Chair:

Sion Assidon
Transparency Maroc

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 is a Member of the Board of Directors of TI.

Members:

Jan Borgen
Transparency International Norway

Jan Borgen, a lawyer by training, has been the Secretary General of TI-Norway from 2002. Prior to joining TI he was, among various posts, the Secretary General of Amnesty International Norway, Legal and Policy Adviser for the Norwegian Refugee Council, and Legal Adviser for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Georgia. Mr Borgen's affiliations include: member of Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Consultative Body on CSR, Human Rights and Business; of Norwegian Bar Association (Human Rights Committee) and of the International Bar Association (its Human Rights Institute).

John Devitt

CEO TI Ireland

TI Board Member
John Devitt, a former press officer at the British Embassy in Dublin, 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.

Delia Ferreira Rubio
President, Poder Ciudadano (TI chapter in Argentina)
TI Board Member

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.

Michael J. Hershman
President and CEO, The Fairfax Group, Co-founder Transparency International

Michael Hershman is an internationally recognized expert on
matters relating to transparency, accountability, governance
and security. He is president and CEO of the Fairfax Group, founded in 1983, it has been retained by governments, corporations and international financial institutions to assist on matters relating to the conduct of senior-level officials and/or the entities with which they do business. In December 2006, Mr. Hershman was appointed as the independent compliance advisor to the board of directors of Siemens AG. Mr. Hershman began his career in intelligence and investigations in Europe during the late 1960s as a special agent with U.S. Military Intelligence, specializing in counter-terrorism. After leaving the military, he moved to investigations of government misconduct and financial fraud for the New York State Attorney General's Office and the Office of the Mayor of New York City. Later, Mr. Hershman served as a senior staff investigator for the Senate Watergate Committee and as chief investigator for a joint Presidential and Congressional commission.

Mr. Hershman then served as deputy staff director for the Subcommittee on International Organizations of the U.S. House of Representatives. Immediately prior to founding The Fairfax Group, Mr. Hershman served as deputy auditor general for the Foreign Assistance Program of the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID). In 1993, along with Peter Eigen, Mr. Hershman co-founded Transparency International. For the past six years he has served Interpol as a member of the International Group of Experts on Corruption, and for the past 12 years, he has sat on theboard of the International Anti-Corruption Conference Committee.

Geo-Sung Kim
Transparency International Korea (South)

Geo-Sung Kim is the founding secretary-general of Transparency International Korea, the South Korean chapter of TI established in 1999. He is an ordained pastor of the Gumin Presbyterian Church and holds degrees in theology and sociology. He has participated in the democracy and human rights movements in Korea and between 1977-1980 he was twice imprisoned for criticising the then dictatorship.
Reverend Kim has served in various civil society organisations over the past 25 years. In 2002 and 2003, he was honoured by the Korean government as a "person of merit" for his contribution to Korea's democratisation movements. Kim has been active on various government anti-corruption committees and has been an adviser to the Federatoin of Korean Industries. Rev. Kim was elected to TI's Board in October 2004.

Anke Martiny
TI Deutschland

Anke Martiny was managing director of TI Germany from 1998 to 2001, deputy chairperson of the chapter from September 2001 to 2004 and senior adviser to Transparency International on health and corruption since 2001.
Before joining TI, Ms Martiny was a Member of German parliament from 1972 to 1989 and a Commissioner for consumer protection in the federal SPD from 1974 onwards. She also served as a member of the parliamentary sub-committee on the economy as well as a specialist on arts and women's issues, a Chairman of the German-Italian parliamentary exchange and a member of the executive board of the federal SPD from 1975-77 and 1985 - 91.
In 1989 Ms Martiny was member of the executive board of the Bavarian SPD from 1975 to 1991 and deputy chairperson of the Bavarian SPD from 1985 to 1991.
In 1989 she was elected to the Berlin state senate as cultural commissioner. She has also undertaken extensive work with the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation including cultural development in the federal states of the former GDR and as head of the Tel Aviv branch of the foundation from 1992 to 1996.

Akere Muna
Cameroon Bar Association

Akere T. Muna is founder and 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.
He 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.
Akere Muna is Vice-Chair of the TI Board of Directors.

David Murray
Transparency International UK

David Murray joined TI(UK) in 1995 and was appointed to the Board in 1998. In 2000 he became Deputy Chairman of TI UK. He was a partner in the Hay Group responsible for coordinating internationally the development of new approaches to strategic organisation consulting and since then much of his work, commercial and voluntary, has related to business and professional ethics, including a special interest since 1993 in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe, and more recently, in Southern Africa. He is a frequent speaker in many parts of the world and his book, 'Ethics in Organisations' was published in 1997.

Inese Voika
Transparency International Latvia

Inese Voika is the founder of DELNA - the Latvian branch of Transparency International. She is an investigative journalist and professor at the Latvian University. Since 1998, Transparency International Latvia has become one of the most visible non-profit organizations in Latvia and a flagship of Latvia's civil society. Ms Voika has conducted training on behalf of the World Bank, OECD, IREX and other Western institutions in post-communist countries. Inese Voika was a member of TI’s international Board of Directors from May 2003 to November 2005.