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Huguette Labelle holds a Doctor of Philosophy, Education. She is a Companion of the Order of Canada. She has been awarded honorary degrees from twelve Canadian Universities and has received the Vanier medal of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada, the Outstanding Achievement Award of the public service of Canada, the McGill Management Achievement Award and l’ordre de la Pleiade.

She has served for a period of nineteen years as Deputy Minister of different Canadian Government departments including Secretary of State, Transport Canada, the Public Service Commission and the Canadian International Development Agency. She has served on more than 20 Boards.

She is currently Chancellor of the University of Ottawa, Chair of the Board of Transparency International, member of the Board of the UN Global Compact, member of the Group of External Advisors on the World bank Governance and Anti-corruption Strategy, member of the Advisory Group to the Asian development Bank on Climate Change and Sustainable Development and member of the Board of CRC Sogema. She also serves on additional national and international Boards. She provides advisory services to national and international organizations.

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Akere T. Muna is founder and former president of Transparency International Cameroon. A lawyer by training, he is President of the Pan African Lawyers Union and former president of the Cameroon Bar Association. In October 2008, Akere Muna was elected President of the African Union's Economic, Social and Cultural Council (ECOSOCC). Mr Muna is a member of several national commissions on legal reform and curbing corruption. In January 2010 he was elected as one of the 4 new members to the Panel of Eminent Persons (APR panel). He is also member of the International Anti-Corruption Council. Mr Muna is still in active Legal Practice as the Managing Partner of Muna, Muna and Associates, one of oldest law firms in Cameroon.

He was a member of the National Ad-hoc Commission for the Fight against Corruption and has served as a Commonwealth Observer for Zanzibar's elections in 2000. He was appointed as a member of the High Level Audit Committee of the African Union in August 2007, who undertook a general audit review of the Organs and Institutions of the African Union as well as the nature of the relationships among them. The Committee concluded its work in February 2008.
Mr Muna was actively involved in the TI working group that helped to draft the African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption and has written a guide to the convention published by TI.

He was elected to the TI Board at the 2004 Annual Meeting, elected as Vice-Chair of the TI Board in 2005 and re-elected to that office at the 2008 AMM.

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Jermyn P. Brooks (UK/Germany) joined Price Waterhouse London in 1962, and worked for the company in senior roles around the globe until 2000. He was a founding Board Member of the World Economic Forum’s Partnering Against Corruption Initiative, and since 2009 chairs the 10th Principle Working Group of the United Nations Global Compact. He is also a member of the Wolfsberg Group, which developed the Wolfsberg Anti-Money Laundering Principles, and serves as Independent Chair of the Global Network Initiative.

Brooks previously served on Transparency International’s Board, from 2003-2006, and also chaired the Steering Committee of the Business Principles for Countering Bribery. He currently chairs TI’s Business Advisory Board and is a member of the Finance Committee.

Brooks was elected to TI’s Board of Directors for a second term on 16 October 2011 at the Annual Membership Meeting in Berlin.

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Jeremy Carver has more than 37 years experience as an international lawyer with Clifford Chance LLP, where he was a partner for 30 years. He has represented and advised many States and governments in boundary disputes, treaties, investments and development.

An emphasis in his practice is oil and gas, having started work with Shell while at Cambridge University in order to be a petroleum engineer. He is currently a part-time consultant with Clifford Chance, retaining the title of Head of International Law, and has served as a Trustee/Director of TI-UK since 2001. Jeremy is President of the International Law Association British Branch and active in other international bodies, including International Rescue Committee, a leading humanitarian agency.

Jeremy Carver was elected to the TI Board in October 2009 in Berlin.

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Delia Ferreira Rubio was the President of Poder Ciudadano – TI’s National Chapter in Argentina – and served on the Chapter’s Board from 2004 to 2010.

Delia graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Ph.D. degree in Law from Madrid’s Complutense University. She served as Chief Advisor for several Representatives and Senators at the National Congress from 1990 to 2005, advising the Constitutional Committee of both the House of Representatives and the Senate, and also served as Chief Advisor at the National Accounting Office for two years.

She has consulted on anti-corruption and transparency related issues with various international organizations and NGOs around the world, and has worked on projects promoting greater transparency and accountability for political campaign/party financing.

She is a researcher at the CEPPA Foundation in Buenos Aires and has authored numerous publications on democratic culture and political institutions, Comparative Politics, government by decree, public and parliamentary ethics, political financing and electoral systems, among other subjects.

Delia Ferreira Rubio was elected as a Member of the Board at the TI Annual Membership Meeting in Athens on 29 October 2008.

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Sergej Muravjov is the executive director of TI Lithuania. He joined the chapter in 2005 and has overseen its steady growth and broader engagement, both nationally and regionally. Sergej has been involved in numerous cross-regional TI initiatives and represented the movement internationally. He advocated for a more effective UNCAC at the Conference of State Parties in 2007 and 2008.

He has published extensively on transparency, corruption and good governance, and is also the editor of a number of books on public and private sector accountability. He has conducted consultancy tasks for the European Commission, UN Development Programme and the UK Department for International Development.

He represents TI Lithuania on a special anti-corruption commission launched by the government of Lithuania, advising their anti-corruption efforts.

Sergej Muravjov was elected to the TI Board in October 2009 in Berlin.

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Rueben Lifuka is the President of TI Zambia (TIZ). He has been involved with the Chapter from early on, shaping the first two strategic plans which helped establish a strong TI-Zambia.

Rueben is an Architect and Project Manager by profession and a graduate of the Copperbelt University in Zambia. He has also studied Integrated Environmental Management at the University of Bath in the United Kingdom. He is an experienced Project Manager and Strategic Planning Expert and runs a consultancy firm offering Organisational Development and Programme /Project Management services locally and internationally. He has also served in various capacities on different professional and quasi government Boards in Zambia and worldwide.

Rueben Lifuka was elected as a Member of the Board at the TI Annual Membership Meeting in Athens on 29 October 2008.

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Elena A. Panfilova (Russia) has worked as an academic researcher and project manager for the Institute of Independent Social Studies, the Institute for Economy in Transition and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, amongst others. She is a member of the Russian Presidential Council on Civil Society and Human Rights, where she co-chairs a working group on anti-corruption. She has taught anti-corruption at the State University Higher School of Economics (Moscow) since 2007, where she also established the Laboratory for Anti-corruption Policy in 2009. She is currently Deputy Head of the Laboratory.

Panfilova is also the Director of the Center for Anti-corruption Research and Initiative Transparency International, TI’s Russian Chapter, which she founded in 1999.

Elena A. Panfilova was elected to the TI Board at the Annual Membership Meeting in Berlin on 16 October 2011.

Jacques Terray has been a director and a vice-chairman of TI-France from 2003 to date.

After graduation from Paris (Sorbonne) law school and a LLM degree at Columbia law school (New York City), he joined the Paris law firm Gide, where he became the head of the banking and finance department, advising the banks in the financing of Euro tunnel and the rescheduling of Euro Disney Park. He was French counsel to ISDA (worldwide derivatives association) until his retirement in 2002.

He played his part in the creation of the euro and advised the Banque de France on its impact. He is a founding member of the NGOs platform on tax havens (2005), and a contributor to the works of TI-S on financial transparency in relation to the G8 and G20.

Jacques Terray was elected as a Member of the Board at the TI Annual Membership Meeting in Bangkok on 9 November 2010.

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José Carlos Ugaz (Peru) is a lawyer by training, and served as the Ad-Hoc State Attorney of Peru in several top level corruption cases. During the Fujimori-Montesinos affair (2000-2002), his office opened more than 200 cases against 1500 members of the Fujimori network. Under his mandate, US $205 million were frozen abroad and US $150 million were recovered from USA, Switzerland, Grand Cayman and Peru. Ugaz was also a member of the United Nations Election Observers Mission for El Salvador, and from 2004-2006 he served at the Institutional Integrity Office of the World Bank. He taught criminal law at the Universidad Católica del Perú from 1986-2011.

In 2002, Ugaz assumed the presidency of PROETICA, TI’s national chapter in Peru. He then became an Individual Member of TI in 2008.

José Carlos Ugaz was elected to the TI Board at the Annual Membership Meeting in Berlin on 16 October 2011.

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Elisabeth Ungar Bleier (Colombia) was a professor and researcher in the Department of Political Science at Universidad de los Andes from 1975 until 2009. From 1995 to 1996 she served as the Director of the Department, and from 2005 to 2007 she was a member of the University’s Board. She founded – and directed for 12 years – Congreso Visible, the first Colombian watchdog organisation set up to follow Congress. Ungar Bleier was an advisor to President Virgilio Barco (1988-1990), and a member of numerous follow-up electoral commissions and oversight committees to the election of members of High Courts and to processes of political and constitutional reform.

An author, columnist and political analyst, Ungar Bleier has been the Executive Director of Transparencia por Colombia, TI’s national chapter in the country, since 2009.

Elisabeth Ungar Bleier was elected to the TI Board at the Annual Membership Meeting in Berlin on 16 October 2011.

Weliamuna is a constitutional lawyer, human rights advocate and anti corruption activist who was the first Executive Director of Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL), serving in that position since July 2002 till end of 2010.

After having initiated his legal career in the field of commercial law, he over the years moved into the fields of constitutional and human rights law, then leading him into good governance and anti corruption. He is one of the leading public interest lawyers in Sri Lanka. He is also a visiting lecturer in Constitutional Law, in the University of Colombo.

He was formerly a bureau member of the sub regional human rights movement, South Asians for Human Rights. He has a LLM from the University of Colombo. He is also an Eisenhower Fellow and a Senior Ashoka Fellow.

Weliamuna was elected as a Member of the Board at the TI Annual Membership Meeting in Bangkok on 9 November 2010.