Final Programme - 13th International Anti-Corruption Conference

Interpol, the US National Academy of Sciences, and government agencies in all continents. His currentprojects focus on the development of a self-assessment tool for the implementation of the UNCAC andthe UNTOC, a manual of operations in a Free Trade Zone in the Caribbean, analytical support for theInternational Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities and the creation of an international knowledgemanagement consortium on corruption laws, cases, strategies, and anti-corruption bodies.Mark PiethMark Pieth, a criminal law and criminology professor at the University of Basel in his native Switzerland,has provided outstanding leadership in fighting corruption on an international scale. Prof. Piethhas countered corruption not only as a co-founder of the Basel Institute on Governance but as chairof the OECD Working Group on Bribery in International Business Transactions and as a member of theIndependent Inquiry Committee into the Iraq Oil-for-Food Programme of the United Nations. His willingnessto publicly criticise governments that fail to implement the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention andthose that did not to provide enough support to identify companies that paid kickbacks in the oil-for-foodscandal, is admirable. Powerful governments have tried to stop his criticism and he has withstood attemptsto oust him from the OECD’s anti-bribery group. Prof. Pieth has stood his ground and never stoppedbeing outspoken about the need to implement the anti-bribery rules that countries have committed to.Ensuring that foreign bribery, money laundering and other related activities of the corrupt are stopped,have been a core priority of Prof. Pieth for over 19 years.Mary RobinsonMary Robinson is the President of Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative. She servedas United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997 to 2002 and as President ofIreland from 1990-1997. She is a member of the Elders. She is Chair of the Council of Women WorldLeaders and Vice President of the Club of Madrid. She is chair of the GAVI Fund Executive Committee andVice-chair of the GAVI Fund Board. She is Honorary President of Oxfam International and is Patron of theInternational Community of Women Living with AIDS (ICW). She is a professor of practice at ColumbiaUniversity and member of the Advisory Board of the Earth Institute and Extraordinary Professor at theUniversity of Pretoria in South Africa. She serves as Chancellor of Dublin University.Dimitrios G. SioufasDimitrios G. Sioufas was born in Ellinopyrgos, Karditsa, he is married and father of three. He has studiedat Pantion University of Athens, with Degrees in both Political Science and Public Administration and theUniversity of Thessaloniki, with a Degree in Law. He is an Attorney at Law and he speaks English.Parliamentary activities:• President of the Hellenic Parliament (27/9/2007).• Minister of Development (March 2004 - Sept. 2007).• Parliamentary Spokesman for Nea Demokratia (ND) Party, (1990-1991 and 1993-1996) and first ParliamentarySpokesman for ND Party (Apr. 1997-Mar. 2000)• Elected MP (ND) for Karditsa in the general elections of 1981, 1985, 1989 (June and November), 1990,1993, 1996 2000, 2004 and 2007.96