Advisory council
The Advisory Council is a group of individuals with extensive experience in the areas of Transparency International's work. They come from diverse geographical, cultural and professional backgrounds. The council is appointed by the Board of Directors to advise them and to support the work of the organisation as a whole.
The members of our Advisory Council are:
Peter Eigen, Chairman of the Advisory Council (Short bio)
Germany
Founder and former Chair of Transparency International
EITI Special Representative and member of the African Progress Panel
Abdulatif Al-Hamad
Kuwait
Director General/Chairman of the Board of Directors, Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Costa Rica
Peace Nobel Prize Laureate and Former President of Costa Rica
Paul Batchelor
United Kingdom
Chairman of Crown Agents and Former Deputy Chair of Global Geographies, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Peter Berry
United Kingdom
Former Chairman of Crown Agents
John Brademas
USA
President Emeritus of New York University
Jimmy Carter
USA
Former President
Ugo Draetta
Italy
Professor of International Law, Catholic University of Milan
Former Vice President of General Electric Company
Dolores L. Español
Philippines
Former presiding Judge of Regional Trial Court
Dieter Frisch
Germany
Former Director General for Development at the European Commission
Ekaterina Genieva
Russia
Director General of State Library for Foreign Literature, Moscow
John Githongo
Kenya
Vice president of policy and advocacy, World Vision International
Former Permanent Secretary for Ethics and Governance in the office of the President, Kenya
HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal
Jordan
Founder of the Royal Institute of Interfaith Studies
Former President of the Club of Rome
Fritz Heimann
USA
Founding Member of Transparency International
Kamal Hossain
Bangladesh
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs
Irene Khan
Bangladesh
Former Secretary General of Amnesty International,
Director-General of the International Development Law Organization,
Chancellor of the University of Salford, UK
Tawakkol Karman
Yemen
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate,
President of Women Journalists Without Chains
Michael Kirby
Australia
Former Justice of the High Court
Goh Kun
Korea (South)
Former Prime Minister and former Mayor of Seoul
Pascal Lamy
France
Former Director General of the World Trade Organisation
Honorary President of Notre Europe – Jacques Delors Institute
Former Trade Commissioner of the European Union
Ronald MacLean Abaroa
Bolivia
Former Mayor of La Paz
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs
Ira Millstein
USA
Senior Partner of Weil, Gotshal & Manges
Festus Mogae
Botswana
Former President
Kumi Naidoo
South Africa
Executive Director of Greenpeace
Olusegun Obasanjo
Nigeria
Former President
Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah
Mauritania
Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for West Africa
Former Executive Secretary of the Global Coalition for Africa
Khun Anand Panyarachun
Thailand
Former Prime Minister
Chairman of Siam Commercial Bank PCL
Devendra Raj Panday
Nepal
Former Finance Minister of Nepal and Human Rights Advocate
Hartmut Ruppel
Namibia
Board of Trustees of the Members of Parliament
Former Attorney General
Augustine Ruzindana
Uganda
Former Member of Parliament
Soli J. Sorabjee
India
Former Attorney General
Virginia Tsouderos
Greece
Former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
Jessica Tuchman Mathews
USA
President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Frank Vogl
USA
Former Vice-Chairman of Transparency International
President of Vogl Communications, Inc
Joe Wanjui
Kenya
Chancellor of University of Nairobi
Richard von Weizsäcker
Germany
Former President
Michael Wiehen
Germany
Former Executive of the World Bank and Attorney