Conny Abel
Germany, Germany, Programme Coordinator
Conny came to TI in June 2005 as an intern in the Information Technology Department. She then joined the Communications Department as Communications Assistant handling requests from journalists, with a main focus on South Eastern Europe, and organising TI’s public appearance programme. From October 2006 until March 2007, she covered the position of the Public Procurement Programme Coordinator on an interim basis while continuing to work 50 percent in the Communications Department. From April 2006 until December 2007 she returned working full time in the Communications Department, before starting as Programme Coordinator with the Europe and Central Asia team. She is currently responsible for the region of South Eastern Europe, including the ex-Yugoslavian states, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova and Turkey. Conny holds a Master’s in Communication Science from the University of Dresden, Germany.

Marie-Luise Ahlendorf
Germany, Programme Coordinator
Marie-Luise Ahlendorf joined TI in 2004. For the past year she worked in the Global Programmes Department at TI, where she was involved in a variety of programmes to push forward the goals of the department. Marie-Luise is now involved in the Corruption and Humanitarian Aid project and the Water Integrity Network (WIN) at TI.
Prior to joining TI, Marie-Luise spent a year in Ghana working with a UK-based NGO on peer mediation issues. She holds a Masters Degree in International Relations and Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Queensland, Australia.

Kulan Amin
Germany, Programme Manager Poverty and Development
Kulan Amin joined TI in January 2007 as Programme Manager, Poverty and Development. Prior to joining TI she worked for over 5 years with the European Commission in India managing an extensive portfolio of bilateral projects in the field of rural development and environment in India and Bhutan and more recently a water sector policy support programme in Rajasthan. Between 1996 and 1999 Kulan worked for the German Development Cooperation (GTZ) projects in India providing capacity building support to NGOs engaged in the areas of sustainable livelihoods, natural resource management and micro-credit. As an independent consultant, she designed, reviewed and evaluated several projects. Alongside her studies since 1989 she was active in German and Indian NGOs addressing social and environmental aspects of development policies. Kulan studied in India, Germany and the UK and completed her MA in Public Administration (International Relations) from the University of Konstanz and a post-graduate course from the Centre for Advanced Training in Rural Development in Berlin.

Leticia Andreu
Germany, Team Coordinator, Assistant to Huguette Labelle
Leticia joined TI in March 2000. After starting as receptionist, she soon took over the assistance to a member of the Board of Directors, Jermyn Brooks, and also the office management. For the past four years she worked as Personal Assistant to the Chief Executive while maintaining responsibility for the office management. After the Chief Executive had left TI in May 2007, Leticia took over the assistance to the Chair Huguette Labelle. In her capacity as Senior Coordinator of Executive Support Leticia leads the Executive Support Team. As Senior Office Coordinator she has overall responsibility for the Office Management Team. She also coordinates internal activities of the Secretariat Management Team. Leticia was born in Chile, grew up in Italy and moved to Germany in 1991 to study Linguistic and Translation at the Humboldt University, Berlin.

Teun Bastemeijer
Netherlands, Manager of the Water Integrity Network
Teun Bastemeijer is the manager of the Water Integrity Network (WIN), an autonomous partnership initiative the secretariat of which is hosted by the TI Secretariat in Berlin. WIN aims to fight corruption in the water sector worldwide in order to reduce poverty. Teun has a background as a civil engineer from Delft University, specialised in Polder Development, water in relation to land use management and physical infrastructure planning. He has worked for almost 20 years in the water and sanitation sector as well as in integrated water resources management, and has over 30 years experience in work relating to development in international, government, civil society and academic environments. He has been a project manager, country director and senior advisor for the United Nations, the SNV Netherlands Development Organisation as well as the International Water and Sanitation Centre IRC. He joined TI in April 2008.

Patrick Berg
Germany, Programme Coordinator
Patrick Berg joined TI in 2008. He has a background in political science and sociology and has worked extensively on human rights, democracy and good governance issues in a number of African countries. Prior to joining TI, Patrick worked as a diplomat for the German Foreign Office and the European Commission as well as a freelance political analyst.

Jeffrey Bower
Canada, Assistant Programme Officer
Jeffrey Bower joined TI in July 2007, first working in the Asia and Pacific Department. He has since moved on to join the Africa and Middle East Department as the Assistant Programme Coordinator, working primarily on the MABDA project. Prior to joining TI, Jeffrey worked with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Rwanda where he focused on the coordination, harmonization and alignment of foreign financial aid. He received a Collaborative Master of Arts in International Relations from the University of Toronto's Munk Centre for International Studies. Jeffrey has lived for extended periods of time in Germany, Mexico, Rwanda, Hong Kong, and Switzerland. He was born and raised in Toronto, Canada and speaks English, French and Spanish.

Jermyn Brooks
UK, Director of Global Private Sector Programmes
Jermyn Brooks is Director of Global Private Sector Programmes for TI after acting both as Executive Director and CFO after he joined the organisation in 2000 and subsequently as a member of the international Board. His responsibility for TI’s private sector initiatives includes the involvement on the design of the AML standards of the Wolfsberg banking group, the Business Principles for Countering Bribery and other specific industry-focused initiatives. He is a member of the board of PACI (Partnering against Corruption Initiative) that has been initiated by leading CEO's at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Doris Bäsler
Germany, Programme Manager
Doris Bäsler joined TI in August 2006 as Programme Coordinator in the Africa and Middle East department. Since May 2007, Doris focuses on TI partners in West and Central Africa, and as Programme Manager is now also assuming overall responsibility for a regional programme on corruption in primary education as well as other cross-regional projects on transparency in basic service delivery in Sub-Saharan Africa. Doris studied languages and development economics at Heidelberg University in Germany, and has completed a Masters degree in international and comparative legal studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. She has worked as a programme administrator, campaigner and researcher in different regional and policy teams at Amnesty International’s International Secretariat in London; as well as a delegate for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Iraq, the DR Congo and Liberia. Prior to joining TI, Doris was head of mission for a British humanitarian organisation in the DRC.

Stan Cutzach
France, Senior Governance Coordinator
Stan Cutzach was born in Lyon, France, and graduated in Economics, Law and Foreign Languages at the Université Jean Moulin, Lyon III. Parallel to his studies, he volunteered for the improvement of the prisoners' condition by working for the French Lyon-based NGO, Observatoire International des Prisons. After one and half year in Melbourne, Australia, where he completed the fourth and final year of his degree, Stan moved to Berlin, Germany, to teach French and, in February 1999, joined Transparency International. Following the preparations of the 9th International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC), he joined TI's South East Asian Department in October 1999. He was appointed Officer for Governance Structures in March 2001, now predominantly focussing on the Board of Directors, Advisory Council and other matters of internal governance such as TI's Annual Membership Meetings.

Susan Côté-Freeman
Canada, Programme Manager
Susan Côté-Freeman is a Canadian who first joined the TI Secretariat in Berlin in 1997 as a programme officer for francophone Africa and a member of the public relations team. She then worked as co-ordinator of the Transparency International Secretariat's London office for three years. In September 2002, Susan joined TI (UK) as Director for External Relations and Communications, and continues to manage the Business Principles project for the TI Secretariat. She holds a degree in translation from Université Laval in Québec City, Canada.

Hannah Deimling
Germany, Receptionist
Hannah Deimling joined Transparency International in July 2001 as a receptionist. Hannah is primarily responsible for processing incoming queries, as well as maintaining the address database. Before joining TI, she completed a training programme in the real estate sector after working at Dresdner Bank as a Loan Officer for 7 years. Prior to that, she worked as an economic analyst for 10 years at an international trade enterprise in the former GDR. She holds a degree in Business Administration.

Gillian Dell
USA, Global Programmes Manager
Gillian Dell studied law at the University of California-Berkeley and at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles and has a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University. Prior to joining TI she worked as a lawyer at a New York law firm, as a research fellow on international trade law issues at the Freie Universität Berlin, as a consultant at the United Nations and as a law lecturer and administrator at an American university in Berlin. She has also worked with several human rights organisations. In March 1997 she started to work part-time at TI to help with preparations for the 8th IACC and since October of that year has worked at TI in various departments and on a range of topics.
She is currently Programme Manager working on the TI programme Advancing International Conventions Against Corruption, which covers international anti-corruption instruments.

Inken Denker
Germany, Communications Officer
Inken Denker is with the Communications Department since April 2007. After getting her degree in Chinese, sociology and law from Humboldt University in Berlin in 2002, Inken started working for the German development cooperation institution GTZ in Berlin and China. Before joining TI, she worked as an assistant researcher for German Konrad Adenauer Foundation in China. At TI-S, Inken is responsible for editing and writing as well as updating website content.

Krina Despota
USA, Assistant Programme Coordiator
Krina Despota joined the TI movement in 2006 as a volunteer with the TI Ireland, and then moved to Secretariat’s Global Corruption Report team, where she started as an intern and is now Assistant Project Coordinator. Prior to this, Krina worked as a client advocate for a non-profit criminal defence agency in Harlem, New York, as an intern with an immigrant rights organisation in Ireland, and as a freelance radio journalist in California. She holds a B.A. in Urban Studies from Barnard College, Columbia University, and an M.Phil in International Peace Studies from Trinity College, University of Dublin.

Rebecca Dobson
UK, Contributing Editor, Global Corruption Report
Becky Dobson joined the Global Corruption Report team in July 2007. Becky has been working as an editor for a monthly legal journal and a non-profit Children’s Legal Centre. Becky has a Master in Law and Development from Warwick University and a Bachelor in Geography from Durham.

Andre Doren
Canada,
André Doren (Canada) has joined TI as the new Director of Communications. André has more than 15 years experience in all areas of professional communication, prior to TI as the Head of Communications and Fundraising at the International Red Cross in Geneva. Previous work experience includes the Canadian Red Cross and the Canadian International Development Agency.

Monika Ebert
Germany, Finance and HR Director
Dr. Monika Ebert joined TI-S in August 2003 as Head of Finance and IT, and was appointed Finance and HR Director in October 2004. Prior to joining TI, Monika worked for 9 years as Manager of Accounting, Administration and Human Resources for a Canadian real estate company. She studied History and German Language in Potsdam and Business Administration in Hamburg, graduating in Ethics.

Jessica Eitelberg
Germany, Personal Assistant to the Chair and Senior Management
Jessica joined TI in March 2008. Jessica has worked on a freelance basis as a translator, a tourist guide and holding seminars on global issues for young people at the Berlin Heinrich-Böll-Foundation, the American Jewish Committee and the RAA Brandenburg. Prior to coming to Berlin, she worked as the Membership Officer for the International Fair Trade Association. Jessica holds a Masters in Ethnic and Migration Studies and a Bachelor in International Studies and Political Science. She has lived in Germany, Australia, the USA, Britain, the Netherlands and Colombia.

Lisa Ann Elges
USA, Senior Programme Coordinator
Lisa Ann Elges is an international human rights lawyer, and technical expert on governance and public policy issues in East and Southeast Asia. She joined TI in 2000 and from 2001-2003 was a member of the Ad Hoc Committee for the Negations of the UN Convention against Corruption. Before coming to TI, Lisa worked for two years as legal advisor and programme manager with the Asia Crime Prevention Foundation in conjunction with the United National Asia and Far East Institute from the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders. She has also worked extensively in Japan and has published numerous articles on human rights issues in Asia.
Lisa graduated International Christian University in Tokyo in 1993 and worked at the both in the Japanese Parliament as a foreign legal advisor and in a managing role for three human rights NGOs. She completed her LL.M. in International Human Rights Law at Essex University (UK) in 1996 and returned to Japan to serve as Editor-in-Chief for the International Movement Against All Forms of Racism and Discrimination NGO (1996-98). She has two children.

Marta Erquicia
Spain, Programme Coordinator
Marta Erquicia joined TI as an Assistant Program Officer for the Americas department in November 2003. In 2005, she took up the position of Programme Coordinator for the Americas department and is mainly responsible for anti-corruption conventions in the Americas and communications. Marta began as an intern in the department from November 2002 to March 2003.
Marta has also worked in journalism and public relations. She studied Communications in Spain and France.

Pascal Fabie
France, Regional Director for Asia Pacific
Before joining TI Secretariat as Regional Director for the Asia Pacific Department in May 2006, Pascal Fabie was based in Hong Kong and worked in Asia Pacific region since 1994. From 2000 to 2006, he was a funding director and lead consultant of Aspiral Learning International, an independent management learning consultancy committed to ethical business practice, and serving organisations engaged in the advancement of sustainable development, social justice and environmental protection. Pascal Fabie graduated with a distinction in 2000 in a Masters degree of Responsibility and Business Practice at the School of Management of the University of Bath, UK. Before 2000, Pascal was Asia Pacific Regional Director for FT Knowledge, a business education provider part of the Pearson group. In his earlier career, Pascal worked in management positions with large multinationals in the IT, oil and telecom industries. His practice is grounded in Action Research and Co-operative Inquiry methodologies which he has practiced in his work in the past six years. He speaks with equal ease English and French and has basic notions of Spanish. Pascal is a member of the Association of Sustainability Practitioners (ASP) and represents TI on the advisory group of the ADB OECD Anto-corruption Initiative for Asia Pacific.

Craig Fagan
USA,
Craig Fagan joined TI from the Poverty Group of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) where he worked as Policy Research Analyst advising countries on issues such as civil society engagement, monitoring and evaluation and Millenium Development Goal-based initiatives. Craig is from the USA and has lived in various parts of Latin America. He has an undergraduate degree in International Studies/Spanish from the University of Richmond (Virginia) and a master’s in International Affairs/Development Economics from SAIS-Johns Hopkins University (Washington, DC).

Sylvia Fiebig
Germany, Office Administration
Sylvia Fiebig had worked as a Secretary at the Data Processing department in an international transportation agency and in the managers office of a trading company in Berlin before she joined our team in May 1995. At the International Secretariat she started as secretary and was also in charge of accounting and personnel administration, and maintained the computer system as well. Since 1998 she has also been responsible for the technical and user application support of our information technology systems.

Andrea Figari
Argentina, Assistant to Peter Eigen and Jermyn Brooks
Andrea Figari joined TI in March 2003, as Programme Coordinator at the Americas department. Since March 2005 she has been the programme manager of the global programme to promote access to information. She holds a degree in Political Science, specialised in international relations from the Catholic University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. From 1986 until 1999 she was a senior political advisor to Greenpeace and the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition, as part of an international team focusing on international treaties and conventions, such as the UN Convention for Environment and Development and the Antarctic Treaty. Ms Figari was also the Executive Director for Greenpeace Argentina, from 1992 until 1994. During these years she also held regional press and public relations positions in Latin America and coordinated national, regional and international advocacy and political campaigns for Greenpeace and other coalitions of NGOs. From 1994 until 2002 she was a consultant on organisational development and training for small and medium companies and entrepreneurs in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Brazil.

Jesse Garcia
USA, Senior Communications and Advocacy Officer
Jesse Garcia joined TI as an editor in the press department in October of 2003. Born and raised in Munich, Jesse studied philosophy as an undergraduate at the University of California at Berkeley. His background includes a variety of press and publicity work and experience as a legal assistant. Before moving to Berlin, Jesse coordinated public relations activities for a small architecture firm in New York.

Gypsy Guillén Kaiser
Dominican Republic, Senior Press and Marketing Officer
Gypsy joined the communications team in February 2006 after several years working as a journalist and in the private sector in New York. Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New York, Gypsy earned her degree in journalism and mass communications from New York University. She has worked as an editor for Dow Jones Newswires and as a reporter and editor for other Spanish and English language news media in New York. Her marketing background comes from six years of experience in the private sector working for an international money transfer company. She has also worked as a freelance editor and translator in English, Spanish and German.

Arwa Hassan
UK, Senior Programme Coordinator
Arwa Hassan joined TI in 1998 as Press Officer for the Public Relations Department and Programme Officer for the Middle East North Africa region. Since 2002 she has been working almost entirely on the MENA region. Prior to joining TI, Arwa had worked in the business and journalistic fields for a variety of companies and organisations including Deloitte & Touche; BP; Agence France Presse and Siemens. Arwa Hassan holds a BA Honours Degree in Modern Languages from Cambridge, England. During her time at Cambridge she won a scholarship to the University of Heidelberg, where she studied for a year at the Institute for Translation and Interpretation. Arwa also holds an MA degree in English Literature from the University of Warwick, and speaks several languages.

Andrés Hernández
Colombia, Senior Programme Coordinator
Andrés Hernández joined the TI movement in 2001, and worked in Transparencia por Colombia until October 2004. In July 2005 he joined the Americas Department at the TI Secretariat in Berlin. He holds a University degree in Government and International Relations from the Universidad Externado de Colombia, a Diploma of Political and Social Sciences from Sciences po Paris and a Masters Degree in Political Action and Citizen Participation from Univesidad Rey Juan Carlos, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria and Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Madrid. He is a founding member of Ocasa - a youth anticorruption organization in Colombia.

Robin Hodess
USA, Director of Policy and Research
Dr. Robin Hodess, TI's Director of Policy and Research since December 2003, joined TI in June 2000 to manage the Global Corruption Report. She came to Berlin from New York, where, since 1998 she had been a program officer for the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, responsible for the Council's program on economic globalization, "Justice and the World Economy", since 1998. Prior to this, she taught media and politics at the Free University Berlin and Leipzig University (1997-98) and served as assistant director for international security programs at the Center for War, Peace and the News Media at New York University (1992-94). Ms. Hodess holds a Ph.D. and M.Phil in international relations from Cambridge University (UK) and a B.A. in history from the University of Pennsylvania (USA).

Edward Hughes
UK, Assistant to Senior Management
Ed joined TI in March 2008 and provides support to the leaders of the international, advocacy and resources cluster groups. Prior to working at TI, Ed worked for civil society organisations in Kosovo on a variety of security sector reform projects, in Central America as a researcher on environmental projects and in London as an operations manager in an events consortium. He holds a Bachelors degree in Contemporary East European Studies and a Masters in Politics, Security and Integration from University College London.

Vanesa Jäger-Salazar
Peru, Accounting Coordinator
Vanesa studied accounting at the Instituto Superior Tecnológico del Norte in Trujillo and was employed at Coca-Cola in Peru. Afterwards she worked for five years in Italy before coming to Germany. She joined the TI team in February 1998. After two years in the position as Management Assistant in April 2000, she became part of the accounting team. Currently she is on maternity leave.

Angela Keller-Herzog
Canada, Global Programme Manager for Advocacy and Legal Advice Centres (ALACs)
As of September 2007 Angela Keller-Herzog has taken on the challenge to globalize the ALAC approach in the TI movement and she also leads the Judiciary Advocacy Working Group. She joined TI in August 2006 as Manager of Global Programmes. Prior to TI she spent 3 years in Indonesia working with the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) in poverty reduction and development. Angela first joined the CIDA in 1996 and has over 10 years development experience in Asia and Africa and also extensive sectoral experience including private sector development, economics of development, gender analysis, environmental and natural resource management issues and climate change. She also has substantive professional experience working in the private sector as a consulting economist. Angela began her career working with NGOs – CODE and the Canadian Hunger Foundation. Angela holds a Masters degree in Economics from Carleton University, Ottawa and a Joint Honours degree in Political Science and Economics from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

Andrew Kelly
USA, Senior Developer

Casey Kelso
USA, Regional Director
Casey Kelso joined the TI Secretariat in Berlin as the Director for the Africa and the Middle East Department in December 2005. Prior to that, Casey was the Director of the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers; a coalition which aims to prevent boys and girl’s recruitment and use in armed forces; to secure their demobilisation; and to ensure their rehabilitation and reintegration into their communities.
From 1994 to 2002, Casey worked in Amnesty International’s International Secretariat in London in various positions. Most recently, he held the position of Deputy Director for Africa; previously holding the positions of Southern Africa Researcher specialising on Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Namibia and Botswana, acting Worldwide Communications Director and Senior Press Officer.
In 1991 Casey was granted a three-year fellowship from the Institute of Current World Affairs to pursue journalism in Southern Africa. He has also variously worked as a newspaper and radio reporter in the USA, a fraud investigator for the US Federal Court of San Francisco and as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer and cross-cultural trainer in Mali, West Africa.
Casey holds a bachelor’s degree with high honours in Development Studies with a concentration on Africa from the University of California – Berkeley. He was awarded a masters degree in Public Policy from Princeton University in 2001.

Nüket Kiliçli
Germany, Accounting Coordinator
Nüket Kiliçli studied German, Biology and Business Management in Berlin. She joined TI as accountant in July 1997 after she spent a few months at the International Secretariat as an intern.

Astrid Laue
Germany, Financial Accountant
Astrid Laue has been working as accountant for different companies in even different cities in Germany, e.g. a publishing house in Munich, a school in Essen / Ruhr and a company for import and wholesales of phones in the Saarland area. She has been accountant for more than twelve years and gathered experience in controlling as well before she mooved to Berlin and joined TI’s finance team in January 2007.

Neal Limonte-Brett
UK, Financial Accountant
Neal Limonte-Brett, having studied German with French at London University, came to Berlin in 1991 to start work setting up a German subsidiary of a major tool hire company in the UK. In 1993 he took over the role of company secretary/financial director until leaving the company in 2006. He started work for TI in March 2007 as Financial Accountant.

Patrick Mahassen
Switzerland, Resources Director
Patrick joined the TI Secretariat in September 2004, bringing fifteen years of experience in fundraising and communication - mainly gathered a the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Patrick represented the ICRC in Jerusalem, Riyadh, Colombo and Bangkok, apart from also being based at the headquarters, in Geneva. Before joining TI, Patrick was a Marketing Director in the private sector in Paris. He holds degrees in Marketing and Communication as well as in Business Management. Before shifting to the fundraising career, Patrick was a professional musician for more than ten years.

Miklos Marschall
Hungary, Regional Director Europe and Central Asia
Miklos Marschall (1953) joined TI as Director for Eastern Europe in July 1999, and now serves as Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia, and as responsible Director for International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC). Before joining TI, from 1994 through 1998, he was the founding executive director of CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, a global network of NGOs and foundations to promote civil society. Between 1991 and 1994, he served as deputy mayor of Budapest, Hungary. Dr. Marschall was a Fulbright Visiting Fellow in 1988/89 at Yale University. He graduated as an economist from the Karl Marx University of Economic Sciences in Budapest in 1977. He received his doctorate from the same university in 1984.

Angela McClellan
Germany, Executive Assistant to Managing Director
Angela joined TI in September 2006 as assistant to Cobus de Swardt, Global Programmes Director. Angela holds a diploma in political science with a specialization on international relations from the Free University, Berlin. She has studied and worked in Germany, France, Italy and the USA. Prior to joining TI she was working as a Project Assistant at the Development Policy Forum, InWEnt Capacity Building International.

Jana Mittermaier
Germany, Senior Programme Coordinator
Jana Mittermaier joined TI in June 2006, coordinating the anti-corruption programme for South East Europe and Turkey. In addition to working on specific projects such as the Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre project in Western Balkan countries, Jana has country responsibilities for all South East European countries and potential EU accession candidates such as Turkey. Immediately prior to joining TI, Jana worked as political desk officer in the European Correspondent’s Office of the German Federal Foreign Office. She contributed to the coordination of the ministry’s contribution to the EU Common Foreign / Security Policy in Brussels. Before that, she worked for three and a half years as Senior Public Administration Reform Advisor in the OSCE mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina. She contributed to the development and management of a country-wide capacity-building project in the area of public administration reform advocating systemic reform in municipalities and regional governments. Jana holds an Master of Science (MSc) in European and International Politics of the Edinburgh University in Scotland, U.K.

Sara Morante
Italy, Programme Coordinator
Sara Morante joined TI in January 1998 as Programme Officer for South East Europe (SEE) after an internship period. She was responsible for establishing the network of TI Chapters in South East Europe. In addition she coordinated the capacity-building programme for the SEE national chapters and a programme on access to information and conflict of interest in the Western Balkans. Her country responsibilities also included Italy, Greece and Turkey. Prior to joining TI, Sara had worked as a legal assistant for an international law office and a research centre in Rome. In this capacity she focussed on the implementation of EU banking and investment law directives in the EU member states. Sara holds an LL.M. degree from the European Academy of Legal Theory in Brussels and Tampere (Finland) and a law degree from the University La Sapienza in Rome (Italy). Sara Morante is currently on parental leave.

Manoj Nadkarni
India, WIN Communication Coordinator
Manoj is an environmentalist, writer and editor and has worked in the water sector with governments, academia, civil society and the private sector as a journalist, researcher and activist.

Annegret Neth
Germany, Chief Accountant
Annegret Neth studied at the Commercial College for foreign trade and payments in Berlin to become an Economist for foreign trade. After working in several commercial functions she passed the examination to become an Certified Accountant at the chamber of commerce and industry in Berlin. After working 9 years as a Manager for the financial and accounts department at a service enterprise she joined the finance team in January 2004.

Georg Neumann
Germany, Internal Communications Officer
Georg Neumann joined the Online Communications Group at Transparency International in June 2005 working on the content management and development of the Transparency International website. Since November 2006 he is responsible for internal communications. Georg did freelance project work for the German Federal Ministry of Justice and has previously worked for a PR Agency and the German Chemical Industry Association. Georg Neumann has completed his German civil service in development assistance in Tijuana, Mexico, and graduated from social and economic communication sciences at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin in 2005.

Juanita Olaya
Colombia, Revenue Transparency Programme Manager
Juanita joined TI October 2002 to develop the Global Programme to Curb Corruption in Public Procurement. She has also been Research and Policy Director and is currently Manager of the Revenue Transparency Programme. Juanita came to TI from Bonn where she started with her doctoral studies at Bonn University. Before coming to Germany, she worked for the Government of Colombia holding different executive and advisory positions within the National Planning Department, the Ministries of Transportation, of Economic Development and of Finance. She has also undertaken various research and academic activities with the University of los Andes in Colombia and with Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. During her more than 12 years of experience, she has alternated her work with private consulting in the areas of government reform, capital markets and anti-corruption. Juanita is a lawyer with a Masters degree in Economics (University of los Andes) and a Masters degree in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She has published a wide variety of articles in books, academic journals and news papers.

Afiefah Osman
South Africa, Senior Project Accountant
Afiefah Osman joined TI in January 2007 as Project Accountant. She comes from South Africa. Afiefah has been in the accounting and auditing field for a few years working in both the public and private sector. She spent about two years teaching mathematics and science in a rural area in South Africa which was followed by a brief stint in Palestine as an accompanier. Afiefah´s job is to provide the project financial management support.

Silke Pfeiffer
Germany, Regional Director Americas (on leave)
Silke Pfeiffer heads the Americas Department (South, Central, North America and Caribbean). She holds an MA in Latin American Studies (political science, economics, history and languages) and completed a postgraduate programme in development studies. Silke has worked with civil society organizations in different parts of South America in the areas of human rights, public policies and social development, most recently for a public policy think tank in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Silke teaches good governance and accountability at Potsdam University. She is currently on maternity leave.

Christiaan Poortman
Netherlands, Director of Global Programmes
Christiaan (Chrik) Poortman joined TI in September 2007 after many years of professional and managerial experience of working in/with developing countries. Prior to joining TI, Chrik was working at the World Bank in Washington DC as Regional Vice President for the Middle East and North Africa. Before that, he was Country Director for South East Europe during which time he oversaw the World Bank’s assistance programs in the Balkans, including the post-war reconstruction activities in Bosnia Herzegovina and Kosovo. Much of Chrik’s career at the World Bank was devoted to Sub-Saharan Africa in a number of different assignments, including as the World Bank’s Country Manager in Zimbabwe during 1990-94. Before joining the World Bank, Chrik worked as an economist in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning in Swaziland. He holds an MA Economics degree of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.

Roberto Pérez-Rocha
Mexico, International Anti-Corruption Conference Manager
Mexico, International Anti-Corruption Conference Manager
Roberto Pérez-Rocha joined TI on October 2003 as Program Manager for the Corruption Online Research and Information System and a few months later was appointed Online Communications Manager. Since January 2006 he is managing the International Anti-Corruption Conference Series.
From 2000 to 2003 he lived in Barcelona where he did PhD studies on Political and Social Sciences at the Pompeu Fabra University, participating in various research projects. During this time he did volunteer work for the Catalan Federation for Non Governmental Organizations. From 1993 to 2000 he worked in different areas of the Mexican public sector including the ministries of Social Development, Agriculture & Rural Development and Interior. Roberto holds an MSc in Development Studies from the London School of Economics and a Bachelors degree in Political Science and Public Administration from the Universidad Iberoamericana in México.



Liao Ran
China, Senior Programme Coordinator
Liao Ran joined TI in 2000 and is Programme Officer for South Asia and China. Mr. Liao has a BA in Law from the College of Foreign Affairs in China and an MA in Politics from the University of Oslo. Before coming to TI he worked in a wide variety of areas, including development agencies, academic think tanks, government institutions and in the private sector. Mr. Liao was also a journalist writing for various leading newspapers and journals in Norway, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Juanita Riaño
Colombia, Research Coordinator
Juanita Riaño joined TI for the programme on measuring corruption in February 2007. Previously, Juanita worked for the World Bank Institute on anti-corruption and governance diagnostics, as well as on projects for the World Bank related to poverty, inequality and local development. Juanita received a Master in Economics and a Master in Public Policy from Georgetown University. She also has a Master in Economics from Universidad de Los Andes (Bogota, Colombia).

Marcela Rozo
Colombia, Senior Programme Coordinator - Public Contracting
Marcela Rozo graduated in economics at the Los Andes University in Bogota and holds a master in tropical agricultural development, agricultural economics and planning from Reading University, UK. Marcela worked for eight years with TI’s national chapter in Colombia on corruption prevention tools, and has ten years experience working with different governmental institutions in Colombia.

Alejandro Salas
Mexico, Programme Manager
Alejandro has dual responsibility:he works as Strategy and Development Manager, where his main responsibility is the review of the Transparency International Movement’s strategic framework. He is also programme manager in the Americas Regional Department and was acting regional director for the most part of 2006. Alejandro joined TI as Programme Officer in September 2002.
He lived in Peru from 1998 to 2002 where he worked as a researcher and consultant at the Instituto Apoyo, a Peruvian think tank specialised in institutional reforms and governance issues. From 1993 to 1996 he worked in various areas of the Mexican public sector, including the Secretary of Social Development and the Senate of the Republic. Alejandro holds a degree in Political Science from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and a M.A. degree in Public Policy and Administration from the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, Netherlands.

Nikola Sandoval
Philippines, Senior Programme Coordinator
Nikola Sandoval joined the Transparency International Secretariat in January 2005 as an Assistant Programme Coordinator in the Asia Pacific Department. Her area of responsibility is the Pacific sub-region. Nikola has worked on different regional projects relating to corruption prevention in disaster relief and reconstruction in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami and the earthquake in Pakistan. Before joining TI she worked for several international and nongovernmental organisations.
Nikola was born in the Philippines and holds a Masters Degree in International Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London (UK).

Svetlana Savitskaya
Belarus, Programme Coordinator
Svetlana joined the TI in September 2007 as the Programme Coordinator for the Commonwealth of Independent States & Mongolia. Originally from Belarus, Svetlana holds an MA in English and German Languages from the Minsk State Linguistic University, as well as a Master of Public Policy from the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. She has previously worked with international companies operating in Belarus, as well as with USAID and the US Department of State to implement nationwide women’s leadership projects. Svetlana has also managed the implementation of the work of German consultants and Belarusian experts providing technical assistance in economic policy to the Belarusian government.

Inken Seltmann
Germany, Governance and Personal Assistant
Inken Seltmann joined the Governance Unit in July 2007. As Governance and Personal Assistant Inken is responsible for the communication with the Committees of the International Board of Directors, and supports the Vice-Chair of the Board. In autumn 2006, she contributed to the organisation of TI's Annual Membership Meeting in Guatemala. Her prior work experience includes an internship in the Good Governance Unit of the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ), where she was employed in the supra-regional Sector Project against Trafficking in Women. Inken holds a master’s degree in Spanish Philology and Theatre Sciences from Humboldt University and Free University Berlin. She is also responsible for the development of a contact database.

Nicolas Seris
France, Programme Coordinator
Nicolas Séris joined TI in April 2008 as a programme coordinator for North Africa and the Middle East region. Prior joining TI, he has been working for six years in the Middle East and in Africa in development and Emergency programs for French Humanitarian NGO’s (mainly with Médecins du Monde) as a program coordinator and country representative.
Nicolas has study Historical Sciences at Strasbourg University and holds a Master Degree in Development and crisis management studies from Sorbonne University in Paris.


Stéphane Stassen
Belgium, Programme Coordinator
Stéphane Stassen first joined TI in 2002. After graduating in Sociology, Mr. Stassen spent a year abroad, traveling independently in East Africa where he worked for some time as a volunteer for a Tanzanian NGO. He then came back to Brussels to complete a MA in International Politics. Mr. Stassen has worked with TI for five years and took part in the coordination of the development of the TI Source Book in Arabic. He joined the Sub-Saharan Africa team of TI in March 2005 and is now participating in the implementation of a programme aimed at tackling corruption in the primary education sector in Africa.

Christine Stellfeld
Germany, Human Resources Coordinator
Christine joined the Human Resources Department in September 2007. She holds a diploma in psychology with a specialisation in work and organisational psychology from the University of Constance. Christine has worked as a psychologist in adult education, in the clinical field, in refugee aid and development cooperation. She has studied and worked in Ireland and Belgium. Her areas of responsibility at the TI secretariat are employee development, motivation and learning.

Cobus de Swardt
South Africa, Managing Director
Cobus de Swardt is a South African sociologist whose work experience spans the fields of globalisation, development policy, international relations and multinational business management. His academic experience includes teaching at universities in South Africa, Australia, Japan and Germany. He has also worked for multinational corporations, trade-unions and research institutes in managerial and research-related capacities in various countries. During the 1980s and early 1990s he was active in the anti-Apartheid struggle in South Africa chairing the ANC in Cape Town. From May 2004 to May 2007 Cobus de Swardt was Director for Global Programmes at Transparency International (TI). In June 2007 he was appointed Managing Director.

Renate Trowers
Germany, Webauthoring- and Design
Renate has worked as an Accountant and Office Manager before going to Barcelona, Spain, in 1990. After one year studying spanish Language at the "Escuela Oficial de Idiomas", she continued living and working in Barcelona as a coordinator for modernisations of Real-Estates and freelance for "Hermes Bolsa" and "Standard Trading", Brokers in Stock Exchange. After returning to Berlin in September 1999 she qualified on Internet-Design and joined TIS in 2000. She is in charge of maintaining and developing the TI-Website.

Sergej Tscherejkin
Russian Federation, Senior Human Resources Coordinator
Sergej Tscherejkin joined TI in January 1996 as Programme Officer for Eastern Europe and the FSU. From 1998 he worked as Programme Officer for Central & Eastern Europe, and the Baltic States. Since June 2000, he has also been serving as Human Resources Officer and in November 2004 he took up a full time position in the Human Resources Team of TI-Secretariat.
Sergej holds BA and MA degrees from the Moscow Pedagogical University.

Alan Warburton
UK, Resources Manager
Alan joined the Secretariat in June 2005. He has a wide experience of working and volunteering for a number of NGOs. Immediately prior to TI, Alan spent a short time working for the Environment Agency in the UK, and before that he spent 2 years working for ACORD (Agency for Cooperation Research And Development) in their Headquarters in Nairobi. He graduated from Liverpool University with a degree in Politics, and from Liverpool John Moores University with PGDip in Urban Regeneration.

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Conrad Zellmann
Germany, Resources Coordinator
Conrad joined TI in February 2005. Previously, Conrad worked in marketing and business development with the German-American Institute for Applied Research, a biotechnology company based in Potsdam. Conrad studied History, Spanish and Political Science at Potsdam University, Germany and Deusto University, Spain. He speaks English, German and Spanish.

Dieter Zinnbauer
Germany, Chief Editor of the Global Corruption Report
Dr. Dieter Zinnbauer joined TI in March 2007 as Chief Editor of the Global Corruption Report. Prior to joining TI he worked as policy analyst and research co-ordinator for a variety of organisations in the field of development, democratization and technology policy, including the UNDP Human Development Report Office, UNDP Asia-Pacific Information Programme, UNDESA, and the European Commission. Dieter has an MSc in Economics from the University of Regensburg, Germany, a PhD in Development Studies from the London School of Economics and has held post doctorate fellowship positions with the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, Oxford University, the US Social Science Research Council and the London School of Economics.