[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":1882},["ShallowReactive",2],{"team":3},[4,31,53,71,89,102,122,141,159,176,193,209,227,248,265,281,293,305,317,334,349,366,383,396,410,427,443,459,472,487,502,518,536,553,568,585,602,620,638,651,668,686,703,716,734,751,766,779,797,814,827,844,859,876,894,910,923,940,957,972,988,1004,1020,1032,1048,1064,1081,1097,1109,1125,1142,1154,1170,1187,1203,1219,1236,1252,1267,1281,1294,1311,1326,1338,1356,1370,1385,1402,1418,1435,1449,1463,1479,1495,1508,1524,1538,1554,1574,1591,1608,1624,1640,1656,1674,1689,1705,1717,1729,1746,1759,1774,1788,1803,1819,1835,1851,1865],{"id":5,"status":6,"sort":7,"user_created":8,"date_created":9,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":11,"first_name":12,"last_name":13,"position":14,"phone":15,"email":16,"image":17,"cv":18,"category":19,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":21,"nid":24,"slug":25,"function":20,"country":26,"directorate":28,"hidden":30},326,"published",30,"03bebfd8-0b40-4a2a-820d-b9d9c13b9de6","2025-02-18T15:20:38.000Z","3d9ff205-1640-4f34-b5b6-86977f51bbd6","2026-04-15T21:53:40.000Z","Gemma","Aiolfi","Senior Advisor, Legal and Compliance","","gemma.aiolfi@baselgovernance.org","3bd4650e-37cb-4624-b1a5-e7431763670b","Gemma Aiolfi is Senior Advisor for Compliance and Collective Action at the Basel Institute on Governance. Gemma helped to establish the Basel Institute on Governance in 2003 alongside Prof Mark Pieth, former Chair of the OECD Working Group on Bribery, and served as the organisation's Head of Compliance, Corporate Governance and Collective Action until October 2022.\n\nTogether with a team of compliance and Collective Action specialists, Gemma supports the Basel Institute’s extensive private sector work and outreach. This includes providing tailored guidance and training on anti-corruption compliance, corporate governance and crisis management to organisations of all sizes and sectors, and driving the use of Collective Action approaches to tackle corruption, raise standards of business integrity and level the playing field between competitors.\n\nA barrister by training, Gemma studied Swiss law in Basel, Switzerland and holds a law degree from the London School of Economics and a postgraduate degree from Stockholm University in Sweden. Among other roles, Gemma has worked as Global Head of Anti-Corruption at Swiss bank UBS, and as Legal Counsel to the Integrity Department and internal Office of Special Investigations at ABB. \n\nGemma served on the OECD’s Working Group on Bribery in International Business Transactions and as an advisor to the UN Independent Inquiry Commission on the Iraq Oil-for-Food Programme. She is a Member of the Board of Ethics and Compliance Switzerland and of the OECD's Trust in Business Initiative, a member of the Steering Committee of the Alliance for Integrity and a former External Council Adviser to the Board of Graña y Montero, Peru.\n\nHer 2020 book, [\\*Anti-Corruption Compliance: A Guide for Small and Mid-Sized Organizations\\*](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fanti-corruption-compliance-guide-small-and-mid-sized-organizations) published by Edward Elgar, offers step-by-step guidance to companies and non-profit organisations in managing their corruption risks.","Senior advisors",null,[22,23,19],"Collective Action","Compliance","33","gemma-aiolfi",[27],"Switzerland (HQ)",[29],"Private Sector",false,{"id":32,"status":6,"sort":33,"user_created":8,"date_created":34,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":35,"first_name":36,"last_name":37,"position":38,"phone":39,"email":40,"image":41,"cv":42,"category":43,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":44,"nid":46,"slug":47,"function":48,"country":51,"directorate":52,"hidden":30},692,3,"2025-03-27T21:21:35.000Z","2026-04-23T23:19:08.000Z","Elizabeth","Andersen","Executive Director","+41 61 205 55 11","elizabeth.andersen@baselgovernance.org","83102e0a-9fa5-4ae4-8d36-03370ba70d14","Elizabeth \"Betsy\" Andersen is the Executive Director of the Basel Institute on Governance, where she leads the Institute’s strategic direction and oversees its global efforts to counter corruption, strengthen governance and promote integrity in the public and private sectors. She assumed the role in March 2025, following a distinguished career at the intersection of law, justice, governance and international development.\n\nBefore joining the Institute, Betsy served as Executive Director of the World Justice Project, a non-profit organisation working internationally to advance the rule of law.\n\nBetsy has a rich legal background spanning academia and practice. Among other roles, she has served as Associate Executive Director of the American Bar Association and Director of its Rule of Law Initiative. She has also served as Executive Director of both the American Society of International Law and Human Rights Watch’s Europe and Central Asia Division.\n\nShe is a frequent speaker and widely published author on topics relating to international human rights, transitional justice and rule of law development, and she has served as an adjunct professor at the American University Washington College of Law.\n\nBetsy brings extensive experience working with and serving on the advisory committees and boards of non-profit organisations and associations, including the International Law Institute (U.S.), CEELI Institute (Czech Republic), Misongi (Cameroon) and the ASIL Women in International Law Interest Group (U.S.). She is a member of the American Law Institute and Council on Foreign Relations and currently serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees of Williams College.\n\nFor her contributions to advancing the rule of law and international justice, Betsy has been honoured with numerous awards. These include a Williams College Bicentennial Medal, the American Society of International Law Prominent Woman in International Law Award, and the American Bar Association Section of International Law World Order Under Law Award.\n\nShe holds a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in History and Russian Studies from Williams College, a Master in Public Affairs (MPA) from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs, and a Juris Doctor (JD) from Yale Law School.","Director",[45],"Senior management","62289","elizabeth-andersen",[49,50],"Core Management","Extended Management",[27],[],{"id":54,"status":6,"sort":20,"user_created":10,"date_created":55,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":56,"first_name":57,"last_name":58,"position":59,"phone":20,"email":60,"image":61,"cv":62,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":64,"nid":65,"slug":66,"function":20,"country":67,"directorate":69,"hidden":30},803,"2026-04-23T22:19:09.000Z","2026-05-20T21:28:32.000Z","Dafy Faramalala","Andriamparany","Specialist, Corruption Prevention","fara.andriamparany@baselgovernance.org","fdf02269-9b84-40b0-b2e8-bf566d329f79","Dafy Faramalala Andriamparany joined the Basel Institute on Governance in January 2026 as Specialist, Corruption Prevention for the Green Corruption programme in Madagascar.\n\nFara is currently working on the UK DEFRA-funded project, \"Building a global network to prevent biodiversity-related corruption\". This initiative spans Bolivia, Indonesia, Madagascar and Malawi, supporting government partners to identify and mitigate corruption risks in anti-illegal wildlife trade (IWT) and conservation efforts, while facilitating cross-country knowledge exchange.\n\nFara brings extensive experience to this role. Most recently, Fara served for over three years (2021–2025) as Environmental Project Manager at Transparency International – Initiative Madagascar. Her work focused on identifying and mitigating risks related to wildlife trafficking and natural resource management, including conducting corruption risk assessments in climate governance and facilitating capacity-building workshops for national and international stakeholders.\n\nShe also draws on her experience as Project Manager at Insuco Madagascar, where she oversaw the planning, technical implementation and monitoring of complex environmental and social projects.\n\nFara is a Research Associate and GI-ACE (Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence) Fellow, conducting research hosted by the Centre for the Study of Corruption at the University of Sussex. Her research specifically addresses the imperative of tackling environmental corruption in Madagascar. She has authored several leading publications on corruption risks affecting precious woods, the mining industry and the endangered species trade.\n\nFara holds a Master’s degree (Master II) in Geography, specialising in Environmental Dynamics and Risks, from the University of Yaounde I in Cameroon, and is an Agricultural Engineer specialised in Agro-management at the University of Antananarivo.","Field staff",[63],"62634","dafy-faramalala-andriamparany",[68],"Africa",[70],"Green Corruption",{"id":72,"status":6,"sort":73,"user_created":8,"date_created":74,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":75,"first_name":76,"last_name":77,"position":78,"phone":15,"email":79,"image":80,"cv":81,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":82,"nid":83,"slug":84,"function":85,"country":86,"directorate":88,"hidden":30},709,31,"2025-03-27T21:21:46.000Z","2026-05-20T21:43:09.000Z","Lakso","Anindito","Team Leader, Indonesia","lakso.anindito@baselgovernance.org","605882b8-0b8d-48b3-a31a-1178a42e5d76","Lakso Anindito joined the Basel Institute on Governance in June 2022 as Team Leader, Indonesia. He leads the Institute’s technical engagement in the country, currently under the UK DEFRA IWT CF funded Follow-the-Money project and previously through the USAID INTEGRITAS programme.\n\nUnder the Follow-the-Money project, Lakso provides capacity building and technical advice to various Indonesian government partners. His focus is on financial investigations of environmental cases and developing institutional guidelines for anti-money laundering investigations.\n\nBefore joining the Basel Institute, Lakso spent 11 years as an investigator and legal specialist at the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) and the Presidential office (UKP4 and REDD+ Agency). At the KPK, he focused on corporate criminal liability and risk reduction in natural resource management. He investigated several high-profile cases, including the first case of corporate criminal liability for money laundering at KPK. He also trained internal auditors from SOEs and government investigators at the Anti-Corruption Learning Center.\n\nAt the REDD+ Agency, Lakso worked on law enforcement and dispute resolution, piloting a legal compliance audit to prevent forest and land fires. He also supervised the implementation of the “multidoor” enforcement approach for forestry and priority natural resource-related cases.\n\nLakso is currently pursuing a PhD in Law at the University of Indonesia. He holds a Master of Law in European and International Trade Law from Lund University, Sweden, as a recipient of a Swedish Institute Scholarship for Global Professionals, and a Bachelor's in Law from the Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia.",[63],"61082","lakso-anindito",[],[87],"Asia & Pacific",[70],{"id":90,"status":6,"sort":20,"user_created":10,"date_created":55,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":75,"first_name":91,"last_name":92,"position":93,"phone":20,"email":94,"image":95,"cv":96,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":97,"nid":98,"slug":99,"function":20,"country":100,"directorate":101,"hidden":30},804,"Taufik","Asril","Senior Specialist, Grants Management","taufik.asril@baselgovernance.org","a5c82109-14e2-4cc9-b11a-79fc84218f7f","Taufik Asril joined the Basel Institute on Governance in April 2026 as Senior Specialist, Grant Management. Based in Jakarta, Indonesia, he manages the subgrants to consortium partners in a multi-year programme led by the Basel Institute’s Green Corruption programme and supported by Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI).\n\nTaufik has spent over 25 years working in international development across Indonesia and Timor-Leste, gaining experience across a wide range of organisations and roles. Prior to joining the Basel Institute, he was Rainforest Trust Project Manager at Fauna & Flora’s Indonesia Programme. Before that, he spent five years managing grants and contracts on the USAID-CEGAH project on combating corruption in Indonesia with Management Systems International.\n\nHis career has also taken him through similar work at Chemonics International and Cowater International, a programme management stint at International Relief and Development (IRD) and earlier roles at the Embassy of Japan in Jakarta and the British Council, where he led social development projects. Over time, he has become “fluent” in the compliance and operational demands of major donors including USAID, NORAD, DFAT Australia and the Asian Development Bank.\n\nTaufik holds a Master of Arts in Development Studies from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK, and a Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature from Andalas University in Padang, Indonesia.",[63],"62747","taufik-asril",[87],[70],{"id":103,"status":6,"sort":104,"user_created":8,"date_created":105,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":106,"first_name":107,"last_name":108,"position":109,"phone":15,"email":110,"image":111,"cv":112,"category":19,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":113,"nid":115,"slug":116,"function":117,"country":119,"directorate":120,"hidden":30},710,32,"2025-03-27T21:21:47.000Z","2026-04-23T23:19:09.000Z","Phyllis","Atkinson","Senior Advisor, Asset Recovery","phyllis.atkinson@baselgovernance.org","1b2b2e45-9153-4dab-a677-3e897604730a","Phyllis Atkinson is a Senior Advisor, Asset Recovery for the training team of the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR), having served as Head of Training ICAR from 2010 to June 2023. In this role, she was responsible for providing technical assistance to developing and transition countries through the design, development and delivery of interactive, practical and participant-based training workshops on anti-corruption, anti-money laundering, financial investigations and asset recovery.\n\nBased in Cape Town, South Africa, Phyllis has been an Advocate of the High Court in South Africa since 1981. Prior to joining the ICAR on 1 June 2009, Phyllis was employed at the Deloitte Forensic & Dispute Services office in Cape Town, South Africa where she held the position of Principal. She played a national role in the Forensic Team, driving growth in cross-border services, including anti-money laundering and anti-corruption training initiatives, amongst others. Whilst with Deloitte, Phyllis also played the lead role in a USAID-funded project spanning 8 months involving the establishment of a Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) in Tanzania during 2008, to investigate or report cases of suspicious or unusual financial transactions.\n\nBefore joining Deloitte in July 2004, Phyllis held the position of Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions at the Directorate of Special Operations (DSO) – also known as the Scorpions – in South Africa. Phyllis spent 23 years as a Public Prosecutor, 5 years of which were served as an advocate in the former Office of the Attorney General (now known as the Director of Public Prosecutions) and 12 years with the Office for Serious Economic Offences (OSEO), later merged with the Scorpions. She was the first woman to join the ranks of the professional staff in the Office of the Attorney General in 1987 after a period of 14 years without women in such positions.\n\nPhyllis, a former Certified Fraud Examiner, has been involved in numerous high profile commercial crime investigations and prosecutions over the years. Her expert knowledge of and extensive experience in the field of international mutual legal assistance has strengthened her network with foreign jurisdictions such as the United Kingdom Central Authority, the Attorney General of the Isle of Man and the Federal Department of Justice and Police, Switzerland. She has been actively involved in training for many years, and a guest speaker at a number of conferences on a broad range of topics including anti-money laundering, mutual legal assistance, investigative methodology and interviewing skills.",[19,114],"Training","34","phyllis-atkinson",[118],"Training & Learning",[68,27],[121],"Asset Recovery",{"id":123,"status":6,"sort":124,"user_created":8,"date_created":125,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":75,"first_name":126,"last_name":127,"position":128,"phone":129,"email":130,"image":131,"cv":132,"category":43,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":133,"nid":135,"slug":136,"function":137,"country":138,"directorate":139,"hidden":30},693,4,"2025-03-27T21:21:36.000Z","Dr Claudia","Baez Camargo","Director, Prevention, Research and Innovation","+41 61 205 55 36","claudia.baez-camargo@baselgovernance.org","708c19be-70e9-46d4-b42d-fe7bbc667225","Dr Claudia Baez Camargo is Director of Prevention, Research and Innovation at the Basel Institute on Governance.\n\nClaudia's work brings together academic research and technical assistance with the goal of promoting anti-corruption and good governance approaches that are context sensitive and address the relevant root causes of weak rule adherence and enforcement. Her primary interest is in articulating approaches that respond to the needs and expectations of the intended audiences and beneficiaries, with a strong emphasis on co-design and local ownership. Among other areas, she has conducted extensive research on how behavioural factors, such as those associated with social norms and mental models, can impact governance and anti-corruption outcomes in spite of the existence of good legal and regulatory frameworks. Consequently, in her work Claudia has developed ample experience in developing interventions to help close the implementation gap that is often observed when robust laws are adopted but the corresponding behaviour change is lagging.\n\nAt the Basel Institute on Governance, Claudia is responsible for the development, oversight and management of the Institute’s research activities in the areas of public and global governance. Claudia also works with a broad range of interested stakeholders on technical projects aimed at developing context-sensitive strategies to prevent corruption and enhance good governance in the public sector.\n\nClaudia holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame, USA and a graduate degree in economics from the University of Cambridge, England. Originally from Mexico, she initiated her professional career working with the Ministry for Social Development, Federal Government of Mexico. There, Claudia was involved in developing demand-driven poverty reduction programmes aimed at ensuring access to basic public services for low-income rural communities.\n\nBefore joining the Basel Institute in 2009, Claudia was Assistant Professor of Political Science at William Paterson University, New Jersey, where she taught courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels in comparative politics, Latin American history and research methods. To date, she continues to teach courses on corruption and development, health systems governance and has developed a special curriculum on research methods focusing on corruption studies.",[45,134],"Public Governance","35","dr-claudia-baez-camargo",[49,50],[27],[140],"Prevention Research and Innovation",{"id":142,"status":6,"sort":143,"user_created":8,"date_created":144,"user_updated":145,"date_updated":146,"first_name":147,"last_name":148,"position":149,"phone":15,"email":20,"image":150,"cv":151,"category":152,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":153,"nid":154,"slug":155,"function":156,"country":157,"directorate":158,"hidden":30},711,24,"2025-03-27T21:21:48.000Z","545a204d-e41b-4882-afda-481ecf3fd971","2026-05-10T15:43:04.000Z","Prof Stefanie","Bailer","Vice President of the Board","6ebb8bc8-1305-4d46-87fa-54d25245ab7c","Stefanie Bailer is Professor of Political Science at the University of Basel. Before joining the University of Basel, she served as Assistant Professor of Global Governance at ETH Zurich and worked as Senior Assistant at the University of Zurich. During this time, she also held visiting research positions at the Universities of Michigan and Groningen.\n\nHer professional experience further includes evaluating an EU democracy NGO programme in Ukraine in 2004 and teaching EU politics at the German-Kazakh University in Almaty, Kazakhstan.\n\nHer research focuses on comparative politics, with a particular emphasis on parliamentarism, parliamentary decision-making, and political careers. She also studies international decision-making and negotiations, especially within the European Union and other multilateral contexts. In previous projects, she and her team examined trust in politicians in Switzerland, Germany, and the United Kingdom through the SNF- and DFG-funded WEAVE project Trust in Politicians.\n\nAdditional research interests include politicians’ use of social media and political imagery, as well as corruption and public perceptions of corruption. She is currently involved in the SNF-funded project *Electoral Choice: Which Role Does Legislators’ Quality Play?*","Board",[152],"60867","prof-stefanie-bailer",[],[],[],{"id":160,"status":6,"sort":161,"user_created":8,"date_created":144,"user_updated":162,"date_updated":163,"first_name":164,"last_name":165,"position":166,"phone":15,"email":167,"image":168,"cv":169,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":170,"nid":171,"slug":172,"function":173,"country":174,"directorate":175,"hidden":30},712,33,"b0662e2a-864d-4888-a1b7-4342b7570b30","2025-07-13T12:24:42.000Z","Virgil","Ballakistan","Specialist, Financial Investigations","virgil.ballakistan@baselgovernance.org","18d702de-90e4-4506-a55b-6657e07a4aba","Virgil joined the Basel Institute as a Specialist, Financial Investigations in May 2018. \n\nVirgil began his career with the South African Police Service, where he had various positions including commercial crime and fraud investigator to Commander of the Crime Prevention Unit. During his career in the South African Police Services Virgil was responsible for establishing the Crime Intelligence Unit at precinct level with the objective of gathering intelligence within the notorious gangland of the Cape Peninsula. \n\nVirgil regularly provided expert testimony as a gang violence specialist in criminal court proceedings involving high-profile gangsters and related parties. He has also worked as an economic crimes investigator for Interpol NCB Pretoria, during which he played an integral part in establishing mutual relations with other global law enforcement agencies. He formed part of a team of specialist investigators to draft a best practice manual for Interpol investigators on the methodology to investigate Advance Fee Fraud (commonly known as the Nigerian 419 Scam).\n\nPrior to the establishment of the now defunct Scorpions, Virgil was a Commercial Crime and Fraud Investigator with the national Office for Serious Economic Offences. The unit operated in a multi-disciplinary approach investigating complex economic crimes involving politicians and other high-profile individuals. Virgil soon ventured into the private sector and worked with Deloitte & Touche and EY on forensic investigations. His latest tenure was as the Deputy Director of forensic investigations for the Government of Western Cape, where his focus was investigating complex procurement-related matters that involved corruption on a grand scale.",[121,63],"58","virgil-ballakistan",[],[68],[121],{"id":177,"status":6,"sort":178,"user_created":8,"date_created":179,"user_updated":162,"date_updated":180,"first_name":181,"last_name":182,"position":183,"phone":15,"email":184,"image":185,"cv":186,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":187,"nid":188,"slug":189,"function":190,"country":191,"directorate":192,"hidden":30},714,34,"2025-03-27T21:21:50.000Z","2025-07-13T12:25:36.000Z","Margarida","Bandeira de Lima","Senior Specialist, Asset Recovery","margarida.bandeiradelima@baselgovernance.org","569554ec-fe73-4518-9b76-e453472f0811","Margarida Bandeira de Lima joined the Basel Institute on Governance and its International Centre for Asset Recovery in December 2018 as Senior Specialist, Asset Recovery. \n\nMargarida has a law degree from the Universidade Clássica in Lisbon, and brings over 30 years of experience in public prosecution in the area of organised and complex crime. She also brings vast experience in developing countries, particularly lusophone countries, among others in Macau, Timor Leste and as resident legal advisor in Mozambique for UNODC.\n\nAfter gaining initial multidisciplinary experience in civil, criminal, family, minors and homicide cases, she specialised in criminal investigations and led several complex investigations into trafficking in narcotic drugs. Between 2008 and 2011, she worked as the Public Prosecutor for DCIAP, an organ of the Office of the Prosecutor General specialising in investigating and preventing violent, highly organised or especially complex criminality.\\* \\*\n\nBetween 2012 and 2014, she served as the Senior Legal Advisor at Casals & Associates’ FOTI initiative, a technical cooperation programme sponsored by the Millennium Challenge Corporation and USAID. She was responsible for providing training and technical support to strengthen the legal framework against corruption in Timor-Leste and to enhance the capacity of the Office of the Prosecutor General and others to more effectively investigate and prosecute financial crimes. It was also her duty to advise the National Parliament on legislative mechanisms to fight corruption, related offenses and money laundering. She worked with two legislative committees in revamping Timor Leste’s anti-money laundering law and advised the Council of Ministers on the creation of a Financial Intelligence Unit.\n\nBetween 2014 and 2015, she worked in Macau to build capacity among key public authorities in the prevention and repression of money laundering, organised crime and asset recovery. Between May 2015 and December 2016, she served as UNODC Resident Legal Adviser in Mozambique for the Office of the Attorney General and the Central Office for Combating Corruption.\n\nDuring her stay in Timor-Leste and Mozambique, she wrote two handbooks on the legislation of money laundering and corruption of these two countries.",[121,63],"59","margarida-bandeira-de-lima",[],[68],[121],{"id":194,"status":6,"sort":195,"user_created":8,"date_created":179,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":196,"first_name":197,"last_name":198,"position":199,"phone":15,"email":200,"image":201,"cv":15,"category":19,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":202,"nid":203,"slug":204,"function":205,"country":207,"directorate":208,"hidden":30},715,35,"2026-05-20T21:43:10.000Z","Hans-Peter","Bauer","Senior Advisor, AML\u002FCFT","hans-peter-bauer@bluewin.ch","38949c17-cd6f-4427-9236-0cec99f73416",[19],"193","hans-peter-bauer",[206],"Basel AML Index",[27],[121],{"id":210,"status":6,"sort":211,"user_created":8,"date_created":212,"user_updated":162,"date_updated":213,"first_name":214,"last_name":215,"position":216,"phone":15,"email":217,"image":218,"cv":219,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":220,"nid":221,"slug":222,"function":223,"country":224,"directorate":226,"hidden":30},717,36,"2025-03-27T21:21:51.000Z","2025-07-13T12:24:58.000Z","Aldo","Bautista","Senior Specialist, Corruption Prevention","aldo.bautista@baselgovernance.org","99fe88eb-9318-46be-91e9-0b8841b142bc","Aldo Bautista joined the Basel Institute in September 2023 as Senior Specialist, Corruption Prevention for the Green Corruption programme's Latin America team. Aldo is based in Lima and works in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia.\n\nAldo is also a consultant for the Institute’s Public Finance Management programme in Peru.\n\nAldo worked for the Comptroller General of the Republic of Peru for over 19 years in the areas of government control, performance auditing, social control and environmental and cultural heritage management control. He served as Manager of Performance and Environmental Auditing, Regional Control Manager of Lima Provinces and Deputy Manager of Complaints Attention.\n\nAldo holds a Bachelor's in Sociology from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos and a Master's in Participatory Research for Sustainable Development from the Universidad Computense de Madrid. He is also a graduate of the International Master in Sustainable Development from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos and holds diplomas in Cultural Heritage Management, Municipal Management and International Studies in Performance Auditing.",[63],"61664","aldo-bautista",[],[225],"Latin America",[70],{"id":228,"status":6,"sort":229,"user_created":8,"date_created":230,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":231,"first_name":232,"last_name":233,"position":234,"phone":235,"email":236,"image":237,"cv":238,"category":239,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":240,"nid":243,"slug":244,"function":245,"country":246,"directorate":247,"hidden":30},718,37,"2025-03-27T21:21:52.000Z","2026-04-23T23:17:16.000Z","Dr Kateryna","Boguslavska","Head, Financial Crime Risk","+41 61 205 55 34","kateryna.boguslavska@baselgovernance.org","e9d92678-4523-48b4-97d7-f6b96d7d7c92","Dr Kateryna Boguslavska is Head, Financial Crime Risk at the Basel Institute on Governance. She leads the development and publication of the [Basel AML Index](https:\u002F\u002Findex.baselgovernance.org\u002F), a leading index of money laundering and related financial crime risks around the world, and is a member of the Senior Leadership Team of the Basel Institute's International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR). A political scientist by training, she comes with more than 10 years of professional experience as a political analyst for local initiatives and international institutions.\n\n\r\n\r\nBefore joining the Basel Institute in July 2017, Katya was working at Chatham House in London as an Academy Fellow for the Russia and Eurasia Programme. In this role she participated in numerous academic conferences and expert workshops and provided various expert briefings to the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office, embassies, international development organisations and donors. While at Chatham House, her publications focused on issues concerning financial integrity of post-soviet countries.\n\n\r\n\r\nFrom 2013 to 2016 Katya worked as Political Risk Analyst for Polixis Geneva. There she analysed and evaluated the political risks for business development in CIS countries and provided due diligence services, which included the analysis of data from commercial registers, of financial and solvency information, legal cases and sanctions lists. She was also in charge of profiling Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) with a specific focus on Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova.\n\n\r\n\r\nIn 2014, as part of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine in Kyiv, Kateryna – again in the role of Political Analyst – was responsible for identifying early warning signs, offering briefings on political trends and communicating with civil society activists and public officials.\n\n\r\n\r\nShe gained her very first professionals years of experience as Political Analyst at System Capital Management at the Analytic Centre of the Bureau of Economic and Social Technologies in Kyiv, where she was in charge of mapping political scenarios as well as identifying and mitigating political and regulatory risks to business.\n\n\r\n\r\nKatya holds a PhD in Political Science from the National Academy of Science in Ukraine, a Master in Comparative and International Studies from the ETH Zurich as well as a Master in Political Science from the National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Ukraine. Her Master thesis focused on: “The Banking Sector in the Field of Financial Security: Why Swiss Banks Take AML Seriously” and addressed the role of banks in anti-money laundering in Switzerland.","Management",[121,241,242],"Digital tools","Team","40","dr-kateryna-boguslavska",[206],[27],[121],{"id":249,"status":6,"sort":20,"user_created":10,"date_created":250,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":251,"first_name":252,"last_name":253,"position":254,"phone":20,"email":255,"image":256,"cv":257,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":258,"nid":259,"slug":260,"function":261,"country":263,"directorate":20,"hidden":30},805,"2026-04-23T22:19:10.000Z","2026-05-20T21:28:33.000Z","Anastasiia","Boreiko","Programme Assistant","anastasiia.boreiko@baselgovernance.org","5944a879-9428-424f-9545-cf711deba0a4","Anastasiia Boreiko joined the Basel Institute on Governance in November 2025 as a Programme Assistant, based in Ukraine.\n\nAnastasiia is an administrative and project coordination specialist with over three years’ experience supporting international organisations in complex operational environments. She brings expertise in stakeholder engagement, project support, information management and financial coordination.\n\nBefore joining the Basel Institute, Anastasiia worked as an Assistant and Information Management Officer at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Ukraine, where she coordinated communications between departments and managed external relations with diverse partners, including NGOs, embassies and government agencies. She managed confidential correspondence, organised high-level meetings and official delegations, and coordinated logistical arrangements including transport, accommodation and agenda planning for visiting missions.\n\nPreviously, Anastasiia worked with Samaritan’s Purse in Ukraine, initially as a Programs Assistant supporting the implementation of humanitarian projects, beneficiary database management and partner coordination, and later as a Finance Officer, responsible for managing financial transactions, petty cash administration and expense reporting.\n\nAnastasiia holds dual Bachelor’s degrees in International Relations, Social Communications and Regional Studies, and in Law.",[63],"62569","anastasiia-boreiko",[262],"Programme Management",[264],"Europe",{"id":266,"status":6,"sort":267,"user_created":8,"date_created":268,"user_updated":162,"date_updated":269,"first_name":270,"last_name":271,"position":216,"phone":15,"email":272,"image":273,"cv":274,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":275,"nid":276,"slug":277,"function":278,"country":279,"directorate":280,"hidden":30},720,38,"2025-03-27T21:21:53.000Z","2025-07-13T12:26:53.000Z","Yuliia","Brusko","yuliia.brusko@baselgovernance.org","cc09d8f1-ec52-4638-a612-a87fbd5f4d2d","Yuliia Brusko supports the Basel Institute on Governance's ongoing corruption prevention efforts in Ukraine. \n\nYuliia has over seven years of professional experience in the fields of compliance, data protection and privacy, corporate law, and mergers and acquisitions. Her experience includes advising on a wide range of anti-bribery, anti-money laundering, sanctions, data protection and regulatory compliance issues under national and extraterritorial foreign regulations applicable in Ukraine, including the FCPA and the UK Bribery Act.\n\nHer skills and expertise cover the establishment and management of complex compliance and anti-corruption protection systems, internal compliance investigations, and advising on ad hoc compliance matters.\n\nYuliia gained her compliance expertise by advising and supporting a range of clients with a focus on the sectors of energy, pharmaceuticals, healthcare and consumer products.",[63],"61420","yuliia-brusko",[],[264],[],{"id":282,"status":6,"sort":20,"user_created":10,"date_created":250,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":251,"first_name":283,"last_name":284,"position":183,"phone":20,"email":285,"image":286,"cv":287,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":288,"nid":289,"slug":290,"function":20,"country":291,"directorate":292,"hidden":30},806,"Francis","Burak","francis.burak@baselgovernance.org","857e4ddf-b490-45fa-be7b-5b9d1ab6a8ec","Francis Burak joined the International Centre for Asset Recovery at the Basel Institute on Governance in September 2025 as a Senior Specialist, Asset Recovery. Based in Bangladesh, he provides mentoring and technical advice to government partners, including the Inter-Agency Asset Recovery Task Force. He previously served the Basel Institute in 2021–22 as a Specialist Adviser in Tanzania.\n\nA practicing Barrister from the UK, Francis has extensive experience prosecuting complex crime. He previously worked with the States of Jersey Government and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), regularly appearing in the Lower, Higher and Appeal Courts. He was the youngest lawyer appointed to the CPS Special Casework Unit in London, handling high-profile cases involving corruption, money laundering, criminal conspiracies and transnational trafficking in drugs and firearms.\n\nAs an international adviser, Francis has designed and delivered programmes for leading donors and agencies including the UK FCDO, US State Department, Swiss Government and the United Nations. His work has directly supported more than ten jurisdictions as well as regional and global initiatives. Governments and international development partners have sought his expertise to provide specialist advice and strategic assessments on institutional capacity, country scoping, intervention strategies, impact evaluations and organisational science and design.\n\nImmediately prior to his current role, Francis was engaged by UNDP and assigned to Saudi Arabia’s Oversight & Anti-Corruption Authority (‘Nazaha’), where he provided strategic guidance on anti-corruption, asset recovery, law enforcement and international cooperation.\n\nFrancis holds an LLB Law (Hons), the UK Bar Vocational Course and the Caribbean LEC. He also holds an MSc in Public Policy & Management from SOAS, University of London, with specialisation in leadership and strategy, organisational change, public-private partnerships, auditing and compliance, public financial management, and monitoring and evaluation.",[63],"60726","francis-burak",[87],[121],{"id":294,"status":6,"sort":20,"user_created":10,"date_created":295,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":251,"first_name":296,"last_name":297,"position":216,"phone":20,"email":298,"image":299,"cv":300,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":301,"nid":302,"slug":303,"function":20,"country":304,"directorate":20,"hidden":30},807,"2026-04-23T22:19:11.000Z","Nadiia","Burdiei","nadiia.burdiei@baselgovernance.org","349f0923-8e03-4886-a808-3603588bd1a9","Nadiia Burdiei joined the Basel Institute on Governance in December 2025 as Senior Specialist, Corruption Prevention in Kyiv, Ukraine. In this role, she will oversee the technical delivery of our work on renewable energy.\n\nNadiia brings extensive experience in corruption risk assessment and management, the design and implementation of anti-corruption programmes and the development of anti-corruption policies, with a strong focus on public investment monitoring and integrity in reconstruction and infrastructure development.\n\nBefore joining the Basel Institute, Nadiia served as a Key Expert on Monitoring and Analysis within USAID and MSI projects, where she supported anti-corruption reforms at the Agency for Restoration and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine and contributed to the implementation of Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Strategy. She is also actively involved in drafting the State Anti-Corruption Strategy in the recovery sector for 2026–2030, providing analytical input on corruption risks and prevention mechanisms in large-scale reconstruction processes.\n\nHer professional background also includes work at the National Agency on Corruption Prevention, where she conducted lifestyle monitoring and verification of public officials’ asset declarations, as well as investigative work with Radio Free Europe\u002FRadio Liberty and Bihus.Info.\n\nNadiia’s expertise spans corruption risk analysis and management, OSINT investigations, public sector integrity, compliance systems, anti-corruption policy development and verification mechanisms.",[63],"62611","nadiia-burdiei",[264],{"id":306,"status":6,"sort":20,"user_created":10,"date_created":295,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":307,"first_name":308,"last_name":309,"position":59,"phone":20,"email":310,"image":311,"cv":312,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":313,"nid":20,"slug":314,"function":20,"country":315,"directorate":316,"hidden":30},808,"2026-04-23T22:57:09.000Z","Francisco","Bustamante","francisco.bustamante@baselgovernance.org","0e7a045e-f345-40bf-b1a0-9ff4265f3d3b","Francisco Bustamante joined the Basel Institute’s Green Corruption programme in May 2025 as a Specialist, Corruption Prevention, based in Ecuador.\n\nAs a Legal Specialist, he supports the Institute’s work with public institutions and key stakeholders in Latin America to implement legal and technical measures aimed at strengthening environmental governance. Prior to that, Francisco has already worked for the Basel Institute as a consultant.\n\nBefore joining the Basel Institute, Francisco was a Legal Advisor to the Environmental and Social Remediation Programme of Ecuador’s Ministry of Environment (2010–2012) and to the Constitutional Court of Ecuador (2013–2016). He is also an experienced university lecturer, having taught on both undergraduate and graduate programmes.\n\nFrancisco graduated as a Lawyer from the Universidad de las Américas (2004) and holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Energy and Environmental Law from Tulane University (2008).",[63],"francisco-bustamante",[225],[70],{"id":318,"status":6,"sort":319,"user_created":8,"date_created":320,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":321,"first_name":322,"last_name":323,"position":324,"phone":15,"email":325,"image":326,"cv":327,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":328,"nid":329,"slug":330,"function":331,"country":332,"directorate":333,"hidden":30},722,39,"2025-03-27T21:21:55.000Z","2026-04-23T22:28:13.000Z","George","Bwanali","Specialist, Procurement","george.bwanali@baselgovernance.org","93fb10f0-9c0a-41d1-8bd5-04525e9cffb9","George Bwanali joined the Basel Institute in August 2024 as Specialist, Procurement in Malawi.\n\nPrior to joining the Basel Institute George held various roles in administration, procurement and logistics at Self Help Africa, Jhpiego Malawi and Goal Malawi.\n\nA procurement and logistics professional with 20 years of experience in sourcing, purchasing and supply chain management, George is skilled in contract negotiation, vendor management and process optimisation.\n\nHe holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Malawi Polytechnic and an Advanced Diploma in Business Administration from the Institute of Business Administration and Management.",[63],"62041","george-bwanali",[262],[68],[121],{"id":335,"status":6,"sort":336,"user_created":8,"date_created":320,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":231,"first_name":337,"last_name":338,"position":339,"phone":39,"email":340,"image":341,"cv":342,"category":239,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":343,"nid":344,"slug":345,"function":346,"country":347,"directorate":348,"hidden":30},723,12,"Dr Amanda","Cabrejo le Roux","Senior Specialist \u002F Deputy Director, Green Corruption","amanda.cabrejo@baselgovernance.org","85d279ce-d350-4bc5-ab16-4848f59fc7cd","Dr Amanda Cabrejo le Roux is a Senior Specialist and Deputy Director of the Green Corruption programme at the Basel Institute on Governance. She joined the Institute in June 2022.\n\nPreviously, Amanda worked for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) for four years in various capacities. As Environmental Law Expert she supported the implementation of the Montevideo V Programme, a 10-year intergovernmental programme on strengthening environmental rule of law worldwide. She also supported UNEP’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific in the development and implementation of projects in the area of environmental law and governance. \n\nAmanda was previously an Associate Legal Officer in UNEP’s Law Division at its headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. She was the Law Division thematic focal point on environmental crime, advising on related strategies, projects and partnerships worldwide. She also coordinated the development of environmental crime reports and guidance materials and contributed to capacity-building activities for national enforcement authorities in Africa, Asia and Latin America.\n\nBefore joining UNEP, Amanda was a visiting researcher at the Centre of Criminology of the University of Cape Town (South Africa) and a junior researcher at the Sorbonne Law School, (Paris, France). She also worked as a legal consultant and is the lead author of a report entitled: “Tightening the Net: Toward a Global Legal Framework on Transnational Organized Environmental Crime” (WWF and the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, 2015).\n\nAmanda holds a PhD in Law from the Sorbonne Law School. She is the recipient of research prizes including the prestigious Vendôme Prize 2019 awarded by the French Ministry of Justice for her Ph.D. thesis (“Ne bis in idem – the prohibition of double jeopardy – at the crossroads of the discourses of supranational courts regarding criminal justice”). She also holds a LL.M. in International Criminal Law (University of Amsterdam\u002FColumbia Law School), Master's Degrees in French Law and Comparative Criminal Law (Sorbonne Law School) and Spanish Law (Universidad Complutense), and Bachelor’s Degrees in History (Universities Paris 1) and Anthropology (University Paris 8).",[242],"61128","dr-amanda-cabrejo-le-roux",[],[27],[70],{"id":350,"status":6,"sort":351,"user_created":8,"date_created":352,"user_updated":162,"date_updated":353,"first_name":354,"last_name":355,"position":356,"phone":15,"email":357,"image":358,"cv":359,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":360,"nid":361,"slug":362,"function":363,"country":364,"directorate":365,"hidden":30},724,40,"2025-03-27T21:21:56.000Z","2025-07-13T12:27:40.000Z","João Pedro","Campos","Team Leader, Mozambique","jp.campos@baselgovernance.org","a40e945f-4654-4a1b-bc7a-42c050df2860","João Pedro Campos joined the Basel Institute's International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) in February 2023 as Team Leader for ICAR's technical assistance programme in Mozambique.\n\nHe has wide experience in international cooperation and spent the last three years as Chief Technical Advisor of the PACED - Project to Support the Consolidation of the Rule of Law in the PALOP and Timor-Leste, funded by the European Union and co-funded and managed by Camões - Institute for Cooperation and Language, I.P.\n\nPrior to this, João Pedro was a legal adviser to the Portuguese Central Bank, to the Ministry of Justice of Portugal and to the Ministry of Justice of Timor-Leste. He represented the Portuguese Ministry of Justice in the Judicial Network of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) and was a member of the Secretariat of the Permanent Commission for the Implementation of Measures to Combat Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism in Timor-Leste.\n\nHe has also been a researcher at the Observatory of the Portuguese Justice of the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra, and taught at the Faculty of Law of Bissau and at the Faculty of Law of Lisbon University.\n\nIn addition, he has been a consultant for the EU, UNDP, the UN Peacebuilding Support Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNOGBIS) and the West African Economic and Monetary Union (OEMOA).\n\nJoão holds a Law degree from the University of Coimbra in Portugal, with a specialisation in International Law. He also holds post-graduate degrees in the areas of International Development, Human Rights and Peace Operations and Humanitarian Action.",[63],"61421","joao-pedro-campos",[],[68],[121],{"id":367,"status":6,"sort":368,"user_created":8,"date_created":369,"user_updated":162,"date_updated":370,"first_name":371,"last_name":372,"position":373,"phone":15,"email":374,"image":375,"cv":376,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":377,"nid":378,"slug":379,"function":380,"country":381,"directorate":382,"hidden":30},725,41,"2025-03-27T21:21:57.000Z","2025-07-13T12:27:55.000Z","Héctor","Chávez","Specialist, Asset Recovery","hector.chavez@baselgovernance.org","ff4114e1-59ca-44fe-85a5-ea604f92cade","José Héctor Chávez Pérez joined the Basel Institute’s Green Corruption team in Latin America in September 2022 as a Specialist, Asset Recovery, following several months as a consultant on asset recovery issues.\n\nSpecialised in criminal law, Héctor previously served as Deputy Provincial Anti-Corruption Prosecutor in Peru. In this role and others within the Peruvian Public Prosecutor’s Office, he dedicated himself to investigating complex cases of corruption, tracing illicit financial flows, and seeking to confiscate and recover assets of illicit origin. He has significant experience in developing special investigative strategies and procedures for corruption and money laundering cases, including effective collaboration.  \n   \nHéctor holds a Bachelor of Law from the Universidad Privada Antenor Orrego and is a candidate for a Master's in Criminal Sciences from Universidad Privada San Martín de Porres, both in Peru.",[63],"61202","hector-chavez",[],[225],[70],{"id":384,"status":6,"sort":20,"user_created":10,"date_created":385,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":251,"first_name":386,"last_name":387,"position":183,"phone":20,"email":388,"image":389,"cv":390,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":391,"nid":392,"slug":393,"function":20,"country":394,"directorate":395,"hidden":30},809,"2026-04-23T22:19:12.000Z","Dennis","Cheng","dennis.cheng@baselgovernance.org","10cf6346-5715-4684-82ca-5fb720b31039","Dennis Cheng joined the Basel Institute on Governance in May 2024 as Senior Specialist, Asset Recovery in Mexico, having previously worked with the Institute's Latin America team from 2021 to 2022.\n\nDennis Cheng is a specialist in forfeiture and asset management systems. He has worked as a consultant and advisor to international organisations including the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission of the Organization of American States (CICAD\u002FOAS), the Office of the United Nations Against Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Office of International Narcotics Affairs and Law Enforcement (INL) of the United States Embassies in El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Peru, as well as DAI Global UK and the Cooperation Program on drug policy between Latin America, the Caribbean and the European Union (COPOLAD).\n\nHe was the Director of the Seized and Forfeited Assets Project in Latin America (BIDAL), a CICAD\u002FOAS project, working on the creation and improvement of national asset seizure and forfeiture systems as well as specialised agencies. He has provided technical assistance in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, Uruguay, Paraguay and Peru, and has participated in asset confiscation law projects in several Latin American countries. In addition, he is co-founder of the Asset Recovery Network of the Financial Action Task Force of Latin America (GAFILAT).",[63],"50783","dennis-cheng",[225],[121],{"id":397,"status":6,"sort":20,"user_created":10,"date_created":398,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":399,"first_name":400,"last_name":401,"position":402,"phone":20,"email":20,"image":403,"cv":404,"category":242,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":405,"nid":407,"slug":408,"function":20,"country":409,"directorate":20,"hidden":30},828,"2026-04-23T22:54:27.000Z","2026-05-20T21:28:35.000Z","Dr Límberg","Chero","Interinstitutional Coordination, Programa GFP","d404988e-2ccf-40ac-a4fb-eb9d1de888da","Dr Límberg Chero currently leads the Interinstitutional Coordination of the Programme for Strengthening Subnational Public Financial Management in Peru ([Programa GFP](http:\u002F\u002Fgfpsubnacional.pe\u002F)), implemented by the Basel Institute on Governance’s office in Peru. In this role, he focuses on ensuring the sustainability of reforms and strengthening collaboration between subnational and national institutions. He has been involved in the Programme since 2013, working closely with key Peruvian institutions, including CEPLAN, MEF, OSCE, CGR, SERVIR and PCM.\n\n\r\n\r\nLímberg has a degree in Economics and Finance, a Masters in Research and a PhD in Management. From 2010 to 2015, he worked on Public Financial Management and macroeconomics with an emphasis on the public sector and financial markets mainly for the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) and the International Development Bank .\n\n\r\n\r\nAs an international consultant, he has had experience in several Latin American countries on governance issues (2006-2010), as a country representative of the Andrés Bello Chair and as responsible for Peru for international research networks on Governance, Social Responsibility and Economic Integration issues (2006-2008). He has also had experience teaching economics at university (2001-2006).\n\n\r\n\r\nHe was also a member of the Study Group of the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Peru, a group in charge of supporting public financial management reform undertaken at the central government level with the support of international cooperation. In addition, he led the organisation of the Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) assessments in six sub-national governments of Peru between 2011 and 2013 and was also part of the international cooperation coordination committee of PEFA Peru 2015. He participated in the preparation\u002Fupdating of action plans to improve public financial management in five sub-national governments and the central government between 2013 and 2015.",[406],"Peru office","191","limberg-chero",[225],{"id":411,"status":6,"sort":412,"user_created":8,"date_created":413,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":414,"first_name":415,"last_name":416,"position":417,"phone":15,"email":418,"image":419,"cv":420,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":421,"nid":422,"slug":423,"function":424,"country":425,"directorate":426,"hidden":30},727,43,"2025-03-27T21:21:58.000Z","2026-04-23T22:28:14.000Z","Blessings","Chilima","Specialist, Finance","blessings.chilima@baselgovernance.org","5b481f07-8ed9-4e7b-a301-468091cf04a4","Blessings Chilima joined the Basel Institute on Governance in August 2021 and is currently Specialist, Finance in Malawi.\n\nHe is a professional accountant with specialist experience in the field of international development and humanitarian aid.\n\nAfter graduating from the University of Malawi – The Polytechnic with a degree in accounting, finance and auditing, Blessings worked for five years with World Vision International (WVI) as a PMU Grants Finance Officer. In this role, he supported educational and youth-focused projects including THRIVE Malawi, Action for Adolescence (A4A) and the World Food Programme's Literacy Promotion Project.\n\nHe then worked as Programme Accountant at United Purpose (formerly Concern Universal), where he supported two European Union-funded projects: EU ProACT-FUTURE and EU SoSuRe-FUTURE. The latter programme focused on alleviating Covid-related impacts on nutrition and social protection in Malawi.\n\nIn these roles he undertook a wide range of accounting responsibilities, including the preparation of financial reports, sub-grantee management, budget preparation, tax submissions and auditing procedures.",[63],"60206","blessings-chilima",[262],[68],[121],{"id":428,"status":6,"sort":20,"user_created":10,"date_created":429,"user_updated":162,"date_updated":430,"first_name":431,"last_name":432,"position":433,"phone":20,"email":434,"image":435,"cv":436,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":437,"nid":438,"slug":439,"function":440,"country":441,"directorate":442,"hidden":30},832,"2026-06-02T21:30:16.000Z","2026-06-02T21:33:54.000Z","Promise Trust","Chiwalo","Programme Manager","promise.chiwalo@baselgovernance.org","67453e7e-bb91-456d-a710-c5565deb28f4","Promise Trust Chiwalo joined the Basel Institute on Governance in May 2026 as a Programme Manager, based in Malawi.\n\nPromise is a programme and project management professional with over six years of experience in the non-profit and higher education sectors. His areas of expertise include strategic programme and project design, planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and stakeholder engagement.\n\nBefore joining the Basel Institute, Promise served as an Individual Consultant – Project Officer at the Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources. In this role, he oversaw the implementation of a World Bank-funded Skills for a Vibrant Economy (SAVE) project. The initiative aimed to increase access, particularly for women, to labour market-relevant skills development programs in priority areas of the economy. He also worked as a Program Coordinator for CorpsAfrica, where he coordinated a youth-focused, community-led development programme.\n\nPromise holds a Master of Science in Project Management from the Copperbelt University and a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Extension from the Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources. He is also a PMP® certified project management professional.",[63],"62791","promise-trust-chiwalo",[262],[68],[121],{"id":444,"status":6,"sort":20,"user_created":10,"date_created":385,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":251,"first_name":445,"last_name":446,"position":447,"phone":20,"email":448,"image":449,"cv":450,"category":242,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":451,"nid":452,"slug":453,"function":454,"country":456,"directorate":457,"hidden":30},810,"Jeanne","Closson","Specialist, HR","jeanne.closson@baselgovernance.org","87537caf-a469-44ef-969f-5b9b94122378","Jeanne Closson joined the Basel Institute in August 2025 as Specialist, HR. She supports the Institute in a variety of HR-related tasks, from employee onboarding to offboarding.\n\nJeanne is originally from the French-speaking region of Belgium. She holds a Master’s degree in Translation from the University of Mons as well as an Executive Master’s degree in Human Resources from the ICHEC Management School in Brussels.\n\nJeanne is very keen to learn new languages and cultures. She learned English and Dutch in school and German during a gap year in Germany. During her university studies, she spent a year in Wales at the University of Bangor.\n\nPrior to joining the Basel Institute, she worked in several HR positions at Ogilvy Social.Lab, Feldschlösschen and Valora, combining her passion for people and languages.\n\nOutside of work, Jeanne enjoys watercolour painting, visiting exhibitions, taking Italian classes and advocating for environmental protection.",[242],"62469","jeanne-closson",[455],"HR & Admin",[264],[458],"Operations",{"id":460,"status":6,"sort":20,"user_created":10,"date_created":461,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":251,"first_name":462,"last_name":463,"position":183,"phone":20,"email":464,"image":465,"cv":466,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":467,"nid":468,"slug":469,"function":20,"country":470,"directorate":471,"hidden":30},811,"2026-04-23T22:19:13.000Z","Maria","Cordeiro","maria.cordeiro@baselgovernance.org","a2e1256f-7ea8-46d0-a28d-c9b7320b899b","Maria Eugenia Batista Cordeiro joined the Basel Institute on Governance in September 2025 as a Senior Specialist in Asset Recovery with our International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR). Based in Bogotá, she supports Latin American authorities in strengthening financial investigations and asset recovery efforts through mentoring, training and case-based assistance.\n\nBefore joining the Basel Institute, Maria Eugenia worked for over a decade at the Rio Grande do Norte State Prosecution’s Office in Brazil, where she managed the Anti-Money Laundering Laboratory and supported prosecutors in complex financial crime cases. She has also served as a consultant to Transparency International on financial intelligence analysis.\n\nShe holds a Master’s degree in Law and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Political Science and International Relations, researching the political use of organised crime to evade economic sanctions. Maria Eugenia is an alumna of the George C. Marshall Center and the William J. Perry Center, and an expert member of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.\n\nShe is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish and English.",[63],"62504","maria-cordeiro",[225],[121],{"id":473,"status":6,"sort":474,"user_created":8,"date_created":413,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":414,"first_name":475,"last_name":476,"position":477,"phone":15,"email":478,"image":479,"cv":480,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":481,"nid":482,"slug":483,"function":484,"country":485,"directorate":486,"hidden":30},728,44,"Arlen","Cordero","Senior Programme Manager","arlen.cordero@baselgovernance.org","96bbf9ad-cf61-4cbe-80fd-fd19a552d469","Arlen Cordero joined the Basel Institute in November 2024 as Senior Programme Manager for the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR). Based in the Basel Institute’s Latin America office in Peru, Arlen is providing programme management expertise to ICAR-funded work in the region.\n\nArlen brings over 14 years of management experience in international development and humanitarian assistance. She has worked with NGOs, INGOs, the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and the Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations, and has managed projects funded by major donors. She has extensive expertise in strategic planning, proposal negotiation, programme execution and coordination.\n\nOver her career, she has developed a deep understanding of humanitarian needs and trends, focusing on disaster response, urban violence, migration, psycho-social support and access to essential services like health and education. Arlen's experience spans countries such as Mozambique, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Cuba, Honduras, Nicaragua and others, where she has led different teams, overseeing strategic planning exercises, project implementation and emergency response efforts, working alongside governments, regional organisations, local authorities and donors.\n\nArlen holds a Bachelor (Hons) in International Affairs with a concentration in International Cooperation Administration and Management and a Master in International Humanitarian Action. She is fluent in English and Spanish, practices target archery and loves music.",[121,63],"62179","arlen-cordero",[262],[225],[121],{"id":488,"status":6,"sort":489,"user_created":8,"date_created":490,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":491,"first_name":492,"last_name":476,"position":183,"phone":15,"email":493,"image":494,"cv":495,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":496,"nid":497,"slug":498,"function":499,"country":500,"directorate":501,"hidden":30},729,45,"2025-03-27T21:21:59.000Z","2026-06-04T14:36:44.000Z","Diana","diana.cordero@baselgovernance.org","a8048123-5f46-4a90-8b2f-cbb4b1478309","Diana Cordero joined the Base Institute on Governance in 2018 and is currently a Senior Specialist, Asset Recovery at the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR). \n\nIn her role, she supports the Ecuadorian judicial authorities in developing and implementing legal strategies to recover illicit assets laundered in foreign jurisdictions. Since May 2021, she has been working at the Directorate of Cooperation and International Affairs of the Prosecutor General Office of Ecuador, which serves as the central authority for mutual legal assistance.\n\nTo strengthen the capacities of enforcement and judicial authorities, she also contributes to the design and implementation of training programmes within the institutions with which ICAR maintains cooperation agreements.\n\nBefore joining the Basel Institute, Diana worked within the Peruvian Judiciary. She served as a lawyer at the Special Public Prosecutor's Office for Corruption Offences and as an associate lawyer at a law firm specialising in economic criminal law.\n\nDiana holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law from the Universidad Católica Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo and a Master’s degree in Criminal Law from the Universidad Pedro Ruiz Gallo, both in Peru. She also holds a Master’s degree in Anti-Corruption Policies from the University of Salamanca in Spain. She was admitted to the Bar Association of Peru in 2013.",[121,63],"60","diana-cordero",[],[225],[121],{"id":503,"status":6,"sort":504,"user_created":8,"date_created":505,"user_updated":162,"date_updated":506,"first_name":507,"last_name":508,"position":59,"phone":15,"email":509,"image":510,"cv":511,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":512,"nid":513,"slug":514,"function":515,"country":516,"directorate":517,"hidden":30},731,46,"2025-03-27T21:22:00.000Z","2025-07-13T12:29:02.000Z","Karla","Coronado","karla.coronado@baselgovernance.org","44ca073e-2b0f-4f02-a069-c53ecd9e7a85","Karla Coronado joined the Basel Institute on Governance in September 2022 as a Specialist, Corruption Prevention in the Green Corruption programme.\n\nPreviously, she worked as an Internal Control and Integrity Specialist and Organisational Development Specialist for the Regional Government of San Martín in Peru. In these roles, she supported various aspects including governmental controls, risk management, transparency and integrity, as well as process management, organisational design and modernisation of the State.\n\nIn addition, she has been a Resident Consultant for the Subnational Public Finance Management Strengthening Programme in Peru, which is implemented by the Basel Institute on Governance through a local team. Her focus was on the implementation of an adequate management control system and the strengthening of ethics, transparency and accountability mechanisms.\n\nKarla holds a bachelor’s degree in Administration from Universidad Nacional de San Martín and a master’s degree in Public Management from Universidad César Vallejo, both in Peru.",[63],"61221","karla-coronado",[],[225],[70],{"id":519,"status":6,"sort":520,"user_created":8,"date_created":521,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":522,"first_name":523,"last_name":524,"position":525,"phone":526,"email":527,"image":528,"cv":529,"category":242,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":530,"nid":531,"slug":532,"function":533,"country":534,"directorate":535,"hidden":30},732,47,"2025-03-27T21:22:01.000Z","2026-04-23T22:32:41.000Z","Dr Jacopo","Costa","Senior Specialist, Prevention, Research and Innovation","+41 61 205 56 71","jacopo.costa@baselgovernance.org","85c65935-3aba-4674-822c-0723d1c9fd40","Dr Jacopo Costa joined the Basel Institute on Governance's research team in April 2019.\n\nHe holds a PhD in Sociology and Political Studies from the University of Turin. During his doctorate, he held two visiting research posts, one at the Centre International de Criminologie Comparée of the University of Montreal, and the other at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University in Boston. He also holds a master’s degree in International Relations from the University of Florence and a bachelor’s degree in Culture and Human Rights from the University of Bologna. \n\nHis research has focused on a variety of topics, including the nature of informal networks, the corrupt exchange in the public works and football industry, illegal wildlife trade between East Africa and South East Asia, and the nexus between corruption and money laundering. Using social network analysis and ethnographic techniques, Jacopo has studied the structures, functions and norms that make it possible to achieve illegal and criminal goals. His research has been published in renowned academic journals in the field of criminology and political science, such as \\*Governance\\*, \\*Global Crime\\*, \\*Trends in Organized Crime\\*, and \\*Crime, Law, and Social Change\\*. \n\nSee Jacopo's research profiles on [Google Scholar](https:\u002F\u002Fscholar.google.com\u002Fcitations?user=17A9WHkAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao) and [ResearchGate](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.researchgate.net\u002Fprofile\u002FJacopo-Costa).",[134,242],"12806","dr-jacopo-costa",[],[27],[140],{"id":537,"status":6,"sort":538,"user_created":8,"date_created":539,"user_updated":162,"date_updated":540,"first_name":541,"last_name":542,"position":543,"phone":15,"email":544,"image":545,"cv":546,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":547,"nid":548,"slug":549,"function":550,"country":551,"directorate":552,"hidden":30},733,48,"2025-03-27T21:22:02.000Z","2026-04-23T23:37:00.000Z","Walther","Delgado","Deputy Head, Latin America ICAR \u002F Senior Specialist, Asset Recovery (Green Corruption)","walther.delgado@baselgovernance.org","70f4c32c-f3e4-4a15-a470-c0c24b727603","Walther Javier Delgado Tovar joined the Basel Institute on Governance in November 2021. As of 2024, he serves as Deputy Head, Latin America for our International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) as well as Senior Specialist, Asset Recovery working with the Basel Institute's Green Corruption programme. \n\nIn this role, among other things, he supports prosecutors and specialised environmental prosecutors in Peru and Bolivia in implementing financial investigations in order to recover illicit assets. This includes through training, mentoring, legal technical assistance, case strategy design and international cooperation.\n\nWalther has worked for 16 years as a criminal prosecutor, dedicating the last 10 years to the investigation and prosecution of highly complex national corruption cases committed by criminal organisations. He participated as Deputy Prosecutor in the oral trials against former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori for crimes of corruption of public officials and crimes against humanity. He was also involved in the successful prosecutions of several regional Peruvian heads of governments and mayors for crimes including illicit enrichment, money laundering and aggravated collusion, and succeeded in recovering significant quantities of assets in these cases. \n\nWalther has wide-ranging expertise in special investigative procedures, such as effective collaboration, and was a member of the Steering Committee of the National Commission of Seized Assets, an entity in charge of the administration of seized and confiscated assets.\n\nHe has written several books on criminal matters, criminal procedure and Extinción de dominio (Peru’s non-conviction based forfeiture law), and more than a dozen articles in specialised journals. He has been heavily involved in the implementation of the extinción de dominio law in Peru, through his academic publications since 2009.\n\nWalther holds a Bachelor of Law and a Master's in Criminal Sciences, and has studied for a PhD in Law and Political Science from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru.",[63],"60722","walther-delgado",[],[225],[121,70],{"id":554,"status":6,"sort":555,"user_created":8,"date_created":539,"user_updated":162,"date_updated":556,"first_name":557,"last_name":558,"position":183,"phone":15,"email":559,"image":560,"cv":561,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":562,"nid":563,"slug":564,"function":565,"country":566,"directorate":567,"hidden":30},734,49,"2025-07-13T12:29:39.000Z","Joseph","Dominguez","joseph.dominguez@baselgovernance.org","6e3bdc0f-4ccb-481d-9b86-0aa811588c00","Joseph Celso Dominguez Miñano joined the Basel Institute on Governance in July 2024 as Senior Asset Recovery Specialist at the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR).\n\nIn this role, he provides technical assistance to \"extinción de dominio\" prosecutors regarding the Odebrecht cases in Peru in order to recover illicit assets. This includes mentoring, legal technical assistance, the design of case strategies and international cooperation.\n\nA lawyer by profession since 2012, Joseph worked for five years as a prosecutor in the investigation of cases linked to Odebrecht and Brazilian companies in Peru, gaining extensive experience in highly complex national cases of corruption and money laundering committed by criminal organisations.\n\nJoseph holds a Law Degree and is currently studying towards a Master's Degree in Criminal Sciences at the Pontificia Universidad Católica of Perú.",[63],"62022","joseph-dominguez",[],[225],[121],{"id":569,"status":6,"sort":570,"user_created":8,"date_created":571,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":572,"first_name":573,"last_name":574,"position":575,"phone":15,"email":576,"image":577,"cv":578,"category":242,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":579,"nid":580,"slug":581,"function":582,"country":583,"directorate":584,"hidden":30},735,50,"2025-03-27T21:22:03.000Z","2026-04-23T22:28:15.000Z","Alexandru","Donciu","Specialist, Financial Investigations (Virtual Assets)","alexandru.donciu@baselgovernance.org","6730bf6b-38ae-497a-b686-a0074b7f6c0f","Alexandru Donciu joined the Basel Institute on Governance in March 2025 as a Specialist, Financial Investigations (Virtual Assets). He works in the training team at the International Centre for Asset Recovery.\n\nBefore joining the Basel Institute, Alexandru served as the Assistant Director and Head of the Analysis Division at the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) in Mauritius, where he oversaw and provided input to financial investigations. He also led the development of national processes and legal framework amendments, and provided virtual assets investigation training for national law enforcement agencies. Alexandru was involved in national risk assessment exercises and preparing progress reports for relevant international bodies.\n\nSince 2017, Alexandru has also held prominent positions in international organisations, including the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and the Law Enforcement and Intelligence Cooperation Agency (LEICA). He offered consultancy, training and expertise to government authorities across multiple jurisdictions in areas such as money laundering, cybercrime, crypto investigations, OSINT and digital forensics.\n\nFrom 2008 to 2018, Alexandru worked as analyst for the Financial Intelligence Unit of Moldova. He began as a Superior Investigative Officer and later served as Head of Strategic Analysis Division. In these roles, Alexandru was responsible for analysing financial intelligence and investigating financial crimes dominantly related to cybercrime, e-money and virtual assets, and carrying out strategic analysis.\n\nWith a career spanning over a decade, Alexandru has been involved in numerous high-impact investigations. He has also investigated large-scale fraud and financial crimes across borders, showcasing a deep understanding of both traditional financial systems and emerging virtual assets.",[114,242],"62301","alexandru-donciu",[118],[27],[121],{"id":586,"status":6,"sort":587,"user_created":8,"date_created":588,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":231,"first_name":589,"last_name":590,"position":591,"phone":592,"email":593,"image":594,"cv":595,"category":239,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":596,"nid":597,"slug":598,"function":599,"country":600,"directorate":601,"hidden":30},698,16,"2025-03-27T21:21:39.000Z","Andrew","Dornbierer","Head, Policy and Research ICAR","+41 61 205 55 39","andrew.dornbierer@baselgovernance.org","39eca4a9-c4da-4d85-bbc2-3ef74d461bb2","Andrew Dornbierer is Head of Policy and Research at the Basel Institute's International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR). He was promoted to the position in March 2025, having previously served as Senior Specialist, Asset Recovery.\n\nSince joining the Basel Institute in 2012, Andrew has worked extensively on financial investigation strategies, illicit enrichment-focused case strategies, and international cooperation in corruption and money laundering investigations.\n\nHe is a recognised international expert on illicit enrichment (unexplained wealth) legislation and the author of the 2021 book [\\*Illicit Enrichment: A Guide to Laws Targeting Unexplained Wealth\\*](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fillicit-enrichment-guide-laws-targeting-unexplained-wealth), published in open-access format in English, French and Spanish.\n\nAndrew is also a Certified Fraud Examiner, having completed the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners exams in 2023.\n\nAndrew was admitted as a lawyer of the Supreme Court of Western Australia in 2012 and has lived and worked both in Switzerland and in Tanzania, where he provided hands-on mentoring to practitioners at the country's primary anti-corruption agency.",[121,242],"41","andrew-dornbierer",[],[27],[121],{"id":603,"status":6,"sort":604,"user_created":8,"date_created":571,"user_updated":162,"date_updated":605,"first_name":606,"last_name":607,"position":608,"phone":609,"email":610,"image":611,"cv":612,"category":242,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":613,"nid":614,"slug":615,"function":616,"country":618,"directorate":619,"hidden":30},736,51,"2025-07-13T12:30:18.000Z","Stevan","Dragoljevic","Intern, IT","+41 61 205 56 72","stevan.dragoljevic@baselgovernance.org","9df7f6ad-6799-4a8e-8fb7-81edaef381e5","Stevan Dragoljevic joined the Basel Institute's IT Team in August 2024.\n\nStevan studied at the Informatikmittelschule Basel and is now starting his first hands-on IT job with the Institute to develop his skills. He will work with the team for the next 12 months on various IT support, eLearning and web development tasks.",[242],"62053","stevan-dragoljevic",[617],"IT & Web",[27],[458],{"id":621,"status":6,"sort":622,"user_created":8,"date_created":623,"user_updated":162,"date_updated":624,"first_name":625,"last_name":626,"position":417,"phone":39,"email":627,"image":628,"cv":629,"category":242,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":630,"nid":632,"slug":633,"function":634,"country":636,"directorate":637,"hidden":30},737,52,"2025-03-27T21:22:04.000Z","2025-07-13T12:30:28.000Z","Aida","Erba","aida.erba@baselgovernance.org","f5a60dce-7aae-43b4-99a3-9ea9db7aa1bc","Aida joined the Basel Institute on Governance as Specialist, Finance in January 2024. She supports the Finance team with routine accounting tasks and payments relating to the Institute’s headquarter-based and global operations.\n\nPrior to joining the Basel Institute, Aida worked in a small family office that engaged in sustainable and purposeful investments. During that time, she also created a fair-trade fashion label that manufactured high-quality clothes completely made in Sub-Saharan Africa, from the yarn to the finished product.\n\nAida holds a Diploma in Economics from the University of Heidelberg, Germany, with a specialisation in Development Policy and International Cooperation. Her mother tongue is both German and Tigrinya and she speaks fluent English and French.",[631,242],"Administration","61841","aida-erba",[635],"Finance",[27],[458],{"id":639,"status":6,"sort":20,"user_created":10,"date_created":461,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":251,"first_name":640,"last_name":641,"position":642,"phone":20,"email":643,"image":644,"cv":645,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":646,"nid":647,"slug":648,"function":20,"country":649,"directorate":650,"hidden":30},812,"Luís Filipe","Ferreira da Mota","Senior Specialist, Financial Investigations","luis.mota@baselgovernance.org","5c1008e0-5120-442c-945c-63a4e2fc05e0","Luís Filipe Ferreira da Mota joined the Basel Institute on Governance in March 2026 as Senior Specialist, Financial Investigations in Mozambique. As part of our International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) team, he supports the Prosecutor-General’s Office (PGR) in combating corruption, money laundering and asset recovery through technical assistance and investigative support.\n\nLuís is a dedicated professional with over two decades of experience in financial investigations, anti-corruption and public financial oversight, with work spanning Portugal, Timor-Leste and Mozambique.\n\nIn Timor-Leste, he worked as an International Advisor for the European Union Governance Programme, supporting the Court of Auditors in strengthening public financial oversight, strategic planning and professional training.\n\nIn Portugal, Luís served as an Expert in the Technical Advisory Unit (NAT) of the Prosecutor-General’s Office, providing consultancy on financial investigations and contributing to a think tank focused on EU fraud prevention. He has been an auditor at the Portuguese Court of Auditors since 2002.\n\nHis work focuses on financial investigations and public auditing, with a strong emphasis on anti-corruption, transparency, compliance and the effective management of public resources.\n\nLuís holds a degree in Business Administration (ISCTE) and postgraduate qualifications in Accounting (OVERGEST-ISCTE) and Development Economics and International Cooperation (ISEG).",[63],"62709","luis-filipe-ferreira-da-mota",[68],[121],{"id":652,"status":6,"sort":653,"user_created":8,"date_created":654,"user_updated":162,"date_updated":655,"first_name":656,"last_name":657,"position":417,"phone":658,"email":659,"image":660,"cv":661,"category":242,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":662,"nid":663,"slug":664,"function":665,"country":666,"directorate":667,"hidden":30},739,54,"2025-03-27T21:22:05.000Z","2025-07-13T12:30:50.000Z","Isis ","Gaeta Falcone","+41 61 205 55 32","isis.falcone@baselgovernance.org","0ddee500-94ac-4968-afe7-8bee4f93c6ad","Isis Gaeta is Specialist, Finance at the Basel Institute, where she is responsible for the financial administration of a variety of international multi-year projects as well as routine accounting duties, financial analysis and administrative support. She joined the Institute in March 2021 as part of the central finance unit supervised by the Head of Operations, and works closely with project management units of the Basel Institute. \n\nShe has more than 13 years’ experience in non-governmental organisations across different geographies, particularly in project management, finance, treasury and administrative areas. \n\nPrior to joining the Basel Institute, she worked as a Financial Manager in an international NGO based in Geneva, Switzerland, dedicated to humanitarian projects in Afghanistan. In this role, she managed financial data, including data analysis and reporting. Before moving to Switzerland, she worked for 12 years as a Financial and Project Manager for an Institute in São Paulo, Brazil, where she gained extensive experience in project financial administration.\n\nIsis holds an MBA in Financial Business Administration from Fundação Getulio Vargas - São Paulo School of Business Administration (FGV EAESP).",[242],"55381","isis-gaeta-falcone",[635],[27],[458],{"id":669,"status":6,"sort":670,"user_created":8,"date_created":671,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":672,"first_name":673,"last_name":674,"position":675,"phone":39,"email":676,"image":677,"cv":678,"category":242,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":679,"nid":680,"slug":681,"function":682,"country":684,"directorate":685,"hidden":30},740,55,"2025-03-27T21:22:06.000Z","2026-04-23T23:19:10.000Z","José","Girau","Specialist, eLearning","jose.girau@baselgovernance.org","30bd5272-e628-493e-989e-a53789785362","José joined the Basel Institute on Governance in November 2019 as Specialist, eLearning.\n\nPrior to this, José worked for many years as a freelance IT consultant and IT Manager at the University of Basel Department of Biomedicine. He trained as an IT specialist at the Siemens-Nixdorf centre in Freiburg, and worked at Sun Microsystems for various Swiss banks and insurance companies with Unix operating systems, mainframes and storage systems.\n\nJosé studied aerospace engineering at the Technische Universität Berlin, science in Marburg and Konstanz, and landscape planning and biology at the University of Freiburg, where he graduated with a diploma. He worked for several years as an environmental biologist, creating landscape plans and environmental recreation concepts.",[241,242],"18072","jose-girau",[683,617],"Basel LEARN",[27],[121,458],{"id":687,"status":6,"sort":688,"user_created":8,"date_created":689,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":75,"first_name":690,"last_name":691,"position":692,"phone":693,"email":694,"image":695,"cv":696,"category":43,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":697,"nid":698,"slug":699,"function":700,"country":701,"directorate":702,"hidden":30},694,1,"2025-03-27T21:21:37.000Z","Juhani","Grossmann","Director, Green Corruption \u002F Senior Advisor for Central and Eastern Europe","+41 61 205 55 30","juhani.grossmann@baselgovernance.org","013f8c6f-1926-4d2a-88f2-e1ca72cfef39","Juhani Grossmann directs the Basel Institute's Green Corruption programme and is Senior Advisor for Central and Eastern Europe, in which role he heads the Institute's Representative Office in Ukraine. He joined the Basel Institute in April 2020. \n\nAs Director of the Green Corruption programme, he provides strategic oversight of the 20-member team located in eight countries, consisting of financial investigations and corruption prevention experts. The team advises law enforcement on the financial elements of crimes that affect the environment as well as building robust corruption prevention systems at natural resource agencies and state-owned enterprises. The Green Corruption programme's strategy for 2025-28 envisions a strategic prioritisation of engagements related to forestry, critical minerals and renewables. \n\nAs Senior Advisor on Central and Eastern Europe, Juhani leads the Basel Institute’s multi-faceted support to Ukraine since the wide-scale invasion in 2022. This includes advisory work to Ukrainian Ministries, agencies and state-owned enterprises, and close collaboration with Ukrainian civil society with the aim of strengthening the integrity of Ukraine’s Restoration efforts.\n\nPrior to joining the Institute, he spent close to 20 years in Indonesia, the Philippines, Ukraine and Russia leading anti-corruption and good governance programmes, advising governments and civil society on internal controls and compliance, public service complaint-handling systems, strategic communications, access to public information, election oversight and integrity, and campaign finance regulation.\n\nJuhani holds a Master’s degree in Public Management from Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, Germany, as well as an MA in International Conflict Resolution and a BA in Political Science, both from Landegg International University in Switzerland.",[45],"8287","juhani-grossmann",[49,50],[264,27],[70],{"id":704,"status":6,"sort":20,"user_created":10,"date_created":705,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":251,"first_name":706,"last_name":707,"position":642,"phone":20,"email":708,"image":709,"cv":710,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":711,"nid":712,"slug":713,"function":20,"country":714,"directorate":715,"hidden":30},813,"2026-04-23T22:19:14.000Z","Sawan","Gutteea","sawan.gutteea@baselgovernance.org","5937251f-6fd8-4527-b7a2-c244dbcbe32d","Sawan Gutteea joined the Basel Institute on Governance in April 2026 as Senior Specialist, Financial Investigations for our Green Corruption programme in Malawi. In this role, he supports complex financial investigations linked to illegal wildlife trade, corruption and money laundering, applying intelligence-led methodologies such as “follow-the-money” analysis, asset tracing, financial profiling and social mapping to identify key actors, enablers and the ultimate beneficiaries of illicit financial flows.\n\nSawan began his career as a Police Officer with the Mauritius Police Force, where he served for seven years. He is an ACCA-qualified professional with over two decades of experience spanning law enforcement, financial investigations and regulatory compliance.\n\nPrior to joining the Basel Institute, Sawan served for over 17 years in the Analysis Division of the Financial Intelligence Unit Mauritius, most recently as a Senior Financial Intelligence Analyst. He led and supported high-profile financial investigations involving corruption, fraud, drug trafficking and money laundering, working closely with national authorities and international partners. He played a key role in transforming financial intelligence into prosecutable evidence. His work contributed to significant outcomes, including asset recovery, criminal prosecutions, arrests and substantial tax assessments.\n\nSawan also gained private sector experience in AML\u002FCFT compliance with accountancy and audit firm Alliott Mauritius, where he held a supervisory role. He led independent AML\u002FCFT audits, developed compliance policies and procedures, and delivered training to reporting entities.",[63],"62729","sawan-gutteea",[68],[70],{"id":717,"status":6,"sort":718,"user_created":8,"date_created":719,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":196,"first_name":720,"last_name":721,"position":722,"phone":723,"email":724,"image":725,"cv":726,"category":242,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":727,"nid":728,"slug":729,"function":730,"country":732,"directorate":733,"hidden":30},743,58,"2025-03-27T21:22:08.000Z","Monica","Guy","Team Lead, Communications and External Relations","+41 61 205 55 12","monica.guy@baselgovernance.org","6d95cf25-5e8f-4eb1-b46a-daca726475db","Monica Guy leads internal and external communications and publications across the Basel Institute on Governance and works closely with senior management to support strategic external engagement and institutional priorities. As part of her role, she also coordinates crypto-related events and engagements. She joined the Institute in 2018 and is part of the Office of the Executive Director and President. \n\nMonica leads the Institute’s Communications team, overseeing strategy, publications and digital channels to ensure clear, consistent and high-quality communications across the organisation. She works closely with the Executive Director and Core Management Team on external relations and strategic engagement, including supporting partnerships, international events and policy outreach. \n\nIn her capacity as Coordinator for Crypto and Digital Finance, she leads the co-organisation of the annual Global Conference on Criminal Finances and Cryptoassets together with Europol and UNODC, and coordinates and contributes to a range of crypto-related initiatives across the Institute.\n\nBefore joining the Basel Institute, Monica worked mainly in international communications and digital content management. She was Director of Operations for Europe and the Middle East at a US-based content agency, where she led major digital marketing and content projects for global clients including Google, Expedia, IHG and Accor.\n\nEarlier in her career, she worked on communications projects including trade publications, reports and websites for a wide range of companies and non-profit organisations, primarily in the shipping, engineering and technology sectors. She also spent several years as assistant to Professor Stephen Hawking in Cambridge. During this time she became a strong advocate for accessibility in the travel sector, engaging in initiatives including the development of the first accessibility guide to the University of Cambridge, travel information websites for people with disabilities in Cambridge and Cape Town, and communications and fundraising support for disability rights organisations in Europe, the U.S. and South Africa.\n\nMonica holds a first-class degree in Classics from the University of Cambridge, a Master's in Interactive Communications from Quinnipiac University and a Master's in Sustainable Development from SOAS University of London. She speaks several languages, including Spanish, German, French, Catalan and Arabic – the latter rather poorly.",[242],"2","monica-guy",[731],"Communications & Visual Design",[27],[458],{"id":735,"status":6,"sort":736,"user_created":162,"date_created":737,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":75,"first_name":738,"last_name":739,"position":740,"phone":741,"email":742,"image":743,"cv":744,"category":43,"division":22,"location":745,"tags":746,"nid":747,"slug":20,"function":748,"country":749,"directorate":750,"hidden":30},8,26,"2022-08-23T19:52:21.000Z","Vanessa","Hans","Director, Private Sector","+41 61 201 18 21","vanessa.hans@baselgovernance.org","95374f21-2967-4959-882a-6636823e1d4a","Vanessa Hans is Director of the Private Sector team at the Basel Institute on Governance. She has held the position since July 2022, having first joined the Basel Institute in January 2020 as Private Sector Specialist.\n\nIn her role, she leads a team of compliance and Collective Action specialists, taking a dual approach to engaging and strengthening the private-sector response to corruption risks in business transactions: by advancing anti-corruption Collective Action, and through technical assistance to private corporations and state-owned enterprises.\n\nShe regularly advises organisations ranging from small and medium enterprises to multinationals, state-owned enterprises and international organisations on topics relating to governance, ethics and compliance. She also leads the Basel Institute’s work on synergies between corruption and business and human rights as well as in the humanitarian sector.\n\nVanessa is a Board member of the United Nations Global Compact Network Switzerland and Liechtenstein. She also is a member of the Advisory Group of the Anti-Corruption Initiative for Asia and the Pacific (ACI) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) as well as the Anti-Corruption Leaders Hub of the OECD under the Global Initiative to Galvanize the Private Sector as Partners in Combatting Corruption and the UNCAC Working Group on Human Rights and Corruption. She is part of the Independent Sustainability Sounding Board of Argor-Heraeus, a Switzerland-based gold refiner.\n\n \n\nPrior to joining the Institute, Vanessa was the Managing Director of the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in the Philippines where she established the first network-wide code of conduct and was appointed Data Privacy Officer. She initiated multi-stakeholder C-level committees addressing challenges across: gender, youth, infrastructure, agribusiness, and market access. Under her leadership, the Chamber won the French public service delegation contract as the only trade agency in the country under Team France Export.\n\n \n\nShe previously worked at several non-profit organisations focusing on corporate social responsibility and international development strategies.\n\nShe holds a Bachelor of Business Administration with a minor in International Relations from HEC Montreal and a Master of Science in Corporate Social Responsibility from the Nottingham University Business School.\n\nVanessa is a competitive long-distance cyclist and a certified mountain bike instructor.","Basel HQ",[45,22,23],"20001",[49,50],[27],[29],{"id":752,"status":6,"sort":753,"user_created":8,"date_created":719,"user_updated":162,"date_updated":754,"first_name":755,"last_name":756,"position":373,"phone":15,"email":757,"image":758,"cv":759,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":760,"nid":761,"slug":762,"function":763,"country":764,"directorate":765,"hidden":30},744,59,"2025-07-13T12:32:07.000Z","Hade","Henriquez","hade.henriquez@baselgovernance.org","c5ecc28c-6787-4f8b-9bdb-b91c0b3f491b","Hade Emperatriz Henriquez Salazar joined the Basel Institute's Green Corruption team in Latin America in July 2024 as an Asset Recovery Specialist.\n\nBefore joining the institute, Hade worked for almost 13 years in the Anti-Corruption and Money Laundering Prosecution Office in Peru, where for the last two years she was Deputy Anti-Corruption Prosecutor. In this and other positions within the Peruvian Public Ministry Hade has been dedicated to investigating complex cases of corruption of public officials, tracing illicit financial flows for confiscation and recovering assets of illicit origin. She has extensive experience in developing special investigative strategies and procedures for corruption and money laundering cases, including promoting effective cooperation.\n\nHade holds a law degree from the University of Alas Peruanas in Peru, with post-graduate studies in criminal procedural law and a specialisation in money laundering.",[63],"61996","hade-henriquez",[],[225],[70],{"id":767,"status":6,"sort":555,"user_created":10,"date_created":705,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":399,"first_name":768,"last_name":769,"position":770,"phone":20,"email":771,"image":772,"cv":773,"category":242,"division":22,"location":20,"tags":774,"nid":775,"slug":776,"function":20,"country":777,"directorate":778,"hidden":30},814,"Dzhulieta","Horbachenko","Intern, International Conference","dzhulieta.horbachenko@baselgovernance.org","d3d5fd10-2362-46a2-bb20-21fb071a3ee9","Dzhulieta Horbachenko joined the Basel Institute on Governance in February 2026 as Intern, International Conference. In this role, she supports stakeholder communications and conference preparations including conference materials for the 6th International Collective Action Conference.\n\nDzhulieta is a designer and communications specialist with experience in visual communication, digital outreach and event-related content production in international and non-profit contexts.\n\nBefore joining the Institute, she worked and volunteered with organisations such as Ukraїner and Power Hub Zug, contributing to communication materials, branding and event-related outreach.\n\nDzhulieta holds a Master of Arts in Design with a specialisation in Digital Ideation from the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, and a Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design from the Lviv National Academy of Arts. Her academic background includes coursework in interaction design, digital communication and emerging technologies.",[242],"62663","dzhulieta-horbachenko",[27],[29],{"id":780,"status":6,"sort":781,"user_created":8,"date_created":782,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":783,"first_name":784,"last_name":785,"position":786,"phone":787,"email":788,"image":789,"cv":790,"category":239,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":791,"nid":792,"slug":793,"function":794,"country":795,"directorate":796,"hidden":30},699,15,"2025-03-27T21:21:40.000Z","2026-06-04T14:36:42.000Z","Peter","Huppertz","Head, IT and eLearning","+41 61 205 55 18","peter.huppertz@baselgovernance.org","549e011b-da68-49b5-9c86-af8d150d79ea","Peter Huppertz is Head of the IT and eLearning team at the Basel Institute on Governance. In this role he is responsible for the strategic and operational management of the Basel Institute's IT unit, which covers eLearning, websites, visual design, IT support and other related products and services. \n\nPeter is also co-lead of a cross-cutting training and learning platform initiative and a member of the Extended Management Team.\n\nPeter plans and develops eLearning courses in cooperation with internal and external experts, manages the development of the [Basel LEARN](https:\u002F\u002Flearn.baselgovernance.org\u002F) and [Basel Open Intelligence](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fbasel-open-intelligence) tools, and is responsible for the IT-related development of the [Basel AML Index](https:\u002F\u002Findex.baselgovernance.org\u002F). He also oversees, coordinates and manages project-specific IT tools, visual design and internal web\u002FIT projects.\n\nHe holds a Master of Arts in Educational Media from the University Duisburg-Essen in Germany and a Diploma in Media Technology from the University of Applied Science, Mittweida, Germany. \n\nPrior to joining the Basel Institute, Peter worked as a Research Assistant at the University of Education in Freiburg. There he conducted training courses on creating and using media in educational scenarios, developed software environments to support learning and worked on a research project involving the use of interactive video for teacher training. During his studies, Peter worked for several IT companies, advertising agencies and movie post-production companies.",[121,241,242],"1","peter-huppertz",[683,50,617,118],[27],[121,458],{"id":798,"status":6,"sort":799,"user_created":8,"date_created":800,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":801,"first_name":802,"last_name":803,"position":804,"phone":39,"email":805,"image":806,"cv":807,"category":242,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":808,"nid":809,"slug":810,"function":811,"country":812,"directorate":813,"hidden":30},746,60,"2025-03-27T21:22:10.000Z","2026-04-23T22:32:42.000Z","Noémi","Jäger","Associate, Prevention, Research and Innovation","noemi.jaeger@baselgovernance.org","65c7f55d-6b03-4b42-a5cc-4c546c9f4873","Noémi Jäger supports the Prevention, Research and Innovation team at the Basel Institute on Governance. She was promoted to the position in March 2025, having joined the Basel Institute in March 2024 as Legal Research Intern.\n\nPrior to joining the Basel Institute, Noémi gained experience as an Academic Trainee at the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, where she monitored the implementation of asset recovery agreements and provided support in the implementation of policy dialogue, strategic partnerships and events in asset recovery and anti-corruption. In her early career, she worked as a researcher for an on-campus law clinic focusing on human rights violations.\n\nNoémi holds an LLM in Public International Law from the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands and a Bachelor’s in International Relations with special focus on Law from the University of Geneva, Switzerland.",[242],"61857","noemi-jager",[],[27],[140],{"id":815,"status":6,"sort":20,"user_created":10,"date_created":429,"user_updated":162,"date_updated":816,"first_name":784,"last_name":817,"position":818,"phone":20,"email":819,"image":820,"cv":821,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":822,"nid":823,"slug":824,"function":20,"country":825,"directorate":826,"hidden":30},833,"2026-06-02T21:34:09.000Z","James","Senior Specialist, Financial Investigation","peter.james@baselgovernance.org","6edf163c-f700-4287-8264-8af0335efebb","Peter James joined the Basel Institute on Governance in April 2026 as a Senior Specialist, Financial Investigation, based in Sri Lanka. He joins our International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) to deliver technical assistance to Sri Lanka’s anti-corruption and economic crime authorities.\n\nIn this role, Peter focuses on strengthening the investigation and prosecution capacity of corruption cases, enhancing mutual assistance frameworks and building effective, sustainable mechanisms to develop the country’s asset recovery process.\n\nA highly experienced financial investigator, Peter has an extensive background in tackling complex economic crime. He began his career in London with the Metropolitan Police and the Serious Fraud Office, specialising in the investigation of complex national and international fraud, money laundering, bribery and corruption.\n\nHe later worked in the corporate investigation sector before serving as a Fraud and Financial Investigator for a Special Investigation and Prosecution Team in a British Overseas Territory.  Established by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO), this team was tasked with investigation allegations of fraud, money laundering, bribery and corruption involving former government ministers and senior public officials.\n\nMost recently, Peter served as an anti-corruption Consultant with the Integrity Commission in the Turks and Caicos Islands.\n\nPeter holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business and Public Administration.",[63],"62771","peter-james",[87],[121],{"id":336,"status":6,"sort":828,"user_created":162,"date_created":829,"user_updated":145,"date_updated":830,"first_name":831,"last_name":832,"position":833,"phone":834,"email":835,"image":836,"cv":837,"category":242,"division":22,"location":745,"tags":838,"nid":839,"slug":840,"function":841,"country":842,"directorate":843,"hidden":30},28,"2022-09-02T11:16:57.000Z","2026-06-05T16:12:24.000Z","Lucie","Jones (Binder)","Senior Specialist, Governance and Integrity \u002F Acting Compliance Officer","+41 61 205 56 76","lucie.binder@baselgovernance.org","2a62727d-40bf-4301-8d2a-b3840af5d67e","Lucie Jones joined the Basel Institute on Governance as Senior Specialist, Governance and Integrity in September 2022. She has recently completed a multi-year project to strengthen the evidence base for anti-corruption Collective Action, delivering a new conceptual framework and practical tools that help practitioners, policymakers and researchers design more effective approaches to strengthening business integrity. She is currently acting Compliance Officer for the Basel Institute, overseeing integrity and compliance initiatives across the organisation.\n\nAt the Basel Institute, Lucie also bridges Collective Action, governance and integrity by leading and advising on compliance and governance mandates within the Private Sector team. Her expertise lies in governance and compliance systems, business integrity and strategy development, with a focus on developing risk-based approaches that support resilience and sustainable organisational performance.\n\nPrior to joining the Basel Institute, Lucie was Chief of Staff and then Head of Governance & Strategy at Cochrane, the world’s leading evidence-based healthcare organisation. In that role, she delivered two organisational strategic plans and developed a monitoring & evaluation approach to assess organisational impact. She delivered one of the UK’s first fully virtual Annual General Meetings, and has extensive experience in corporate governance and in writing organisational policies. \n\nLucie holds a bachelor's and master’s degree in Anthropology from the University of Oxford and has certifications in leadership and risk management.",[22,242],"61191","lucie-jones-binder",[23],[27],[29],{"id":845,"status":6,"sort":846,"user_created":8,"date_created":800,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":491,"first_name":847,"last_name":848,"position":849,"phone":15,"email":850,"image":851,"cv":852,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":853,"nid":854,"slug":855,"function":856,"country":857,"directorate":858,"hidden":30},747,61,"Phillip","Kagucia","Team Leader, Malawi","phil.kagucia@baselgovernance.org","47ac9ddb-08dc-4659-97ad-2640516babef","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.\n\nPhillip 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.\n\nAs 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).\n\nAdditionally, Phillip has been a trainer on various topics including evidence analysis, unexplained wealth and mutual legal assistance (MLA).\n\nPhillip 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.",[63],"61204","phillip-kagucia",[],[68],[121],{"id":860,"status":6,"sort":861,"user_created":8,"date_created":862,"user_updated":162,"date_updated":863,"first_name":864,"last_name":865,"position":866,"phone":39,"email":867,"image":868,"cv":869,"category":242,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":870,"nid":871,"slug":872,"function":873,"country":874,"directorate":875,"hidden":30},748,62,"2025-03-27T21:22:11.000Z","2025-07-13T12:33:12.000Z","Tetyana","Kalyuzhna","Associate, Visual Design","tatiana.kaliuzhnaia@baselgovernance.org","376cd64f-57ca-46e8-a669-5abe5b1a802f","Tetyana Kalyuzhna is a graphic designer and illustrator from Ukraine. Since 2017, she has worked in graphic design and artistic direction for numerous Ukrainian publishers. A particular specialisation in the last years has been illustrating children’s books.\n\nAmong other designs, she won a competition for a poster concept for the “Jazz nad Odrą” international music festival in Wroclaw, Poland. She also designed the logo concept of an annual international poetry festival in Wroclaw, “Silesius”\n\nTetyana holds two BAs: one in Fine Art from the National Technical University of Ukraine \"Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute\", and one in Graphic Design, Media and Illustration from the Eugeniucz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw. \n\nShe has also been a member of the Erasmus exchange programme in the Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo and the University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm.",[242],"61112","tetyana-kalyuzhna",[731],[27],[458],{"id":877,"status":6,"sort":878,"user_created":8,"date_created":879,"user_updated":162,"date_updated":880,"first_name":881,"last_name":882,"position":883,"phone":884,"email":885,"image":886,"cv":887,"category":242,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":888,"nid":889,"slug":890,"function":891,"country":892,"directorate":893,"hidden":30},749,63,"2025-03-27T21:22:12.000Z","2025-07-13T12:33:26.000Z","Keziah","Kamau-Borner","Senior Specialist, Administration \u002F Executive Assistant","+41 61 205 55 33","keziah.kamau@baselgovernance.org","c796e9dd-54e1-42b5-83fd-66781021e4ee","Keziah Kamau-Borner joined the Basel Institute on Governance in March 2020 and is currently Senior Specialist, Administration \u002F Executive Assistant to the Management Group. \n\nPrior to joining the institute, Keziah was part of the management team at the Spemann Graduate School of Biology and Medicine at the University of Freiburg where she worked as the International Program Coordinator. She had earlier provided administrative services in Nairobi, Kenya as the Student Services Coordinator for California Miramar University. \n\nKeziah holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from California Miramar University, San Diego.\n\nShe speaks fluent English, German, Swahili and Kikuyu.",[631,242],"21169","keziah-kamau-borner",[455],[27],[458],{"id":895,"status":6,"sort":896,"user_created":8,"date_created":879,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":897,"first_name":898,"last_name":899,"position":642,"phone":900,"email":901,"image":902,"cv":903,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":904,"nid":905,"slug":906,"function":907,"country":908,"directorate":909,"hidden":30},750,64,"2026-06-04T14:36:45.000Z","Wonder","Kapofu","+263775577670","wonder.kapofu@baselgovernance.org","a82ba89f-9815-4dc9-bd5d-46889b3506bf","Wonder Kapofu joined the Basel Institute on Governance as Senior Specialist, Financial Investigations in December 2022. Based in Malawi, he currently contributes to the efforts of the Basel Institute's International Centre for Asset Recovery to improve asset recovery in the country in collaboration with our law enforcement partners. He also offers support to local counterparts on issues related to financial risk and integrity.\n\nPreviously, he supported the Basel Institute's Green Corruption programme in efforts to enhance law enforcement in relation to environmental crimes.\n\nPrior to joining the Basel Institute, Wonder worked extensively at Zimbabwe’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) in both the Analysis division and as Deputy Director in the Legal and Policy division. During his tenure at the FIU, he also led the Secretariat of the National Task Force on AML\u002FCFT.  Additionally, he also co-chaired several of the country’s national risk assessments programmes.\n\nWonder has also worked with other countries in the region through programmes of the Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group. He was a lead reviewer with the FATF’s International Cooperation Review Africa-Middle East Group.\n\nPrior to joining the FIU, he worked in similar roles of enforcing compliance in various law enforcement agencies, which included the Department of Customs and Border Control as well as the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority. Wonder has also worked as a technical consultant on AML\u002FCFT and financial crimes with other international agencies.\n\nWonder holds a Doctorate of Business Administration from the University of Lusaka, Zambia.  He is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and a Certified Financial Crime Specialist, (CFCS), as well as a Certified Management Accountant (Adv Dip CIMA).",[63],"61322","wonder-kapofu",[],[68],[121],{"id":911,"status":6,"sort":20,"user_created":10,"date_created":705,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":912,"first_name":913,"last_name":914,"position":915,"phone":20,"email":916,"image":917,"cv":918,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":919,"nid":920,"slug":921,"function":20,"country":922,"directorate":20,"hidden":30},815,"2026-05-20T21:28:34.000Z","Mark","Karandas","Associate, Corruption Prevention","mark.karandas@baselgovernance.org","058db941-5a6a-4fda-8a45-78055151a294","Mark Karandas joined the Basel Institute on Governance in December 2025 as Associate, Corruption Prevention in Kyiv, Ukraine.\n\nMark has gained practical experience in both state and international financial institutions, including in an internship at the National Bank of Ukraine as well as professional positions at commercial banks. Additionally, he has completed internships at the Supreme Court of Ukraine and the State Tax Service of Ukraine.\n\nMark holds a Bachelor's degree in Law from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and a Master's degree in Law from Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University in Kharkiv. He is currently continuing his education at the London School of Economics.\n\nIn addition to his academic and professional work, Mark speaks several foreign languages and focuses his research on anti-corruption efforts through the lens of financial monitoring.",[63],"62610","mark-karandas",[264],{"id":924,"status":6,"sort":925,"user_created":8,"date_created":926,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":927,"first_name":928,"last_name":929,"position":930,"phone":39,"email":931,"image":932,"cv":933,"category":239,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":934,"nid":935,"slug":936,"function":937,"country":938,"directorate":939,"hidden":30},751,18,"2025-03-27T21:22:13.000Z","2026-06-04T14:36:43.000Z","Dr Saba","Kassa","Senior Specialist \u002F Deputy Director, Prevention, Research and Innovation","saba.kassa@baselgovernance.org","f6382220-0a46-438a-bead-7dc8f4e2abe5","Dr Saba Kassa is a public governance expert with over 10 years of experience in promoting democratic governance. She leads implementation of the research, technical assistance and capacity-building activities of the Basel Institute's Prevention, Research and Innovation team.\n\nPrior to joining the Institute, Saba worked for several international organisations in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, including the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, the German Ministry for International Cooperation and the International Institute of Democracy and Electoral Assistance.\n\nSaba holds a PhD in International Development Studies from the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, a Master in International Development Studies from the University of Amsterdam, as well as a Master in Public Administration from Erasmus University Rotterdam.",[134,242],"42","dr-saba-kassa",[],[27],[140],{"id":941,"status":6,"sort":942,"user_created":8,"date_created":943,"user_updated":162,"date_updated":944,"first_name":945,"last_name":946,"position":947,"phone":39,"email":948,"image":949,"cv":950,"category":242,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":951,"nid":952,"slug":953,"function":954,"country":955,"directorate":956,"hidden":30},752,65,"2025-03-27T21:22:14.000Z","2025-07-13T12:34:19.000Z","Flavio","Kirst","Senior Specialist, Finance","flavio.kirst@baselgovernance.org","c23751b2-6d00-4a94-ada1-4f1a7eb63f39","Flavio Kirst joined the accounting department of the Basel Institute on Governance in May 2020. He has a commercial background and previously worked within the international trading and logistics industries. During this time, he was responsible for maintaining and building relationships with multiple stakeholders around the globe.\n\nSpecialising in accounting and finance, Flavio has since worked for several companies handling the bookkeeping for multiple subsidiaries within a variety of sectors. His tasks ranged from everyday duties to partaking in or managing annual audits, forecasting and mergers.\n\nHis interest in global and local issues has taken him to work for various small conservation and social projects in Latin America and Southeast Asia.\n\nFlavio has a Commercial Diploma from the Educational Center kvBL Reinach and is a Chartered Specialist in accounting and financial management.",[631,242],"24863","flavio-kirst",[635],[27],[458],{"id":958,"status":6,"sort":959,"user_created":8,"date_created":943,"user_updated":162,"date_updated":960,"first_name":961,"last_name":962,"position":915,"phone":15,"email":963,"image":964,"cv":965,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":966,"nid":967,"slug":968,"function":969,"country":970,"directorate":971,"hidden":30},753,66,"2025-07-13T12:48:34.000Z","Maryna","Kyselova","maryna.kyselova@baselgovernance.org","3532f37b-8b22-475d-91a6-47c4b627fb83","Maryna Kyselova joined the Basel Institute on Governance in July 2024 as Associate, Corruption Prevention in Kyiv, Ukraine.\n\nBefore joining the Institute, Maryna held diverse positions in the Ukrainian public service including Chief of the Education Department State Penitentiary Service and expert at the National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance, where she gained experience in anti-corruption programming.\n\nThis led to Maryna’s most recent position at the Agency for Restoration and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine, where she prepared the adjustments of anticorruption plans and policies, monitoring, evaluation,  and reporting of anti-corruption programme activities, and coordinated the investigation of corruption offences. \n\nMaryna graduated from National Academy of Internal Affairs with a Master’s degree and has pursued PhD studies at the Scientific Research Institute for the Study of Crime Problems at the National Academy of Law Sciences of Ukraine",[63],"62003","maryna-kyselova",[],[264],[],{"id":973,"status":6,"sort":974,"user_created":8,"date_created":975,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":196,"first_name":976,"last_name":977,"position":978,"phone":15,"email":979,"image":980,"cv":981,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":982,"nid":983,"slug":984,"function":985,"country":986,"directorate":987,"hidden":30},754,67,"2025-03-27T21:22:15.000Z","Carolyne","Lamptey","Team Leader, Ghana","carolyne.lamptey@baselgovernance.org","c9e38650-004f-48eb-a860-af14a66d1bb1","Carolyne Lamptey is Team Leader, Ghana, at the Basel Institute on Governance since November 2025. She leads the Ghana programme of the Basel Institute's International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR), strengthening the Office of the Special Prosecutor's asset recovery provisions and supporting the development of a non-conviction based forfeiture regime in the country.\n\nPreviously, she was Team Leader, Malawi. She joined the ICAR Malawi team in February 2022 to support the UK-funded Tackling Serious and Organised Corruption (TSOC) programme. She worked with the Malawian authorities in pursuing non-conviction based forfeiture orders under the country's Financial Crime Act through case work support, mentoring and policy review.\n\nCarolyne Lamptey is a barrister, called to the Bar of England and Wales, with over 20 years of prosecutorial practice. She is a former Team Leader and Senior Lawyer with the UK’s Crown Prosecution Service. \n\nCarolyne has prosecuted for all the major prosecuting authorities in England and Wales and for the last 18 years has specialised in asset recovery\u002Fproceeds of crime. She has extensive international experience that includes supporting the Egyptian authorities, as a Regional Asset Recovery Adviser in the cross-Whitehall Taskforce, to recover proceeds of crime from the regime of former President Hosni Mubarak that had been frozen under EU\u002FUK sanctions. She has also delivered training for UNODC, the EU and ICAR. \n\nPrior to joining the Basel Institute, Carolyne’s most recent role was in Ghana as the Prosecution Adviser on a UK-funded Project, Strengthening Action against Corruption (STAAC).\n\nShe has an LLB in Law and an LLM in Human Rights Law, both from the University of London.",[63],"60855","carolyne-lamptey",[],[68],[121],{"id":989,"status":6,"sort":990,"user_created":8,"date_created":975,"user_updated":162,"date_updated":991,"first_name":992,"last_name":993,"position":994,"phone":15,"email":995,"image":996,"cv":997,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":998,"nid":999,"slug":1000,"function":1001,"country":1002,"directorate":1003,"hidden":30},755,68,"2025-07-13T12:34:58.000Z","Ash","Leber","Senior Specialist, Financial Analysis","ash.leber@baselgovernance.org","c3027086-5361-4fd8-9448-dce41af000f8","Ash Leber joined the Basel Institute in April 2021 as a financial data analyst within the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) Malawi team.\n\nAsh is an accomplished senior level professional in law enforcement, intelligence analysis, financial intelligence, data management, data analysis and IBM i2 analytical solutions. He holds a bachelor degree in Justice Studies from Edith Cowan University and a graduate diploma in Criminal Intelligence from Charles Sturt University, both in Australia. \n\nAsh formerly served as a Business Development Manager and Training Director for 15 years with Visual Analysis (VA-Worldwide). In his capacity with VA-Worldwide, Ash consulted on IBM i2 solutions, intelligence methods and AML\u002FCFT analysis. His work involved developing database solutions along with charting visualization, as well as conducting OSINT and social network analysis.\n\nHe is an accredited Anacapa Sciences intelligence trainer, having managed, developed and delivered the programme of Criminal Intelligence Analysis and Financial Manipulation Analysis for VA-Worldwide since 2006 in Australia, Asia and Africa.\n\nPrior to joining VA-Worldwide, Ash worked for 20 years with the Western Australia Police Service, where he fulfilled numerous roles from officer to investigator to lead intelligence analyst to executive level positions. In addition, Ash has developed expertise in conducting wildlife trafficking investigations and intelligence gathering.\n\nAsh has spoken at events around the globe regarding criminal intelligence analysis, social network analysis and the structures of organised crime. He has regularly presented for the University of Groningen School of Illicit Trade, Charles Sturt University, Macquarie University, Australian Institute of Professional Intelligence Officers (AIPIO), NSW Police i-Focus and Interpol. Ash is a member of the International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts (IALEIA) and International Association of Crime Analysts (IACA).",[63],"57803","ash-leber",[],[68],[121],{"id":1005,"status":6,"sort":1006,"user_created":8,"date_created":689,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":35,"first_name":1007,"last_name":1008,"position":1009,"phone":1010,"email":1011,"image":1012,"cv":1013,"category":43,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1014,"nid":1015,"slug":1016,"function":1017,"country":1018,"directorate":1019,"hidden":30},695,6,"Iker","Lekuona","Director, ICAR","+41 61 205 55 14","iker.lekuona@baselgovernance.org","81209b38-d306-4ad4-8e94-6e96ad1daa78","Iker Lekuona joined the Basel Institute on Governance in May 2019 and is currently Director of the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR). He is a governance and anti-corruption specialist with over 15 years of experience at strategic, management, programme and policy levels for multilateral, civil society and private sector organisations. \n\nAs Director, he is responsible for the overall direction and leadership of ICAR’s country programmes and teams in Asia Pacific, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. He is also a member of the Basel Institute's Management Group.\n\nPrior to joining the Basel Institute, Iker was Head of Governance and Stability at the international development firm Adam Smith International (ASI). In this role, he oversaw, managed, and grew a portfolio of anti-corruption programmes worth USD 35 million across Sub-Saharan Africa. \n\nAs a Governance Specialist for the World Bank in Uganda, he contributed to designing and delivering a portfolio of supply- and demand-side governance programmes. These included coordinating the evaluation of the Government of Uganda’s cross-sectoral performance for a USD 250m-per-year, multi-donor budget support operation; supporting the implementation of the anti-corruption component of the country’s largest social protection programme; and providing technical assistance to a civil society coalition monitoring government contracts in the education, health and road sectors. \n\nMoreover, Iker created and led the strategic research and capacity building departments of PODER, a non-governmental organisation whose goal is to improve corporate transparency and accountability in Latin America. \n\nIker holds an MA in Social Sciences – International Relations and Political Theory – from the University of Chicago, a Graduate Minor in Human Rights from the University of Minnesota, and a BA in English from the University of Deusto.",[45,121],"13151","iker-lekuona",[49,50],[27],[121],{"id":1021,"status":6,"sort":20,"user_created":10,"date_created":1022,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":912,"first_name":1023,"last_name":1024,"position":915,"phone":20,"email":1025,"image":1026,"cv":1027,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1028,"nid":1029,"slug":1030,"function":20,"country":1031,"directorate":20,"hidden":30},816,"2026-04-23T22:19:15.000Z","Dariia-Anastasiia","Lesniak","dariia-anastasiia.lesniak@baselgovernance.org","9d806605-dfa3-4456-ba78-9c0f83ed572f","Dariia-Anastasiia Lesniak joined the Basel Institute in March 2026 as an Associate, Corruption Prevention. She is an attorney-at-law and anti-corruption and compliance specialist with over six years of experience advising on integrity, corporate governance and regulatory frameworks. In her role, she supports the delivery of corruption risk assessments, compliance gap analyses and the development of anti-corruption policies and tools across sectors.\n\nPrior to joining the Basel Institute, she worked at the National Agency on Corruption Prevention of Ukraine, where she played a key role in advancing private sector integrity. Her work included analysing and aligning Ukrainian anti-corruption regulations with international standards and the EU acquis, contributing to the implementation of the State Anti-Corruption Programme, and developing policy proposals and methodological guidance for businesses and public institutions.\n\nAlongside her institutional work, she maintains a legal practice, advising on white-collar crime, compliance and complex regulatory matters, and representing clients in interactions with public authorities.",[63],"62716","dariia-anastasiia-lesniak",[264],{"id":1033,"status":6,"sort":1034,"user_created":8,"date_created":1035,"user_updated":162,"date_updated":1036,"first_name":1037,"last_name":1038,"position":373,"phone":15,"email":1039,"image":1040,"cv":1041,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1042,"nid":1043,"slug":1044,"function":1045,"country":1046,"directorate":1047,"hidden":30},756,69,"2025-03-27T21:22:16.000Z","2025-07-13T12:35:21.000Z","Erika","Lorenzo","erika.lorenzo@baselgovernance.org","142b5e47-4341-43b7-84fa-061f02ea91d6","Erika Lorenzo joined the Basel Institute on Governance in September 2022 and is currently a Specialist, Asset Recovery for the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) in Peru.\n\nA lawyer by training, Erika has specialist experience in “following the money” to trace and recover illicit assets.\n\nShe previously worked in the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Peru, where she supported investigations into high-profile cases of corruption and money laundering under Peru’s non-conviction based forfeiture legislation.\n\nBetween 2019–2022, Erika worked for the Subnational Public Finance Management Strengthening Programme in Peru, implemented by the Basel Institute on Governance under a long-running programme of the Swiss Cooperation–SECO. In this role, she also provided significant support to asset recovery investigations.\n\nShe holds a Master’s in Criminal Law from San Martín de Porres University and a Bachelor’s in Law from Hermilio Valdizan University, both in Peru.",[63],"61192","erika-lorenzo",[],[225],[121],{"id":1049,"status":6,"sort":1050,"user_created":8,"date_created":1051,"user_updated":162,"date_updated":1052,"first_name":1053,"last_name":1054,"position":216,"phone":15,"email":1055,"image":1056,"cv":1057,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1058,"nid":1059,"slug":1060,"function":1061,"country":1062,"directorate":1063,"hidden":30},757,70,"2025-03-27T21:22:17.000Z","2025-07-13T12:35:32.000Z","Svitlana","Lutsiuk","svitlana.lutsiuk@baselgovernance.org","b23be0a9-b80b-4926-8a80-f2ef3d7c4ab6","Svitlana Lutsiuk joined the Basel Institute on Governance in January 2024 as Senior Specialist, Corruption Prevention in Kyiv, Ukraine.\n\nSvitlana graduated from the Kyiv Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 2005 and began her career as an in-house lawyer at the State Foreign Trade Company Ukrinterenegro. She assisted the company in implementing projects in construction, energy and foreign trade, and managed dispute resolution in litigation and arbitration.\n\nIn 2016 Svitlana joined the International Disputes Department at the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, where she was dedicated to the protection of Ukraine’s interest in international disputes initiated by foreign investors.\n\nHaving witnessed the challenges Ukraine faces due to corruption, in 2020 Svitlana joined the National Agency of Corruption Prevention. She successfully managed multiple projects concerning policy making, corruption risk assessment and providing methodological assistance to anti-corruption officers in public and private entities, contributing to the promotion of an ethical, transparent and accountable way of doing business in Ukraine.\n\nIn 2023 Svitlana spent a year in a private sector law firm, working on anti-corruption and ethical business practice.",[63],"61809","svitlana-lutsiuk",[],[264],[],{"id":1065,"status":6,"sort":1066,"user_created":8,"date_created":1051,"user_updated":162,"date_updated":1067,"first_name":1068,"last_name":1069,"position":1070,"phone":1071,"email":1072,"image":1073,"cv":1074,"category":242,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1075,"nid":1076,"slug":1077,"function":1078,"country":1079,"directorate":1080,"hidden":30},758,71,"2025-07-13T12:35:45.000Z","Cornelia","Lutz","Senior Specialist \u002F Team Lead Finance","+41 61 205 55 13","cornelia.lutz@baselgovernance.org","0ba534ca-25b5-48df-a438-57a855552a35","Cornelia Lutz joined the Basel Institute as Senior Specialist \u002F Team Lead Finance in September 2023, bringing over 19 years’ experience in various areas of Business Administration. Her professional experience in the area of financial administration and management is wide-ranging, from daily accounting, regular closing, audits and project controlling to reporting and presenting financial information.\n\nPrior to joining the Institute, Cornelia had been working at Pharmaplan AG for 14 years, initially as a Controller and most recently as Director of Finance, Legal and IT. During this time she implemented and adjusted the financial administration process to reflect the ongoing growth of the company. Cornelia started her professional career at Mondelez (Kraft Foods Germany).\n\nCornelia’s studies took her to various institutes in Germany and the US, including the Freeman School of Business at Tulane University. Cornelia has a Diploma in Business Administration from the ESB Business School, Reutlingen and a Bachelor of Science in International Business from Northeastern University, Boston.",[242],"61644","cornelia-lutz",[635],[27],[458],{"id":1082,"status":6,"sort":1083,"user_created":8,"date_created":1084,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":196,"first_name":1085,"last_name":1086,"position":1087,"phone":723,"email":1088,"image":1089,"cv":1090,"category":242,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1091,"nid":1092,"slug":1093,"function":1094,"country":1095,"directorate":1096,"hidden":30},759,72,"2025-03-27T21:22:18.000Z","Mirella","Mahlstein","Specialist, Publishing and Communications","mirella.mahlstein@baselgovernance.org","5e30b914-ae7d-402e-8786-518e7511dab1","Mirella Mahlstein joined the Basel Institute in May 2024 to support publishing and communications across the organisation. In this role, she works closely with the Institute's subject-matter experts and researchers to ensure the highest quality standards of publications, as well as their visibility and usefulness to relevant stakeholders. She previously worked at the Basel Institute from 2007–2010 as a research assistant and returned to the Institute temporarily in 2015, providing administration and project support. \n\nIn between, Mirella spent five years in Nigeria, during which she held different positions at the Australian High Commission in Abuja. Her diverse portfolio of tasks included involvement in research, translation work, public diplomacy activities, media liaison, the day-to-day business of the development cooperation program, the preparation of consular and diplomatic missions abroad as well as the development of consular crisis action plans. Following her return to Switzerland, she joined the City of Zurich's administration. As staff of the Director of Social Services at the Department of Social Affairs her main focus was on strategic and operational management support. \n\nMirella then envisaged a career change into publishing, starting with an internship at a small non-fiction publisher in Switzerland. After a brief detour as Rights Manager, she most recently worked as Assistant Editor in non-fiction at the Swiss independent publisher Rotpunktverlag. \n\nMirella holds a Master of Arts degree in Social Anthropology and in Law from the University of Basel. She speaks German and English fluently, a rusty French and acceptable but grammatically rather freestyle Italian.",[242],"173","mirella-mahlstein",[731],[27],[458],{"id":1098,"status":6,"sort":20,"user_created":10,"date_created":1022,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":912,"first_name":1099,"last_name":1100,"position":59,"phone":20,"email":1101,"image":1102,"cv":1103,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1104,"nid":1105,"slug":1106,"function":20,"country":1107,"directorate":1108,"hidden":30},817,"Charles","Maluwa","charles.maluwa@baselgovernance.org","a203db8f-2ce1-4051-8201-25ef797a3b45","Charles Maluwa joined the Basel Institute on Governance in April 2026 as Specialist, Corruption Prevention for our Green Corruption programme in Malawi. In this role, he provides technical assistance to environmental and other relevant agencies to identify and mitigate corruption risks in Malawi’s wildlife conservation and forestry sectors.\n\nCharles is a governance, corruption prevention and institutional integrity specialist with over seven years of experience in corruption risk assessments, internal control strengthening and implementation of integrity frameworks across public institutions.\n\nHe previously served as a Corruption Prevention Officer at the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), where he conducted institutional integrity reviews, business process mapping and anti-fraud audits and advised government agencies on corruption prevention measures aligned with Malawi’s National Anti-Corruption Strategy II and the Corrupt Practices Act.\n\nCharles is also skilled in legal and policy framework analysis, legislative interpretation, anti-corruption training and multi-stakeholder coordination. He also served as a consulting partner at the Institute of Governance Accountability (IGA) in Malawi, leading initiatives that promote transparency, accountability and environmental governance.",[63],"62730","charles-maluwa",[68],[70],{"id":1110,"status":6,"sort":1111,"user_created":8,"date_created":1112,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":231,"first_name":1113,"last_name":1114,"position":1115,"phone":15,"email":1116,"image":1117,"cv":1118,"category":239,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1119,"nid":1120,"slug":1121,"function":1122,"country":1123,"directorate":1124,"hidden":30},700,17,"2025-03-27T21:21:41.000Z","Simon","Marsh","Head, Africa ICAR","simon.marsh@baselgovernance.org","de8ea9ba-93fa-48c0-bd4c-0955dbe0e179","Simon Marsh is Head of Africa at the Basel Institute’s International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR).\n\nHe joined the Basel Institute in 2013 and worked closely with Kenya's law enforcement agencies for several years, helping them to recover illicit assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Working hand in hand with investigators and prosecutors on complex cases of financial crime, he provides training, mentoring and strategic legal and policy advice, with a focus on regional and international cooperation.\n\nSince 2021, he has led the development of ICAR’s work across the Eastern and Southern Africa region as well as fostering engagement between the jurisdictions. In addition to his core role, Simon was instrumental in the establishment of the Basel Institute’s Green Corruption programme, which applies a follow-the-money approach to environmental crimes. In 2016, he worked with colleagues to co-found the Working Group on Cryptocurrencies and Criminal Finances, an initiative of the Basel Institute on Governance, Europol and INTERPOL.\n\nSimon spent over 13 years as a Police Officer with the Metropolitan Police in London, where he was selected in 2004 as Detective Sergeant and in 2010 for the rank of Detective Inspector. He has been specialising in asset recovery, money laundering and corruption since 2006. Simon holds an MA in Terrorism, International Crime and Global Security from Coventry University in the UK, where he occasionally lectures on money laundering and organised crime.",[121,63],"62","simon-marsh",[],[68],[121],{"id":1126,"status":6,"sort":1127,"user_created":8,"date_created":1128,"user_updated":162,"date_updated":1129,"first_name":1130,"last_name":1131,"position":1132,"phone":15,"email":1133,"image":1134,"cv":1135,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1136,"nid":1137,"slug":1138,"function":1139,"country":1140,"directorate":1141,"hidden":30},762,74,"2025-03-27T21:22:20.000Z","2025-07-13T12:36:47.000Z","David","Mattan","Senior Specialist, Asset Recovery ","david.mattan@baselgovernance.org","8a48dd19-4d22-4527-8d84-ee42816a122d","David Mattan joined the Basel Institute on Governance and its International Centre for Asset Recovery in November 2024 as Senior Specialist, Asset Recovery, based in Moldova. He previously worked at the Basel Institute from 2020–2021 as Senior Asset Recovery Specialist based in Nairobi.\n\nA graduate in law from Cambridge University in England, David worked for over 25 years in the field of asset recovery. His career includes being a senior police officer and prosecutor in Israel, and a specialist prosecutor in the Crown Prosecution Service in England, where he was the in-house prosecutor for a multi-institutional money laundering and asset recovery team.\n\nLicensed (not practicing) in Israel, England and Wales, and New York State, David served as Key Expert for a three-year EU-funded project in Kosovo, drafting asset recovery legislation and mentoring and training specialist prosecutors. He has also delivered workshops on comparative asset recovery systems, anti-money laundering investigations and prosecutions, financial investigations and international cooperation in several jurisdictions, including North Macedonia, Albania, Serbia, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Ghana, Romania, Moldova, Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan.",[63],"20161","david-mattan",[],[264],[121],{"id":1143,"status":6,"sort":20,"user_created":10,"date_created":1144,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":307,"first_name":270,"last_name":1145,"position":1146,"phone":20,"email":1147,"image":1148,"cv":1149,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1150,"nid":20,"slug":1151,"function":1152,"country":1153,"directorate":20,"hidden":30},818,"2026-04-23T22:19:16.000Z","Matviienko","Programme Officer","yuliia.matviienko@baselgovernance.org","f858362a-095c-42c3-b3db-02c9e0a79f2f","Yuliia Matviienko joined the Basel Institute on Governance in April 2025 as a Programme Officer, based in Ukraine.\n\nYuliia is a governance and political development specialist with over 10 years of experience in programme coordination, gender equality and civic engagement. She has worked extensively with international donors and local stakeholders to strengthen democratic institutions, promote inclusive political participation and build local capacities. Her expertise spans results-based programme management, gender mainstreaming, small grants administration and stakeholder engagement.\n\nPrior to joining the Basel Institute, Yuliia spent seven years at the National Democratic Institute (NDI) in Ukraine, most recently as a Senior Programme Officer. She led the design and implementation of donor-funded programmes to support political parties' development, promoting women’s political leadership and enhancing local governance. She also contributed to political party programming, strengthened monitoring and evaluation systems, and supported hundreds of women and underrepresented groups in preparing for local elections.\n\nPreviously, Yuliia headed a civil society organisation focused on community engagement and youth leadership. She also worked with the Secretariat of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, where she monitored and responded to gender-based discrimination and promoted legal compliance with equality standards.\n\nYuliia holds a Master of Law from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, where she also completed an interdisciplinary Anti-Corruption Studies Certificate Programme. She is an alumna of several international youth and democracy initiatives, including the World Forum for Democracy and the Open University of Reforms.",[63],"yuliia-matviienko",[262],[264],{"id":1155,"status":6,"sort":1156,"user_created":8,"date_created":1157,"user_updated":162,"date_updated":1158,"first_name":1159,"last_name":1160,"position":1161,"phone":15,"email":20,"image":1162,"cv":1163,"category":152,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1164,"nid":1165,"slug":1166,"function":1167,"country":1168,"directorate":1169,"hidden":30},696,5,"2025-03-27T21:21:38.000Z","2025-06-05T20:24:16.000Z","Dr Peter","Maurer","President of the Board","c3dc4bf9-43c7-4884-9f49-385dff14eb1c","Peter Maurer is President of the Board of the Basel Institute on Governance and a leading voice internationally on humanitarian and related issues. He joined the Basel Institute in October 2022, following over 10 years as President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).\n\nBorn in Thun, Switzerland, Peter Maurer has had a distinguished career in the Swiss diplomatic service. Among various positions he served for five years as Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York, where he worked to integrate Switzerland into multilateral networks. Prior to joining the ICRC, Peter Maurer was the Swiss Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in charge of five directorates and around 150 diplomatic missions around the world.\n\nIn recognition of his long humanitarian and diplomatic service, Peter Maurer has received prestigious honours from the Governments of Germany, France, Japan and Luxembourg. \n\nAmong other engagements, he is a Member of the Advisory Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and a Member of the Board of Directors of Zurich Insurance. \n\nPeter Maurer holds a PhD in History and International Law from the University of Bern. He has been awarded honorary doctorates from the universities of Basel, Perugia and Waseda.",[152],"61229","dr-peter-maurer",[],[],[],{"id":1171,"status":6,"sort":1172,"user_created":8,"date_created":1173,"user_updated":162,"date_updated":1174,"first_name":1175,"last_name":1176,"position":1177,"phone":39,"email":1178,"image":1179,"cv":1180,"category":242,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1181,"nid":1182,"slug":1183,"function":1184,"country":1185,"directorate":1186,"hidden":30},764,75,"2025-03-27T21:22:21.000Z","2025-07-13T12:37:19.000Z","Ana","Mladinov","Specialist, Administration","ana.mladinov@baselgovernance.org","3a223e10-7779-4d8a-b5b9-88bfe6eb740e","Ana Mladinov joined the Basel Institute in April 2022 as Specialist, Administration. Drawing on more than 12 years of professional experience, she supports the execution of general clerical, office administrative and logistical tasks as well as project-specific responsibilities.\n\nBorn and raised in Slovenia, Ana moved to Basel, Switzerland in 2014. Prior to joining the Basel Institute, she worked for Crown World Mobility, where she assisted the Mobility team with various administrative tasks and operational accounting.\n\nAna's experience includes working at the Faculty of Economics in Slovenia as an Associate in the Post-Graduate Student Affairs Office, providing administrative services to professors and students.\n\nAna holds a Master's degree in Business Administration and Entrepreneurship as well as Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the University of Ljubljana.",[631,242],"60997","ana-mladinov",[455],[27],[458],{"id":1188,"status":6,"sort":1189,"user_created":8,"date_created":1190,"user_updated":162,"date_updated":1191,"first_name":1192,"last_name":1193,"position":373,"phone":15,"email":1194,"image":1195,"cv":1196,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1197,"nid":1198,"slug":1199,"function":1200,"country":1201,"directorate":1202,"hidden":30},765,76,"2025-03-27T21:22:22.000Z","2025-07-13T12:37:30.000Z","Manuel","Moncada","manuel.moncada@baselgovernance.org","6af33938-8f53-4f46-a439-bae4edf0f056","Manuel Alejandro Moncada Ponte joined the Basel Institute’s International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) in Latin America in June 2021 and is currently Specialist, Asset Recovery. He is responsible primarily for legal research and support for asset recovery cases involving non-conviction based forfeiture mechanisms.\n\nManuel obtained his Bachelor of Law degree from the Universidad de Piura in Peru, where he gained experience at various private law firms and participated in workshops and specialised programmes on criminal procedure and criminal law. Since graduation, he has continued to pursue specialist skills and experience in investigating and prosecuting white-collar crime.\n\nBefore joining the Basel Institute, Manuel worked for three years as a Prosecutor’s Assistant in Peru’s Special Prosecutor's Office for Public Sector Corruption as part of a special investigation team focused on the Lava Jato corruption and money laundering complex of cases.",[63],"59452","manuel-moncada",[],[225],[70],{"id":1204,"status":6,"sort":1205,"user_created":8,"date_created":1206,"user_updated":162,"date_updated":1207,"first_name":1208,"last_name":1209,"position":373,"phone":15,"email":1210,"image":1211,"cv":1212,"category":242,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1213,"nid":1214,"slug":1215,"function":1216,"country":1217,"directorate":1218,"hidden":30},767,78,"2025-03-27T21:22:23.000Z","2025-07-13T12:37:51.000Z","Emmanuel","Mringo","emmanuel.mringo@baselgovernance.org","5216ef5d-41a7-4e26-803e-9ffa1c4a5a96","Emmanuel Jacob Mringo joined the Basel Institute on Governance in January 2023 as a Specialist, Asset Recovery. He works within the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) training team.\n\nPrior to joining the institute, Emmanuel worked as an investigator and prosecutor for the Tanzanian anti-corruption agency, the Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau (PCCB). In this role, he was involved in the investigation and prosecution of corruption and economic offences. He subsequently transferred to the Tanzanian Ministry of Finance and Planning, where he worked as a Legal Officer.\n\nFrom October to December 2022, Emmanuel worked as a consultant for ICAR in developing training materials for financial investigations in the context of environmental crime.\n\nEmmanuel was one of the certified ICAR trainers from the Institute's train-the-trainer programme in Tanzania in 2017. He has since been involved in several training courses conducted by the PCCB, using the ICAR training methodology to build capacity within Tanzania's law enforcement agencies. \n\nEmmanuel holds an LLB degree from Mzumbe University in Tanzania and an LLM in Oil and Gas from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. Emmanuel is also a Certified Public Private Partnership (PPP) Specialist with APMG International.",[114,242],"61377","emmanuel-mringo",[118],[68],[121],{"id":1220,"status":6,"sort":1221,"user_created":8,"date_created":1222,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":1223,"first_name":1224,"last_name":1225,"position":1226,"phone":15,"email":1227,"image":1228,"cv":1229,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1230,"nid":1231,"slug":1232,"function":1233,"country":1234,"directorate":1235,"hidden":30},768,79,"2025-03-27T21:22:24.000Z","2026-05-20T21:43:11.000Z","Julius","Muraya","Team Leader, Zambia","julius.muraya@baselgovernance.org","b9dde470-9890-4202-8cd6-809951889b60","Julius Muraya joined the International Centre for Asset Recovery at the Basel Institute on Governance in January 2023 as a Senior Specialist, Asset Recovery, and was promoted to team leader in November 2024. He is based in Zambia, where he leads a team providing mentoring, technical advisory and training support to the Anti-Corruption Commission and other government partners in the fight against corruption and organised crime.\n\nJulius is an advocate of the High Court of Kenya of over 30 years' standing. He has extensive experience in courtroom practice of public law with an emphasis on the seizure, confiscation and forfeiture of corruptly acquired assets.\n\nHe worked with the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), Kenya for 16 years, where he served in different capacities in the investigations and asset recovery departments. In his position as the Deputy Director in charge of Civil Litigation and Asset Recovery at the EACC, he led asset recovery efforts with remarkable success. Among others, it was during his tenure that jurisprudence on unexplained wealth in Kenya was effectively applied; successfully concluded cases have since attracted international attention as exemplary case studies. \n\n \n\nJulius has extensive hands-on experience in complex transnational financial investigations. He also served as head of the Mutual Legal Assistance Unit, where he prepared and coordinated the successful execution of dozens of mutual legal assistance as well as extradition requests in jurisdictions with varied legal systems, customs and practices. In November 2020, he co-chaired the Joint Technical Team sessions that negotiated Mutual Legal Assistance, Extradition, and Exchange of Prisoners Treaties between Kenya and the United Republic of Tanzania. He was also a member of the Kenyan technical team that negotiated a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty between Kenya and the United Arab Emirates as well as the People’s Republic of China.  \n\n \n\nHe has widely trained and mentored practitioners in asset tracing and recovery skills. He has broad experience in public sector reforms, having been intensely engaged in the review of policy, legal and institutional frameworks in the fight against corruption and in strengthening public sector accountability frameworks. In recognition of his outstanding and distinguished service to the nation of Kenya, Julius received the Presidential award of the Order of Grand Warrior (OGW) in December 2018.\n\n \n\nIn February 2022, Julius joined the GIZ Global Program on Combating Illicit Financial Flows (GP-IFF) where served as Advisor for Africa. In this role, Julius worked closely with the relevant African Union bodies and pan-African practitioner networks to provide technical support aimed at implementing a coherent continental policy and operational response to the devastating effects of illicit financial flows on sustainable development.",[121,63],"61347","julius-muraya",[],[68],[121],{"id":1237,"status":6,"sort":1238,"user_created":8,"date_created":1239,"user_updated":162,"date_updated":1240,"first_name":1241,"last_name":1242,"position":216,"phone":15,"email":1243,"image":1244,"cv":1245,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1246,"nid":1247,"slug":1248,"function":1249,"country":1250,"directorate":1251,"hidden":30},769,80,"2025-03-27T21:22:25.000Z","2025-07-13T12:38:14.000Z","Oleh","Mykhaliuk","oleh.mykhaliuk@baselgovernance.org","cc71aff4-7bf9-4abb-a344-ad09d1d3f9bc","Oleh Mykhaliuk joined the Basel Institute on Governance in January 2025 as Senior Specialist, Corruption Prevention in Kyiv, Ukraine.\n\nOleh is a Certified Fraud Examiner and a licensed Attorney. He started his career as a trial lawyer and later worked as a Senior Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he supported high-level tax and commercial disputes and was involved in large due diligence projects and public sector initiatives.\n\nFrom 2017 to 2021, Oleh worked as an investigator at the Business Ombudsman Council, an independent advisory body to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. In this role, he successfully investigated dozens of complaints related to malpractice in areas such as taxation, customs, law enforcement abuses, state inspections, local governance and public procurement. He was also involved in systemic work aimed at improving the legislative framework and policies in areas such as administrative procedures, labour law and the enforcement of court decisions.\n\nAdditionally, Oleh held the position of Head of the Special Investigation Group and Head of the Anti-Corruption Programme at one of the largest oil and gas companies in Ukraine, where he managed high-level investigations and audits.\n\nOleh also worked as a key national expert on economic justice at the EU-funded Project Pravo-Justice, where he provided top-level expert advice on the reform agenda, covering topics such as property rights protection, enforcement of court decisions, insolvency, sanctions compliance and forensic expertise.\n\nBefore joining the Basel Institute, Oleh served as a Legal Advisor at the USAID Justice for All Activity, where he was responsible for activities related to judicial ethics, integrity and disciplinary procedures.\n\nHe graduated from Kyiv National Economic University, holding degrees in commercial law and international economics.",[63],"62196","oleh-mykhaliuk",[],[264],[],{"id":1253,"status":6,"sort":1254,"user_created":8,"date_created":1239,"user_updated":162,"date_updated":1255,"first_name":1256,"last_name":1257,"position":183,"phone":15,"email":1258,"image":1259,"cv":1260,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1261,"nid":1262,"slug":1263,"function":1264,"country":1265,"directorate":1266,"hidden":30},770,81,"2025-07-13T12:38:25.000Z","Shane","Nainappan","shane.nainappan@baselgovernance.org","13a53bf3-1774-4e43-808b-760fab6caa06","Shane joined the Basel Institute in December 2023 as Senior Specialist, Asset Recovery for the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) in Tanzania. He previously worked at the Institute as Senior Asset Recovery Advisor from April 2017 to March 2021.\n\nShane joins us from the Bailiwick of Guernsey, where he was the Head of Operations for the newly established Economic & Financial Crime Bureau of Guernsey. Admitted as a Barrister in England and Wales in 1994, as an Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in 1995 and to the Roll of Solicitors of England and Wales in 1999, he brings a wealth of experience and knowledge across a broad spectrum of legal practice. Shane spent his early years as a Civil Litigator, then serving as a Senior Crown Prosecutor for over 17 years and more recently as a Senior Law Enforcement Officer in Guernsey.\n\nShane’s practice over the last 25 years has focused primarily on the preservation and recovery of assets, initially for financial institutions and, subsequently, transnationally for governments. With experience of working in the UK, South East Asia, the Gulf and East Africa, he is adept at enhancing cross border cooperation to improve the level of engagement between jurisdictions with the aim of influencing domestic and inter-government policy, the repatriation of illicit proceeds and the enhancement of prosecution rates in line with global developments.\n\nAs an accomplished Financial Crime and Cross Border Specialist, and in recognition of his work as a Prosecutor with the United Kingdom Crown Prosecution Service, his time in the Gulf and wider contributions to law and order representing the UK, Shane was appointed by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the Queen’s Honours Lists of June 2015.",[63],"63","shane-nainappan",[],[68],[121],{"id":1268,"status":6,"sort":20,"user_created":10,"date_created":1144,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":912,"first_name":1269,"last_name":1270,"position":1271,"phone":20,"email":1272,"image":1273,"cv":1274,"category":242,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1275,"nid":1276,"slug":1277,"function":1278,"country":1279,"directorate":1280,"hidden":30},819,"Dr Christopher","Nell","Specialist, Financial Crime Risk","christopher.nell@baselgovernance.org","57df0e62-c1be-4964-94d1-bcf85c0e9c8b","Dr Christopher Nell joined the Basel Institute on Governance in April 2026 as Specialist, Financial Crime Risk. In this role, he works on the [Basel AML Index](https:\u002F\u002Findex.baselgovernance.org\u002F) and related analysis, helping to strengthen datasets and methodologies, analyse risk indicators and support country risk assessments and publications.\n\nChristopher is an economist with over a decade of experience in quantitative analysis, statistical modelling and empirical research on taxation, public financial management and governance. His previous roles covered tax evasion, fiscal transparency and integrity, energy and natural resource governance, and economic risk analysis and revenue forecasting.\n\nBefore joining the Basel Institute, Christopher worked in different countries including in Austria, Brazil, Chile, Mozambique, Rwanda and the United Kingdom. Among the positions he held were senior advisory roles at the Rwanda Revenue Authority and at Transparency International's national chapter in Mozambique through placements with the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ). He was also a researcher at the International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD) at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), provided consultancy services for the African Tax Administration Forum (ATAF) and delivered training in statistical data analysis.\n\nChristopher holds a PhD in Economics (with distinction) from the University of Vienna and an MSc in Economics (with distinction) from the University of Warwick. During his PhD studies he was also a visiting research scholar at Monash University.",[121,241,242],"62742","dr-christopher-nell",[206],[27],[121],{"id":1282,"status":6,"sort":20,"user_created":10,"date_created":1283,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":912,"first_name":1284,"last_name":1285,"position":1286,"phone":20,"email":1287,"image":1288,"cv":1289,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1290,"nid":1291,"slug":1292,"function":20,"country":1293,"directorate":20,"hidden":30},820,"2026-04-23T22:19:17.000Z","Lesia","Nikitova","Senior Specialist, Operations","lesia.nikitova@baselgovernance.org","10b6bdbe-9c74-48d7-b335-d0230562dd38","Lesia Nikitova joined the Basel Institute in March 2026 as Senior Operations Specialist in Kyiv, Ukraine. She brings over 23 years of experience leading complex operations and financial management functions in fragile and post-conflict environments.\n\nOver the course of her career, Lesia has focused on ensuring the transparent and compliant delivery of donor-funded programmes, particularly in the areas of operations, finance, HR, grants and procurement management.\n\nShe has led operations for multi-million-dollar USAID- and EU-funded programmes in countries including Ukraine, Armenia, Moldova, Lebanon, South Sudan, Mali, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Afghanistan, often building systems from the ground up in volatile environments. Her experience includes managing budgets exceeding USD 40 million and overseeing grant portfolios of up to USD 15 million, with consistent audit success.\n\nLesia holds MA degrees in finance, management studies and translation.",[63],"62721","lesia-nikitova",[264],{"id":1295,"status":6,"sort":1296,"user_created":8,"date_created":1297,"user_updated":162,"date_updated":1298,"first_name":1299,"last_name":1300,"position":1301,"phone":15,"email":1302,"image":1303,"cv":1304,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1305,"nid":1306,"slug":1307,"function":1308,"country":1309,"directorate":1310,"hidden":30},771,82,"2025-03-27T21:22:26.000Z","2025-07-13T12:38:37.000Z","Mathews","Nkosi","Senior Specialist, Monitoring and Evaluation","mathews.nkosi@baselgovernance.org","011afc88-09db-45e8-9902-abfc11057f59","Mathews Nkosi joined the Basel Institute of Governance in January 2022 as an Associate, Monitoring and Evaluation. Based in Malawi, he supports the multi-year Tackling Serious and Organised Corruption (TSOC) programme of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, which is implemented by the Basel Institute through its local team. \n\nMathews has over 15 years of experience in programme quality and development, with an emphasis on monitoring and evaluation (M&E). He has worked with both international and local organisations in Malawi, supporting the development of robust and impactful programmes using theory of change and logical frameworks. He places particular emphasis on programme reporting, data collection and analysis using specialist software, and capacity building on participatory monitoring, evaluation and research. \n\nWith this extensive experience, Mathews has supported both local community-based organisations in establishing sound M&E systems, as well as international organisations including World Vision International, Save the Children International and Options Consultancy Services.  \n\nMathews is a member of the Malawi Monitoring and Evaluation Association and is also a smallholder dairy farmer. \n\nMathews holds a Master in Development Studies from Kimmage Development Studies Centre in Ireland and a Bachelor of Education Degree from Chancellor College, Malawi.",[63],"60860","mathews-nkosi",[],[68],[121],{"id":1312,"status":6,"sort":1313,"user_created":8,"date_created":1314,"user_updated":162,"date_updated":1315,"first_name":817,"last_name":1316,"position":1146,"phone":15,"email":1317,"image":1318,"cv":1319,"category":242,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1320,"nid":1321,"slug":1322,"function":1323,"country":1324,"directorate":1325,"hidden":30},772,83,"2025-03-27T21:22:27.000Z","2025-07-13T12:38:49.000Z","Oluka","james.oluka@baselgovernance.org","6e8c9e3b-7b9b-4e81-91ee-c2f981a31782","James Edielu Oluka joined the Basel Institute’s International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) in March 2023. As a Programme Officer, James supports the administrative aspects of delivering ICAR training programmes in partner countries.\n\nPrior to joining the Basel Institute, James worked with Teso-Karamoja Media Agency (TEKAMA) as a Programme Coordinator, where he helped grow the organisation’s programmes and contributed to the strengthening of systems within the organisation and among partners. While with TEKAMA, James organised the biggest community-led environmental campaign that aimed to plant 25 million trees in five years in the Teso subregion of Uganda. \n\nBetween September 2021 and August 2022, James worked with the African Youth Peer Review Committee (AYPRC) as a volunteer Head of Programmes. Here, he led the development and implementation of youth-focused programmes across Africa, and contributed to the widening in geographical scope of the organisation’s programmes from eight to 13 countries over just one year. While with the AYPRC, James held sessions with eight African national parliaments to discuss a just transition from fossil fuels to clean energy. A significant number of legislators across Africa subsequently signed a resolution for a fossil fuel-free future.\n\nIn October 2022, James was appointed as a member and Deputy Head of the Directorate of Youth Policy Development of the African Network of Youth Policy Experts (AfriNYPE). In this voluntary role, he is a regular contributor to the development and strengthening of youth-related policies across Africa. James is passionate about and strongly supports youth involvement in climate justice, participation and social accountability.\n\nJames obtained a degree in Library and Information Science from Makerere University in Uganda, a certificate in Climate Justice from Kenyatta University and a certificate in Digital Communications Networks from online learning platform Alison. James is a member of the African Group of Negotiators Experts Support (AGNES).",[114,242],"61440","james-oluka",[118],[68],[121],{"id":1327,"status":6,"sort":20,"user_created":10,"date_created":1283,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":912,"first_name":1328,"last_name":1329,"position":373,"phone":20,"email":1330,"image":1331,"cv":1332,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1333,"nid":1334,"slug":1335,"function":20,"country":1336,"directorate":1337,"hidden":30},821,"Celestina","Ordaz","celestina.ordaz@baselgovernance.org","54360e1e-cfc3-4408-a849-98bd5d6fb8e9","Celestina Ordaz joined the Basel Institute in May 2024 as a Specialist, Asset Recovery, based in Mexico.\n\nCelestina completed her university studies at the Autonomous University of Mexico, specialising in procedural law. She held several positions in the judicial branch of the State of Mexico and passed the competitive exam for the position of civil judge.\n\nIn 1999, she joined the Federal Judiciary. From 2011 to 2015 she was assigned to the only court specialised in *Extinción de dominio* (non-conviction based forfeiture) in Mexico, whose main function was to prepare draft sentences and process cases in this field throughout the Mexican Republic. During this period Celestina participated as a speaker in courses organised by the Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training (OPDAT) of the US Department of Justice and the Attorney General's Office of the State of Mexico.\n\nCelestina also contributed to a regional exchange on mock trial methodology in *Extinción de dominio* organised by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative.\n\nCelestina holds a Master’s degree in Corporate Business Law and completed several diploma courses relating to human rights protection and commercial insolvency proceedings.",[121,63],"62366","celestina-ordaz",[225],[121],{"id":1339,"status":6,"sort":1340,"user_created":8,"date_created":1341,"user_updated":162,"date_updated":1342,"first_name":1343,"last_name":1344,"position":1345,"phone":1346,"email":1347,"image":1348,"cv":1349,"category":242,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1350,"nid":1351,"slug":1352,"function":1353,"country":1354,"directorate":1355,"hidden":30},774,84,"2025-03-27T21:22:28.000Z","2025-07-13T12:39:14.000Z","Teresa","Paonessa","Senior Specialist \u002F Team Lead HR, Safeguarding Officer","+41 61 205 55 31","teresa.paonessa@baselgovernance.org","ba3bcc92-31ec-4367-9d02-0b95109c6684","Teresa Paonessa joined the Basel Institute in July 2017 and is currently the Senior Specialist \u002F Team Lead HR. Leading a team of two other HR Specialists, she supports the Management Group and Heads of Division in a variety of personnel-related affairs and takes care of staff requirements and concerns. She also serves as the Basel Institute's Safeguarding Officer.\n\nPrior to joining the Institute, Teresa gained her HR experience in different industries (IBM, BASF, Bank J. Safra Sarasin). In her roles she has been responsible for a wide range of HR affairs. These ranged from the recruitment and onboarding of new employees to providing support and guidance to the management on sensitive and complex staff issues.\n\nTeresa graduated from the University of Basel with a Master of Science in Psychology in 2010. In addition, she holds a Federal Diploma as Human Resources Specialist with a focus on Swiss labour law.",[631,242],"46","teresa-paonessa",[455],[27],[458],{"id":1357,"status":6,"sort":20,"user_created":10,"date_created":1358,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":912,"first_name":1359,"last_name":1360,"position":1146,"phone":20,"email":1361,"image":1362,"cv":1363,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1364,"nid":1365,"slug":1366,"function":1367,"country":1368,"directorate":1369,"hidden":30},822,"2026-04-23T22:19:18.000Z","Corina","Pavlișciuc","corina.pavlisciuc@baselgovernance.org","1c5ce2fa-99c4-42f5-84e7-518c29913ab8","Corina Pavlișciuc joined the Basel Institute on Governance in July 2025 as Programme Officer in Moldova. She supports the implementation of our International Centre for Asset Recovery’s (ICAR) programme in the country, which aims to strengthen Moldova’s capacity to confiscate and recover stolen assets.\n\nCorina brings over 16 years of experience in public administration and programme coordination across Moldova’s public institutions and the international development sector. Corina joins us from the European Union High Level Advisers Mission to the Republic of Moldova and the State Tax Service of the Republic of Moldova, where she held key roles in policy reform, institutional development and external cooperation.\n\nCorina is the author of several taxpayer-oriented guides and operational instructions, designed to enhance interaction between the fiscal authority and the general public, with a special focus on accessibility and education.\n\nDriven by a strong commitment to civic engagement and financial literacy, Corina is a member of FINEDU Moldova, an NGO affiliated with the OECD International Network on Financial Education. She contributes to the National Strategy for Financial Education, coordinated by the National Bank of Moldova.\n\nCorina holds a Master’s degree in Public Law from the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Moldova and a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova. She is also an alumna of the International Visitors Leadership Programme (IVLP) of the U.S. Department of State, focused on leadership and global engagement.",[63],"62454","corina-pavlisciuc",[262],[264],[121],{"id":1371,"status":6,"sort":1372,"user_created":8,"date_created":1341,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":1223,"first_name":1373,"last_name":1374,"position":1375,"phone":39,"email":1376,"image":1377,"cv":1378,"category":242,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1379,"nid":1380,"slug":1381,"function":1382,"country":1383,"directorate":1384,"hidden":30},775,85,"Anna","Peyre","Specialist, HR \u002F Programme Assistant, Continuing Education","anna.peyre@baselgovernance.org","6c1989f9-9f2b-4d6c-b63b-def9586a5501","Anna Peyre joined the Basel Institute in June 2023 as Specialist, HR. In this function, she supports the Institute and its global teams in a variety of HR-related tasks. She also assists with the Basel STUDY programme management.\n\nAnna is French and holds a Bachelor's degree in English Literature and Civilisations as well as a degree in Management and Business Administration with a specialisation in HR. Prior to joining the Basel Institute, she worked as an HR Generalist at Cleeven, a consulting company specialised in engineering, and as an HR Coordinator at Moderna. \n\nAlongside her professional engagement in HR, she is also actively involved in various cultural projects. These include being an ambassador for the Kunstmuseum Basel and administrating several jazz festivals in Switzerland.",[242],"61562","anna-peyre",[455],[27],[458],{"id":1386,"status":6,"sort":1387,"user_created":8,"date_created":588,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":1388,"first_name":1389,"last_name":1390,"position":1391,"phone":1392,"email":1393,"image":1394,"cv":1395,"category":43,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1396,"nid":1397,"slug":1398,"function":1399,"country":1400,"directorate":1401,"hidden":30},697,2,"2026-04-23T23:19:07.000Z","Andrea","Poelling","Director, Operations \u002F Secretary to the Board","+41 61 205 55 35","andrea.poelling@baselgovernance.org","e67ba209-13fa-4264-b344-98b03bb004b1","Andrea Poelling is Director of Operations at the Basel Institute on Governance and Secretary to its Foundation Board. \n\nAs Director of Operations, Andrea is responsible for managing the Institute’s day-to-day business operations and processes. In this role since 2009, she oversees the Institute’s finances, HR, central administration & IT, and communications with a view to optimising operational efficiency and managing resources effectively. She also contributes to the Institute’s strategic development as a member of the Core Management Team. \n\nShe joined the Institute in 2006 with the launch of the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR), where she played an instrumental role as Special Assistant to the Director in the setup of this niche competence centre for asset recovery. \n\nBefore returning home to Basel in 2006, Andrea spent 15 years abroad in the USA, Central and South America, and Africa. She commenced her professional career with the Washington Times as international project coordinator, deployed to various countries in Latin America, the Caribbean and East Africa to write and produce special reports on these countries for the Washingtonian audience with focus on economic investment opportunities.\n\nLater, in 2001, she joined the United Nations Department for Peacekeeping Operations, initially at headquarters in New York as Special Assistant to the Director\u002FExternal Relations Officer of the Mine Action Service, and thereafter as Programme Officer at the Mine Action Coordination Centre in Eritrea and Ethiopia. In these positions, she was primarily involved in programme management and coordination, donor and public relations, as well as resource mobilisation. \n\nPreviously - during her studies – she also conducted work for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Washington DC, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in New York and the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo.\n\nAndrea holds a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs with a specialisation in human rights and humanitarian affairs (international public law).\n\nAndrea speaks German, English, French and Spanish. She’s an avid tennis player, skier (downhill and cross country), runner and yoga practitioner. She loves live music.",[45,631],"36","andrea-poelling",[49,50],[27],[458],{"id":1403,"status":6,"sort":1404,"user_created":8,"date_created":1405,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":106,"first_name":1406,"last_name":1407,"position":1408,"phone":39,"email":1409,"image":1410,"cv":1411,"category":239,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1412,"nid":1413,"slug":1414,"function":1415,"country":1416,"directorate":1417,"hidden":30},702,13,"2025-03-27T21:21:42.000Z","Amanda","Procter","Co-Head, Programmes ICAR","amanda.procter@baselgovernance.org","a934b487-5888-4346-8027-71a4666962cf","Amanda Procter joined the Basel Institute on Governance in June 2021 and is currently Co-Head of Programmes for the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR). As part of this role Amanda jointly leads a cross-cutting programme management platform initiative at the Basel Institute and is a member of the Extended Management Team.\n\nAmanda is a development professional with 20 years’ experience managing development projects in Central America and East Africa. During her eight years with Save the Children, she supported two country offices to institute a systematic approach to award management, strengthening office capacity to secure and manage donor funds with a high level of compliance. In the role of Zanzibar Representative, she contributed to Save the Children becoming the iNGO partner of choice in Zanzibar and garnering a high level of government trust and engagement, including representation on the National Epidemic Taskforce. Prior to that, Amanda worked in leadership positions for Canadian NGOs financing education-focused community development initiatives in Central America.\n\nAmanda holds a Masters in Planning from the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia and an Honours Bachelor of Arts in International Development from the University of Toronto at Scarborough.",[121,242],"59471","amanda-procter",[50,262],[27],[121],{"id":1419,"status":6,"sort":1420,"user_created":8,"date_created":1421,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":231,"first_name":1422,"last_name":1423,"position":1424,"phone":1425,"email":1426,"image":1427,"cv":1428,"category":239,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1429,"nid":1430,"slug":1431,"function":1432,"country":1433,"directorate":1434,"hidden":30},703,7,"2025-03-27T21:21:43.000Z","Stephen","Ratcliffe","Head, Investigations ICAR \u002F Security Focal Point","+41 61 205 55 16","stephen.ratcliffe@baselgovernance.org","4b36867a-c06e-479a-83cf-dced5a35fbbf","Steve is a Head of Investigations in the Basel Institute's International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR). He was promoted to this role in 2024, having joined the Institute in August 2015 as a Senior Specialist in Financial Investigations.\n\nPreviously he worked for the Royal Cayman Islands Police and was in charge of their financial crime and intelligence departments. He co-chaired the group which wrote the money-laundering risk assessment in advance of the FATF inspection due in 2017.\n\nPrior to this he was a police officer in the UK’s Metropolitan Police for 31 years where most recently he was a senior officer within the serious and organised crime division between 2007-2014. His work specialised in targeting nationally and internationally significant criminals who had amassed sizeable criminal assets and therefore required a detailed, complex and sustained investigative response.\n\nAfter the terrorist attacks of September 2001 he was responsible for creating the National Terrorist Financial Investigation Unit (NTFIU) based in Scotland Yard. This multi-agency and multi-disciplinary body was responsible for the investigation of terrorist financing; the creation of training courses and their delivery nationally and internationally and the mainstreaming of financial investigation into pro-active terrorist investigations.\n\nSteve holds a master's degree from the University of Cambridge in Applied Criminology and Management.",[121,242],"47","stephen-ratcliffe",[],[27],[121],{"id":1436,"status":6,"sort":735,"user_created":8,"date_created":1421,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":35,"first_name":1437,"last_name":1438,"position":1439,"phone":39,"email":1440,"image":1441,"cv":1442,"category":239,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1443,"nid":1444,"slug":1445,"function":1446,"country":1447,"directorate":1448,"hidden":30},704,"Thierry","Ravalomanda","Head, Training ICAR","thierry.ravalomanda@baselgovernance.org","c62dd983-c817-4419-90fb-c7697d7a449f","Thierry Ravalomanda is Head of Training at the Basel Institute’s International Centre of Asset Recovery (ICAR). In this role he oversees, coordinates and delivers technical training programmes in financial investigations and asset recovery for developing and transition countries.\n\nThierry is also co-lead of a cross-cutting training and learning platform initiative and a member of the Extended Management Team.\n\nOriginally a judicial officer from Madagascar, Thierry joined the [ICAR Training Team](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fasset-recovery\u002Ftraining-programmes) in 2015 as a Senior Asset Recovery Specialist. He was promoted to his current role in July 2023, having previously served as Deputy Head of Training ICAR.\n\nThierry obtained his Masters in Law from the French University of Reunion Island and was afterwards admitted to the École Nationale de la Magistrature et des Greffes in Antananarivo, Madagascar. Here he obtained his diploma of aptitude for the profession of magistrate, qualifying him to be a judge or a prosecutor.\n\nHe was first appointed as a Deputy Public Prosecutor in the First Instance Court of Antananarivo and specialised in anti-corruption by joining the newly formed Anti Corruption Judiciary Unit. He was in charge of the investigation and prosecution of large-scale corruption cases and other economic and financial crimes and attended various relevant training courses offered by different international institutions.\n\nAfter five years working as a prosecutor, Thierry was appointed as the head of the legal department of the Financial Intelligence Unit of Madagascar. Leading a team of analysts and intelligence officers, he conducted the gathering of information and intelligence analysis to unveil possible money laundering and terrorist financing activities and wrote intelligence reports that were sent to the Public Prosecutor for further investigation.\n\nHe was personally in charge of the analysis of complex and sensitive cases. Part of his assignment was to provide training and technical assistance to AML\u002FCFT national stakeholders, especially to key law enforcement agencies and judicial officers. He contributed significantly to the writing of a handbook on anti-money laundering for prosecutors and judges. He was also in charge of international co-operation, working closely with the judiciary and law enforcement agencies of partner countries.",[121,114,242],"48","thierry-ravalomanda",[50,118],[27],[121],{"id":1450,"status":6,"sort":20,"user_created":10,"date_created":1358,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":912,"first_name":1451,"last_name":1452,"position":1453,"phone":20,"email":1454,"image":1455,"cv":1456,"category":242,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1457,"nid":1458,"slug":1459,"function":1460,"country":1461,"directorate":1462,"hidden":30},823,"Celeste","Rex","Specialist, Communications and Online Media","celeste.rex@baselgovernance.org","91114f48-d084-40ff-aed8-988138b80190","Celeste Rex joined the Basel Institute on Governance in October 2025 to support the Communications team in amplifying the Institute’s work on social media and other digital channels.\n\nShe previously worked at Alpian, a digital bank headquartered in Geneva, where she led the digital content marketing strategy and launched the SHEWEALTH Collective, a financial literacy community designed for women.\n\nPrior to that, Celeste lived for several years in Germany, working for a digital publisher part of the Funke Mediengruppe in the entertainment sector. In this role, she worked as a Content and Video Editor, and eventually led a team of video producers for an array of social media brands across 10 languages.\n\nCeleste holds two Bachelor’s degrees from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile: one in Hispanic Linguistics and Literature and one in Aesthetics (Philosophy). She is currently pursuing an MA in Social Science with a major in Strategic Communications and Management and a minor in Empirical Cultural Studies at the University of Zurich.\n\nShe speaks Spanish, English and German, and is learning Japanese as a hobby inspired by her love of animation and manga.",[242],"62535","celeste-rex",[731],[27],[458],{"id":1464,"status":6,"sort":1465,"user_created":8,"date_created":1466,"user_updated":162,"date_updated":1467,"first_name":1468,"last_name":1469,"position":373,"phone":15,"email":1470,"image":1471,"cv":1472,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1473,"nid":1474,"slug":1475,"function":1476,"country":1477,"directorate":1478,"hidden":30},778,87,"2025-03-27T21:22:30.000Z","2025-07-13T12:40:59.000Z","Sergio","Rodriguez","sergio.rodriguez@baselgovernance.org","46f20087-0abc-4df1-aa26-760622cb30cb","Sergio Rodriguez Salinas joined the Basel Institute’s International Centre for Asset Recovery in Latin America in September 2022. As of June 2024, he works partly as a core member of the International Centre for Asset Recovery training team. In addition, he carries out research on various legal topics, including emerging trends and best practices in asset recovery, and develops knowledge products.\n\nSergio’s background combines both academic and practical experience. On the academic side, he is a Professor in the Law Department of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP), where he originally obtained his law degree. He is currently pursuing a master’s degree in University Teaching at PUCP and a PhD in Law and Business Administration at the University of Lleida, Spain.\n\nHis practical experience includes service as a Prosecutor’s Assistant in Peru’s Special Prosecutor's Office for Public-Sector Corruption, as part of a special investigation team focused on the Lava Jato corruption and money laundering complex of cases. He has also worked as a consultant for several national and international organisations, including the German development agency GIZ, the International Labor Organization, the American Bar Association and the Basel Institute on Governance.",[121,114,63],"61244","sergio-rodriguez",[118],[225],[121],{"id":1480,"status":6,"sort":1481,"user_created":8,"date_created":1482,"user_updated":162,"date_updated":1483,"first_name":1484,"last_name":1485,"position":373,"phone":15,"email":1486,"image":1487,"cv":1488,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1489,"nid":1490,"slug":1491,"function":1492,"country":1493,"directorate":1494,"hidden":30},779,88,"2025-03-27T21:22:31.000Z","2025-07-13T12:41:09.000Z","Alejandra","Romero","alejandra.romero@baselgovernance.org","3b385556-f472-48d0-913f-35f945b153c8","Alejandra Ysabel Romero Zevallos joined the Basel Institute’s Green Corruption team in Latin America in September 2022 as a Specialist, Asset Recovery.\n\nAlejandra previously worked as an Assistant Prosecutor in the Public Prosecutor's Office of Peru. In this role, she specialised in complex cases of corruption involving public officials involved in organised crime networks. She previously provided legal support at the criminal court in San Juan de Lurigancho and has specialist experience in criminal law, criminal procedure and investigative strategies for asset recovery.\n\nAlongside a law degree, Alejandra is a candidate for a Master's in Criminal Sciences from the Universidad San Martin de Porres in Peru.",[63],"61215","alejandra-romero",[],[225],[70],{"id":1496,"status":6,"sort":20,"user_created":10,"date_created":1497,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":912,"first_name":1498,"last_name":1499,"position":59,"phone":20,"email":1500,"image":1501,"cv":1502,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1503,"nid":1504,"slug":1505,"function":20,"country":1506,"directorate":1507,"hidden":30},824,"2026-04-23T22:19:19.000Z","Orfan","Saldaña Ávila","orfan.saldana@baselgovernance.org","f9ad7f03-3020-4a21-a57d-d8f0ca8cdb55","Orfan Saldaña Ávila joined the Basel Institute on Governance in January 2026 as a Corruption Prevention Specialist. He provides technical assistance to environmental agencies and other institutions in Bolivia to identify and mitigate corruption risks. He also supports the implementation of preventive measures within institutional systems, with a particular focus on the forestry sector.\n\nOrfan has more than 25 years of professional experience in the public and private sectors, specialising in natural resource management, environmental governance and institutional strengthening.\n\nHe spent over 16 years at the Authority for the Supervision and Social Control of Forests and Land (ABT) in Bolivia, where he held a range of senior technical and management positions. These included roles as Technical Officer, Head of Regional Forest and Land Operational Offices (UOBT) in different regions of the country, Departmental Director of ABT in Santa Cruz, and National Head of Operational Control.\n\nIn addition, he has worked as an independent consultant for more than 10 years, supporting the design and implementation of forest management instruments and providing technical assistance on the control, management and sustainable use of forest resources.\n\nOrfan is a Forest Engineer and holds a degree from the Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno (UAGRM) in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, as well as a postgraduate diploma in Environmental Management from the Universidad de Aquino Bolivia.",[63],"62664","orfan-saldana-avila",[225],[70],{"id":1509,"status":6,"sort":1510,"user_created":8,"date_created":1511,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":1223,"first_name":1512,"last_name":1513,"position":1514,"phone":15,"email":1515,"image":1516,"cv":1517,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1518,"nid":1519,"slug":1520,"function":1521,"country":1522,"directorate":1523,"hidden":30},780,89,"2025-03-27T21:22:32.000Z","Misozi","Samuti Chimbe","Programme Manager, Southern and East Africa","misozi.samuti@baselgovernance.org","fc096928-2dd8-4da1-9585-642aeaa0972c","Misozi Samuti Chimbe, joined the Basel Institute on Governance in August 2018 and is currently Senior Programme Manager, based in Malawi. She initially worked as Financial Administrator, became Programme Manager for Malawi in 2019 and Programme Manager, Southern and East Africa in 2024.\n\nIn her current function as Senior Programme Manager, Misozi supports the delivery of the Basel Institute's International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) programming in Zambia and Tanzania.\n\nMisozi has extensive experience in programme design, reporting and stakeholder engagement, and has successfully led teams and managed complex projects in collaboration with international donors such as the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Global Affairs Canada and USAID. Her previous roles as a Financial Administrator and Finance and Administration Manager honed her skills in financial reporting, risk management and donor relations.\n\nMisozi is an accountant by profession. She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (Cum Laude) in Accounting from the University of Eastern Africa, Baraton, and has further enhanced her expertise with certifications in Forensic Accounting from the University of West Virginia.",[63],"64","misozi-samuti-chimbe",[262],[68],[121],{"id":1525,"status":6,"sort":1526,"user_created":8,"date_created":1511,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":672,"first_name":1527,"last_name":1528,"position":675,"phone":39,"email":1529,"image":1530,"cv":1531,"category":242,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1532,"nid":1533,"slug":1534,"function":1535,"country":1536,"directorate":1537,"hidden":30},781,90,"Carmen","Santos","carmen.santos@baselgovernance.org","6e2c1543-708b-4850-8396-49dc12b77220","Carmen joined the Basel Institute on Governance in July 2022 as Specialist, eLearning. In her role, she designs and develops eLearning courses for the Basel Institute’s LEARN platform.\n\nHer career has always been related to adult education, and more specifically online training. Before joining the Institute, Carmen expanded her skills by working as a Learning Consultant in Portugal. There, she collaborated with financial institutions on subjects such as anti-money laundering, anti-corruption, corporate sustainability, work ethics and client service.\n\nIn her most recent position, she was a Learning Advisor and Proofreader for a pharmaceutical company in Switzerland. In this role, she managed eLearning Projects in areas including artwork software, supply chain planning, demand planning and production.\n\nOriginally from Portugal, Carmen graduated from the University of Lisbon with a master’s degree in Adult Education, with a specialisation in the Recognition of Prior Learning Process.",[242],"61172","carmen-santos",[683,617],[27],[121,458],{"id":1539,"status":6,"sort":1540,"user_created":8,"date_created":1541,"user_updated":162,"date_updated":1542,"first_name":1543,"last_name":1544,"position":183,"phone":15,"email":1545,"image":1546,"cv":1547,"category":242,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1548,"nid":1549,"slug":1550,"function":1551,"country":1552,"directorate":1553,"hidden":30},783,91,"2025-03-27T21:22:33.000Z","2025-07-13T12:41:44.000Z","Anne-Claude","Scheidegger","anne-claude.scheidegger@baselgovernance.org","1528ce07-4f3e-4df4-bf89-586292f04422","Anne-Claude Scheidegger joined the Basel Institute on Governance in July 2024 as a Senior Specialist, Asset Recovery. She works in the training team at the International Centre for Asset Recovery.\n\nSince 2008, Anne-Claude has worked for prosecution authorities in Switzerland, including as a prosecutor at cantonal and federal level, specialising in the fight against economic crime. As a federal prosecutor, she worked in the White-Collar Crime Division in the Office of Attorney General. In this capacity, she was in charge of criminal proceedings, particularly of international corruption and money laundering, and of cooperation with foreign prosecution authorities through mutual legal assistance procedures.\n\nSince 2012, Anne-Claude has also been a lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Fribourg, where she teaches criminal law exercises for the Bachelor of Law degree. She has put this activity on standby for two years to dedicate herself fully to her role at the Institute. She was also a lecturer for the Certificate of Advanced Studies for \"Magistrature Pénale\" at the Haute-Ecole Arc, Neuchâtel.\n\nAnne-Claude has contributed to a number of publications in the field of criminal law and economic crime.",[121,114,242],"61998","anne-claude-scheidegger",[118],[27],[121],{"id":1555,"status":6,"sort":1556,"user_created":8,"date_created":1557,"user_updated":1558,"date_updated":1559,"first_name":1560,"last_name":1561,"position":1562,"phone":1563,"email":1564,"image":1565,"cv":1566,"category":242,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1567,"nid":1568,"slug":1569,"function":1570,"country":1572,"directorate":1573,"hidden":30},784,92,"2025-03-27T21:22:34.000Z","115250da-6c1d-42e7-888a-fbbe909fc524","2026-06-05T12:35:09.000Z","Dr Jörg","Schmidt","Senior Specialist, Continuing Education","+41 61 201 18 25","joerg.schmidt@baselgovernance.org","058ef3ac-a0a8-4e16-89e3-3944b3d101a8","Dr Jörg Schmidt joined the Basel Institute in April 2024 to coordinate the work around conceptualising, planning and administering the Institute’s continuing education activities. Since January 2025 he has been the Study Programme Manager of the Institute's Basel STUDY programmes.\n\nBefore joining the Institute, Jörg worked as an independent consultant in sustainability and corporate responsibility with a focus on competence development, and as a lecturer for Sustainability Management at Kalaidos University of Applied Sciences in Zurich.\n\nSince 2010, Jörg has held positions as Deputy Head of the Centre for Corporate Responsibility and Senior Research Associate at the Department of International Business at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, as Programme Manager and Senior Consultant Social Responsibility\u002FCSR at Neosys Ltd., Bern and as Research Associate at the Institute of Management of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland.\n\nLecturing, course development and study programme management in BSc, MSc and Continuing Education programmes were essential elements of his task portfolio throughout that time.\n\nBefore this, Jörg worked as a Research Fellow with the Biodiplomacy Initiative at the Institute of Advanced Studies of the United Nations University in Japan, as a Scientific Officer at the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation and as a Post-doc Researcher at the Trisaia Research Centre of the Research Institute for New Technologies, Energy and Environment (ENEA) in Italy.\n\nJörg holds a PhD in Environmental Sciences from ETH Zurich and an MSc degree (“Diploma”) in Biology from Georg-August University of Göttingen, Germany. He has attended further education programs in Sustainability Management at the University of Lüneburg, Germany, in Higher & Professional Education at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, and in Educational Innovation and Leadership at Tallinn University, Estonia.",[242],"61915","dr-jorg-schmidt",[1571],"Basel STUDY",[27],[],{"id":1575,"status":6,"sort":1576,"user_created":8,"date_created":1577,"user_updated":162,"date_updated":1578,"first_name":1579,"last_name":1580,"position":1581,"phone":39,"email":1582,"image":1583,"cv":1584,"category":242,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1585,"nid":1586,"slug":1587,"function":1588,"country":1589,"directorate":1590,"hidden":30},786,93,"2025-03-27T21:22:35.000Z","2025-07-13T12:42:18.000Z","Xenia","Schuster","Specialist, Web Development","xenia.schuster@baselgovernance.org","7f4e8e93-5e74-446d-8ba9-04f866326320","Xenia joined the Basel Institute on Governance in April 2020 as a member of the IT team.\n\nPrior to joining the Basel Institute on Governance, she gained experience in developing web apps and websites using a wide range of modern and agile technologies for local companies of various sizes. As a talented fast learner, she joined [offix.pro](https:\u002F\u002Foffix.pro\u002F) in 2017, where she rapidly accumulated experience in UI\u002FUX frontend conception and implementation, mobile apps development, e-commerce, graphic design and programming in different languages. She is able to solve complex problems with ease and passion, fully understanding the requirements and surprising with smart solutions. \n\nFurthermore, through various projects, she has accumulated hands-on experience in consulting, planning software projects and developing efficient marketing concepts. \n\nAs part of the IT team, Xenia plans, develops and extends the Institute's software tools and websites.",[242],"22525","xenia-schuster",[617],[27],[458],{"id":1592,"status":6,"sort":1593,"user_created":8,"date_created":1594,"user_updated":162,"date_updated":1595,"first_name":1596,"last_name":1597,"position":373,"phone":1598,"email":1599,"image":1600,"cv":1601,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1602,"nid":1603,"slug":1604,"function":1605,"country":1606,"directorate":1607,"hidden":30},787,94,"2025-03-27T21:22:36.000Z","2025-07-13T12:42:31.000Z","Ledy","Segura","+51 977 187 775","ledy.segura@baselgovernance.org","62ffa77c-03d9-4c1a-9fc5-ad3de129fa94","Ledy Segura joined the Basel Institute's International Centre for Asset Recovery in August 2019 and is currently a Specialist, Asset Recovery in Latin America. She is a licensed lawyer, holding a Bachelor in Law from the Universidad Señor de Sipán in Chiclayo, Peru.\n\nThroughout her studies, Ledy worked as a junior assistant at the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Lambayeque District in Peru and participated in the prestigious SECIGRA programme of the Peruvian Ministry of Justice. Prior to joining the Basel Institute, Ledy also gained practical experience working in various law firms, specialising particularly in criminal litigation.\n\nIn her current position, Ledy analyses South American jurisprudence and doctrine in selected fields of transnational economic crime and assists in the preparation of academic publications. She specialises in non-conviction based asset confiscation, whose successful implementation is a major factor in the chances of success of asset recovery efforts in Peru and other South American countries.",[406,63],"14966","ledy-segura",[],[225],[70],{"id":1609,"status":6,"sort":1610,"user_created":8,"date_created":1611,"user_updated":162,"date_updated":1612,"first_name":1613,"last_name":1614,"position":183,"phone":39,"email":1615,"image":1616,"cv":1617,"category":242,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1618,"nid":1619,"slug":1620,"function":1621,"country":1622,"directorate":1623,"hidden":30},789,95,"2025-03-27T21:22:37.000Z","2025-07-13T12:43:20.000Z","Rita","Simões","rita.simoes@baselgovernance.org","a04756af-9167-4dcf-bd2d-9abc2185103e","Rita Simões joined the Basel Institute on Governance in November 2024 as a Senior Specialist, Asset Recovery focusing on policy.\n\nRita has over 20 years of experience as a public prosecutor, with a particular focus on financial crime, asset recovery and international cooperation. She has also gained considerable expertise as a speaker and trainer on these topics.\n\nBefore joining the Basel Institute, Rita served as Assistant to the National Member for Portugal at Eurojust, where she worked on international cooperation cases involving both European Union Member States and third countries. She was actively involved in several Eurojust working groups, with a particular emphasis on asset recovery, money laundering, corruption and conflicts of jurisdiction.\n\nRita began her career with a multidisciplinary approach, handling civil, criminal and family cases before specialising in criminal investigations. She led numerous complex investigations into fraud and tax fraud at the Lisbon Department for Criminal Investigation and Prosecution (2007–2012).\n\nBetween 2012 and 2020, Rita served at the Central Department for Criminal Investigation and Prosecution (DCIAP), a division of Portugal’s Public Prosecution Service responsible for investigating highly complex and organised crime. During her time at DCIAP, she was involved in large-scale economic and financial crime investigations, as well as anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML-CTF).\n\nRita has published three papers on asset recovery and international cooperation.\n\nShe holds a law degree from the University of Coimbra.",[121,242],"62149","rita-simoes",[],[27],[121],{"id":1625,"status":6,"sort":1626,"user_created":8,"date_created":1627,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":35,"first_name":1628,"last_name":1629,"position":1630,"phone":1598,"email":1631,"image":1632,"cv":1633,"category":239,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1634,"nid":1635,"slug":1636,"function":1637,"country":1638,"directorate":1639,"hidden":30},705,9,"2025-03-27T21:21:44.000Z","Oscar","Solorzano","Head, Latin America ICAR","oscar.solorzano@baselgovernance.org","4f3c43e4-ae3d-40c0-8fd8-ae56368f21a0","Oscar Solórzano is the Head of Latin America for the Basel Institute's International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) and the Institute's legal representative in Peru.\n\nSince joining ICAR in 2012, Oscar has worked on a range of high-profile international corruption and asset recovery cases in Peru and across Latin America. Working with judicial, prosecutorial and law enforcement authorities, he helps to develop and execute strategies to trace illicit assets laundered to foreign jurisdictions, including seizing and confiscating the proceeds of the crime.\n\nIn particular, he gives advice on the application of non-conviction-based confiscation laws as strategies for the international recovery of assets. He also provides legal advice around mutual legal assistance in criminal matters. Oscar regularly represents the Basel Institute as a speaker at international seminars and conferences on anti-money laundering, anti-corruption, international cooperation and asset recovery.\n\nPrior to joining the Basel Institute, Oscar was working as a research fellow and as teaching staff for a course on economic criminal law at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. While working in Geneva, he was involved in several publications and research projects concerning the corruption of public officials, asset recovery, money laundering, confiscation and corporate liability of legal entities. This exposure led him to subsequently undertake a doctoral thesis in 2009 entitled “The international asset recovery of illicit assets of high-ranking public officials” at the University of Geneva.\n\nHe holds a law degree plus a Master of Law in International Relations from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He was admitted to the Peruvian bar in 2019 after gaining a second law degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, where he occasionally lectures on matters of asset recovery, mutual legal assistance and financial crime. He speaks fluent English, Spanish, Italian, French and Portuguese.",[121,406,63],"65","oscar-solorzano",[],[225,27],[121],{"id":1641,"status":6,"sort":1642,"user_created":8,"date_created":1627,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":231,"first_name":1643,"last_name":1644,"position":1645,"phone":1646,"email":1647,"image":1648,"cv":1649,"category":239,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1650,"nid":1651,"slug":1652,"function":1653,"country":1654,"directorate":1655,"hidden":30},706,10,"Jonathan","Spicer","Head, Legal ICAR","+41 61 205 55 37","jonathan.spicer@baselgovernance.org","c381306f-deda-46c6-9f73-8cdc17391f95","Jonathan Spicer is Head of Legal at the Basel Institute's International Centre for Asset Recovery. He was promoted in 2024, having served as Senior Specialist, Asset Recovery from October 2017. He is a barrister specialised in asset recovery, financial crime and international co-operation.\n\nBetween 1997 and 2014, Jonathan was at the independent Bar prosecuting and defending in cases involving serious and organised crime, fraud, money laundering and the proceeds of crime. In 2011 he was recognised in the Legal 500 as being a leading junior in criminal work that “calmly and patiently deals with substantial matters clearly and with an eye for detail”. He was appointed by the Crown Prosecution Service as a specialist advocate in serious and organised crime, fraud and proceeds of crime at the highest level.\n\nHe joined the Crown Prosecution Service as a Specialist Prosecutor and Crown Advocate in 2014. Working in the CPS International Justice and Organised Crime Division, he pioneered a new roving role in international asset recovery, primarily focussed on European jurisdictions. Within this role he provided advice to domestic and overseas prosecutors on securing the freezing of criminal assets and subsequent confiscation in international cases. Having developed networks of judicial, prosecutorial and law enforcement contacts across Europe and through the promotion of using video conferencing technology, more assets were recovered from overseas and an increase in requests for assistance from overseas authorities.\n\nJonathan represented the UK and the CPS at international conferences speaking on international cooperation and asset recovery, as well as attending EU ARO and CARIN steering group meetings. His experience includes cases involving assets frozen under the EU misappropriations sanctions and he latterly covered the CPS liaison prosecutor role for the United Arab Emirates.\n\nJonathan is a contributing editor to a leading textbook on consumer and trading standards law, where he edits the chapter on criminal enforcement including asset recovery.",[121,242],"50","jonathan-spicer",[],[27],[121],{"id":1657,"status":6,"sort":1658,"user_created":8,"date_created":1659,"user_updated":162,"date_updated":1660,"first_name":1661,"last_name":1662,"position":1663,"phone":1664,"email":1665,"image":1666,"cv":1667,"category":242,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1668,"nid":1669,"slug":1670,"function":1671,"country":1672,"directorate":1673,"hidden":30},790,96,"2025-03-27T21:22:38.000Z","2025-07-13T12:43:55.000Z","Mary ","Streeter","Specialist, Visual Design","+41 61 205 55 38","mary.streeter@baselgovernance.org","db910e8c-ec6d-4a09-9932-e49a67ef6548","Mary joined the Basel Institute in December 2023 as Specialist, Visual Design.\n\nShe is an experienced design professional with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Miami University in the United States. During her studies, she also completed design studios abroad in both Germany and Italy. Her interest in international collaborations took her to Basel in 2020 where she earned a Master of Arts in Design from the FHNW Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst.\n\nMary has over 10 years of experience leading multidisciplinary design projects in both the US and Switzerland. Having a passion for innovation and entrepreneurship, Mary's career has been primarily focused on working with small businesses and start-ups. Prior to joining the Institute, she created bilingual visual content in English and German for Tech Labs Switzerland.",[242],"61750","mary-streeter",[731],[27],[458],{"id":1675,"status":6,"sort":1676,"user_created":8,"date_created":1677,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":672,"first_name":1678,"last_name":1679,"position":433,"phone":39,"email":1680,"image":1681,"cv":1682,"category":242,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1683,"nid":1684,"slug":1685,"function":1686,"country":1687,"directorate":1688,"hidden":30},791,97,"2025-03-27T21:22:39.000Z","Taradhinta","Suryandari","taradhinta.suryandari@baselgovernance.org","8e393f61-5c1b-48c9-8bc6-b82e2b380708","Taradhinta Suryandari joined the Basel Institute on Governance in June 2021 and is currently Programme Manager for the Green Corruption programme.\n\nIn her early career in development assistance, she worked as a research assistant for various on-campus research projects focusing on human rights, non-violent action, and disaster reconstruction. She supported both the research and administrative aspects of these projects.\n\nPrior to joining the Basel Institute, Tara worked as a Program Assistant for the USAID-funded CEGAH project, supporting programmes on corruption surveys, CSO monitoring on corruption prevention strategies, and investigative journalism. She also supported the project on administrative-related tasks, monitoring and evaluation (M&E), and communications. \n\nTara holds a Bachelor of Political Science (International Relations) from Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.",[242],"59272","taradhinta-suryandari",[262],[27],[121,70],{"id":1690,"status":6,"sort":1691,"user_created":8,"date_created":1677,"user_updated":162,"date_updated":1692,"first_name":1693,"last_name":1694,"position":1695,"phone":15,"email":1696,"image":1697,"cv":1698,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1699,"nid":1700,"slug":1701,"function":1702,"country":1703,"directorate":1704,"hidden":30},792,98,"2025-07-13T12:44:22.000Z","Chris","Sutton","Team Leader, Tanzania","chris.sutton@baselgovernance.org","a81a38b0-cf1f-4975-b949-662bd2bd0135","Chris joined the Basel Institute on Governance's International Centre for Asset Recovery as a Senior Investigations and Asset Recovery Specialist in April 2020 and is currently Team Leader, Tanzania. \n\nChris is a former senior UK law enforcement officer and detective with 30 years' experience, the vast majority of which has been focused on combating transnational organised crime. His final policing role was as Deputy Head of Tasking for the UK National Crime Agency, where he was the Senior Manager responsible for tasking all investigations, operations and intelligence collection activities conducted globally.\n\nExtensive international experience has included establishing and mentoring an anti-corruption unit in Afghanistan and being deployed to the USA as a liaison officer embedded within the US Naval Criminal Investigative Service, investigating transnational organised crime with a maritime nexus. Chris was then deployed to the Middle East, where he was the UK lead responsible for establishing an international and inter-agency intelligence fusion centre investigating the most significant criminal and terrorist groups operating in the Middle East, Asia and Africa.\n\nImmediately prior to joining the International Centre for Asset Recovery, Chris was again based in Afghanistan as a senior anti-corruption consultant with the United Nations Development Programme, where he supported the development of the Anti-Corruption Justice Centre. \n\nChris holds an MSc (with distinction) in Financial Investigation from the University of Central Lancashire, UK, a BA (Hons) in Applied Investigation from the University of Sunderland, UK, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Transnational Organised Crime from the University of Staffordshire, UK. He has lectured in countering transnational organised crime at Liverpool John Moores University, UK, and the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Germany.",[63],"23869","chris-sutton",[],[68],[121],{"id":1706,"status":6,"sort":20,"user_created":10,"date_created":1497,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":399,"first_name":1707,"last_name":1708,"position":642,"phone":20,"email":1709,"image":1710,"cv":1711,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1712,"nid":1713,"slug":1714,"function":20,"country":1715,"directorate":1716,"hidden":30},825,"Russell","Thomas","russell.thomas@baselgovernance.org","093deab6-8883-4816-9491-18fa36db5083","Russell Thomas joined the Basel Institute on Governance in August 2025 as Senior Specialist, Financial Investigations. Russell is based in Ghana, where he is working with anti-corruption and economic crime authorities. He is delivering a programme of our International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) to strengthen the investigation and prosecution of corruption cases, and support legal and policy reform to develop Ghana’s asset recovery regime.\n\nAs a law enforcement practioner Russell comes with more than 32 years of professional experience working in law enforcement operations and intelligence in the UK and across numerous international jurisdictions.\n\nBefore joining the Basel Institute in August 2025, Russell was working for the United Kingdom National Crime Agency as an International Liaison officer based in Karachi, Pakistan. Amongst other portfolios Russell had a specific focus on developing bilateral cooperation to support anti-money laundering and serious organised crime investigations.\n\nFrom 2017 to 2019 Russell worked as an International Liaision Officer in Afghanistan, providing specialist advice to the office of the Attorney General in establishing an Office of Asset Recovery.\n\nHis work combatting transnational organised crime has included deployments in Lithuania, Mali and Ireland.\n\nHe previously worked in Counter Terrorism Intelligence developing a deeper understanding of illcit finance flows supporting global terrorist organisations.\n\nRussell gained experience in capability delivery whilst an instructor within United Kingdom National Police Training, delivering a criminal law syllabus to probationary officers within the England & Wales Police service. This included investigative interviewing, an area he remains passionate about.",[63],"62503","russell-thomas",[68],[121],{"id":1718,"status":6,"sort":20,"user_created":10,"date_created":1497,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":399,"first_name":1719,"last_name":1720,"position":59,"phone":20,"email":1721,"image":1722,"cv":1723,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1724,"nid":1725,"slug":1726,"function":20,"country":1727,"directorate":1728,"hidden":30},826,"Patricia","Torres","patricia.torres@baselgovernance.org","d69216cf-41a0-43d7-9fab-cdd8e9b940c9","Patricia Torres joined the Basel Institute’s Green Corruption programme in Latin America in May 2025 as a Specialist, Corruption Prevention. She is based in Lima and works in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia.\n\nPatricia has 15 years of experience in the formulation and implementation of environmental public policies, with an emphasis on forestry and wildlife.\n\nBefore joining the Basel Institute, she worked as a specialist in the public sector (Organismo de Supervisión de los Recursos Forestales y de Fauna Silvestre, OSINFOR; and Servicio Nacional Forestal y de Fauna Silvestre, SERFOR) and in civil society, leading project implementation (Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental, SPDA, among others). She has also provided consulting services to entities such as the Ministry of Environment of Peru (MINAM), the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the Basel Institute on Governance.\n\nPatricia has actively participated in the formulation and approval process of Peru’s current Forestry and Wildlife Law and its regulations and guidelines. She has also contributed to the National Strategy to Reduce Illegal Wildlife Trafficking in Peru (2017–2027) and the associated Action Plan (2017–2022), among other policy instruments, in coordination with relevant national, regional and local stakeholders.\n\nPatricia is a lawyer and holds a Second Specialisation Degree in Environmental and Natural Resources Law from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP). She is a candidate for a Master’s Degree in Conservation of Forest Resources from the Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina (UNALM). She has also undertaken specialised studies in public management (PUCP), diversified management of natural tropical forests (CATIE) and forest governance (University Wolverhampton), among others. She joined the Peruvian Bar Association in 2011.",[63],"62388","patricia-torres",[225],[70],{"id":1730,"status":6,"sort":1731,"user_created":8,"date_created":1732,"user_updated":162,"date_updated":1733,"first_name":1734,"last_name":1735,"position":1736,"phone":15,"email":1737,"image":1738,"cv":1739,"category":242,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1740,"nid":1741,"slug":1742,"function":1743,"country":1744,"directorate":1745,"hidden":30},794,99,"2025-03-27T21:22:41.000Z","2025-07-13T12:44:38.000Z","Carlos","Vargas","Director of Public Finance Management, Peru","carlos.vargas@baselgovernance.org","a2cbac5d-3c89-41be-9f21-e707b4077447","Carlos Vargas Mas is Director of the [Subnational Public Finance Management Strengthening Programme](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublic-finance-peru) in Peru. The Programme seeks to enhance the capacity of public authorities in 11 regions and municipalities to plan, implement and execute budgets and to increase standards of integrity and transparency in doing so. Signed in 2015 by the Peruvian and Swiss governments, the programme is funded by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO).\n\nBefore joining the Basel Institute, Carlos Vargas Mas served in Peru's Comptroller General's Office as Prevention and Detection Manager and, before that, as Strategic Development Manager and Performance Audit Manager. His professional experience includes working at Peruvian public institutions including the Ministry of Economy and Finance and the Ministry of Agriculture.\n\nHe has been a researcher and coordinator of the Observatory on Relations with Latin America (ORLA) at Pompeu Fabra University. He also teaches topics including results-based management, budgeting for results, design and evaluation of public policies, internal control and risk management.\n\nCarlos holds a degree in Economics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica in Peru and a master's degree in Applied Economic Analysis from the Universidad Pompeu Fabra in Spain.",[406],"61249","carlos-vargas",[],[],[],{"id":1747,"status":6,"sort":20,"user_created":10,"date_created":1748,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":399,"first_name":1749,"last_name":1750,"position":1751,"phone":20,"email":1752,"image":1753,"cv":1754,"category":242,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1755,"nid":1756,"slug":1757,"function":20,"country":1758,"directorate":20,"hidden":30},827,"2026-04-23T22:19:20.000Z","Dawn Marie","Vout","Senior Specialist, Business Development","dawn.vout@baselgovernance.org","c4e43245-b95f-4ac3-836d-35d73d063042","Dawn Marie Vout joined the Basel Institute on Governance in September 2025 as Senior Specialist, Business Development.\n\nIn this role, she supports the development and implementation of a business development strategy that aligns with the Institute’s strategic priorities and responds to the evolving fundraising landscape. Her work focuses on engaging both new and existing funding partners to secure long-term support and foster a sustainable business model for the Institute.\n\nDawn brings over 20 years of experience in donor engagement, strategic fundraising and communications for international NGOs across the humanitarian, development and conservation sectors.\n\nPrior to joining the Basel Institute, she served as Head of External Relations at the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) of the Norwegian Refugee Council. There, she led senior-level representation, strategy development and fundraising efforts.\n\nHer career has also included nearly a decade of field-based experience in fragile and post-conflict settings, including Peru, Cameroon, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Sri Lanka.\n\nDawn holds a Master of Arts in International Development from the University of Denver’s Graduate School of International Studies.",[242],"62510","dawn-marie-vout",[27],{"id":1760,"status":6,"sort":1761,"user_created":8,"date_created":1732,"user_updated":162,"date_updated":1762,"first_name":1763,"last_name":1764,"position":183,"phone":39,"email":1765,"image":1766,"cv":1767,"category":242,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1768,"nid":1769,"slug":1770,"function":1771,"country":1772,"directorate":1773,"hidden":30},795,100,"2025-07-13T12:44:49.000Z","Tom","Walugembe","tom.walugembe@baselgovernance.org","88567ba7-08b5-453a-a77f-e7dc7c6e0c86","Tom Walugembe joined the Basel Institute on Governance in January 2020 and is currently Senior Specialist, Asset Recovery at the International Centre for Asset Recovery.\n\nAfter qualifying as lawyer in Uganda in 2010, Tom joined the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, where he has recently been working as a Senior State Attorney. \n\nThroughout his career as a prosecutor, Tom prosecuted numerous serious crimes including murder, manslaughter, robbery and others. Between 2014 and 2019, Tom focused on the prosecution of economic crimes. He prosecuted several high-profile corruption cases. In 2016, Tom secured the first money laundering conviction in Uganda in the case of Uganda v Serwamba David Musoke and Others.\n\nTom also secured various restraining orders, compensation orders and confiscation orders against properties that were proceeds of crime, leading to the recovery of illicit wealth worth millions of dollars.\n\nTom holds an LLB from Makerere University in Uganda and an LLM in Computer and Communications Law from Queen Mary University of London. Tom is also a certified Privacy Professional with the International Association of Privacy Professionals.",[121,114,242],"19870","tom-walugembe",[118],[68],[121],{"id":1420,"status":6,"sort":1775,"user_created":162,"date_created":1776,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":75,"first_name":1777,"last_name":1778,"position":1779,"phone":1780,"email":1781,"image":1782,"cv":1783,"category":239,"division":22,"location":745,"tags":1784,"nid":1785,"slug":20,"function":20,"country":1786,"directorate":1787,"hidden":30},27,"2022-08-23T19:51:45.000Z","Scarlet","Wannenwetsch","Head, Collective Action","+41 61 205 56 75","scarlet.wannenwetsch@baselgovernance.org","3b51baba-037e-4032-a1ce-f02f08906ee8","Scarlet Wannenwetsch joined the Basel Institute in 2017 and is currently Head of Collective Action. In this role, she is responsible for leading, implementing and expanding the Institute’s Collective Action programme, ensuring its strategic integration across the organisation and advancing its conceptual development and uptake.\n\nShe also leads the Collective Action Mentoring Programme and the Institute’s Collective Action activities. These include project managing the implementation of the Siemens Integrity Initiative, as well as leading the Institute’s international policy work on Collective Action, with a particular focus on the Southern African region and ASEAN.\n\nScarlet also heads the Institute’s engagement with the Business 20 (B20) on corruption and served as Deputy Co-Chair of the Integrity and Compliance Task Force in 2021\u002F22, having previously acted as a network and knowledge partner.\n\nBetween 2021 and 2024, she lectured on the Master's programme in Anti-Corruption Compliance and Collective Action at the International Anti-Corruption Academy.\n\nPrior to joining the Institute, Scarlet gained experience at the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC Germany) and worked as a legal advisor for an international start-up.\n\nShe holds a law degree (LLB) from King's College London and an LLM in Public International Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution from the Free University of Berlin.",[22,242],"53",[27],[29],{"id":1789,"status":6,"sort":1790,"user_created":8,"date_created":1791,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":106,"first_name":784,"last_name":1792,"position":1408,"phone":1793,"email":1794,"image":1795,"cv":1796,"category":239,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1797,"nid":1798,"slug":1799,"function":1800,"country":1801,"directorate":1802,"hidden":30},707,11,"2025-03-27T21:21:45.000Z","Wilson","+41 61 205 56 78","peter.wilson@baselgovernance.org","5458f919-d652-4758-930a-a1758ce3d47a","Peter Wilson joined the Basel Institute on Governance in December 2019 and is currently Co-Head of Programmes for the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR). As part of this role Peter jointly leads a cross-cutting programme management platform initiative at the Basel Institute and is a member of the Extended Management Team.\n\nHe has more than 10 years’ experience managing the delivery of complex development programmes in anti-corruption, local governance, and civil society strengthening for non-governmental and private sector organisations. Peter has managed programmes for international development partners – including DANIDA, DFID, EU, GIZ, SDC, USAID and the World Bank – in East Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, and Central and South East Asia.\n\nPrior to joining the Basel Institute on Governance, Peter was based in Kampala, Uganda, managing the Strengthening Uganda’s Anti-corruption Response Technical Advisory Facility (SUGAR TAF), a £14 million DFID- and EU-funded anti-corruption project implemented by Adam Smith International (ASI) in partnership with the Basel Institute on Governance. During his time with ASI, Peter managed a number of projects in Tunisia and Jordan, including the delivery of mentorship and institutional development support to strengthen the investigation and prosecution of corruption related cases at the Anti-Corruption Justice Centre (ACJC) in Kabul, Afghanistan. \n\nPrior to working with ASI, Peter worked with international NGOs – including Concern Worldwide, International Rescue Committee and People in Need – in Afghanistan and Myanmar. \n\nPeter holds a LLB in Law and a MA in Conflict, Security and Development from King’s College London.",[121,242],"19321","peter-wilson",[50,262],[27],[121],{"id":1804,"status":6,"sort":1805,"user_created":8,"date_created":1806,"user_updated":162,"date_updated":1807,"first_name":1808,"last_name":1809,"position":109,"phone":15,"email":1810,"image":1811,"cv":1812,"category":19,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1813,"nid":1814,"slug":1815,"function":1816,"country":1817,"directorate":1818,"hidden":30},797,102,"2025-03-27T21:22:42.000Z","2025-07-13T12:45:29.000Z","Rudolf","Wyss","rudolf.wyss@baselgovernance.org","9715d5e8-d600-4726-b52c-128ecfcc8e47","Rudolf Wyss is a lawyer by training and is admitted to the Bar in Switzerland. He has 35 years of experience in Swiss Federal law enforcement, having served with the Federal Office for Police in matters of International Police Cooperation, and later investigated cases of illegal dealing in drugs, arms and money forgery at the Swiss Federal Prosecutor's Office.\n\nBefore joining the International Centre for Asset Recovery, Rudolf was Head of Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA) and Extradition in Switzerland and Deputy Director of the Swiss Federal Office of Justice (Federal Ministry of Justice and Police), where he worked from 1996 to his retirement from federal service at the end of 2011. During that time he had the lead responsibility for several historic asset recovery cases, most notably the Marcos case and the Abacha case. Rudolf has also played a key role in the revisions of the Swiss MLA-legislation. He comes with vast and demonstrated experience in negotiating MLA-treaties.\n\nFurthermore, Rudolf has published widely on topics pertaining to international mutual legal assistance in criminal matters.\n\nHe advises foreign jurisdictions on asset recovery cases with a particular focus on countries such as Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein, Germany, as well as on asset recovery cases in the context of the International Criminal Court.\n\nHe has been working as Senior Asset Recovery Consultant for ICAR since early 2012.",[19],"56","rudolf-wyss",[],[27],[121],{"id":1820,"status":6,"sort":1821,"user_created":8,"date_created":1822,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":1223,"first_name":1823,"last_name":1824,"position":1825,"phone":15,"email":1826,"image":1827,"cv":1828,"category":63,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1829,"nid":1830,"slug":1831,"function":1832,"country":1833,"directorate":1834,"hidden":30},798,103,"2025-03-27T21:22:43.000Z","Feinoor","Yudahastuti","Senior Programme Officer \u002F Co-coordinator-Countering Environmental Corruption Practitioners Forum","feinoor.yudahastuti@baselgovernance.org","7e3fe4fe-c897-4c7a-a178-9dd92d066355","Feinoor Yudahastuti joined the Basel Institute on Governance in July 2022 as Senior Programme Officer, initially for the USAID INTEGRITAS programme. She currently coordinates the operational aspects of the Institute’s work in Indonesia under the UK DEFRA IWTCF funded Follow-the-Money project.\n\nFeinoor also currently serves as Co-coordinator of the Countering Environmental Corruption Practitioners Forum, a global platform dedicated to countering environmental corruption through cross-sectoral collaboration. In this role, she organises online events, manages communications with members and liases with the Forum’s four founding organisations.\n\nAs Senior Programme Officer, Feinoor also supports the administrative and programmatic management of projects under the Green Corruption programme in several countries. Her responsibilities include donor compliance, contracting, financial tracking, forecasting and reporting, as well as general administration of the programme’s implementation.\n\nPrior to joining the Basel Institute, Feinoor worked on development projects focusing on blue carbon (carbon stored in coastal and marine ecosystems) and anti-corruption. For example, she contributed to the comprehensive assessment and conservation of blue carbon ecosystems and their services in the Coral Triangle project. She supported marine researchers in creating sea surface temperature and coastal vegetation data maps, gathering data on carbon stocks data and reviewing greenhouse gas policies to develop a science-based Blue Carbon Policy for Indonesia.",[63],"61130","feinoor-yudahastuti",[262],[87],[70],{"id":1836,"status":6,"sort":1837,"user_created":8,"date_created":1838,"user_updated":162,"date_updated":1839,"first_name":1840,"last_name":1841,"position":1581,"phone":39,"email":1842,"image":1843,"cv":1844,"category":242,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1845,"nid":1846,"slug":1847,"function":1848,"country":1849,"directorate":1850,"hidden":30},799,104,"2025-03-27T21:22:44.000Z","2025-07-13T12:45:52.000Z","Benny","Zaminga","benny.zaminga@baselgovernance.org","43459b44-f1e2-40bd-a6d4-83574612ee36","Benny joined the Basel Institute on Governance in April 2020 as a member of the IT team. \n\nHe is a seasoned full-stack software developer and Linux system architect, specialised in application development, DevOps and virtualisation. His experience goes back to the early days of the Internet and ranges from tiny micro controllers to multi-tier server systems. During the last 20 years, he has worked as team leader and freelancer for various agencies and companies in the field. Since 2004 he has run his own software company, [offix.pro](https:\u002F\u002Foffix.pro\u002F), and has developed and coordinated numerous IT projects ranging from custom applications to complex distributed systems. \n\nFurthermore, through various projects, he has accumulated hands-on experience in consulting, developing efficient marketing concepts, delivering striking UI\u002FUX, visual design, branding, security and e-commerce. \n\nAs part of the IT team, Benny plans, develops and extends the Institute's software tools and maintains its server infrastructure and websites.",[242],"24007","benny-zaminga",[617],[27],[458],{"id":1852,"status":6,"sort":1853,"user_created":8,"date_created":1838,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":1223,"first_name":1854,"last_name":1855,"position":433,"phone":39,"email":1856,"image":1857,"cv":1858,"category":242,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1859,"nid":1860,"slug":1861,"function":1862,"country":1863,"directorate":1864,"hidden":30},800,105,"Lala","Zinkevych","lala.zinkevych@baselgovernance.org","99e3d100-891f-4eba-90de-b6f8030abefc","Lala Zinkevych joined the Basel Institute on Governance in October 2024 as a Programme Manager. She brings over 15 years of experience leading governance and human rights programmes across Ukraine and Eastern Europe.\n\nBefore joining the Basel Institute, Lala served as a Programme and Policy Adviser with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), where she led large-scale protection and recovery programmes in Ukraine. Previously, she managed multimillion democracy support programmes at the National Democratic Institute and advised the World Bank’s Governance Global Practice in Washington, D.C., with a focus on anti-corruption and justice sector reforms in Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus.\n\nFrom 2015 to 2018, Lala supported key governance, anti-corruption and information security reforms as part of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine’s Reforms Office.\n\nLala holds a Master of Science in Social Policy from the University of Oxford.",[242],"62126","lala-zinkevych",[262],[27],[121,70],{"id":1866,"status":6,"sort":1867,"user_created":8,"date_created":1868,"user_updated":162,"date_updated":1869,"first_name":1870,"last_name":1871,"position":1872,"phone":609,"email":1873,"image":1874,"cv":1875,"category":242,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":1876,"nid":1877,"slug":1878,"function":1879,"country":1880,"directorate":1881,"hidden":30},801,106,"2025-03-27T21:22:45.000Z","2025-07-13T12:46:15.000Z","Joel","Zuppinger","Specialist, IT Support","joel.zuppinger@baselgovernance.org","ffc214c2-d449-4d7d-bc43-ac31f7680c8b","Joel Zuppinger joined the Basel Institute in June 2019 as Specialist, IT Support. He has run his own IT company since 2009 and supports the Head of IT and eLearning with all of the Basel Institute's software and hardware needs.",[242],"13702","joel-zuppinger",[617],[27],[458],1780676693304]