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Sung-Goo Kang
Representative Ombudsman at Defence Programme Administration, Korea
March 2009
Sung-Goo Kang is the Representative Ombudsman at the Defence Acquistion Programme Administration (DAPA) in Korea, and Secretary-General of Transparency International Korea. In his role at DAPA, Sung-Goo Kang performs a valuable oversight function in Korean defence acquisitions.
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Ambassador Birgitta Nygren
Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Sweden
November 2008
Ambassador Nygren is anti-corruption coordinator for the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs of Sweden and sits on the OECD Working Group on Bribery
in International Business Transactions. Ambassador Nygren is a member
of the Transparency International UK defence against corruption
programme strategy group.
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Michael A. Monts
Vice President, Business Practices
September 2008
Michael A. Monts has been Vice-President, Business Practices, at United Technologies since 2005 and is in charge of ethics and compliance programmes worldwide. His department takes the leadership role in cross-functional activities, such as ethics training, risk assessment, and investigations, and his department assures that effective compliance programs are developed and implemented.
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Daniel Santoro
Journalist
April 2008
Daniel Santoro is editor of the politics section of the newspaper Clarín, where he specialises in corruption cases. He is professor of the Ibero-American New Journalism Foundation (FNPI), holds workshops on investigative journalism, and is the author of five journalism books and a manual of journalism. He was awarded both the King of Spain prize and María Moors Cabot prize by the University of Colombia, amongst others. Transparency International UK’s defence sector team spoke with Daniel about the issue of defence sector corruption in Argentina.
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Neil Davies
Defence Economist
Neil Davies heads the directorate responsible for economic statistics and economic advice at the UK Ministry of Defence ‘Defence Analaytical Services and Advice’.
April 2008
Defence economist Neil Davies talks about transparency, competition and offsets. While the defence programme has long regarded offsets as a source of corruption risk, Neil presents the economic case for their reform as well as an idea that would allow their true cost to be identified (and help to limit corruption risk in use of offsets, globally).
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Andrew Mwenda
Journalist
Managing editor of The Independent current affairs and news magazine in Uganda, and political editor of The Monitor
March 2008
The Defence Anti-Corruption team recently spoke with Andrew Mwenda about his experiences as a journalist in Uganda, and in particular his work focusing on the defence sector.
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Professor Ghanim Al Najjar
Senior professor of Political Science, Kuwait University
February 2008
Professor Ghanim Al Najjar, Senior Professor of Political Science at Kuwait University is an independent expert on human rights in Somalia at the UN, and a frequent contributor to the media, including the BBC, CNN, and daily newspaper Al Jarida.
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Francois Vincke
Chairman, Anti-Corruption Commission of International Chamber of Commerce, &
Chairman, Transparency International Belgium
February 2008
The Defence Anti-Corruption Digest caught up recently with Francois Vincke of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). Vincke has also been heavily engaged with Transparency International Belgium in recent years. We spoke first on general corruption issues, before moving into the detail of his work.
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Mark Pieth
Chairman of the board, Basel Institute on Governance
Chair of OECD Working Group on Bribery
November 2007
In Part II of our interview, Mark Pieth discusses efforts to
tackle corruption in the defence sector at the level of government and
defence companies. See Part I, published in Digest 22, for his
discussion of collective and international efforts to fight defence
corruption.
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Mark Pieth
Chairman of the board, Basel Institute on Governance
Chair of OECD Working Group on Bribery
November 2007
In this first part of our interview Prof. Pieth discusses the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention and other means of tackling defence corruption through collective, international action. In Part II, to be published in Edition 23, Mark discusses in more detail various means of dealing with defence corruption for governments and defence companies.
Since 1990 Prof. Pieth has been chairing the OECD Working Group on Bribery in International Business Transactions. Prof. Pieth co-founded the Basel Institute on Governance of which he is Chairman of the Board. He has been a consultant to corporations, international organisations and foreign governments on issues related to governance, participates in the Wolfsberg AML Banking Initiative as a facilitator and is Board Member of the World Economic Forum Partnering against Corruption Initiative (PACI).
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Velizar
Shalamanov
Former Deputy
Minister for Defence, Bulgaria
July 2007
Mr Shalamanov was Deputy Minister
for Defence of Bulgaria from 1998 to 2001. Following this, he set up
the Centre for National Security and Defence
Research in the Academy
of Sciences. He
established with two colleagues the George
C. Marshall Association, a non-governmental, not-for-profit organization
with the mission of contributing to the development of civil society in Bulgaria
and to security and stability in South East Europe. TI UK’s defence
project caught up with Mr Shalamanov at the July 2007 NATO advanced research
workshop on ‘building transparency and integrity in a nation’s defence and
security establishments’ in the UK Defence Academy.
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Frank Boland
Director, Force Planning
Defence Policy and Planning Division, NATO
June 2007
From his vantage point in the coordination mechanisms of NATO, Mr.
Boland connects transparency in the defence sector to wider issues of
domestic governance and international cooperation.
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Judge Van Ruymbeke
Paris “Pôle Financier du Tribunal”
May 2007
Judge Renaud Van Ruymbeke has been an investigative magistrate at the Paris “Pôle Financier du Tribunal” for seven years. Investigations have included the Elf affair, the French-Taiwan frigates affair and the Clearstream affair. Previous postings include a teaching post at the national judge’s school in Bordeaux, the École Nationale de la Magistrature.
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Fritz Heimann
Transparency International
March 2007
Fritz Heimann spent his pre-Transparency International career at General Electric, where his responsibilities included anti-bribery compliance. In the early 1990s, General Electric allowed Heimann to devote some of his time to help Peter Eigen and others to set up Transparency International. In 1996 he retired as Associate General Counsel of General Electric, and began full-time work for Transparency International. He was deeply involved in the negotiations on the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials, and leads TI’s efforts to strengthen its implementation.
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Edward Hosea
Director General, Tanzanian Prevention of Corruption Bureau
February 2007
Edward Hoseah is Director General of the Tanzanian Prevention of Corruption Bureau. It is a public department under direct control and supervision of the President. Mr Hoseah notes that the Bureau is “operationally independent”.
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Lord Garden
Interview II
October 2006
Lord Garden has been visiting professor at the Centre for Defence Studies, King's College London since 2000 and is the 2004 Wells Professor at Indiana University. Since retiring from the RAF, Lord Garden has been closely involved in developing foreign and security policy for the Liberal Democrats and is the party's Defence spokesman in the Lords. Lord Garden was awarded a CB in 1992, and received his knighthood in 1994.
Lord Garden sits on the strategy group of Transparency International UK’s preventing corruption in the official arms trade project.
Our interview with Lord Garden is split over editions 8 and 9. This second interview, below, is on UK domestic issues. Please see last month’s Digest (Edition 8) for the first instalment on international issues.
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Lord Garden
Interview I
September 2006
Lord Garden has been visiting professor at the Centre for Defence Studies, King's College London since 2000 and is the 2004 Wells Professor at Indiana University. Since retiring from the RAF, Lord Garden has been closely involved in developing foreign and security policy for the Liberal Democrats and is the party's Defence spokesman in the Lords. Lord Garden was awarded a CB in 1992, and received his knighthood in 1994.
Lord Garden sits on the strategy group of Transparency International UK’s preventing corruption in the official arms trade project.
Our interview with Lord Garden is split over editions 8 and 9. The first interview, below, is broadly on international defence issues. Next month’s edition will continue on UK issues.
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Lord Robertson
Deputy Chairman TNK-BP, and former secretary general, NATO
July 2006
interviewed by John Githongo
Lord Robertson was secretary general of NATO, and before that Defence Secretary of the UK. He is currently Chairman of Cable & Wireless International, and is working with international defence industry and Transparency International UK to create an international defence industry anti-corruption consortium.
John Githongo left his position of Permanent Secretary for Governance and Ethics of Kenya in 2005 after his attempts to root out grand corruption in the Kibaki government were obstructed and were met with increasing hostility. He currently resides at Oxford University.
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John Githongo
Fellow, St Anthony’s College, Oxford University
Former Permanent Secretary for Governance and Ethics, Kenya
June 2006
John Githongo left his position of Permanent Secretary for Governance and Ethics of Kenya in 2005 after his attempts to root out grand corruption in the Kibaki government were obstructed and met with increasing hostility. Mr Githongo now resides at Oxford University, from where he published his dossier detailing corruption and bribery schemes in the Kenyan government.
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Van Vuuren
Head of Institute of security Studies (ISS Africa)
May 2006
Hennie Van Vuuren is programme head of the Corruption and Governance Programme at the ISS, an applied policy research NGO focused on supporting and enhancing the debate on human security issues on the African continent: including organised crime, money laundering, corruption and governance across the African continent. ISS has offices in Cape Town, Pretoria, Addis Ababa and Nairobi .
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Sanjeev Gupta
Economist, IMF
March 2006
In 2000, authors Sanjeev Gupta, Luiz de Mello and Raju Sharan wrote the IMF Working Paper “Corruption and Military Spending” (viewed here). Based on empirical analysis the “paper argues that corruption is associated with higher military spending. The paper also outlines several reasons for this association, such as the secrecy of defence procurement and greater competition among arms dealers. The authors find that countries with higher corruption indicators spend more on defense as a share of the GDP and total government expenditures.” The Digest caught up with one of the authors, Sanjeev Gupta, in January to find out more.
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Steven A. Shaw*
U.S. Department of the Air Force
Deputy General Counsel for Contractor Responsibility Air Force Debarment and Suspending Official
January 2006
Steve Shaw was appointed U.S. Air Force Deputy General Counsel for Contractor Responsibility in 1996. His mission is to ensure that the U.S. Air Force deals only with honest and responsible contractors. Shaw notes “contractors who are less than honest and competent compromise flight safety, erode public confidence in the procurement process and cause losses to the taxpayer. The U.S. Air Force takes the issue of contractor responsibility very seriously.”
* Mr. Shaw agreed to be interviewed with the understanding that the views he expresses here are his own, and not necessarily those of the U.S. Department of the Air Force, or the Department of Defense.
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