Lecturers and guest speakers
Tony Bowden is the international agitator for
mySociety, the UK-based organisation that create
TheyWorkForYou, WhatDoTheyKnow,
FixMyStreet, etc. His role is to encourage and
enable other groups and individuals to build
similar transparency and accountability projects in their own countries, with a special focus on Central and Eastern Europe. He has been building web sites since before Netscape existed, and founded several of Northern Ireland’s leading internet companies before relocating to Estonia in 2006.
Jermyn Brooks is currently Chair of TI’s new Business Advisory Council after acting both as Executive Director and CFO after he joined the organisation in 2000 and subsequently as a member of the international Board. Until mid-2009 he led for TI’s private sector initiatives which included the involvement on the design of the AML standards of the Wolfsberg banking group, the Business Principles for Countering Bribery and other specific industry-focused initiatives. For the same period he was a member of the board of PACI (Partnering against Corruption Initiative) that has been initiated by leading CEO’s at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Lolita Cigane specializes in the areas of campaign finance, elections, good governance and NGO participation. She has worked as an expert in campaign financing with the OSCE/ODIHR, the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) and Open Society Institute in various countries such as Mongolia, Philippines, Jordan and Lebanon. From 2001 to 2007 she headed several civil society campaign finance monitoring projects in Latvia. Ms. Cigane was the chairperson of the board of Transparency International chapter in Latvia from 2008 to 2010.
Aleksandras Dobryninas is a professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Philosophy, Vilnius University (Lithuania). His main research areas are criminology and criminal justice, human rights, corruption. Professor Dobryninas is an author and co-author of several books on criminology and corruption. Professor Dobryninas is a member of the Board of the European Society of Criminology, the Steering Committee of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control, the Council and Editorial Board of Lithuanian Encyclopedia, the Editorial Board of Lithuanian sociological magazine Sociology: Thought and Action. In 2000-2002 professor Dobryninas was a Chairperson of the Board of TI Lithuanian Chapter. He is also involved in national and international expertise on the anti-corruption policy and the human rights issues.
Aiga Grisane is a legal analyst and project manager in TI – Latvia “Delna”. She deals with corruption in construction and territorial planning sector, good governance, access to information, public procurement, corruption in energy sector, such issues as right to demonstration, youth education, civil society and other. Aiga is an author of several publications and articles. She has also represented TI – Latvia in courts.
Rytis Juozapavičius is a freelance communication consultant. Since 2007 he is a Member of Chief Official Ethics Commission. From 2004 to 2008 Rytis was a director of TI Lithuanian Chapter. He was a TV and radio talk show host at Lithuanian National Public Television and Radio (LRT) from 1995 to 2005 and a lecturer at the Institute of Journalism at Vilnius University from 1994 to 2005.
Miklos Marschall joined TI as a Director for Eastern Europe in July 1999, and now serves as a Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia, and as responsible Director for the International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC). Before joining TI, Dr. Marschall was a Fulbright Visiting Fellow in 1988/89 at Yale University. Between 1991 and 1994, he served as a deputy mayor of Budapest, Hungary. From 1994 through 1998, he was the founding executive director of CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, a global network of NGOs and foundations to promote civil society. He graduated as an economist from the Karl Marx University of Economic Sciences in Budapest in 1977. He received his doctorate from the same university in 1984.
Žimantas Pacevičius is a director of Special Investigation Service of the Republic of Lithuania (an anti-corruption agency whose activities are directed towards law enforcement, corruption prevention, anti-corruption education and raising public awareness). From 1993 till 1997 Žimantas Pacevičius held several positions in the Police Department under the Ministry of Interior, since 1997 till 1997 he was a Head of the Intelligence Activities Division of the Ministry of the Interior, and since 1998 he was working in different posts in the Special Investigation Service.
Shonali Routray has been with Public Concern at Work (PCaW) for three years working as a helpline adviser, legal officer and is now the client services manager. She mainly works with organisations helping them with tools for effective risk management. Shonali studied Philosophy, Politics & Economica at St. Hilda’s College, University of Oxford, graduating in 2003. She completed the Postgraduate Diploma in Law and Bar Finals at BPP Law School in 2005. She is a barrister, having trained in family law. In her spare time Shonali is an elected member of the Bar Council and sits on the Board of a new charity called Witness Confident.
Juanita Riaño is the manager of the programme “Global Tools to Measure Corruption” in TI-Secretariat (TI-S). At TI-S she is responsible for the Corruption Perceptions Index, the Global Corruption Barometer and the Bribe Payers Index among other tools. Before joining TI, Juanita worked for the World Bank Institute on anti-corruption and governance diagnostics, as well as on projects for the World Bank related to poverty, inequality and local development and for the research department of the International Monetary Fund. She has also worked for the Colombian Government at the National Department of Planning on areas of public finance and international trade.
Alejandro Salas works as Regional Director of the Americas Department at the TI Secretariat in Berlin. Alejandro joined TI as Programme Officer in September 2002, afterwards he also worked part time as Strategy and Development Manager in from 2006 to 2007, where his main responsibility was the review of the TI global Movement’s strategic framework. From 1993 to 1996 he worked in various areas of the Mexican public sector, including the Secretary of Social Development and the Senate of the Republic. He was also a junior advisor in the 1994 presidential campaign in Mexico. From 1998 to 2002 he worked as a researcher and consultant at the Instituto Apoyo, a Peruvian think tank specialised in institutional reforms and governance issues.
Liga Stafecka is a project manager and policy analyst in TI-Latvia. Liga works with such topics as political corruption, election monitoring, corruption in local municipalities, youth education on anti-corruption issues and other. She has done numerous researches on corruption issues, is author of many publications. At the moment Liga is a manager of parliamentary election project that deals with voter’s memory. In web page http://www.kandidatiuzdelnas.lv TI-Latvia is providing the voters with detailed information about the cases of corruption in the past, as well as with the profiles of election candidates, where their evaluation on anti-corruption aspect is submitted.
Remigijus Šimašius is a Minister of Justice of the Republic of Lithuania. Since 1995 till 2008 he worked in Lithuanian Free Market Institute, where since 2006 till 2008 he held Chaiman‘s position. Since 1996 till 2005 he was consulting NGOs on legal questions and in 1999 he published a book on regulation of NGOs in Lithuania and the West. Since 2003 till 2007 R.Šimašius was a Chairman of the Editorial Committee of the scientific journal „Problems of Law“. Since 2002 till 2008 he was a lecturer in the Faculty of Law in Vilnius University.Since 2004 till 2008 he was a board member of Transparency International Lithuanian Chapter. R.Šimašius also participated in the proceedings in various official commisions and works groups on legal, budgetal, social questions.
Teaching modules
The TI Summer School consists of three teaching modules covering the public sector, the private sector and civic empowerment. Each module will include theoretical definitions of corruption as it affects different parts of society, and how anti-corruption tools are used in practice.
The public sector module will cover abuse of office, nepotism, public procurement and accountability mechanisms for public institutions.
The private sector module will focus on international anti-corruption mechanisms and corporate reporting standards, media accountability, and corruption in different industry sectors.
The civic empowerment module will address the role of citizens in monitoring the activities of the state and explore ways people can become involved in the public decision-making process, report corruption, and engage in anti-corruption activities.
Students will be introduced to new web 2.0 methods used by organizations such as mysociety.org and will receive a training on media literacy, i.e. how to critically read and work with news.
Programme of the event.
N.B.! The timing for the opening ceremony has been amended – it will start at 11.00 a.m. on Monday, July the 5th.
Before the start of the School we suggest for the participants to read The United Nations Convention against Corruption
TI Summer School on Integrity | 2010 
