Phillip Kagucia (OGW) is Team Leader, Malawi, having been promoted to this position in November 2025. He joined the Basel Institute’s International Centre for Asset Recovery team in Malawi in April 2024 as Senior Specialist, Asset Recovery. In his current role, he continues to lend his expertise on asset recovery to various law enforcement agencies in the anti-corruption institutional framework.

Phillip is an advocate with over 20 years of experience in civil litigation and asset recovery. He joined Kenya's Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) in 2010 after years in private practice. In 2017, he became the first lawyer in Kenya’s history to successfully argue several high-profile cases on forfeiture of unexplained wealth.

As Deputy Director in charge of asset recovery at the EACC, Phillip also served as the Head of the institution's Mutual Legal Assistance Unit, which relied on international cooperation to prosecute corruption cases. During this time, he was exposed to the rigorous mutual evaluation process of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). He was a member of Kenya's national task force established to navigate the assessment of compliance with the FATF recommendations under the Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group (ESAAMLG).

Additionally, Phillip has been a trainer on various topics including evidence analysis, unexplained wealth and mutual legal assistance (MLA).

Phillip holds a Bachelor of Law degree from Northumbria University in the UK, a Master of Arts in International Studies from the University of Nairobi and a second Master’s degree in Anti-Corruption Studies from the International Anti-Corruption Academy in Vienna, Austria. For his efforts in anti-corruption law enforcement, particularly in asset recovery, he was awarded with National Honours in the "Order of the Grand Warrior" (OGW) by the President of the Republic of Kenya.