Board of Directors

Our Board of Directors is elected by the Annual Membership Meeting (a body comprising all of Transparency International’s accredited chapters).

The Board is responsible for determining our strategy and policy as well as supervising our activities. For a more detailed list of responsibilities, please see the Charter. You can also view the Board Code of Conduct, and the Board Members’ Register of Interests below.

François Valérian was elected Chair in 2023. Since 2019 he had been a member of the International Board where he was active in various committtees, including the Membership Accreditation Committee, which he chaired until 2022. From 2013 to 2023 he was a member of the board of Transparency International France, where he worked on illicit financial flows, political integrity and strategic litigation. Formerly the leader of business integrity programmes at the Transparency International Secretariat, François initiated Transparency International’s advocacy at the G20 around financial regulation and anti-corruption. In his professional career, François worked both in public and private sectors. He negotiated social agreements with coal mine trade unions, worked for BNP Paribas and was a partner at Accenture. He was the editor-in-chief of the Annales des Mines, an economic review. He was an associate professor of finance at CNAM and taught financial regulation and oversight at École des Mines de Paris, a course he created in 2013. He is the author of several books and articles, graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole des Mines de Paris, and holds a PhD in History.

Dr Ketakandriana Rafitoson is a Malagasy political scientist, anti-corruption activist, and human rights defender who has served as the Vice-Chair of Transparency International since 2023. An individual member of TI Madagascar, she is known for her advocacy for good governance, transparency, democratisation, citizens’ engagement, and women's and youth's empowerment. Fond of social justice, she holds a PhD in Political Science and another in Sociology for Development. She teaches at the Catholic University of Madagascar and co-founded several movements such as Wake Up Madagascar and Liberty 32. Beyond her official roles, “Ke” also sits on the international boards of the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI) and the African Women Against Corruption Network (AWACN). As a former TED Speaker (2024), she is the curator and founder of TEDx Manjakamiadana. Since 2024, she has served as the Executive Director of the Resource Justice Network – formerly known as Publish What You Pay (PWYP).

Duncan leads the public policy, research and advocacy teams of Transparency International UK. His work aims to advance integrity in British public life and to stop the flow of dirty money through the UK arising from corruption around the world. Formerly a Member of Parliament, he attended Cabinet as the parliamentary aide to Britain's Deputy Prime Minister. More recently, he completed a master’s degree in conflict, security and development, authoring a dissertation on the illicit trade in gold from eastern Congo. Through more than 20 years, he has gained non-executive board-level experience, principally of public bodies with turnovers rising to £500 million annually and has been responsible for chairing audit and risk committees. A chartered management accountant, he trained while a consultant with Deloitte. Duncan is currently a governor of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy, a director of the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust, and a trustee of an associated charitable trust.

Anita Ramasastry is the Henry M Jackson Professor of Law and the Director of the Sustainable International Development Graduate program at the University of Washington. She researches in the fields of business and human rights, anti-corruption, law and sustainable development. From 2016-2022, she served as a member and chair of the United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights, appointed by the UN Human Rights Council as an independent expert. During her tenure, she worked to connect the business and human rights agenda to anti-corruption and integrity initiatives among governments, businesses and civil society. She is currently the Special Representative on Combatting Corruption at the OSCE. From 2019 to 2021, she served as a member of the World Economic Forum’s Council on Transparency and Anti-Corruption and was a member of Transparency International’s Council from 2022 to 2023. Ramasastry has worked on anti-corruption initiatives for the World Bank, the EBRD, USAID and civil society organisations such as Global Witness. From 2009-2011, she served as a Senior Advisor in the US International Trade Administration, where she helped launch key anti-corruption initiatives with APEC, the G20 and the OECD.

Apollinaire Mupiganyi is a Rwandan by nationality. He holds a master’s degree in business administration, with a major in management, from Neuchâtel University (Switzerland) and a Postgraduate Diploma in international project management from the Applied University of Western Switzerland.

Apollinaire has also completed professional training in “Governance and Development”, “Measuring Corruption & Governance”, “Communication with Media”, “E-procurement”; “UNCAC and its review mechanisms, leadership”, and "Good Public Financial Management in Key Sectors" to name a few. He has more than 20 years of professional experience in both private and non-governmental institutions and has worked with the Transparency International movement as Executive Director of the Rwandan chapter since April 2009. Apollinaire was among the 15 experts of Transparency International Movement Strategy 2030 Task Force and is currently a Member of the Strategy Reference Group of Transparency International Movement.

Bruno Brandão is an economist from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil), with a Masters in Public Management from the University of York (United Kingdom) and in International Relations from Barcelona Institute of International Studies (Spain). He has worked for Transparency International for over ten years, with experience in the organisation's Secretariat in Germany, coordinating the Climate Financing Integrity Program in Mexico, and, since 2016, serving as executive director of Transparency International's Brazilian chapter. Bruno is a fellow of the “Open Government in the Americas” program of the Organisation of American States (OAS) and of the “Transformation Thinkers” program of the Bertelsmann Foundation. In 2017, his leadership in the permanent establishment of Transparency International in Brazil was recognised with Transparency International's Amalia Award for professional excellence.

Dion is an Attorney at Law with over 25 years of experience in the corporate environment and holds a Master's Degree in Law (Corporate & Commercial) from the University of London. He is a Chartered Secretary and a Fellow of the Chartered Governance Institute (Canada). He is also a Harvard Business School (GMP) graduate (USA). Over the years, Dion has acquired extensive experience in commercial, contract, company, and corporate governance law. He has facilitated workshops and presented papers locally, regionally and internationally on governance, risk management, integrity in public life, and procurement systems. He has been involved in and worked on, among other things, e-procurement systems, whistleblowing software, and governance manuals. He has lectured in the LL.B. degree programme. Dion is the former Chair of the Trinidad & Tobago Transparency Institute, and he is involved in its programmes, including the ALAC (Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre) with Hugh Wooding Law School, the Business Integrity Country Agenda project, and the Integrity in Schools project. In the past, he has assisted with the review of the NIS in the Caribbean. He also serves as a Director on the Board of the Executive Master's Programme in Business Administration at the Arthur Lok Jack Institute of Business, a Chief Examiner for ICSA, Canada and a member of the Board of the NGO Music Literacy Trust.

Duncan Wood, PhD, is Vice President of Strategy and New Initiatives at the Wilson Centre. Previously, he was the Director of the Centre's Mexico Institute and now serves as the institute’s senior advisor. He is an internationally renowned specialist on North American politics, Mexico and US-Mexican ties who lectures and publishes on hemispheric issues and relations. He regularly gives testimony to the US Congress on US-Mexico relations, is a widely quoted source on Mexican politics, and has published extensively on this and other issues. He is the author and editor of 12 books and more than 30 chapters and articles. He is currently co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Future Council on Transparency and Anti-Corruption, has worked closely with the WEF on Energy policy, and is a member of the editorial board of Foreign Affairs Latin America. He studied in the UK and Canada, receiving his Doctorate in Political Studies from Queen’s University, Canada. He is a life-long fan of Liverpool Football Club and will hopefully Never Walk Alone.

Peter van Veen is the Director of Corporate Governance & Stewardship at the ICAEW, one of the world’s leading professional bodies for accountants, where he leads on regulation, policy and thought leadership. Prior to his current role, Peter was a Chief Ethics & Compliance Director for several multinationals headquartered in Japan, France and the Netherlands. Peter has been a board member of Transparency International Netherlands since 2018 and was a director at Transparency International UK from 2011 to 2017, where he set up the Business Integrity Programme. Peter served on the Advisory board of AIM-Progress, an ethical supply chain collective action initiative, from 2012-2017. Peter has a degree in Economics from Victoria University of Wellington (NZ), an postgraduate degrees in Latin American Studies (Political Economy) and Corporate Governance & Business Ethics, both from the University of London (UK).

Prof. Dr Silvina Bacigalupo is a Full Professor of Criminal Law at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, specialising in Criminal Law, Economic Criminal Law, white-collar crime, and Corporate Criminal Law. She has held various visiting professor and researcher positions in Europe and Latin America and actively contributed to numerous national and international research projects. She has been an Expert Advisor of different Committees: Eurosocial-European Programme for Projects of Public Policy Promotion for the Prevention of Corruption, Compliance Committee AENOR (Spanish Standards Association); Advisory Council of the National Contact Point for OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises (Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, ongoing); Member of the Academic Network for the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, OECD General Secretariat; Member of the Network of experts on Beneficial Ownership Transparency; member of the UNESCO Chair on Culture of Peace and Human Rights. She joined the Advisory Council of Transparency International Spain in 2011 and became a member of the Board in 2014. Since 2019, she has been the Chair of Transparency International Spain.

Abeer Mdanat is the Executive Director of Rasheed Transparency International Jordan for 9 years. She brings 30 years of professional experience across donor institutions, civil society, and the public sector at national, regional, and international levels. Throughout her career, she played a leading role in designing and implementing anti-corruption, development, and human rights strategies. She was elected to lead the Coalition of Human Rights Civil Society Organisations in Jordan, and she’s a founding member and an elected member of the executive committee of the Land Governance Coalition. Abeer led the Jordanian chapter in achieving numerous success stories and in developing sustainable, holistic tools for participation and accountability across multiple sectors. Previously, on behalf of German Foundations, she led the negotiations with the Jordanian, Syrian, Lebanese and Yemeni Governments, and succeeded in establishing sustainable development programs in the Levant and North Africa. She has a Master’s Degree in Engineering from the Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. She is fluent in Arabic, English, and German, with basic knowledge of French.