Corruption keeps changing shape. Illicit money now moves through crypto wallets as easily as through bank accounts, sanctions regimes shift overnight and pressure on natural resources grows every year.

To stay useful, an organisation has to keep learning. And one of the best ways to learn is to ask people who see the problem from somewhere else.

So we are delighted to launch the Basel Institute’s new Advisory Network. Its nine founding members come from banking, international law, diplomacy, natural resource governance, corporate compliance and anti-corruption enforcement.

They have agreed to share their time, judgement and connections with us. We are very grateful.

Why do we need an Advisory Network?

Since our founding in 2003, the Basel Institute has earned the trust of governments around the world, as well as companies and civil society organisations. We now run programmes across five continents and bring anti-corruption and asset recovery expertise to fields as varied as health, the environment and defence.

We are proud of that. We also know we don’t have all the answers.

AI and new technologies are changing how we research, train and investigate, and we are embracing them. Some things, though, still come from people: a frank conversation, a well-timed introduction, the instinct of someone who has done this work inside a different institution.

The Advisory Network is our way of making sure we keep hearing those voices. The network began its work in October 2026. Members will advise on the direction of our work and bring an outside view to the way we connect research, policy and practice.

Who’s joining us

One name will be familiar. Professor Anne Peters served as Vice President of our Board from our founding in 2003 until the end of 2025. We are very glad to keep her close as Co-Chair of the Advisory Network. She brings decades of research and practice in public international law, with a focus on accountability and how law can respond to global challenges.

The Network’s other Co-Chair is Dr Klaus Moosmayer, Member of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bank and a prominent figure in international policy and business. Among others he is a pioneer of integrated assurance, a governance approach connecting ethics, compliance, audit, legal and risk management. This dovetails with our holistic approach to business integrity and compliance.

Ambassador Geneviève Federspiel brings a diplomat’s view of international cooperation, having served with the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in many different countries on the rule of law, anti-corruption, asset recovery and peace-building.

Several members know the financial system from the inside. Tom Keatinge is Founding Director of the Centre for Finance and Security at RUSI, after a career in investment banking.

Emma Molvidson, Head of Group Internal Audit at UBS and former Co-Chair of the Wolfsberg Group, brings deep expertise in financial crime prevention within the financial services industry.

Olga de Truchis de Varennes, Société Générale Group Compliance Coordinator on Crypto & Blockchain, is a well-known figure in efforts to advance the fight against crime risks around virtual assets. Working across banks, law enforcement and international policymaking, she co-leads the Crypto-asset Workstream under the Europol Financial Intelligence Public-Private Partnership.

Soji Apampa, Chief Executive Officer of the Convention on Business Integrity in Nigeria, has done a great deal to raise standards of business integrity in Nigeria and beyond. He is a passionate advocate of anti-corruption Collective Action between the private and public sectors.

Dr Laode M. Syarif is a Senior Lecturer at Hasanuddin University, Law School and former Commissioner of Indonesia’s Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK). He knows both the prevention and the enforcement sides of tackling corruption, including in critical areas such as the environment.

Dr Evelyn Dietsche, Member of the Inspection Panel of the World Bank Group’s Independent Accountability Mechanism and an associate fellow at Swisspeace, brings extensive experience working on natural resource governance and on making resource-heavy industries more responsible. Her experience spans business, advisory work, public policy and development.

Welcome!

Announcing the Network, Basel Institute Executive Director Elizabeth Andersen said:

Our work has always depended on the people around us: partners who open doors, practitioners who tell us what works on the ground, and friends who tell us when we need to course correct. The Advisory Network makes that habit official. Its members bring experience that’s complementary to what we have in-house and they’re willing to ask us hard questions. With so much changing so fast, that kind of honest advice is worth a great deal.

A warm welcome to all nine members. We look forward to the good work we will do together.