Declaration in Support of the Creation of an International Anti-Corruption Court

We are concerned individuals, former officials, business leaders, representatives of civil society and of government, dedicated to promoting human rights, human health, and international peace and security. We call for the creation of an International Anti-Corruption Court because:

We know that Grand Corruption – the abuse of public office for private gain by a nation’s leaders (“kleptocrats”) – thrives in many countries and has devastating consequences. Kleptocrats corruptly enrich themselves from the trillions of dollars being spent to promote global public health and counter climate change. Kleptocrats are robbing their countries of funds needed to meet the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Grand Corruption undermines democracy as kleptocrats use their power to suppress the media and civil society, and subvert honest elections. Refugees fleeing failed states led by kleptocrats constitute international crises. Uprisings in opposition to Grand Corruption destabilize many countries and endanger international peace and security.

We know that Grand Corruption is not flourishing because of a lack of laws. The 191 parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption (“UNCAC”) each have laws criminalizing corrupt conduct. Yet kleptocrats enjoy impunity because they control the administration of justice in the countries that they rule.

Because Grand Corruption has global consequences and often cannot be combated by the countries most immediately victimized by kleptocrats, a new international institution – an International Anti-Corruption Court – is necessary and justified. Through its agreed mandate, the IACC should have jurisdiction to prosecute violations of existing domestic anti-corruption laws, or a new international counterpart to them, by kleptocrats and their collaborators, if the country the kleptocrat rules is unwilling or unable to prosecute a case itself. The IACC should have the authority to prosecute crimes committed by nationals of Member States, and by nationals of other states who commit crimes in the territory of a Member State. The IACC should be a court of last resort with the capacity to prosecute and imprison kleptocrats, and thus create opportunities for the democratic process to replace them with honest leaders. The IACC should have, in civil as well as criminal cases, the authority to recover, repatriate, and repurpose illicit assets for the victims of Grand Corruption.

As an International Anti-Corruption Court is urgently needed to promote democracy and human rights, protect human life and health, and enhance international peace and security, we hereby DECLARE our support for the creation of the Court and CALL ON others to join us in this crucial common cause. 

  • Carlos Alvarado

    Former President of Costa Rica and Member of the Club de Madrid

    Jan Peter Balkenende

    Former Prime Minister of The Netherlands and Member of the Club de Madrid

    Carl Bildt

    Former Prime Minister of Sweden, Member of the Club de Madrid, and Member of the Global Leadership Foundation

    James Bolger

    Former Prime Minister of New Zealand

    Kjell Magne Bondevik

    Former Prime Minister of Norway and Member of the Club de Madrid

    Gordon Brown

    Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Member of the Club de Madrid

    John Bruton

    Former Prime Minister of Ireland, former European Union Ambassador to the United States, Member of the Global Leadership Foundation, and Member of the Club de Madrid

    Kim Campbell

    Former Prime Minister of Canada and Member of the Club de Madrid

    Aníbal Cavaco Silva

    Former Prime Minister and former President of Portugal and Member of the Club de Madrid

    Laura Chinchilla

    Former President of Costa Rica and Vice-President of the Club de Madrid

    Joe Clark

    Former Prime Minister of Canada, former Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of Canada, and Member of the Global Leadership Foundation

    Adrienne Clarkson

    Former Governor General of Canada, Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Institute for Canadian Citizenship, and Colonel-in-Chief of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry

    Roberto Dañino

    Former Prime Minister of Peru and former Senior Vice President and General Counsel of The World Bank

    Ahmet Davutoğlu

    Former Prime Minister of Turkey and Leader of the Future Party

    Vicente Fox

    Former President of Mexico, Member of the Club de Madrid, and Member of the Global Leadership Foundation

    Lawrence Gonzi

    Former Prime Minister of Malta and Member of the Global Leadership Foundation

    Dalia Grybauskaitė

    Former President of Lithuania and Member of the Club de Madrid

    Alfred Gusenbauer

    Former Chancellor of Austria and Member of the Club de Madrid

    Tarja Halonen

    Former President of Finland and Member of the Club de Madrid

    Seung-Soo Han

    Former Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea and Vice-President of the Club de Madrid

    Mehdi Jomaa

    Former Prime Minister of Tunisia and Member of the Club de Madrid

    Ivo Josipović

    Former President of Croatia and Member of the Club de Madrid

    Kabiné Komara

    Former Prime Minister of Guinea

    Aleksander Kwaśniewski

    Former President of Poland and Member of the Club de Madrid

    Ricardo Lagos

    Former President of Chile and Member of the Club de Madrid

    Zlatko Lagumdzija

    Former Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Member of the Club de Madrid

    Osvaldo Hurtado Larrea

    Former President of Ecuador and Member of the Club de Madrid

    Yves Leterme

    Former Prime Minister of Belgium and Member of the Club de Madrid

    Doris Leuthard

    Former President of the Swiss Confederation and Member of the Club de Madrid

    Mauricio Macri

    Former President of Argentina and Member of the Club de Madrid

    Moussa Mara

    Former Prime Minister of Mali and Member of the Club de Madrid

    Moncef Marzouki

    Former President of Tunisia

    Rexhep Meidani

    Former President of Albania and Member of the Club de Madrid

    James Michel

    Former President of Seychelles and Member of the Club de Madrid

    Anand Panyarachun

    Former Prime Minister of Thailand and Member of the Club de Madrid

    Percival Noel James Patterson

    Former President of Jamaica and Member of the Club de Madrid

    Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca

    Former President of Malta and Member of the Club de Madrid

    Rosen Plevneliev

    Former President of Bulgaria

    Jorge Fernando Quiroga

    Former President of Bolivia and Member of the Club de Madrid

    Iveta Radičová

    Former Prime Minister of Slovakia and Member of the Club de Madrid

    José Ramos-Horta

    President of Timor-Leste, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Member of the Club de Madrid, and Member of the Global Leadership Foundation

    Petre Roman

    Former Prime Minister of Romania and Member of the Club de Madrid

    Francisco Sagasti

    Former President of Peru and Member of the Club de Madrid

    Barham Salih

    Former President of Iraq

    Juan Manuel Santos

    Former President of Colombia and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

    Hanna Suchocka

    Former Prime Minister of Poland and Member of the Club de Madrid

    Haris Silajdžić

    Former Prime Minister and former Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina

    Constantine Simitis

    Former Prime Minister of Greece

    Jigmi Yoser Thinley

    Former “Lyonchhen” Prime Minister of Bhutan and Member of the Club de Madrid

    Aminata Touré

    Former Prime Minister of Senegal and Member of the Club de Madrid

    Elbegdorj Tsakhia

    Former Prime Minister of Mongolia and Member of the Club de Madrid

    Danilo Türk

    Former President of Slovenia and President of the Club de Madrid

    Cassam Uteem

    Former President of Mauritius, Member of the Club de Madrid, and Member of the Global Leadership Foundation

  • Argentina

    Adolfo Pérez Esquivel

    Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and recipient of the Pacem in Terris Award

    Australia

    Peter C. Doherty

    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and Companion of the Order of Australia

    Austria

    Elfriede Jelinek

    Nobel Prize in Literature and recipient of the Georg Büchner Prize

    Bangladesh

    Muhammad Yunus

    Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, founder of the Grameen Bank, and recipient of the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom

    Germany

    Herta Müller

    Nobel Prize in Literature and recipient of the Franz Werfel Human Rights Award

    Guatemala

    Rigoberta Menchú Tum

    Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

    India

    Kailash Satyarthi

    Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award

    Iran

    Shirin Ebadi

    Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Iran’s First Female Judge

    Israel

    Aaron Ciechanover

    Nobel Prize in Chemistry

    Arieh Warshel

    Nobel Prize in Chemistry

    Liberia

    Leymah Roberta Gbowee

    Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

    The Netherlands

    Gerardus 't Hooft

    Nobel Prize in Physics

    Northern Ireland

    Mairead Corrigan-Maguire

    Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and recipient of the Pacem in Terris Award

    Taiwan

    Yuan T. Lee

    Nobel Prize in Chemistry

    Timor-Leste

    Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo

    Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Apostolic Administrator Emeritus of Díli

    United Kingdom

    Richard J. Roberts

    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

    United States

    Harvey J. Alter

    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

    Barry Clark Barish

    Nobel Prize in Physics

    Sheldon Glashow

    Nobel Prize in Physics

    Carol W. Greider

    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

    Dudley R. Herschbach

    Nobel Prize in Chemistry

    Eric R. Kandel

    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and recipient of the U.S. National Medal of Science

    Roger D. Kornberg

    Nobel Prize in Chemistry

    John C. Mather

    Nobel Prize in Physics

    Paul R. Milgrom

    Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

    Paul L. Modrich

    Nobel Prize in Chemistry

    Gregg L. Semenza

    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

    Vernon L. Smith

    Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

    Jody Williams

    Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and founding Coordinator of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines

    Yemen

    Tawakkol Karman

    Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

  • Afghanistan

    Naheed Esar

    Former Deputy Foreign Minister of Afghanistan

    Mohammad Farid Hamidi

    Former Attorney General of Afghanistan

    Helena Malikyar

    Former Afghan Ambassador to Italy and former Commissioner of the Independent Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Committee of Afghanistan

    Javed Noorani

    Former Commissioner of the Independent Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Committee of Afghanistan

    Sima Samar

    Former Vice President of Afghanistan, former Minister of Women's Affairs, and former Chair of the Afghanistan Human Rights Commission

    Albania

    Zef Preci

    Executive Director of the Albanian Center for Economic Research (ACER)

    Angola

    Florindo Chivucute

    Executive Director of Friends of Angola

    Argentina

    Fernando A. Iglesias

    Member of Chamber of Deputies of the Argentine National Congress, Director of the Campaign for the Corte Penal Latinoamericana (COPLA), and President of the World Federalist Movement

    Susana Malcorra

    Dean of the School of Global & Public Affairs at Instituto de Empresa University and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Argentina

    Carlos Silvani

    Former Director of the Federal Administration of Public Revenues of Argentina and former International Monetary Fund official

    Australia

    Emil Bolongaita

    Head of Carnegie Mellon University – Australia, former Unit Head of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Program and Integrity Initiatives International Board Member

    Gareth Evans

    President Emeritus of the International Crisis Group, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Australia, and Member of the Global Leadership Foundation

    Paul Maddison

    Vice Admiral (Retired), Royal Canadian Navy, Director of the Defence Research Institute at the University of New South Wales, former Commander of the Royal Canadian Navy, and former Canadian High Commissioner to Australia

    Bangladesh

    ANM Muniruzzaman

    Major General (Retired), President of the Bangladesh Institute of Peace and Security Studies (BIPSS), and Chairman of the Global Military Advisory Council on Climate Change (GMACCC)

    Manzoor Hasan

    Executive Director of the Centre for Peace and Justice at Brac University, former Founding Executive Director of Transparency International Bangladesh and former Chair of UNCAC Coalition

    Iftekhar Zaman

    Executive Director of Transparency International Bangladesh and former Executive Director of Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, Colombo

    Belgium

    Stefaan De Clerck

    Former Minister of Justice of Belgium

    Bolivia

    Jaime Aparicio-Otero

    Former Bolivian Ambassador to the Organization of American States and former Bolivian Ambassador to the United States

    José Justiniano

    Former Governor of the Central Bank

    Karen Longaric

    Former Minister of Foreign Affairs

    Álvaro Moscoso Blanco

    Former Bolivian Ambassador to the European Communities and President of CIDRE IFD in Bolivia

    Brazil

    Melissa Garcia Blagitz de Abreu e Silva

    Federal Prosecutor, São Paulo, São Paulo State

    Modesto Souza Barros Carvalhosa

    Member of the Board of Trustees of Universidade Federal de São Carlos and of Fundação Padre Anchieta, the Board of Directors of Companhia Melhoramentos de São Paulo, and the São Paulo Stock Exchange Arbitration Panel

    Ligia Maura Costa

    Professor of Law and Director of FGVethics at Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo

    Marcelo Costenaro Cavali

    Former Federal Judge and Brazilian Senate’s Legislative Consultant on Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and Public Security

    Thaméa Danelon

    Federal Appeals Prosecutor, São Paulo, São Paulo State

    Fausto Martin De Sanctis

    Federal Appeals Judge of the Federal Court of Appeals for the Third Region, São Paulo

    Marcelo Dolzany da Costa

    Federal Appeals Judge of the Federal Court of Appeals for the Sixth Region, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais State and former UN Judge, Special Panels for Serious Crimes in East Timor

    Robinson Fernandes

    Police Commissioner, State of São Paulo; FATF Delegate and Assessor; and President of AML, Anti-Corruption and Compliance Commission at CONACATE

    Douglas Fisher

    Federal Prosecutor, Federal Court of Appeals for the Fourth Region, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul State

    Marcello Ferreira de Souza Granado

    Federal Appeals Judge of the Federal Court of Appeals for the Second Region, Rio de Janeiro

    Roberto Livianu

    State Prosecutor, São Paulo, São Paulo State and Chair of Instituto Não Aceito Corrupção (INAC)

    Andrey Borges de Mendonça

    Federal Prosecutor, São Paulo, São Paulo State

    Sergio Fernando Moro

    Former Minister of Justice and Public Security

    Mario Luiz Sarrubbo

    Attorney General of Justice of the State of São Paulo

    Luiz Fabrício Thaumaturgo Vergueiro

    Attorney for Brazil in São Paulo

    Cameroon

    Jean-Pelé Fomété

    Deputy Registrar of the International Court of Justice, former Registrar of the United Nations Dispute Tribunal in Nairobi, Kenya, and former Programme Director in the Registry of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

    Canada

    Payam Akhavan

    Senior Fellow at the Massey College, Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, and Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration

    John R. Anderson

    Admiral (Retired), Royal Canadian Navy, former Chief of the Defence Staff of Canada and former Permanent Representative in the rank of Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

    Lloyd Axworthy

    Chair of the World Refugee and Migration Council and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada

    Alfred Balm

    Philanthropist and Chairman of Emergo International

    Maurice Baril

    General (Retired), Canadian Armed Forces, former military advisor to the Secretary General of the United Nations, and former Chief of the Defence Staff of Canada

    Cheickh Tidyane Bangoura

    Former Legal Officer and Policy Coordinator / Advisor to the Prosecutor of the UN-ICTR and to the Prosecutor of the UN-MICT; former Acting Regional Director and Assistant Regional Director for UN Drug Control Program (UNODC) Regional office for West Africa; and former Assistant Regional Director for the UN Drug Control Program (UNODC) Regional office for East and Southeastern Africa

    David J. Bercuson

    Professor of History and Director of the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary

    Alexandra Bugailiskis

    Former Canadian Ambassador to the Republic of Italy, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Cuba and the Syrian Arab Republic

    Marc Caron

    Lieutenant-General (Retired), Canadian Armed Forces and former Commander of the Canadian Army

    Garry W.G. Clement

    RCMP Superintendent (Retired), Chief of Police (Retired), President and CEO Clement Advisory Group, EVP Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists, and Chief Compliance Officer at Versa Bank

    Scott Clements

    Lieutenant-General (Retired), Royal Canadian Air Force, former Commander of Canada's Air Force, and former CEO of both Edmonton and Fort McMurray Airport Authorities

    Nicholas Coghlan

    Former Canadian Ambassador to the Republic of South Sudan

    David B. Collins

    Former Canadian Ambassador to Romania and former Canadian High Commissioner to Pakistan, Malaysia, and Kenya

    Mary Collins

    Former Minister of Health and former Minister Responsible for the Status of Women of Canada

    Ray Crabbe

    Lieutenant-General (Retired), Canadian Armed Forces

    Roy Cullen

    Former Member of Parliament and former Director of the Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption

    Ujjal Dosanjh

    Former Minister of Health of Canada and former Premier of British Columbia

    Jacques Duchesneau

    Inspector General of the City of Saint-Jérôme, former Member of the Quebec National Assembly, former President and CEO of the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority, and former Chief of Police of Montréal

    Richard B. Fadden

    Former National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister of Canada

    Murray Farmer

    Chancellor Emeritus of the University of Victoria and former President of Farmer Construction

    Peter German

    Deputy Commissioner (Retired) of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Chair of the Vancouver Anti-Corruption Institute

    William Graham (recently deceased)

    Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and former Minister of National Defence of Canada

    Fred J. Green

    Former CEO of CP Rail

    Maja Groff

    Convenor of the Climate Governance Commission, Visiting Scholar/Professor at Leiden University and a former official of the Hague Conference on Private International Law

    Fen Osler Hampson

    President of the World Refugee and Migration Council and the Chancellor’s Professor at Carleton University

    Raymond Henault

    General (Retired), Royal Canadian Air Force, former Chief of the Defence Staff of Canada, and former Chair of the NATO Military Committee

    Thomas Homer-Dixon

    Executive Director of the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads University

    Michael Ignatieff

    President and Rector of Central European University in Austria and former Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada

    Joseph Ingram

    Chairman of Greentech Labs, Fellow of The Canadian Global Affairs Institute, former President and CEO of The North-South Institute, and former World Bank Special Representative to the United Nations and the World Trade Organization

    Michael Jeffery

    Lieutenant-General (Retired), Canadian Armed Forces, former Commander of the Canadian Army and former Commander of the Canadian Contingent to the UN Transition Assistance Group (UNTAG) Namibia

    Jeremy Kinsman

    Former Canadian Ambassador to Russia, Italy, and the European Union and former Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom

    Marcus Kolga

    Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and CDA Institute

    Thomas Lawson

    General (Retired), Royal Canadian Air Force, and former Chief of the Defence Staff of Canada

    Marc Lortie

    Former Canadian Ambassador to France, Monaco, Spain, Andorra, Chile and Paraguay

    Peter MacKay

    Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, former Minister of National Defence, and former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada

    Beverley McLachlin

    Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada

    Anne McLellan

    Former Deputy Prime Minister and former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada

    Jack Mintz

    President's Fellow of the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary

    Doug Mitchell

    Former Commissioner of the Canadian Football League, past Chairman of the Calgary Chamber of Commerce and the Canadian Bar Association, and former Honourary Lt. Colonel of the King’s Own Calgary Regiment

    Lois Mitchell

    Former Lieutenant Governor of Alberta, past Chair of the Calgary Chamber of Commerce, and current Vice-Chair of the Global Business Forum

    Gwyn Morgan

    Retired Founding CEO of EnCana Corp and Director of five Global Corporations

    Reza Moridi

    Former Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities and former Minister of Research, Innovation and Science of Ontario

    Philip Murray

    Commissioner (Retired) of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police

    Walter Natynczyk

    General (Retired), Canadian Armed Forces, former Chief of the Defence Staff, former Deputy Minister of Veteran Affairs, and former President of the Canadian Space Agency

    Scott Newark

    Former Alberta Crown Prosecutor, former Executive Officer of the Canadian Police Association, former Special Counsel and Vice Chair of Ontario’s Office for Victims of Crime, and former Security Policy Advisor to both the Ontario and Canadian Ministers of Public Safety

    Linda Nicholls

    Archbishop and Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada

    Christopher Pappas

    Dean of the Diocese of New Westminster and Rector of Christ Church Cathedral Vancouver

    Abdul Hai Patel

    Imam, Founder and past Coordinator of Canadian Council of Imams, former Commissioner Ontario Human Rights Commission and Police Chaplain for the York Regional Police

    David Pratt

    Former Minister of National Defence of Canada

    Steven Point

    Former Lieutenant Governor of British Colombia, former Provincial Court Judge, and former Chief of the Skowkale First Nation

    Bonnie Rawlins

    Former Justice of the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta, Canada

    Valerie Raymond

    Former Canadian Ambassador to the Czech Republic and former Canadian High Commissioner to New Zealand and Sri Lanka

    Allan Rock

    President Emeritus and Professor of Law at the University of Ottawa, former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, and former Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations

    Farid Rohani

    Treasurer of Integrity Initiatives International, Advisory Board Member of the Global Reporting Centre, Businessman and Entrepreneur

    Cameron Ross

    Major-General (Retired), Canadian Armed Forces, former UN Assistant Secretary General and Force Commander of the United Nations Mission on the Golan Heights (UNDOF) and former Chief of Staff, UN Mission in Angola (UNAVEM II)

    Ben Rowswell

    Former Canadian Ambassador to Venezuela

    John Ralston Saul

    Writer, President Emeritus of PEN International, and Co-Chair of the Institute for Canadian Citizenship

    Kaveh Shahrooz

    Lawyer and Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute

    Murray Sinclair

    Chancellor of Queen's University, former Senator, former Justice of the Court of Queen’s Bench, and former Chief Commissioner of Canada’s Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission

    Michael Small

    Former Canadian Ambassador to Cuba and former Canadian High Commissioner to Australia

    Marc Tassé

    President of the Canadian Centre of Excellence for Anti-Corruption, Forensic Accountant, and Part-Time Professor of Law and Management at the University of Ottawa

    Guy Thibault

    Lieutenant General (Retired), Canadian Armed Forces, President of the Conference of Defence Associations, and former Vice Chief of the Defence Staff of Canada

    Guy Tousignant

    Major-General (Retired), Canadian Armed Forces, former UN Assistant Secretary General and Force Commander of the United Nations Mission in Rwanda (UNAMIR II), and former Secretary General of CARE International

    Kenneth Watkin

    Brigadier-General (Retired), Canadian Armed Forces, and former Judge Advocate General of the Canadian Forces

    Paul Wynnyk

    Lieutenant-General (Retired), Canadian Armed Forces, Deputy Minister of Health of Alberta, former Vice Chief of the Defence Staff of Canada, former Commander of the Canadian Army, and former Chief of Staff (Operations) of the UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo

    Chile

    Beatrice Fitch

    Former Journalist

    Mónica Martínez

    Executive Director of Strategy 2 Succeed in Chile

    Ricardo Raineri

    Former Minister of Energy of Chile

    Colombia

    Camilo Alberto Enciso Vanegas

    Director of the International Institute for Anticorruption Studies and former Secretary for Transparency of Colombia

    María Alejandra Gálvez Alzate

    Legal Advisor at the International Institute for Anticorruption Studies

    Democratic Republic of the Congo

    Antoine Kesia-Mbe Mindua

    Judge and Second Vice-President of the International Criminal Court, former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Switzerland and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office and other International Organisations at Geneva

    Equatorial Guinea

    Tutu Alicante

    Executive Director of EG Justice

    France

    Raphaël Glucksmann

    Member of the European Parliament

    Jean-Marie Guéhenno

    Former UN Undersecretary for Peacekeeping, former President and CEO of the International Crisis Group, and Professor at Columbia University

    Germany

    Andreas Bummel

    Co-Founder and Director at Democracy Without Borders

    Wolfgang Ischinger

    Former German Ambassador to the United States and to the United Kingdom and former Chair of the Munich Security Conference

    Walter Link

    Founding CEO of NOW Partners and the Regenerative Economy Forum

    Angela Reitmaier

    Transparency International Germany Board Member

    Greece

    Stelios Kouloglou

    Member of the European Parliament and Journalist

    Guatemala

    Claudia Escobar Mejía

    Former Magistrate of the Court of Appeals of Guatemala and Integrity Initiatives International Board Member

    Honduras

    Ana Alejandrina Pineda Hernández

    Former Minister of Human Rights of Honduras

    Sandra Ponce Aguilera

    Diplomat and former Special Prosecutor for Human Rights of Honduras

    Israel

    Uzi Arad

    Former National Security Adviser and Head of the National Security Council of Israel

    Tzipi Livni

    Former Vice Prime Minister, former Minister of Foreign Affairs and former Minister of Justice of Israel

    Italy

    Tiziana Beghin

    Member of the European Parliament

    Fabio Massimo Castaldo

    Former Vice-President of the European Parliament and Member of the European Parliament

    Maria Angela Danzì

    Member of the European Parliament

    Teresa Ter-Minassian

    Former Director of Fiscal Affairs Department of the International Monetary Fund

    Sabrina Pignedoli

    Member of the European Parliament

    India

    Geeta Gandhi Kingdon

    President of City Montessori School, Lucknow

    Salil Shetty

    Former Secretary-General of Amnesty International and former Director of the UN Millennium Campaign

    Anirudh Singh

    Head of the World Unity Education Department at City Montessori School, Lucknow

    Indonesia

    Marzuki Darusman

    Former Attorney General of Indonesia, former UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in North Korea, and Member of the Global Leadership Foundation

    Natalia Soebagjo

    Member of the International Council of Transparency International, former Board Member of Transparency International, and former Chair of Transparency International Indonesia

    Laode M. Syarif

    Former Commissioner of the Corruption Eradication Commission of Indonesia (KPK), Executive Director of KEMITRAAN, and Senior Lecturer at Hasanuddin University

    Dadang Trisasongko

    Chair of Indonesia Corruption Watch and former Secretary General of Transparency International Indonesia

    Jordan

    Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein

    Professor of Law and Human Rights at the University of Pennsylvania, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and former Jordanian Ambassador to the United States

    Kenya

    John Githongo

    Former Permanent Secretary for Governance and Ethics of Kenya, Member of the International Council of Transparency International, and former Executive Director of Transparency International Kenya

    Demas Kiprono

    Acting Executive Director of the Kenyan Section of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ Kenya)

    Malaysia

    Cynthia Gabriel

    Founding Director of the Center to Combat Corruption and Cronyism (C4, Malaysia) and former Vice-Chair of the UNCAC Coalition

    Muhammad Mohan Kittu Bin Abdullah

    President of Transparency International Malaysia

    Malta

    Matthew Caruana Galizia

    Co-Founder of the Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation

    Andrew Caruana Galizia

    Co-Founder of the Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation

    Paul Caruana Galizia

    Co-Founder of the Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation

    Mauritania

    Ahmedou Ould Abdallah

    President of Centre 4s, former Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for West Africa, former Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Somalia, and former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Mauritania

    Mexico

    María de los Ángeles Estrada

    Executive Director of the Transparency and Anticorruption Initiative of the School of Government and Public Transformation at Tecnológico de Monterrey

    Edna Ramirez

    Professor of International Law at Universidad de Guadalajara, International Trade Expert and Senior Consultant to the World Trade Organization

    The Netherlands

    Saskia Bruines

    Alderman of The Hague for Economic Affairs, International Affairs and Municipal Services

    Ben Knapen

    Member of the Dutch Senate and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands

    Thijs Reuten

    Member of the European Parliament

    Jan van Zanen

    Mayor of The Hague and Co-President of United Cities and Local Governments

    Nigeria

    Charles Adeogun-Phillips

    Former Head of Special Investigations at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Partner at Charles Anthony (Lawyers) LLP in Lagos, and Barrister at Guernica 37 International Justice Chambers in London and The Hague

    Chile Eboe-Osuji

    Former Judge and President of the International Criminal Court; Distinguished International Jurist, Lincoln Alexander School of Law, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada; and Paul Martin Sr Professor, University of Windsor, Canada

    Nuhu Ribabu

    Founding Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of Nigeria

    Olanrewaju Suraju

    Chairman of HEDA Resource Centre

    North Macedonia

    Margarita Tsatsa Nikolovska

    Former Judge of the European Court of Human Rights, former Judge and Vice-President of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and President of the Institute for Human Rights

    Slagjana Taseva

    First Chair of the State Commission for the Prevention of Corruption, former Chair of the UNCAC Coalition, and Chair of Transparency International Macedonia

    Pakistan

    Tassaduq Hussain Jillani

    Former Chief Justice of Pakistan and former Judge ad hoc at the International Court of Justice

    Paraguay

    Lorraine Ocampos

    Former Senior Economist at the International Monetary Fund and former Research Director of the Central Bank of Paraguay

    Peru

    Ricardo Luna

    Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Peru and Member of the Global Leadership Foundation

    José Ugaz

    Prosecutor, former Chair of Transparency International, and Integrity Initiatives International Board Member

    Philippines

    Cheselden George Vida Carmona

    Professor at Ateneo de Manila University School of Law and International Development Professional

    Risa Hontiveros

    Senator and Chair of the Philippine Senate Committee on Women, Children, Family Relations, and Gender Equality

    Bernard Karganilla

    Columnist at Malaya Business Insight

    Antonio Gabriel La Viña

    Executive Director of the Manila Observatory and former Undersecretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources of the Philippines

    Francisco A. Magno

    Director of the Jesse M. Robredo Institute of Governance and Professor of Political Science at De La Salle University

    John Nery

    Columnist at the Philippine Daily Inquirer and Chair of the Asian Center for Journalism at the Ateneo de Manila University

    Poland

    Danuta Hübner

    Member of the European Parliament, former European Commissioner for Regional Policy, former European Commissioner for Trade, and former Minister of European Affairs of Poland

    Puerto Rico

    Eneida Torres de Durand

    Executive Director of Centro de Gobernanza Pública y Corporativa

    Republic of the Congo

    Andrea Ngombet

    Founder of Sassoufit Collective

    Romania

    Camelia Bogdan

    Former Judge on the Bucharest Court of Appeals

    Russia

    Vladimir Kara-Murza

    Prisoner of Conscience, former Deputy Leader of the People’s Freedom Party, and Founding Chairman of the Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom

    Garry Kasparov

    Chair of the Human Rights Foundation, Chair of the Renew Democracy Initiative, and former World Chess Champion

    Ivan Pavlov

    Founder of the Team 29 and the Dept One

    Grigory Vaypan

    Independent Human Rights Lawyer and former Head of Litigation at the Institute of Law and Public Policy in Moscow

    Sierra Leone

    Francis Ben Kaifala

    Commissioner of the Anti-Corruption Commission of Sierra Leone

    Singapore

    Kishore Mabubhani

    Founding Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, former President of the United Nations Security Council, and former Singaporean Ambassador to the United Nations

    South Africa

    Iraj Abedian

    Founder and Chairman of Pan-African Capital Holdings, former Member of the Economic Advisory Committee of President Mbeki, and former Chief Economist of Standard Bank Group of South Africa

    Seán Cleary

    Executive Vice-Chair of the FutureWorld Foundation

    Ian Farlam

    Former Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa

    Richard Goldstone

    Former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, first Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and Integrity Initiatives International Board Member

    Paul Hoffman

    Co-Founder of Accountability Now and Integrity Initiatives International Board Member

    Mervyn Eldred King

    Former Judge of the Supreme Court of South Africa; former Chair of the Eminent Persons Group of the United Nations on Governance and Oversight; Chair Emeritus of the Global Reporting Initiative and the International Integrated Reporting Council; Chair Emeritus of the King Reports on Corporate Governance; Chair of the Good Governance Academy

    Thabo C. Makgoba

    Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town and Primate of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa

    Dikgang Moseneke

    Former Deputy Chief Justice of South Africa

    Koogan Pillay

    Advisory board member to the former Public Protector of South Africa Adv Thuli Madonsela; and former Project Manager for the National Anti-Corruption Strategy at the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation of the Presidency of South Africa and the Special Investigations Unit of South Africa

    Navi Pillay

    Former Judge of the International Criminal Court and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

    Albie Sachs

    Former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa

    Karam Singh

    Executive Director of Corruption Watch

    South Korea

    Sungho Kang

    Co-President of the History NGO Forum for Peace in East Asia

    Geo-Sung Kim

    Transparency International Board Member, former Senior Secretary to the President of the Republic of Korea, former Commissioner of the Korea Independent Commission Against Corruption, and former Chair of Transparency International Korea

    Spain

    Ángel Alonso Arroba

    Vice Dean of the IE School of Global and Public Affairs and former Spanish Ambassador-at-large for Spanish Global Citizenry

    Guillermo de la Dehesa

    Honorary Chairman of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) London and former Secretary of State of Economy and Finance of Spain

    Augusto Lopez-Claros

    Executive Director of Global Governance Forum, former Chief Economist of the World Economic Forum, and former World Bank and International Monetary Fund official

    Cristina Manzano

    Director of esglobal and Columnist for El País

    Jordi Solé

    Member of the European Parliament, Catalonia

    Sweden

    Hans Corell

    Former Under Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and the Legal Counsel of the United Nations

    Jens Orback

    CEO of Sweden’s Global Challenges Foundation and former Minister for Democracy, Metropolitan Affairs, Integration, and Gender Equality of Sweden

    Switzerland

    Arthur Lyon Dahl

    President of International Environment Forum and former Deputy Assistant Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme

    Juhani Grossmann

    Anti-Corruption Expert

    Jean-Pierre Méan

    Attorney at Eigenmann Associés, former Chair of Transparency International Switzerland, and former Chief Compliance Officer at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

    Tanzania

    Mohamed Chande Othman

    Former Chief Justice of Tanzania

    Trinidad and Tobago

    Gale Mohammed-Oxley

    Educator and Theologian

    Maria Wilson

    Justice of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Trinidad and Tobago, former trial lawyer at the International Criminal Court and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and former Assistant Director of Public Prosecution in Trinidad and Tobago

    Uganda

    Lucy Akello

    Member of Parliament

    Ukraine

    Iegor Soboliev

    Former Chair of the Anti-Corruption Committee of the Parliament of Ukraine

    United Kingdom

    Lord David Alton

    KCSG, KCMCO, Life Peer and former Member of the House of Commons

    Sir Bill Browder

    CEO of Hermitage Capital and Head of the Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign

    Lord Peter Hain

    Former United Kingdom Cabinet Minister for Northern Ireland; for Wales; for Work and Pensions; and Leader of the House of Commons, and now anti-corruption campaigner

    Bianca Jagger

    Founder and Chair of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation

    Sir Jeffrey Jowell

    KCMG QC, Founder and former Director of the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law, and former Member of the Venice Commission

    Baroness Helena Kennedy

    KC, Barrister at Doughty Street Chambers and former Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford University

    Edward Lucas

    Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis and former Senior Editor at The Economist

    Chris O’Connor

    Former United Kingdom Ambassador to Tunisia

    John Odling-Smee

    Former Director of European II Department of the International Monetary Fund

    Geoffrey Robertson

    Founder and Head of Doughty Street Chambers in the United Kingdom

    Lord George Robertson

    Former Secretary General of NATO, former Defence Secretary of the United Kingdom, and Member of the Global Leadership Foundation

    Neda Salmanpour

    Founder and CEO of the Global Peace and Prosperity Forum in London

    Lord David Maxim Triesman

    Former Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

    United States

    Raymond Baker

    Founding President of Global Financial Integrity

    John Berger

    Senior Fellow at the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School

    Landon Butler

    Former Deputy Chief of Staff to President Jimmy Carter and Integrity Initiatives International Board Member

    Drew Christiansen, S. J.

    Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Human Development at Georgetown University and Senior Fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs

    Wesley K. Clark

    General (Retired), U.S. Army, and former Supreme Allied Commander Europe

    James Cottrell, Jr.

    Chair of Beacon NGO and Integrity Initiatives International Board Member

    Geoffrey Cowan

    Professor at University of Southern California, former Director of Voice of America, and Integrity Initiatives International Board Member

    Chester Crocker

    Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of the State and Member of the Global Leadership Foundation

    Tad Daley

    Director of Policy Analysis at Citizens for Global Solutions and former advisor to U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich, the late U.S. Senator Harris Wofford, and the late U.S. Senator Alan Cranston

    Jonathan Fanton

    Former President of the MacArthur Foundation and Integrity Initiatives International Board Member

    Mia Farrow

    Actor, Humanitarian, and Human Rights Activist

    Robert S. Gelbard

    Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, former U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia and Bolivia, and Integrity Initiatives International Board Member

    T. Anthony Jones

    Co-Founder of the Club de Madrid and Vice-President and Executive Director of Gorbachev Foundation of North America

    Wendy W. Luers

    Founder and President of the Foundation for a Civil Society

    Katherine Marshall

    Executive Director of the World Faiths Development Dialogue, Professor at Georgetown University, and former World Bank official

    Matthew H. Murray

    Adjunct Professor at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs and Harriman Institute, Adjunct Senior Research Scholar at the Columbia University Picker Center, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at the U.S. Department of Commerce

    Mary R. Page

    Former Director for Human Rights and International Justice at the MacArthur Foundation and Integrity Initiatives International Board Member

    Deval Patrick

    Former Governor of the State of Massachusetts, United States and Integrity Initiatives International Board Member

    Evelyn Pesantez

    International Development Professional

    Thomas R. Pickering

    Former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Member of the Global Leadership Foundation, and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Russia, India, Israel, El Salvador, Nigeria, and Jordan

    Larry Pressler

    Former U.S. Senator from South Dakota

    Robert I. Rotberg

    Vice-Chair of Integrity Initiatives International, President Emeritus of the World Peace Foundation, and Founding Director of Harvard Kennedy School’s Program on Intrastate Conflict

    Kenneth Roth

    Former Executive Director of Human Rights Watch

    Leila Nadya Sadat

    James Carr Professor of International Criminal Law and former Director of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute at the Washington University School of Law and Special Adviser on Crimes Against Humanity to the International Criminal Court Prosecutor

    Theodore Sedgwick

    Former U.S. Ambassador to Slovakia

    Adele Simmons

    President of the Global Philanthropy Partnership and former President of the MacArthur Foundation

    Sheila Prell Sonenshine

    Former Justice of the California Court of Appeal

    Donald Steinberg

    Former Deputy Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development and former U.S. Ambassador to Angola

    Melanne Verveer

    Executive Director of the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security and former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues

    Dawn Vermilya

    Co-Founder, Board Member and former Director of Daystar Academy in Beijing

    Alexander S. Vindman

    Lieutenant Colonel (Retired), U.S. Army, former Director for European Affairs at the National Security Council

    Frank G. Wisner

    Former U.S. Under Secretary for Defense Policy, former U.S. Under Secretary of State for International Security Affairs, and former U.S. Ambassador to India, the Philippines, Egypt, and Zambia

    Mark L. Wolf

    Chair of Integrity Initiatives International and U.S. District Judge

    Venezuela

    Pedro M. Burelli

    Political exile and former Member of the Executive Board of Petróleos de Venezuela

    Moisés Naím

    Distinguished Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, former Trade and Industry Minister of Venezuela, former Director of the Central Bank of Venezuela, and a former Executive Director of the World Bank

    Alfredo Romero

    President of the human rights NGO Foro Penal, Human Rights Lawyer, and Professor of Law at Universidad Central de Venezuela

    Carlos Vargas

    President of 1001 Ideas Para Mi País

    Zimbabwe

    Sternford Moyo

    Former President of the International Bar Association

  • International

    Asia Democracy Network (ADN)

    BarefootLaw

    Be Just

    Democracy International e.V.

    Democracy Without Borders

    Centre for Global Advancement (C4GA)

    CIVICUS

    Climate Cardinals

    Club de Madrid

    Coalition for the UN We Need

    Global Governance Forum

    Global Integrity

    Good Governance Africa

    Human Rights Foundation

    Integrity Initiatives International

    InterAction Council

    PEN International

    Re:Common

    Whistleblowing International

    World Federalist Movement – Institute of Global Policy

    Young World Federalists

    Argentina

    Democracia Global

    Bangladesh

    Transparency International Bangladesh

    Botswana

    Botswana Centre for Public Integrity (BCPI)

    Botswana Watch Organization

    Brazil

    Instituto Brasileiro de Direito e Ética Empresarial (IBDEE)

    Instituto Não Aceito Corrupção (INAC)

    Canada

    World Refugee and Migration Council

    Colombia

    Instituto Anticorrupción

    Ecuador

    Fundación Ciudadanía y Desarrollo (TI Chapter)

    Equatorial Guinea

    EG Justice

    Gambia

    Gambia Participates

    Indonesia

    The Partnership for Governance Reform (KEMITRAAN)

    Jordan

    Takatoat

    Kazakhstan

    International Legal Initiative PF (ILI Foundation)

    Transparency International - Kazakhstan PF

    Lebanon

    YAC-Youth Against Corruption

    Malawi

    Grains of Hope Mobilisation

    Malaysia

    Center to Combat Corruption and Cronyism (C4)

    Transparency International Malaysia

    Mexico

    Impunidad Cero

    Red Mexicana para el Servicio Público

    TOJIL

    Nigeria

    21st Century Community Empowerment for Youth and Women Initiative

    Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ)

    Bauchi Human Rights Network (BAHRN)

    Beautiful Eves of Africa Organisation (BEAFRO)

    Center for Fiscal Transparency and Integrity Watch

    Coalition Against Corruption and Bad Governance (CACOBAG)

    Community Outreach for Development and Welfare Advocacy (CODWA)

    Double Handed Goodwill Foundation

    Echoes Of Women In Africa Initiative

    HEDA Resource Centre

    Justice for Peace and Development Initiative (JPDI)

    Michael Adedotun Oke Foundation

    Policy Alert

    Prison Inmate Development Initiative (PIDI)

    Progressive Impact Organization for Community Development (PRIMORG)

    Psycare & Health Rights Foundation

    Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP)

    Transparency Information Technology Initiative (TransparencIT)

    Victoria Peace and Justice Foundation

    Young Leaders Network (Initiative for Leadership Development and Youth Empowerment)

    North Macedonia

    Institute for Good Governance and Euro Atlantic Perspectives

    Institute for Human Rights

    Transparency International - Macedonia

    Paraguay

    Coordinadora de Abogados del Paraguay (COAPY)

    Somos Anticorrupción Paraguay (SAPY)

    Philippines

    Center for Peace Education-Miriam College

    Ciriaco Consulting Services

    Pax Christi-Pilipinas

    Young Women+ Leaders for Peace

    Republic of the Congo

    Sassoufit Collective

    Romania

    Expert Forum

    LiderJust

    Russia

    Transparency International - Russia

    Sierra Leone

    Human Rights Defenders Network - SL

    South Africa

    Accountability Now

    Corruption Watch (TI Chapter)

    South Korea

    Citizens’ Alliance for North Korean Human Rights

    Trinidad & Tobago

    G.O. International Academy of Learning

    Uganda

    Anti-Corruption International Uganda

    Students for Global Democracy Uganda

    United Kingdom

    Corner House

    Shadow World Investigations

    United States

    Citizens for Global Solutions

    Venezuela

    1001 Ideas Para Mi País

    Zambia

    BeRelevant Africa