Irene Tello Arista is currently the Program Director at Action4Justice, a columnist at El Universal, and a PhD researcher in Political Science at Central European University. Her doctoral work focuses on how beneficial ownership data can be used to strengthen anti-corruption efforts, particularly in contexts marked by opacity and institutional fragility.
With over 15 years of experience in the anti-corruption field, she’s worked at the intersection of civic technology, public policy, and justice reform. She previously served as Executive Director of Impunidad Cero, and held research roles at NYU’s GovLab and Transparencia Mexicana (the Mexican chapter of Transparency International).
She’s especially interested in how to detect grand transnational corruption networks that undermine public service delivery, particularly in the health sector. She also works on building anti-corruption networks that bring together the expertise of government, civil society, academia, journalists, and victims of corruption to confront these systemic issues collaboratively.