Highlights from our 20th Anniversary event

A banner is put in place on the conference venue, Berlin's Café Moskau.

The audience gathered at the conference celebrating Transparency International's 20th anniversary in Berlin today.

"Today, people are far more aware of corruption than 20 years ago. They know something can be done about it, and they expect their leaders to act."

"We need companies, civil society and governments to come together as islands of integrity."

Richard von Weizsäcker addresses the audience.

Leonard McCarthy addresses the audience.

Frank Vogl, Co-Founder and Member of the Advisory Council, Transparency International moderates our ‘On corruption’ panel featuring Pascal Lamy, Former Director-General, World Trade Organization and Yves Leterme, Deputy Secretary General, OECD.

Kamal Hossain, Co-Founder of Transparency International and Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bangladesh moderates our ‘No to impunity’ panel featuring Baltasar Garzón, Spanish Jurist and José Ugaz, Board Member, Transparency International.

”Money-laundering, bribery, corruption and organised crime must be subjected to universal jurisdiction.”

Laurence Cockcroft, Co-Founder of Transparency International and Former Chair of Transparency International UK, moderates our panel on ‘Fighting poverty’ featuring Jon Lidén, Head of Strategy and Planning, Africa Progress Panel; Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever; and Claudia Pragua, Head of Division for Governance, Democracy, and Rule of Law, BMZ.

”When it comes to poverty, corruption is the linking factor… only collective action will bring us forward.”

Speaking of the power of social media to drive change fast, "if they did it in Egypt in 17 days, it can happen in a company in nanoseconds.”

Peter Conze, Co-Founder of Transparency International and Board Member of Transparency International Germany, moderates our panel on ‘Joining forces’, featuring Peter Eigen, Founder, Transparency International; Akaash Maharaj, Executive Director, Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption; and Kumi Naidoo, International Executive Director, Greenpeace International.

”We have to begin to contest those issues which may be legal, but are unjust. Slavery was also legal at one stage.”

”We are not fighting for some abstract idea, we are fighting for the future of the human race.”

Fritz Heimann, Co-Founder of Transparency International; Laurence Cockcroft, Co-Founder of Transparency International; Pierre Landell-Mills, Founder of Partnership for Transparency Fund; and Frank Vogl, Co-Founder of Transparency International participating in our ‘Citizens against Corruption’ panel.

Ugoh Wilson Emenike is a 23-year-old activist, writer and teacher from Nigeria. Here he receives his reward from Mary Jane Ncube, Executive Director of Transparency International Zimbabwe.

Sony Ramany is a 21-year-old photographer from Bangladesh.

Akere Muna (Vice Chair, Transparency International), Sony Ramany (Winner of our Youth Photo Competition), Huguette Labelle (Chair, Transparency International), Ugoh Wilson Emenike (Winner of our Youth Writing Competition), and Mary Jane Ncube (Executive Director, Transparency International Zimbabwe).

Huguette Labelle receives the GOPAC Award on behalf of the Transparency International movement from Dr. Naser al Sane, Member-at-large and Chair of Management Committee of the Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption.

From left, J.C. Weliamuna (Chair of Integrity Awards Committee and Board Member, Transparency International), Huguette Labelle (Chair, Transparency International), Integrity Award Winner Rafael Marques de Morais (Human Rights Activist and Journalist, Angola), Integrity Award Winner Luo Changping (Journalist, China), Peter Eigen (Founder, Transparency International), and Akere Muna (Vice-Chair, Transparency International).