy, development aid, governance and corruption.

Devendra Raj Panday was elected as a Member of the Board of Directors of TI at the Annual Membership Meeting in Guatemala City, 14 November 2006.

Laura Puertas Meyer, Board Member

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Laura Puertas Meyer is an economist and journalist and for the past twenty years has dedicated herself to human rights issues and the fight against corruption. She is General News Director of the Peruvian channels America TV and Canal N. From 2002 to 2006 she worked for PROETICA, the TI chapter in Peru, as the Executive Director and is a now member of its Ethics Council.

Ms Puertas Meyer has also worked as a stringer for The New York Times and El Pais since 1992 and has worked for various Peruvian media in magazines, journals, radio and television programs. In 1993, she founded with other Peruvian journalists the IPYS (Instituto Prensa y Sociedad), to promote investigative journalism in the Andean Region.

Laura Puertas Meyer was elected as a Member of the Board of Directors of TI at the Annual Membership Meeting in Berlin, 12- 13 November 2005.

Frank Vogl, Board Member

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Frank Vogl is a co-founder of TI and he served three terms as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors (1993-2002). Born in the U.K. and resident in Washington in the U.S., he is President of Vogl Communications, Inc and Publisher of www.EthicsWorld.com.

Mr Vogl is a member of the Board of Directors of the Ethics Resource Center and a member of the Fellows Program of the Ethics Resource Center; a Trustee of the Committee for Economic Development and a member of its corporate governance working group; a member of the International Advisory Council of the New Israel Fund; and a member of the 'Wisemen' - an organization of U.S. public relations' industry leaders.

A graduate of Leeds University in the U.K., Frank Vogl was an economics correspondent for Reuters in London and Brussels, then European Business Correspondent of The Times (London) based in Frankfurt and from 1974-1981 he served as U.S. Economics Correspondent of The Times. From 1981-1990 he served as Director of Information & Public Affairs of the World Bank and as the chief press advisor to the President of the Bank. He has lectured and written extensively on international economics, ethics and corruption.

Frank Vogl was elected as a Member of the Board of Directors of TI at the Annual General Meeting in Berlin, 12- 13 November 2005.

Gerard Zovighian, Board Member

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Gerard Zovighian has been an Auditor and Managing Partner of BDO-Fiduciaire du Moyen Orient since 1996. Prior to this, from 1976-1980, he held the post of Middle East Regional Coordinator of BDO-Fiduciaire du Moyen Orient in London, and worked in Paris with Price Waterhouse & Company as an auditor.

Mr Zovighian also has various professional memberships that include the role of Vice Chair-person and founding member of the Lebanese Transparency Association (LTA, the TI national chapter in Lebanon), the Lebanese Association of Certified Public Accountants, a lawyer of the Paris Bar, a Member of the ‘Chambre Nationale des Conseillers Financiers’ (CNCF - Paris), an Advisor for fiscal and financial matters to the Beirut Chamber of Commerce & Industry and Advisor to the Board of the Order of Malta, as Knight of the Order.

Gerard Zovighian was elected as a Member of the Board of Directors of TI at the Annual General Meeting in Berlin, 12- 13 November 2005.