26 May 2026 –

Top 3 Priorities to Achieve as a CCC Member

I strongly believe that civil society must be at the forefront of the fight against corruption. It should not be relegated to the role of spectator or auxiliary hand. My top 3 priorities therefore centre on building the infrastructure, capabilities and intervention pathways that can strengthen civil society’s agency in anti-corruption work.

My priorities include:

1. Confronting secrecy brokerage by defending public ultimate beneficial ownership registers, open company data and transparency safeguards from efforts to weaken, restrict or roll them back, so civil society can identify who really owns, controls and benefits from corrupt wealth.

2. Expanding civil society’s investigative and communicative capabilities by strengthening the training facilities, public resources and analytical tools available for tracking the proceeds of corruption, especially as they move through offshore, corporate and financial infrastructure. This also means challenging strategic litigation against public participation and other chilling mechanisms that prevent civil society from communicating evidence, naming risks and demanding accountability.

3. Opening accountability mechanisms to enhanced civic participation by working with Coalition members to further enable communities and civil society organisations to engage with anti-money laundering (AML) supervision, sanctions advocacy, asset recovery and victim-centred accountability processes.

Candidate’s profile

For more than twenty years, I have tracked corrupt networks, studied how their dirty work is done, exposed their ‘trade secrets’ internationally, and worked with civil society partners to hold them to account.

This research has taken me to Papua New Guinea, Australia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Cyprus, Ukraine, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States, where I have investigated grand corruption and its enablers in collaboration with national and international NGOs, local reporters, and global media.

I have seen up close the intricate mechanisms and infrastructure through which corruption is organised, concealed and protected. I have also learned how civil society can uncover these hidden tracks, expose graft, and challenge enablement.

My advocacy has focused most centrally on dismantling the dangerous infrastructure that corrupt networks from all continents use to evade scrutiny and accountability, while building and sharing the knowledge, tools and mechanisms needed to support grassroots participation in the anticorruption fight.

To effect change I have: used academic publications, documentary film, investigative journalism and public testimony; provided in-depth technical support to enforcement bodies; worked with policy makers to address anti-money laundering vulnerabilities; and, built novel databases that civil society can use to track and expose corrupt elite operatives.

Contributions to the work of the Coalition

The core professional assets I can offer to the Coalition include: deep knowledge of how elite networks organise corruption through offshore corporate, financial and commercial infrastructure; global expertise on how corrupt actors exploit legal, regulatory and administrative gaps, to evade justice; and practitioner experience working with civil society to build investigative and analytical capacity for AML, sanctions and asset recovery interventions. 

I would harness these assets across the Coalition’s work, with a particular focus on dismantling high-risk secrecy infrastructure weaponised by corrupt networks and building frameworks that enable communities to participate directly in anti-corruption, AML, sanctions and asset return mechanisms.

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