PTF Board Directors

Kumi Naidoo, Chair, fromSouth Africa, was elected Chair of the Partnership for TransparencyFund in February 2002. He is Secretary General and CEO of CIVICUS, aninternational alliance of over 600 organizations and individuals from100 countries dedicated to strengthening civil action and civil societythroughout the world. Prior to joining CIVICUS in 1998, Kumi was thefounding Executive Director the South African National NGO Coalition.He has also served in several leadership positions in adult educationand journalism, and was active in the anti-apartheid movement. A RhodesScholar, Kumi holds degrees in politics and law.was elected Chair of the Partnership for Transparency Fund in February 2002. He is Secretary General and CEO of CIVICUS, an international alliance of over 600 organizations and individuals from 100 countries dedicated to strengthening civil action and civil society throughout the world. Prior to joining CIVICUS in 1998, Kumi was the founding Executive Director the South African National NGO Coalition. He has also served in several leadership positions in adult education and journalism, and was active in the anti-apartheid movement. A Rhodes Scholar, Kumi holds degrees in politics and law.

Anabel Cruz, Vice-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. She has also studied extensively the process of regional integration in Latin America. 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 .

Randolph Andersen, Member and Treasurer, is from the UK and has been a member of the Board since April, 2004. He is a Fellow of the British Chartered Management Institute and, most recently served as the Director of the World Bank's Loan Department, responsible for a portfolio totalling over $200 billion.  He joined the World Bank in 1978 as a financial analyst in the Africa Region and susequently held a number of senior positions including Division Chief  for Central and Operating Accounting. Before joining the World Bank, Randolph was Financial Planning Manager of Seven-Trent Water utility and Chief Accountant for the NW Gloucester Water Board. Randolph has a Master in Business Administration from the University of Bath.

Peter Eigen, Member, from Germany, is the founder and 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. TI is a non-governmental organization promoting transparency and accountability in government and international development. It supports national chapters in more than 80 countries. 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. Trustee of the Crown Agents Foundation and Center for International Environmental Law. Peter is a lawyer by training.

Pierre Landell-Mills, Member, from the UK, has been a member of the PTF Board since February 2002. He is President and Chief Executive of the Partnership for Transparency Fund. He is currently Visiting Professor in the Institute for International Policy Analysis at Bath University, UK., a principal of The Policy Practice and a Trustee of Oxford Policy Institute. 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.

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. She is Oxfam America's program manager and was previous Oxfam's West Africa regional program director. From 1997 to 2001 she was a programme officer for ENDA Tiers Monde, funded by IDRC, Canada, responsible for managing a civil society capacity building program, developing policy advocacy plans, and liaising with environmental and development organizations worldwide. Prior to this, Muthoni has had varied career in nursing, journalism and public relations.

Liliana N. Proskuryakova, Member, from Russia, has been a PTF Board member since November 2003. She is a program officer in UNDP's Moscow office and 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", and activities of the Russian-Swedish Working Group on Social Partnership in St. Petersburg, and for organizing large-scale international conferences devoted to international relations. Liliana has a degree in international relations and has served as an intern in the Russian Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Daniel Ritchie, Member and 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.

Aurora Tolentino, Member, from the Philippines, was elected to the PTF Board in December 2002. She is Chair of the Asia Pacific Philanthropy Consortium (APPC), a network of organizations dedicated to promoting philanthropy in the Region. Prior to joining APPC, Rory was the Executive Director of Ayala Foundation, one of the Philippines' best-known and most effective corporate foundations dedicated to poverty alleviation. Until 1988, she was Executive Director of the Philippine Business for Social Progress, the country's largest grant making and project-implementing foundation, supported by some 172-member corporations. She had been involved in PBSP since 1970. Rory holds a Masters Degree in Social Work with a minor in Business Administration from Columbia University in New York.

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.

Frank Vogl, Member, from theUnited States, is a founding member of the Board of the PTF. He isPresident of Vogl Communications, a strategic management consultingfirm specializing in issues of corporate globalization, and he is amember of the Board of Transparency International.  Frank was ajournalist on economics and business with Reuters and The Times ofLondon before becoming Director of Information and Public Affairs ofthe World Bank from 1981 to 1990. He is an author and frequentcontributors to publications on ethics and corruption issues. He is anadvisor to the Ethics Resource Center of the United States and a memberof the Brookings Institution Council. Frank holds a degree in politics.

Ewa Westman, Member, from Sweden, has been a member of the PTF Board since February 2002. She has served in Sida as advisor and program officer for 10 years, focused on governance, policy formulation, public administration and health, primarily in Eastern and Southern Africa. She has also served for 11 years in the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, responsible for multi-lateral development cooperation. She was based in Zimbabwe for three years during the 90's and has been working since 2001 as a consultant for UN organisations such as FAO and UNDP, as well as for Transparency International and today is commissioned as a senior consultant on governance and development at the International Development Law Organisation, an intergovernmental organisation that aims at strengthening the rule of law and good governance in developing countries. Ewa has a degree in political science and Russian.