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 first elected as TI's Chair in 2005 and re-elected at the 2008 Annual Membership Meeting in Athens, Greece.

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. In October 2008, Akere Muna was elected President of the African Union's Economic, Social and Cultural Council. 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. He was appointed as a member of the High Level Audit Committee of the African Unit in August 2007, who undertook a general audit review of the Organs and Institutions of the African Union as well as the nature of the relationships among them. The Committee concluded its work in February 2008.

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, elected as Vice-Chair of the TI Board in 2005 and re-elected to that office at the 2008 AMM.

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 first elected as a Member of the Board of Directors of TI in 2005 and re-elected at the 2008 Annual Membership Meeting.

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 first elected as a Member of the Board of Directors of TI in 2005 and re-elected in 2008. Since November 2007, he also chairs the TI Membership Accreditation Committee.

Delia Matilde Ferreira Rubio, Board Member

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Delia Ferreira Rubio is the President of Poder Ciudadano – TI’s National Chapter in Argentina - and has served on the Chapter’s Board since 2004.

Delia graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Ph.D. degree in Law from Madrid’s Complutense University. She served as Chief Advisor for several Representatives and Senators at the National Congress from 1990 to 2005, advising the Constitutional Committee of both the House of Representatives and the Senate, and also served as Chief Advisor at the National Accounting Office for two years.

She has consulted on anti-corruption and transparency related issues with various international organizations and NGOs around the world, and has worked on projects promoting greater transparency and accountability for political campaign/party financing.

She is a researcher at the CEPPA Foundation in Buenos Aires and has authored numerous publications on democratic culture and political institutions, Comparative Politics, government by decree, public and parliamentary ethics, political financing and electoral systems, among other subjects.

Delia Ferreira Rubio was elected as a Member of the Board at the TI Annual Membership Meeting in Athens on 29 October 2008.

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.

Rueben L. Lifuka, Board Member

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Rueben Lifuka is the President of TI Zambia (TIZ). He has been involved with the Chapter from early on, shaping the first two strategic plans which helped establish a strong TI-Zambia.

Rueben is an Architect and Project Manager by profession and a graduate of the Copperbelt University in Zambia. He has also studied Integrated Environmental Management at the University of Bath in the United Kingdom. He is an experienced Project Manager and Strategic Planning Expert and runs a consultancy firm offering Organisational Development and Programme /Project Management services locally and internationally. He has also served in various capacities on different professional and quasi government Boards in Zambia and worldwide.

Rueben Lifuka was elected as a Member of the Board at the TI Annual Membership Meeting in Athens on 29 October 2008.

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.

Iftekhar Zaman, Board Member

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Iftekhar Zaman is the Executive Director of Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB). Before joining TIB in September 2004, he was Executive Director of the Bangladesh Freedom Foundation for five years. Iftekhar’s TIB leadership saw a robust growth of the Chapter to nearly 200 staff and 3000 volunteers. He has been a resource person for TI Secretariat work in the Asia Pacific region and has made many contributions, including towards the protection of anti-corruption advocates.

He holds a PhD in Economics and has worked with the Department of International Relations of the University of Tokyo as a post-doctoral fellow. The main areas of Iftekhar’s expertise and experience are development, governance and corruption, politics, security and regional cooperation, on which he has published extensively. He is also involved with numerous international associations worldwide.

Iftekhar Zaman was elected as a Member of the Board at the TI Annual Membership Meeting in Athens on 29 October 2008.

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 fist elected as a Member of the Board of Directors of TI at the 2005 Annual Membership Meeting and again in 2008.