Charting Illicit Trade - OECD Task Force Meeting, Agenda
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Over 100 participants attended the 2nd meeting of the OECD Task Force on Charting Illicit Trade to take stock of progress in its effort to measure the economic impacts of this economic risk, and to explore new sectors in this growing criminal sector of the economy. More information at http://www.oecd.org/gov/risk/oecdtaskforceonchartingillicittradetf-cit.htm
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Charting Illicit Trade - OECD Task Force Meeting, Agenda
- 2. 1 AGENDA 2ND MEETING OF THE OECD TASK FORCE ON CHARTING ILLICIT TRADE (TF‐CIT) 5‐7 March 2014 OECD Conference Centre, Paris, France WEDNESDAY, 5 MARCH Afternoon Note: Welcome coffee will be served from 13:30 outside room CC 5 14:00 – 14:30 Room CC 5 Welcome Rolf Alter, Director, OECD Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate Objectives of the meeting and adoption of the draft agenda David Luna, Chair of the Task Force on Charting Illicit Trade, United States Department of State Presentation of the draft OECD Recommendation on Governance of Critical Risks Tina Gabbrielli, Director, Air Domain Intelligence Integration Element, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, United States 14:30 – 16:00 Room CC 5 Session 1: Public policies as countermeasures to illicit trade This session will call upon government Task Force members to share what the primary types of illicit trade are in their countries, and explain what their administration has done to address these activities. The aim is to identify what policies have been successful, or not, and why, and in particular to scope the potential for international cooperation to reinforce policy effectiveness. Speakers: Mexico, Luis Eduardo Gutiérrez, tax administration authority (SAT) Morocco, Nafissa Belcaid, Directeur du Pôle des Signes Distinctifs, Office Marocain de la Propriété Industrielle et Commerciale (OMPIC) 16:00 – 16:15 Coffee Break 16:15 – 17:45 Room CC 5 Session 2: Building public/ private partnerships against illicit trade in counterfeits This policy roundtable will focus on how different forms of illicit trade simultaneously damage the interests of the private sector and undermine the public interest and goals of governments. Panellists from industry and government will discuss suggestions from this perspective for policy changes to counter the tactics of traffickers, and identify opportunities for collaborative partnerships, both between governments and with the private sector.
- 3. 2 Speakers: Mr. Jeffrey Hardy, Director, ICC/Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy Invited panellists from Unilever PLC, Nike, Hewlett Packard and Lacoste Ms. Rebecca Strässle, Federal Customs Administration, Switzerland Ms. Irene Uitermark, Ministry of Finance, the Netherlands 17:45 Wrap‐up of first day The Chair will summarize the first day and chart the discussions over the next two days. 18:00 ‐ 19:00 Cocktail (Room Roger Ockrent)
- 4. 3 THURSDAY, 6 MARCH Morning 9:00 – 09:15 Room CC 5 Welcome The Task Force Chair will outline the objectives of the Task Force going forward. 9:15 – 11:00 Room CC 5 Session 3: Roundtable of International organisations involved in fighting illicit trade This session will provide an overview of research and policy efforts to counter illicit trade undertaken through international organisations. Presenters will focus on what new policies, tactics and technology have proven useful to decrease, deter or otherwise control illicit trade. Speakers: Mariya Polner, Policy Advisor, World Customs Organisation (WCO) Marco Musumeci, Counterfeiting Programme Coordinator, United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) Louise Bosetti, Associate Expert, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Mickaëlle de Cock, Senior Consultant, International Labour Organization (ILO) Nathalie Morandini, Department of Migration Management, International Organization for Migration (IOM) Tamara Schotte, Senior Strategic Analyst, EUROPOL Stefano Betti, Senior Counsel, INTERPOL Questions for discussion: What have been the International Organisations’ strategies to address illicit trade trends and identify the gaps? What are the options for moving this agenda further for better monitoring, deterring and controlling illicit trade to reduce the harms to society and legitimate markets? 11:00 – 11:15 Coffee Break 11:15 – 12:30 Room CC 5 Session 4: Mapping Illicit Trade: overview of Task Force progress The OECD secretariat will present a synthesis report on the work of the Task Force and its results. Two sub‐group leaders will present the details of their sectoral approaches to measuring illicit trade. Discussion will focus on the feasibility and caveats of these approaches to estimating the economic impacts and other harms associated with illicit trade. Participants will be invited to comment especially on the use of proxy measures, and their applicability to different sectors.
- 5. 4 Speakers: Jack Radisch, OECD Secretariat, Synthesis paper on charting illicit trade Pierre Delval, WAITO International, sub‐group leader ‘Counterfeit medicines’ Jeannie Cameron, JCIC, and Gretchen Peters, Senior fellow on transnational crime, George Mason University, ‘Environmentally Sensitive Goods and Wildlife’ 12:30 – 13:00 Room CC 5 Session 5: Tools to report, visualize and measure illicit trade Developing tools to better monitor and measure illicit trade supports more efficient prevention and mitigation strategies and provides empirical evidence for the design of public policies. This session will present several new tools and explore conditions for access and broader development. Speakers: AJ Clarke, Thermopylae Sciences and Technology, United States Justin Picard, Black Market Watch, Switzerland 13:00 ‐ 14:15 Lunch break Afternoon 14:15 ‐ 15:45 Room CC 5 Session 6: Mapping Illicit Trade: overview of Task Force progress (cont’d) Presentations will present overviews on the current state of knowledge about different sectors of illicit trade in illegal drugs, alcohol, trafficking in persons and tobacco, highlighting the economic costs and harms to governments, businesses and individuals and examining the interrelationships and how each sector intersects with trafficking in different sectors. Speakers: Kristiina Kangaspunta, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Lance Hastings, SABMiller and Paul Skehan, spiritsEurope Vanessa Neumann, Asymmetrica 16:00 – 16:15 Coffee Break 16:15 – 18:00 Room CC 5 Session 7: Corruption related drivers and implications for illicit financial flows In this session the OECD secretariat will present reports focusing on the measures that OECD countries have taken to counter corruption and outlining how it drives trafficking in persons. OECD will also present its recent report on measuring responses to illicit financial flows from developing countries. Moderator: Mr. Antonio Adinolfi, Ministry of Finance, Italy
- 6. 5 Respondent: Mr. Tom Cardamone, Global Financial Integrity Speakers: Janos Bertok, OECD Public Governance Directorate, ‘The Nexus between corruption and trafficking in persons’ Alessandra Fontana, OECD Development Co‐operation Directorate, ‘Measuring OECD Responses to Illicit Financial Flows’ 18:00 Close of second day The Task Force Chair will summarize the proceedings of the second day.
- 7. 6 FRIDAY, 7 MARCH Morning 9:15 – 09:30 Room CC 5 Welcome The Task Force Chair will outline the objectives of the Task Force going forward. 09:30 ‐ 10:30 Room CC 5 Session 8: Addressing shifting strategies of illicit trade This session will explore recent developments and trends in illicit trade that foretell shifts in the strategies of criminal syndicates in their search for illicit profits. The aim of highlighting these changes is to consider what new partnerships, public policies, regulation and international cooperation will be needed to combat the new forms of illicit trade. Speakers: Fred Lord, Manager Sport Integrity Operations, International Centre for Sport Security Professor Arndt Sinn, University Osnarbrück 10:30 – 10:45 Coffee break 10:45 – 12:00 Room CC 5 Session 9: Towards a future research agenda for the TF‐CIT In this session participants will discuss the Task Force research agenda in 2014, and the roles of the established sub‐groups. Participants will be invited to consider the scope of a broader study on measuring the market value of counterfeit products, and to provide their views on how such a study could refresh and add value to previous OECD work on counterfeits and piracy. This could include, for example, exploring the nexus between trafficking in counterfeits and transnational organized crime. 12:00 – 13:00 Room CC 5 Session 10: TF‐CIT Regional dialogues Countries and organisations are invited to host ‘Regional Dialogues’ to build cross‐sectoral public/private partnerships to counter illicit trade. This session will focus on defining one or more draft agendas for such regional dialogues, and invite Task Force members to volunteer to contribute to these future events. 13:00 Close of meeting
- 8. 7 BIOGRAPHIES David Luna Senior Director, National Security and Diplomacy, Combating Global Threats and Navigating Geo‐Security Risks, Office of Anti‐Crime Programs, INL, U.S. Department of State David M. Luna helps coordinate diplomatic initiatives on national security and threat convergence including international organized crime, corruption, money laundering, terrorist financing, IPR enforcement, consumer counterfeits, cybersecurity/cybercrime, environmental crime, and smuggling/trafficking crimes that impact the US homeland, and destabilize global security and world order. He has worked with governments, international organizations, private sector, and NGOs throughout the world to strengthen the rule of law and criminal justice systems to improve the state of the world, secure an enduring peace, build tomorrow's growth markets and investment frontiers, and nurture an inclusive, sustainable, green future for communities by addressing global threats/navigating geo‐security risks. He has participated in numerous global summits, multilateral and inter‐ governmental meetings and initiatives including involving the United Nations, G8/G20, OECD, APEC, ASEAN, OAS, EU, AU, Arab League, World Bank. Tina Gabbrielli Director, Air Domain Intelligence Integration Element, Office of the Director of National Intelligence United States Tina Gabbrielli leads the Air Domain Intelligence Integration Element (ADIIE), an element of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. ADIIE works with partners at all levels of government, both domestic and international, and the private sector to help address the complex intelligence integration and information exchange needs of the air domain to reduce risk from terrorism, transnational crime and chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive threats. Prior to her current position, Ms. Gabbrielli established the Office of Risk Management and Analysis at the DHS National Protection and Programs Directorate to lead Departmental efforts for the management and analysis of homeland security risk, and to advise and represent the Secretary on risk management, risk analysis, and decision support requirements. Prior to RMA, Ms. Gabbrielli served as Director of Intelligence Coordination for the Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection Directorate and Senior Director for Contingency Planning and Field‐Based Preparedness in the National Preparedness Task Force at the DHS. In addition, she served at the Department of Justice as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, as Chair of the Anti‐ Terrorism Task Force, Chief of Terrorism, Chief of Violent Crimes, Chief of Major Crimes, and Deputy Chief and Acting Chief of the President’s Drug Task Force and Narcotics Section. Luis Eduardo Lara Gutierrez Head of the General Administration of Foreign Trade Audit part of the Mexican Tax Administration Service Since September 2012, Mr. Lara has been Head of the General Administration of Foreign Trade Audit part of the Mexican Tax Administration Service. He holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Harvard University and a degree from the National Defense College in Mexico on Security Military Administration. He obtained his Bachelor Degree in Economics from the Autonomous Technological Mexican Institute (ITAM University). He began his professional activity working for the Mexican Ministry of Finance and Public Credit at the International Affairs Office. He later joined the Ministry of Agricultural Reform as Director General of Agricultural Planning and Policy and afterwards became Director General of Programming, Organization and Finance. He also worked at the Office of Rural Finance where he was appointed Director General of Programming and Operation and Executive Secretary for Coordination and Regional Evaluation. In 2007, he returned to the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit where he held two different positions, Advisor to the Secretary and Chief of Staff of the Under‐Secretary of Revenue. In 2010 he became the Head of the Outreach and Liaison Unit at the Ministry of Energy. Before joining the Tax Administration Service he was Head of the Liaison Unit at the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit.
- 9. 8 Nafissa Belcaid Directeur du Pôle des Signes Distinctifs, Office Marocain de la Propriété Industrielle et Commerciale (OMPIC) Nafissa Belcaid is the director of the Distinctive Signs Division at the l’Office Marocain de la Propriété Industrielle et Commerciale (OMPIC, Moroccan Office for Industrial and Commercial Property), where she manages the activities of Branding, commercial names, industrial design, geographic indications, opposition in terms of brands. She is also responsible for the National Committee of Industrial Property and Counterfeiting, coordinating with its members and leading the activities. She has participated and animated events and seminars on industrial property and fight against counterfeiting on the national and international levels. Mariya Polner Research Analyst, Research and Strategies Unit, World Customs Organization Mariya Polner joined the World Customs Organization as a Research Analyst at the Research and Strategies Unit in March 2009. In September 2013 she became a Policy Advisor at the WCO Enforcement and Compliance SubDirectorate. Her main areas of responsibility include illegal trade, governance, supply chain security and border technologies. Prior to taking a position at the WCO, she worked at the European Commission’s Directorate General on External Relations (RELEX) and at the European Union Border Assistance Mission to Moldova and Ukraine (EUBAM), where she was working on technical assistance projects for the Ukrainian and Moldovan border agencies. Mariya holds two postgraduate degrees: an MA in International Relations from Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, and an MA in EU Politics and Administration from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. She speaks fluent English, French, Russian and Ukrainian, and has a basic knowledge of Spanish and Turkish. Marco Musumeci Programme Coordinator, United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) Marco Musumeci is Programme Coordinator within the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) and is the focal point for UNICRI Programme on counterfeiting. He started his career in the Institute conducting research and analysis on a series of emerging forms of transnational organized crime and was involved in different projects dealing with trafficking in persons, corruption, and counterfeiting. Since 2007 he played an active role in building the Institute’s Programme on counterfeiting, providing substantive advice on the overall strategic development of its projects and on the creation of new alliances. He actually manages a portfolio of several projects focused on counterfeiting and organized crime, with activities ranging from research and public/private cooperation to the design of training and awareness materials. He holds a Masters' degree in criminology and international criminal policy and he is co‐author of the first UNICRI publication on counterfeiting and organized crime as well as of several other publications on similar topics produced by the Institute. Louise Bosetti Associate Research Expert – United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) With a Master’s degree from the Institute of Political Studies of Paris (Sciences Po) in 2008, I have since been specializing in security and organized crime matters in several regions. I have been researching public policies against gang violence in Central America and the United States at Sciences Po, and I have participated in several research projects for local, national and international organizations. Since October 2011, I work as an Associate Research Expert within the Studies and Threat Analysis Section (STAS) of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime where my area of expertise has been in transnational organized crime and threat assessment methodology. As part of a new UNODC‐STAS research project on transnational crime threats, I am currently researching the trafficking in falsified medicines, with a focus on falsified anti‐malarials in West Africa and Southeast Asia.
- 10. 9 Michaëlle De Cock Senior Consultant, International Labour Organization (ILO) Michaëlle De Cock has been a leading researcher for the ILO on methodologies to survey and estimate forced labour and trafficking of adults and children for the last 10 years. She has been actively involved in key global estimates of forced labour published by the ILO in 2005 and 2012, resulting from a capture recapture of reported cases of forced labour. She also coordinated a Delphi survey jointly implemented by the European Commission and the ILO for European experts to reach a consensus on a list of operational indicators of trafficking. These indicators are now used by a number of countries in their data collection exercises. For the last four years, Michaëlle has been leading a series of national surveys on forced labour and trafficking. The methodology used to produce these estimates, including lists of indicators of forced labour, has been published (“Hard to see, harder to count: survey guidelines to estimate forced labour of adults and children”, ILO, Geneva, 2011). She holds a Ph.D from University of Paris VI. Nathalie Morandini Department of Migration Management, International Organization for Migration (IOM) Nathalie Morandini ‐ Siegrist is working at the IOM headquarter in Geneva as a Counter‐Trafficking Database and Project Assistant. She previously worked for various NGOs in the field and has managed projects for the socioeconomic empowerment of vulnerable women and displaced people. She holds a M.A degree in social sciences. Tamara Schotte Senior Strategic Analyst, EUROPOL Tamara Schotte is the Head of the strategic analysis team, Serious and Organised crime Department at Europol (European Police Organisation). She holds Master in Criminology and an Advanced Master in European Criminal Justice Systems. Prior to joining Europol in 2005, she worked as a Head National Security Monitor in the Belgian Ministry of Interior and as a Strategic analyst for the Federal Police of Belgium. In Europol, she was Project Manager of the EU Terrorism Situation and Trend report (TE‐SAT) in 2011 and 2012, and Project Manager of the EU Serious and Organised Crime Threat assessment (SOCTA) in 2013. Tamara Schotte is also a visiting professor VIVES (University College, Association Catholic University Leuven, Belgium). Stefano Betti Senior Counsel,Office of Legal Affairs, INTERPOL Stefano Betti is Senior Counsel at the Office of Legal Affairs of INTERPOL. He coordinates the legal activities in the area of illicit trade and counterfeiting. Before joining INTERPOL, he has worked for UNODC, providing legal advisory services to Governments on counter‐terrorism, the prevention of organized crime and anti‐corruption. Previously, he had collaborated with UNICRI and the European Parliament on different projects relating to crime prevention and criminal justice. Mr. Betti has a law degree from the University of Milan, Italy, with specialization in international criminal law, and a Master degree from the London School of Economics, UK.
- 11. 10 Pierre Delval President and founder, World Anti Illicit Traffic Organization (WAITO) The World Anti Illicit Traffic Organization has been founded by Pierre Delval, a French Criminologist and Forensic Scientist specialized in dangerous counterfeiting and the creator of the counterfeiting‐ crime© concept. Pierre Delval serves as its current President. He is also lecturer at the Research Department for Contemporary Criminal Threat (MCC) at the Institute of Criminology of Paris (Pantheon‐Assas University) and Associate Researcher at the Research Centre on Terrorism and Organized Crime of the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing. As international expert on dangerous counterfeit in the OECD Task Force on Charting Illicit Trade (TF‐ CIT), Pierre Delval is in charge of coordinating, among other things, the illicit trafficking of Medicines Committee. He is regularly consulted by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the World Bank, the WCO and the United Nations on the latest issues regarding the convergence between consumers’ protection and human rights. Pierre Delval is the author of several publications on counterfeit consumer goods and security documents. He concentrates its current research on consumers’ protection, public safety, public health and the defense of states’ economic interests and strategic assets. An Engineer in Forensic Sciences, Pierre Delval also holds a Bachelor of Arts in History, a Master of Sciences and Technologies, a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry and a Ph.D. in Criminal Law. Jeannie Cameron CEO, JCIC INTERNATIONAL Ltd Jeannie Cameron is CEO of JCIC INTERNATIONAL Ltd, a London based strategic advocacy and public affairs consultancy specialising in advocating the views of business in policy development, especially within international policy and regulatory frameworks. Jeannie is a specialist in public policy and has in‐depth knowledge of international regulations relating to tracking & tracing, tax verification, illicit trade and counterfeit, and the processes governments follow for national implementation of their international treaty obligations. Jeannie is experienced in both the executive and legislative branches of government having worked in both in Australia. She spent time in the International Legal Section of the Australian Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet and as a Parliamentary Advisor and Chief of Staff in the Australian Parliament. She has over 20 year experience in public affairs and holds degrees in Communications/Political Science, in Finance, and a Masters in International Law. In the private sector Jeannie worked with a big 4 accounting company in Indonesia and most recently with British American Tobacco (BAT) for 10 years as Head of International Regulatory Advocacy advising the Group on the impact of the international WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) treaty, and was responsible for the Group strategy on anti illicit trade advocacy including as a member of the Global Tracking & Tracing and Verification Committee. Jeannie is also a member of the OECD BIAC and International Regulatory Fellow of the Washington based Democracy Institute. Gretchen Peters Author of Seeds of Terror, Senior Fellow on Transnational Crime at the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center at George Mason University, School of Public Policy and Lead Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton Ms. Peters conducts research and analysis on transnational crime networks and does training, outreach and public speaking on the subjects of transnational crime, the intersection of crime and conflict and the threats that globalize crime networks pose to states and communities. She has served as a subject matter expert (SME) to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Counter‐ Narcotics and Global Threats, CENTCOM’s AfPak Center (J2) and supported SOCOM’s Counternarcotics and Transnational Threats team, studying a host of illicit networks. She is the author of Seeds of Terror, a ground‐breaking, international best‐seller that traced the role the opium trade has played in three decades of conflict in Afghanistan. She holds a Masters’ Degree in International Relations from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, where she was awarded the Sié Chéou‐Kang security and diplomacy fellowship and the Association of Former Intelligence Officers Life’s Choices Foundation Scholarship to examine illicit networks and transnational organized crime.
- 12. 11 In a past life, she worked as a foreign correspondent, covering Pakistan and Afghanistan for more than a decade, first for The Associated Press and later for ABC News. She was nominated for an Emmy for her coverage of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto and won the SAJA Journalism Award for a 2010 segment on the former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf. She has also reported from Cambodia, Thailand, Burma, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, Mexico, Egypt and Kosovo. She has published editorials in the New York Times, the Washington Post and Foreign Policy, among other places. She speaks English and Spanish. AJ Clark President with Thermopylae Sciences and Technology (TST) AJ Clark is the President with Thermopylae Sciences and Technology (TST). His focus is on identifying information technology advances that can be applied to support faster business decisions and enhance policy making activities. He works with clients like NBC Universal and partners such as Google to provide secure platforms that leverage Cloud Computing for Spatial and Mobile solutions. Mr. Clark has worked in both private and public sector positions throughout his career. He has traveled extensively for the US Department of Defense and State Department, working in the Middle East, Central Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America to Counter Transnational Threats, support Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Relief, and develop shared Information Systems among Partner Nations. He holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) and a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management and Information Systems. Justin Picard Black Market Watch, Switzerland Justin Picard is the co‐founder of Black Market Watch. Inventor of techologies used to protect and track billions of product worldwide. Specialist on methodologies to estimate illicit trade. Formerly Chief Scientist Officer at a company providing track and trace and authentication solutions. Since 2009, member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Illicit Trade. He is also CEO of ScanTrust, a company providing product authentication solutions. Kristiina Kangaspunta United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Kristiina Kangaspunta is currently heading the preparation of the Global Report on Trafficking in Persons at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Vienna, Austria. The first edition of the Report was launched in 2012 and it will be published biannually presenting the global human trafficking trends and patterns. Previously, she was the Deputy Director of the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) leading the Research Programme of the Institute in Turin, Italy. Before UNICRI, she worked with UNODC, as the Chief of the Anti‐ Human Trafficking Unit. She moved to UNODC from the Ministry of Justice of Finland where she worked at the European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control, affiliated with the United Nations (HEUNI).
- 14. 13 Antonio Adinolfi Ministry of Finance, Italy Antonio Adinolfi holds a University Degree in Law (Università degli Studi di Salerno). From January 2004 to July 2005 he attended Italy’s Scuola Superiore della Pubblica Amministrazione, as winner of a national selection aimed at recruiting and training civil servants at director ranking. From February 2006 to May 2007 he attended the Master “La difesa delle Amministrazioni pubbliche nel giudizio Amministrativo”, organised by Scuola Superiore della Pubblica Amministrazione. In October 2006 he became Director of Unit III, (anti‐usury and anti‐corruption measures) within Italy’s Ministry of Economy and Finance – Department of the Treasury – Directorate V (Prevention of Use of the Financial System for Illegal Purposes). He served as Italian delegate for the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), global standard‐setting body for anti‐money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism), within the Working Group on Typologies (WGTYP). In November 2012 he also served as temporary Director of Unit VI (Payment instruments fraud prevention, and monitoring of transaction reports on armaments) within Italy’s Ministry of Economy and Finance – Department of the Treasury – Directorate V, where the Central Office for Payment Instrument Fraud Prevention (UCAMP) is set up. As such he is Italian delegate at OLAF meetings on euro counterfeiting. From October 2013 he has been Director of the above mentioned Unit VI and temporary Director‐Coordinator of the Central Inspection Office (UIC) of the Department of the Treasury. Since October 2013 he has furthermore been Italian delegate within the FATF’s International Co‐operation Review Group (ICRG), in charge of identifying jurisdictions with strategic deficiencies and working with them to address those deficiencies posing a risk to the international financial system. In October 2013, in the framework of the Pericles Programme, he organised and chaired a seminar in Rabat (Morocco) aimed at identifying a common strategy to protect the euro in the Mediterranean area. Fred Lord Manager Operations – Sport Integrity Directorate, ICSS Fred has over 24 years of public service in the fields of Defence, International Law Enforcement and Anti‐Corruption, including: OECDTask Force on Charting Illicit Trade (TF‐CIT); Programme Manager Integrity in Sport, INTERPOL‐FIFA Anti‐Corruption Training Initiative – Lyon, France; Head, INTERPOL Anti‐Corruption Office – Lyon, France; Manager Covert Services & Counter Intelligence – Office of Police Integrity, Victoria, Australia; Western Australia Police ‐ Internal Affairs Covert Services & Bureau of Criminal Intelligence; Certified National Undercover Police Operations Training instructor; Certified INTERPOL Instructor – FBI Assessed Fred has focused his career on understanding the complexities of the methods used to infiltrate and counter the infiltration of organized crime. This threat, encompassed with his experience in deploying international response teams to support the identification of illicit networks, financial flows and information management, has become a crucial tool in the contemporary support and protection of international sport. Prof. Dr. Arndt Sinn Professor of Criminal Law, Faculty of Law, at the University of Osnabrück Prof. Dr. Arndt Sinn is Professor of Criminal Law, Faculty of Law, at the University of Osnabrück (Germany) and formerly Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Viadrina University Frankfurt (Oder). His research specialisations include the work of the organized crime and transnational crime. He is the Director and founder of the research center ZEIS at the University of Osnabrück and a member of national and international editor boards. In 2006 he was awarded for scientific oeuvre the Dr. Herbert‐Stolzenberg‐Award from the Justus Liebig University Gießen. He is the initiator of comparative law studies in criminal law with a lot of partners all over the world and author and editor of numerous articles respectively books in criminal law and criminal procedural law.
- 15. 14 Rolf Alter Director, Public Governance and Territorial Development OECD Rolf Alter is Director for Public Governance and Territorial Development of the OECD. He leads a team of 150 staff to support governments in improving their public sector performance for the well‐ being of citizens and the competitiveness of their economies. Key areas include institutional reform, innovation, transparency and integrity in the public sector, results‐oriented budgeting, regulatory reform, and the economics of regions and cities. Under his leadership, the Directorate pursues a rich programme of co‐operation with non‐member countries and international institutions to advance the research on empirical evidence and good policy practices of public sector economics and governance. Previously, Mr. Alter was Chief of Staff of OECD Secretary‐General Mr. Angel Gurría. He joined the OECD in 1991. Throughout his career with the OECD he has held different positions in the Economics Department and the Department of Financial, Fiscal and Enterprise Affairs. Between 1996 and 1998, Mr. Alter was an advisor to the Executive Director of the OECD, Mr Jean‐Jacques Noreau. Prior to joining the OECD, Mr. Alter was an economist in the International Monetary Fund, in Washington D.C. He started his professional career in the German Ministry of Economy in Bonn. He is currently a member of the Global Agenda Council of the World Economic Forum. Mr. Alter holds a doctorate degree from the University of Goettingen, Germany, following post‐graduate work in Germany and the United States. Janos Bertok Head of Division, Public Sector Integrity, Public Governance and Territorial Development OECD János Bertók is Head of the Public Sector Integrity Division in the OECD. He has been leading OECD activities for fostering integrity and preventing corruption in the public sector over 1.5 decade. The OECD helps policy makers and practitioners build sound integrity framework by reviewing and reforming governance measures in particular in riks areas such as public procurement, conflict of interest and revolving door, lobbying and political financing. The OECD is in the forefront of providing comparative data, map out good practices and develop policy guidelines, principles, as well as practical tools for policy makers and managers. The groundbreaking work of the OECD includes four international instruments: the 2010 OECD Recommendation on Principles for Transparency and Integrity in Lobbying, the 2008 OECD Recommendation on Enhancing Integrity in Public Procurement; the 2003 OECD Recommendation on Guidelines for Managing Conflict of Interest in the Public Service; and 1998 OECD Recommendation on Improving Ethical Conduct in the Public Service. Before joining the OECD in 1997, Mr. Bertók was a senior civil servant in the Prime Minister’s Office in Hungary in charge of the modernization of public administration. His previous career focused on creating new legal and institutional frameworks for the civil service in the transition period. Alessandra Fontana Governance advisor, Development Co‐ordination Directorate OECD Alessandra Fontana leads OECD‐DCD work in the area of illicit financial flows and its impact on developing countries. Alessandra has 10 years of experience in the area of anti‐corruption. She previously managed projects in the area of corruption prevention in the MENA region for OECD‐GOV. Prior to that, she worked for the U4 Anti‐Corruption Resource Centre in Norway, in which she built the centre’s work around illicit financial flows and political corruption. She also managed a research project across 8 countries in Latin America for Transparency International with a focus on transparency in political party financing. She has also worked as a financial journalist in Brazil and has an MA in International Relations and Development Studies from the University of East Anglia.
- 16. 15 Jack Radisch Project Manager, Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate OECD Jack Radisch is Project Manager of the OECD High Level Risk Forum. He is responsible for co‐ ordination and implementation of its research agenda, which provides for analysis of public policies and institutional arrangements designed to manage complex risks. Prior to joining the OECD Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate, he carried out comparative policy analysis at the OECD related to the economics of security, including cyber threats, bio‐security and nuclear non‐ proliferation. He has published articles and OECD peer reviews on risk management policies, was co‐ author of the G20/ OECD Framework on Disaster Risk Assessment and Risk Financing, and was main author of the OECD publication ‘Future Global Shocks’. Mr. Radisch is a licensed attorney in the United States and continues to provide pro bono legal advice to indigent clients and non‐profit groups.