In collaboration with the Basel Institute on Governance, the Competence Centre for Arbitration and Crime is planning a two-day workshop that brings together arbitrators, lawyers, forensics, academics, students and representatives of NGOs from around the world.

The workshop, entitled International Arbitration and Corruption: A Toolkit for Arbitrators, takes place at the Faculty of Business and Economics, Basel University, on Thursday 10 and Friday 11 January 2019. 

The most recent special issue of the International Development Policy journal explores the topic of African Cities and the Development Conundrum. The issue includes an article co-authored by the Basel Institute's Head of Governance Research, Dr Claudia Baez Camargo, and Dr Lucy Koechlin of the University of Basel.

The Public Governance team of the Basel Institute on Governance has contributed an entry to the recent Public Administration Review's Blog Symposium dedicated to the topic of corruption. The title of the entry is "Informal networks: the invisible drivers of corruption and implications for anti-corruption practice".

Gemma Aiolfi, Head of Compliance, Corporate Governance and Collective Action at the Basel Institute of Governance, presented at the 10th International Conference of Financial Crime and Terrorism Financing (IFCTF) in Kuala Lumpur on 30 October 2018. Organised by the Asian Institute of Finance, the conference brought together about 1,000 compliance officers from Malaysian and international financial institutions.

Do you want to understand the mechanisms behind global corruption and the best ways to combat it – in less than five minutes? Sadly, it's not as easy as that. But this short opinion piece by our Head of Governance Research, Claudia Baez Camargo, offers a fun, quick answer to why we haven't yet succeeded in stamping out corruption.

It was published in UniNova, the University of Basel's research magazine. Read Claudia's opinion piece here.

The Basel Institute on Governance congratulates the Peruvian judiciary in confiscating a Luxembourg bank account belonging to James Stone Cohen, the former arms dealer of convicted Peruvian politician Vladimiro Montesinos. The International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR), working through the Basel Institute’s country office in Peru, is proud to have assisted with the process. 

Dr Claudia Baez Camargo and Cosimo Stahl of the Basel Institute’s Public Governance division delivered a five-day training workshop to Malawi’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) in Lake Malawi in October 2018. The interactive workshop was part of the Basel Institute’s ongoing assistance to Malawi via the Tackling Serious and Organised Corruption (TSOC) programme funded by the UK Department for International Development.

Our Managing Director, Ms Gretta Fenner, recently spoke to The Ukrainian Week about ICAR’s cooperation with, and technical assistance to the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine in investigating financial crimes of the Yanukovych regime, highlighting key operational tools and cooperation mechanisms for successfully tracing and recovering illegally obtained assets.

There is a strong business case for Collective Action against corruption - and more and more companies, law enforcement agencies, international organisations and civil society representatives are willing to engage. Which is good, because we need all players around the table to achieve sustainable change. 

These were key recurring messages during the Basel Institute's 3rd International Collective Action Conference, which took place on 14-15 November 2018 at the Volkshaus Basel, Switzerland.

The official launch of the Tainted Assets Initiative took place on 15 November 2018 at the Basel Institute on Governance’s Conference on Collective Action. This event marks the formation of the Project’s secretariat at the Basel Institute.