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Committee members

Chair:

Sion Assidon

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

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).

Boris Divjak

Boris Divjak
Transparency International Bosnia and Herzegovina

Boris Divjak is an economist by profession. He has been affiliated with Transparency International since late 2000 as a founder and Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Transparency International Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mr Divjak has conducted research, analysis, evaluation and design of recommendations of legislation, institutional capacities and requirements; has led the training of government officials, NGOs and media; implemented surveys and polls preparation, conducting, monitoring and analysis; and conducted public procurement and aid related corruption.
He has worked in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia & Montenegro, Kosovo, Albania – since 1996 and holds a Masters in International Studies from the University of Reading, UK.
Boris Divjak is a Member of the Board of Directors of TI.

Hershman

Michael J. Hershman

Michael J. Hershman is President of the Fairfax Group, a global private intelligence, security and investigative firm founded in 1983. Mr. Hershman serves on the Board of Directors of the U.S. Chamber Foundation, has investigated government corruption and financial fraud for the New York State Attorney General's Office and the Office of the Mayor of New York City and served as a Senior Staff Investigator for the Senate Watergate Committee and as Chief Investigator for a joint Presidential and Congressional commission reviewing state and federal laws on wiretapping and electronic surveillance. Mr. Hershman also worked for the Federal Election Commission, where as Chief Investigator and Director of Security he was responsible for audits and investigations of candidates and their campaign committees. 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), where he led investigations and audits of major U.S. funded projects overseas, and was responsible for worldwide security at all foreign AID missions.
Michael Hershman is a co-founder of Transparency International, he is a member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Homeland Security Task Force and the Partnership for Critical Infrastructure Protection. Mr. Hershman also serves as Chairman of the Board of Advisors of INFRAGARD an FBI program which links with the private sector for information exchange on homeland security issues.

Geo Sum Kim

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

Anke Martiny
TI Deutschland

Anke Martiny was managing director of TI German 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.

Laura Puertas

Laura Puertas Meyer

Laura Puertas Meyer is an economist and journalist and for the past twenty years has dedicated herself to human rights issues and the fight against corruption. Since 2002 she has worked for PROETICA, TI's chapter in Peru, as the Executive Director.
Ms Puertas Meyer has also worked as a stringer for The New York Times and El Pais since 1992 and has worked for various Peruvian media in magazines, journals, radio and television programs. In 1993, she founded with other Peruvian journalists the IPYS (Instituto Prensa y Sociedad), to promote investigative journalism in the Andean Region.
Laura Puertas Meyer is a Member of the Board of Directors of TI.

   

Akere Muna

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

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.

   
 

Agus Purnomo
Transparency International Indonesia

Agus Purnomo, serves on the Executive Board of TI Indonesia, was former Executive Director of Pelangi Indonesia, a policy research institution for sustainable development in Jakarta and Executive Director for the WWF where he worked on issues of conservation and development. Mr Purnomo was also Secretary General for TI Indonesia.

Inese Voika

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.


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