Mark Pieth (born 9 March 1953) is Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Basel, Switzerland and a prominent anti-corruption expert.[1]
Pieth's career as a legal expert, defence lawyer, judge and compliance advisor includes several roles on the international stage, such as a member of the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering, Chair of a United Nations Intergovernmental Expert Group on illicit drug trafficking and 24 years as Chair of the OECD Working Group on Bribery, which monitors the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention.[2][3]
He is known for spearheading initiatives to combat corruption and money laundering in all its forms through regulations, country monitoring, compliance, advocacy and arbitration. In the field of commodities, he was appointed by the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to the Independent Inquiry Committee into the Iraq Oil-for-Food Programme.[4]
He is President of the Basel Institute on Governance, a research and policy institute he founded to help combat public and private sector abuses of power.[5]
^University of Basel website: [1] "Professor Mark Pieth"
^"Mark Pieth biography on UN.org"
^OECD press release "OECD Working Group on Bribery Elects New Chair", 8 July, 2013
^UN press release "Annan Names Independent Panel to Probe ‘Oil-for-Food’ Allegations", 21 April, 2004
MarkPieth (born 9 March 1953) is Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Basel, Switzerland and a prominent anti-corruption expert. Pieth's career...
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