Final Programme - 13th International Anti-Corruption Conference

Megaron Athens International Conference CentreBrown University, 2006, Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Northern Caribbean University,Mandeville, Jamaica, 2005, Time Magazine’s European Hero of the Year Award, 2004, for her work oneconomic reform in Nigeria, Euromoney Magazine Global Finance Minister of the year, 2005, FinancialTimes/The Banker African Finance Minister of the year 2005, This Day (Nigeria’s premier newspaper)Minister of the Year award 2004 and 2005.Dr. Okonjo-Iweala is a member or chair of numerous boards and advisory groups, including DATA,the World Resources Institute, the Clinton Global Initiative, the Nelson Mandela Institution, Friends ofthe Global Fund Africa, and the African Institute of Science and Technology. She has served as adviserto several international investment groups working in emerging markets and lectured on Africa anddevelopment all over the world. Dr. Okonjo-Iweala was the founder of the first ever indigenous opinionresearch organization in Nigeria (NOI Polls) in partnership with the Gallup organization, which strives tostrengthen democracy and accountability in Nigeria. She was co-founder of the Makeda Fund, a US$50million private equity fund designed to invest in women-owned and women-influenced small andmedium enterprises in Africa. She is married to surgeon Dr. Ikemba Iweala and they have four children.George A. PapandreouGeorge A. Papandreou holds an M.Sc. in Sociology and Development from LSE, and is a fellow atHarvard University’s Center for International Affairs. An MP since 1981, he served in several governmentposts before becoming Foreign Minister from 1999-2004. An active supporter of the InformationSociety and the driving force behind the Greek EU Presidency’s e-Vote, in 2003 he was placed among the“25 Who are Changing the World of Internet Politics”. He has received several honours for his commitmentto promote peace and democracy, notably his successful campaign, as Foreign Minister, to engineer arapprochement between Greece and Turkey. As President of PASOK (Panhellenic Socialist Movement)since January 2004, George A. Papandreou is leading radical reforms of the Greek party political system.He was unanimously elected as President of the Socialist International in January 2006.Nikos PassasProfessor Nikos Passas, Northeastern University, has a law degree from the Univ. of Athens (LL.B.),Master’s from the University of Paris-Paris II (D.E.A.) and a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh. He is amember of the Athens Bar. He is fluent in 6 languages and plays classical guitar.He specializes in the study of corruption, white-collar crime, terrorism, financial regulation, humantraffic, organized crime and international crimes. He has published more than 120 articles, book chapters,reports and books in 11 languages. His manuscripts include the Legislative Guides for the Implementationof the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) and the UN Convention Against TransnationalOrganized Crime (UNTOC), The UN Convention against Corruption as a Way of Life, It’s Legal but It Ain’tRight: Harmful Social Consequences of Legal Industries. He has authored reports on terrorism finance,the trade in commodities, procurement fraud, corruption asset recovery, governance and development.He is editor of the international journal Crime, Law and Social Changel, associate editor in several otherjournals and a Director of the International Society of Criminology. Passas offers training or public andprivate sector officials. He often serves as expert witness in court cases or public hearings and consultswith law firms, financial institutions, consulting companies and organizations, such as the IMF, the WorldBank, other multilateral and bilateral institutions, the United Nations, the European Union, OECD, OSCE,95