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Partnership for Transparency Fund
...providing small grants to CSOs in developing countries to fight corruption
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PTF Board Directors
Anabel Cruz,
Chair, from Uruguay, was elected to the PTF Board in
December 2002. Anabel is a noted specialist in research, training
and education on the role of civil society organizations in the
promotion of democracy and transparency in development processes,
particularly in the post dictatorship era in Latin America. She
has designed projects and programs to strengthen NGOs and measure
their impact. Upon returning to Uruguay in 1985, she founded ICD,
the Communication and Development Institute, a research center
promoting awareness and actions dedicated to promoting community
engagement in national political, economic and social life.
Anabel is a founder of the National Association of NGOs in
Uruguay and of the international foundation El Taller and is
Chair of the Board of CIVICUS. Anabel is an Engineer and Social
Scientist by training .
Vinay Bhargava, Member, from India
served as the senior adviser for Public Sector Governance at the
World Bank in 2006-7. From 2002-06 he was World Bank Director of
International Affairs and Operations and was responsible for
outreach to civil society organizations. Prior to that he was for
six years the World Bank`s Resident Representative and Country
Director for the Philippines. Vinay has over 25 years experience
in economic development and donor assistance covering Asia,
Africa, Middle East and Eastern Europe. He was the lead author of
a report on Combating Corruption in the Philippines (2000) and on
Challenging Corruption in Asia. He also contributed a chapter to
the book The Many Faces of Corruption (2007). He has a PhD in
agricultural economics.
Peter Eigen,
Member, from Germany, was Chair of the PTF from its
inception in March 2000 until February 2001, and continues to
serve on the Board. He is the founder of Transparency
International and is currently Chairman of its Advisory Board.
Peter is the chairman of the Extractive Industries Transparency
Initiative and of the Berlin Civil Society Centre. He served in
the World Bank for 25 years, where he held various management
positions in the Latin America and Africa Regions of the Bank,
and was Director of the Regional Mission of the World Bank in
Eastern Africa from 1988 until his retirement from the Bank in
1991. He has taught law at the universities of Frankfurt and
Georgetown, at the John F. Kennedy School of Government of
Harvard University, and serves currently as professor at the
Freie Universität Berlin. He is a Trustee of the Crown Agents
Foundation and Center for International Environmental Law. Peter
is a lawyer by training.
Irene Khan, Member, was
until very recently Secretary-General of Amnesty International a
post she held for nine years. She is now living in Geneva where
she is on Sabbatical leave. Irene led Amnesty International for
eight years. Previous to that she was Director on Interenational
Protectional Protection and before that UN High Commission for
Refugees Mission Chief in India. She serves on the Advisory
Council of Transparency International. She is a graduate of the
Harvard Law School and the recipent of the Pilkington Woman of
the Year award in 2002.
Pierre
Landell-Mills, President, from the UK, has been a member
of the PTF Board since February 2002. He is Chief Executive of
the Partnership for Transparency Fund. He is currently a
principal of The Policy Practice. He served in the World Bank for
26 years before retiring in 1999. His positions included Country
Director, Bangladesh, senior policy advisor on public sector
management and environmentally sustainable development, and Staff
Director and main author of the 1983 World Development on
Managing Development and
a 1989 report on Sub-Saharan
Africa: From Crisis to Sustainable Growth. Prior to
joining the Bank, he worked for seven years with the Government
of Botswana and for two years in the Tanzania Treasury. Pierre
has a Masters degree in economics from Cambridge University in
1965.
Dr.
Samuel Paul lives in Bangalore,
India, where he founded the Public Affairs Centre, a non-profit
organization known internationally for its work on governance and
public accountability. He was Professor of Economics and later
Director of the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad
(1972-78). Subsequently, he became an advisor to the World Bank in
Washington (1984-1991). He has also been a special adviser to the
United Nations Commission on Transnational Corporations, UNDP, ILO,
and other international agencies, and has served on the boards of
several international research centres. An author of several
books and numerous professional articles, he has taught at the
Harvard Business School, Harvard's Kennedy School of
Government, and Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of
Public Affairs.
Ron Points, Treasurer,from the United States, is a specialist in government accounting andfinancial management with 35 years experience in financial accountingand reporting policies and internal controls.. He was the US Governmentrepresentative at international meetings to establish public sectoraccounting standards. At PricewaterhouseCoopers` he was responsible forthe ir International Financial Management Consulting Practice. He hasalso been the Manager of Financial Management for East Asia at theWorld Bank and has worked for the US General Accounting Office responsible for developing and maintaining accounting standards.
Barry
Metzger, Member, from the United States, is an original
member of the PTF Board. He is a partner with Baker &
McKenzie LLP in New York, where he is a member of the Global
Finance Group. From 1995 to 1999, he was General Counsel for the
Asian Development Bank. In over thirty years legal practice,
Barry is a recognized authority on Asian legal systems and
economic law reform. He has written extensively on corporate
governance reform in Asia and its effect on economic development
and direct foreign investment in the region. He has been involved
in a variety of innovative financing transactions, including the
first syndicated loan to the Bank of China. Barry has a law
degree from Harvard University.
Muthoni
Muriu, Member, from Kenya, has been a PTF Board member
since November 2003. As Director of Regional Programs for Oxfam
America, Ms. Muriu heads the department that is responsible for
delivering Oxfam`s global programmes. Prior to joining Oxfam
America in October 2006, Ms Muriu worked for Oxfam Great Britain
as Regional Program Manager for West Africa annd before that as
Head of Pan African Trade Policy at Oxfam International in
Geneva. As Regional Policy Advisor for West and Southern Africa
for Oxfam Great Brtain, she was very involved in advocating for
the creation of policy dialogue platforms for civil society at
both national and international levels. She has spent eighteen
years working in international development and has a passion for
social justice issues and International Relations from the London
School of Political Science and Economics.
Liliana N.
Proskuryakova, Member, from Russia, has been a PTF Board
member since November 2003. She is a researcher at the Institute
of Statistical Studies and Economic Knowledge at Moscow
University, and previously a program officer in UNDP`s Moscow
office. Before that she was previously coordinator of the Unit
for Interaction with International Organisations and Foundations,
St.Petersburg Centre for Humanities and Political Studies,
St.Petersburg, and program coordinator for an operational program
on globalisation at the Gender Policy Institute in Russia. Also,
she has been responsible for managing the Russian-Swedish project
entitled "Social Partnership and the Civic Society".
Liliana has a degree in international relations and has served as
an intern in the Russian Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Daniel Ritchie,
Secretary, from the United States, was Vice-Chair of the
PTF Board from February 2002 to November 2003. He is an
independent consultant on economic development. He served in the
World Bank for almost 30 years before retiring in 1997. His
positions included Director for North Africa and Iran, Director
of the Asia Region Technical Department, Deputy Director,
Personnel Department, Chief, India Country Operations, Chief,
Agriculture and Rural Development, Southern Europe. He currently
manages the World Bank`s technical cooperation program with
Washington DC, serves as a Director for Kabissa, a non-profit
organization serving the information technology needs of African
NGOs and manages a scholarship fund for students in Kenya. Dan
holds degrees in public administration.
Gerry van
der Linden, Member, from the Netherlands, was elected to
the PTF Board in May 2007. Gerry has recently retired as
Vice-President of the Asian Development Bank responsible for
knowledge management and sustainable development. He was
previously director-general responsible for ADB operatiions in
Azerbaijan, China, Kazakstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Mongolia,
Tajikisatn, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. In 1992 he chaired a
Working Group preparing for a major reorganizatiion of ADB. He
has also worked for UNDP and the Dutch government. He holds a
Masters degree in Economics from Erasmus University in 1972.
Gerry is Chair of the PTF`s Audit and Governance Committee