CURBING CORRUPTION - Key Persons
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Mark Pyman is an experienced anti-corruption professional. From 2015 through 2017, he was one of three International Committee Members on the Afghanistan independent Anti-Corruption Monitoring and Evaluation Committee. Established by the President of Afghanistan, the Committee - known as the ‘MEC' - comprises 6 people, three well-respected Afghans and three internationally known anti-corruption experts, supported by a supporting secretariat of 25 professionals in Kabul. They monitor what is going right and wrong in anti-corruption efforts in the country, carry out detailed analyses of the corruption issues, and press for change. Mark was astonished at how some of the most imaginative anti-corruption solutions - impressive even by developed world standards - were emerging out of this unpromising Afghan soil. But at the same time he was horrified to discover that the world's anti-corruption knowledge in almost every sector - from education to telecommunications - was poorly organised and, where it even existed, difficult to access. Worse, he found that many international sector specialists avoided the subject of corruption, perhaps because of the risk that they would lose funding.More detail can be found here.
Curbing Corruption was conceived in 2016 by Mark Pyman. His experience of working in three tough high-corruption environments - in the military and Defence Ministries worldwide; in Afghanistan, as one of the three international Anti-Corruption Commissioners; and as the Chief Financial Officer in a large corporation based in several endemically corrupt countries - he realised that much more progress against corruption was possible by those leading such organisations; whether as politicians, leaders or managers.
Professor Paul Heywood is Mark Pyman's close collaborator, bringing academic rigour to the innovative ideas behind Curbing Corruption. Paul Heywood holds the Sir Francis Hill Chair of European Politics at the University of Nottingham, UK. His research focuses on political corruption, institutional design and state capacity, and he is author, co-author or editor of eighteen books and more than eighty journal articles and book chapters. He is leader of the $7m Global Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence programme (GI-ACE), funded by DFID, which follows an earlier British Academy/DFID programme that he also led. He is a Trustee of Transparency International UK, where he chairs the Advocacy and Research Committee. More on Paul Heywood here.
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- Senior Strategy Consultant
Mark Pyman and Paul Heywood are supported by Michell Man and Tom Shipley. Michelle Man is a senior strategy consultant working in the third sector. Her experience spans the public, private and third sectors, and she has specific expertise in international financial crime risk, electoral policy and democratic processes, education policy, and social mobility. She has a Master's degree in international relations and previously led Transparency International's work on global comparisons of anti-corruption compliance in the defence industry.
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- Leader of the $7m Global Integrity Anti - Corruption Evidence
Tom Shipley is a PhD researcher at the Sussex Centre for the Study of Corruption, where he is undertaking a study of evaluations of anti-corruption programmes and approaches to learning in the field. He began his career in anti-corruption with the Transparency International Defence and Security Programme. He subsequently held positions focused on anti-corruption in the private sector, at the consultancy Control Risks and then at CDC Group, the UK development finance institute. He has conducted research on anti-corruption for a range of organisations including the Natural Resource Governance Institute, the Transparency International U4 Helpdesk, the UK Home Office and the World Bank.