[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":908},["ShallowReactive",2],{"team-asset-recovery":3},[4,33,52,69,85,106,121,139,156,170,187,203,216,231,246,264,279,296,313,326,347,366,379,395,412,428,444,465,482,498,516,532,549,565,581,598,614,627,641,657,674,689,705,721,735,751,767,785,801,816,832,846,862,877,893],{"id":5,"status":6,"sort":7,"user_created":8,"date_created":9,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":11,"first_name":12,"last_name":13,"position":14,"phone":15,"email":16,"image":17,"cv":18,"category":19,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":21,"nid":23,"slug":24,"function":25,"country":27,"directorate":30,"hidden":32},710,"published",32,"03bebfd8-0b40-4a2a-820d-b9d9c13b9de6","2025-03-27T21:21:47.000Z","3d9ff205-1640-4f34-b5b6-86977f51bbd6","2026-04-23T23:19:09.000Z","Phyllis","Atkinson","Senior Advisor, Asset Recovery","","phyllis.atkinson@baselgovernance.org","1b2b2e45-9153-4dab-a677-3e897604730a","Phyllis Atkinson is a Senior Advisor, Asset Recovery for the training team of the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR), having served as Head of Training ICAR from 2010 to June 2023. In this role, she was responsible for providing technical assistance to developing and transition countries through the design, development and delivery of interactive, practical and participant-based training workshops on anti-corruption, anti-money laundering, financial investigations and asset recovery.\n\nBased in Cape Town, South Africa, Phyllis has been an Advocate of the High Court in South Africa since 1981. Prior to joining the ICAR on 1 June 2009, Phyllis was employed at the Deloitte Forensic & Dispute Services office in Cape Town, South Africa where she held the position of Principal. She played a national role in the Forensic Team, driving growth in cross-border services, including anti-money laundering and anti-corruption training initiatives, amongst others. Whilst with Deloitte, Phyllis also played the lead role in a USAID-funded project spanning 8 months involving the establishment of a Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) in Tanzania during 2008, to investigate or report cases of suspicious or unusual financial transactions.\n\nBefore joining Deloitte in July 2004, Phyllis held the position of Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions at the Directorate of Special Operations (DSO) – also known as the Scorpions – in South Africa. Phyllis spent 23 years as a Public Prosecutor, 5 years of which were served as an advocate in the former Office of the Attorney General (now known as the Director of Public Prosecutions) and 12 years with the Office for Serious Economic Offences (OSEO), later merged with the Scorpions. She was the first woman to join the ranks of the professional staff in the Office of the Attorney General in 1987 after a period of 14 years without women in such positions.\n\nPhyllis, a former Certified Fraud Examiner, has been involved in numerous high profile commercial crime investigations and prosecutions over the years. Her expert knowledge of and extensive experience in the field of international mutual legal assistance has strengthened her network with foreign jurisdictions such as the United Kingdom Central Authority, the Attorney General of the Isle of Man and the Federal Department of Justice and Police, Switzerland. She has been actively involved in training for many years, and a guest speaker at a number of conferences on a broad range of topics including anti-money laundering, mutual legal assistance, investigative methodology and interviewing skills.","Senior advisors",null,[19,22],"Training","34","phyllis-atkinson",[26],"Training & Learning",[28,29],"Africa","Switzerland (HQ)",[31],"Asset Recovery",false,{"id":34,"status":6,"sort":35,"user_created":8,"date_created":36,"user_updated":37,"date_updated":38,"first_name":39,"last_name":40,"position":41,"phone":15,"email":42,"image":43,"cv":44,"category":45,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":46,"nid":47,"slug":48,"function":49,"country":50,"directorate":51,"hidden":32},712,33,"2025-03-27T21:21:48.000Z","b0662e2a-864d-4888-a1b7-4342b7570b30","2025-07-13T12:24:42.000Z","Virgil","Ballakistan","Specialist, Financial Investigations","virgil.ballakistan@baselgovernance.org","18d702de-90e4-4506-a55b-6657e07a4aba","Virgil joined the Basel Institute as a Specialist, Financial Investigations in May 2018. \n\nVirgil began his career with the South African Police Service, where he had various positions including commercial crime and fraud investigator to Commander of the Crime Prevention Unit. During his career in the South African Police Services Virgil was responsible for establishing the Crime Intelligence Unit at precinct level with the objective of gathering intelligence within the notorious gangland of the Cape Peninsula. \n\nVirgil regularly provided expert testimony as a gang violence specialist in criminal court proceedings involving high-profile gangsters and related parties. He has also worked as an economic crimes investigator for Interpol NCB Pretoria, during which he played an integral part in establishing mutual relations with other global law enforcement agencies. He formed part of a team of specialist investigators to draft a best practice manual for Interpol investigators on the methodology to investigate Advance Fee Fraud (commonly known as the Nigerian 419 Scam).\n\nPrior to the establishment of the now defunct Scorpions, Virgil was a Commercial Crime and Fraud Investigator with the national Office for Serious Economic Offences. The unit operated in a multi-disciplinary approach investigating complex economic crimes involving politicians and other high-profile individuals. Virgil soon ventured into the private sector and worked with Deloitte & Touche and EY on forensic investigations. His latest tenure was as the Deputy Director of forensic investigations for the Government of Western Cape, where his focus was investigating complex procurement-related matters that involved corruption on a grand scale.","Field staff",[31,45],"58","virgil-ballakistan",[],[28],[31],{"id":53,"status":6,"sort":54,"user_created":8,"date_created":55,"user_updated":37,"date_updated":56,"first_name":57,"last_name":58,"position":59,"phone":15,"email":60,"image":61,"cv":62,"category":45,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":63,"nid":64,"slug":65,"function":66,"country":67,"directorate":68,"hidden":32},714,34,"2025-03-27T21:21:50.000Z","2025-07-13T12:25:36.000Z","Margarida","Bandeira de Lima","Senior Specialist, Asset Recovery","margarida.bandeiradelima@baselgovernance.org","569554ec-fe73-4518-9b76-e453472f0811","Margarida Bandeira de Lima joined the Basel Institute on Governance and its International Centre for Asset Recovery in December 2018 as Senior Specialist, Asset Recovery. \n\nMargarida has a law degree from the Universidade Clássica in Lisbon, and brings over 30 years of experience in public prosecution in the area of organised and complex crime. She also brings vast experience in developing countries, particularly lusophone countries, among others in Macau, Timor Leste and as resident legal advisor in Mozambique for UNODC.\n\nAfter gaining initial multidisciplinary experience in civil, criminal, family, minors and homicide cases, she specialised in criminal investigations and led several complex investigations into trafficking in narcotic drugs. Between 2008 and 2011, she worked as the Public Prosecutor for DCIAP, an organ of the Office of the Prosecutor General specialising in investigating and preventing violent, highly organised or especially complex criminality.\\* \\*\n\nBetween 2012 and 2014, she served as the Senior Legal Advisor at Casals & Associates’ FOTI initiative, a technical cooperation programme sponsored by the Millennium Challenge Corporation and USAID. She was responsible for providing training and technical support to strengthen the legal framework against corruption in Timor-Leste and to enhance the capacity of the Office of the Prosecutor General and others to more effectively investigate and prosecute financial crimes. It was also her duty to advise the National Parliament on legislative mechanisms to fight corruption, related offenses and money laundering. She worked with two legislative committees in revamping Timor Leste’s anti-money laundering law and advised the Council of Ministers on the creation of a Financial Intelligence Unit.\n\nBetween 2014 and 2015, she worked in Macau to build capacity among key public authorities in the prevention and repression of money laundering, organised crime and asset recovery. Between May 2015 and December 2016, she served as UNODC Resident Legal Adviser in Mozambique for the Office of the Attorney General and the Central Office for Combating Corruption.\n\nDuring her stay in Timor-Leste and Mozambique, she wrote two handbooks on the legislation of money laundering and corruption of these two countries.",[31,45],"59","margarida-bandeira-de-lima",[],[28],[31],{"id":70,"status":6,"sort":71,"user_created":8,"date_created":55,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":72,"first_name":73,"last_name":74,"position":75,"phone":15,"email":76,"image":77,"cv":15,"category":19,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":78,"nid":79,"slug":80,"function":81,"country":83,"directorate":84,"hidden":32},715,35,"2026-05-20T21:43:10.000Z","Hans-Peter","Bauer","Senior Advisor, AML\u002FCFT","hans-peter-bauer@bluewin.ch","38949c17-cd6f-4427-9236-0cec99f73416",[19],"193","hans-peter-bauer",[82],"Basel AML Index",[29],[31],{"id":86,"status":6,"sort":87,"user_created":8,"date_created":88,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":89,"first_name":90,"last_name":91,"position":92,"phone":93,"email":94,"image":95,"cv":96,"category":97,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":98,"nid":101,"slug":102,"function":103,"country":104,"directorate":105,"hidden":32},718,37,"2025-03-27T21:21:52.000Z","2026-04-23T23:17:16.000Z","Dr Kateryna","Boguslavska","Head, Financial Crime Risk","+41 61 205 55 34","kateryna.boguslavska@baselgovernance.org","e9d92678-4523-48b4-97d7-f6b96d7d7c92","Dr Kateryna Boguslavska is Head, Financial Crime Risk at the Basel Institute on Governance. She leads the development and publication of the [Basel AML Index](https:\u002F\u002Findex.baselgovernance.org\u002F), a leading index of money laundering and related financial crime risks around the world, and is a member of the Senior Leadership Team of the Basel Institute's International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR). A political scientist by training, she comes with more than 10 years of professional experience as a political analyst for local initiatives and international institutions.\n\n\r\n\r\nBefore joining the Basel Institute in July 2017, Katya was working at Chatham House in London as an Academy Fellow for the Russia and Eurasia Programme. In this role she participated in numerous academic conferences and expert workshops and provided various expert briefings to the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office, embassies, international development organisations and donors. While at Chatham House, her publications focused on issues concerning financial integrity of post-soviet countries.\n\n\r\n\r\nFrom 2013 to 2016 Katya worked as Political Risk Analyst for Polixis Geneva. There she analysed and evaluated the political risks for business development in CIS countries and provided due diligence services, which included the analysis of data from commercial registers, of financial and solvency information, legal cases and sanctions lists. She was also in charge of profiling Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) with a specific focus on Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova.\n\n\r\n\r\nIn 2014, as part of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine in Kyiv, Kateryna – again in the role of Political Analyst – was responsible for identifying early warning signs, offering briefings on political trends and communicating with civil society activists and public officials.\n\n\r\n\r\nShe gained her very first professionals years of experience as Political Analyst at System Capital Management at the Analytic Centre of the Bureau of Economic and Social Technologies in Kyiv, where she was in charge of mapping political scenarios as well as identifying and mitigating political and regulatory risks to business.\n\n\r\n\r\nKatya holds a PhD in Political Science from the National Academy of Science in Ukraine, a Master in Comparative and International Studies from the ETH Zurich as well as a Master in Political Science from the National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Ukraine. Her Master thesis focused on: “The Banking Sector in the Field of Financial Security: Why Swiss Banks Take AML Seriously” and addressed the role of banks in anti-money laundering in Switzerland.","Management",[31,99,100],"Digital tools","Team","40","dr-kateryna-boguslavska",[82],[29],[31],{"id":107,"status":6,"sort":20,"user_created":10,"date_created":108,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":109,"first_name":110,"last_name":111,"position":59,"phone":20,"email":112,"image":113,"cv":114,"category":45,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":115,"nid":116,"slug":117,"function":20,"country":118,"directorate":120,"hidden":32},806,"2026-04-23T22:19:10.000Z","2026-05-20T21:28:33.000Z","Francis","Burak","francis.burak@baselgovernance.org","857e4ddf-b490-45fa-be7b-5b9d1ab6a8ec","Francis Burak joined the International Centre for Asset Recovery at the Basel Institute on Governance in September 2025 as a Senior Specialist, Asset Recovery. Based in Bangladesh, he provides mentoring and technical advice to government partners, including the Inter-Agency Asset Recovery Task Force. He previously served the Basel Institute in 2021–22 as a Specialist Adviser in Tanzania.\n\nA practicing Barrister from the UK, Francis has extensive experience prosecuting complex crime. He previously worked with the States of Jersey Government and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), regularly appearing in the Lower, Higher and Appeal Courts. He was the youngest lawyer appointed to the CPS Special Casework Unit in London, handling high-profile cases involving corruption, money laundering, criminal conspiracies and transnational trafficking in drugs and firearms.\n\nAs an international adviser, Francis has designed and delivered programmes for leading donors and agencies including the UK FCDO, US State Department, Swiss Government and the United Nations. His work has directly supported more than ten jurisdictions as well as regional and global initiatives. Governments and international development partners have sought his expertise to provide specialist advice and strategic assessments on institutional capacity, country scoping, intervention strategies, impact evaluations and organisational science and design.\n\nImmediately prior to his current role, Francis was engaged by UNDP and assigned to Saudi Arabia’s Oversight & Anti-Corruption Authority (‘Nazaha’), where he provided strategic guidance on anti-corruption, asset recovery, law enforcement and international cooperation.\n\nFrancis holds an LLB Law (Hons), the UK Bar Vocational Course and the Caribbean LEC. He also holds an MSc in Public Policy & Management from SOAS, University of London, with specialisation in leadership and strategy, organisational change, public-private partnerships, auditing and compliance, public financial management, and monitoring and evaluation.",[45],"60726","francis-burak",[119],"Asia & Pacific",[31],{"id":122,"status":6,"sort":123,"user_created":8,"date_created":124,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":125,"first_name":126,"last_name":127,"position":128,"phone":15,"email":129,"image":130,"cv":131,"category":45,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":132,"nid":133,"slug":134,"function":135,"country":137,"directorate":138,"hidden":32},722,39,"2025-03-27T21:21:55.000Z","2026-04-23T22:28:13.000Z","George","Bwanali","Specialist, Procurement","george.bwanali@baselgovernance.org","93fb10f0-9c0a-41d1-8bd5-04525e9cffb9","George Bwanali joined the Basel Institute in August 2024 as Specialist, Procurement in Malawi.\n\nPrior to joining the Basel Institute George held various roles in administration, procurement and logistics at Self Help Africa, Jhpiego Malawi and Goal Malawi.\n\nA procurement and logistics professional with 20 years of experience in sourcing, purchasing and supply chain management, George is skilled in contract negotiation, vendor management and process optimisation.\n\nHe holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Malawi Polytechnic and an Advanced Diploma in Business Administration from the Institute of Business Administration and Management.",[45],"62041","george-bwanali",[136],"Programme Management",[28],[31],{"id":140,"status":6,"sort":141,"user_created":8,"date_created":142,"user_updated":37,"date_updated":143,"first_name":144,"last_name":145,"position":146,"phone":15,"email":147,"image":148,"cv":149,"category":45,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":150,"nid":151,"slug":152,"function":153,"country":154,"directorate":155,"hidden":32},724,40,"2025-03-27T21:21:56.000Z","2025-07-13T12:27:40.000Z","João Pedro","Campos","Team Leader, Mozambique","jp.campos@baselgovernance.org","a40e945f-4654-4a1b-bc7a-42c050df2860","João Pedro Campos joined the Basel Institute's International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) in February 2023 as Team Leader for ICAR's technical assistance programme in Mozambique.\n\nHe has wide experience in international cooperation and spent the last three years as Chief Technical Advisor of the PACED - Project to Support the Consolidation of the Rule of Law in the PALOP and Timor-Leste, funded by the European Union and co-funded and managed by Camões - Institute for Cooperation and Language, I.P.\n\nPrior to this, João Pedro was a legal adviser to the Portuguese Central Bank, to the Ministry of Justice of Portugal and to the Ministry of Justice of Timor-Leste. He represented the Portuguese Ministry of Justice in the Judicial Network of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) and was a member of the Secretariat of the Permanent Commission for the Implementation of Measures to Combat Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism in Timor-Leste.\n\nHe has also been a researcher at the Observatory of the Portuguese Justice of the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra, and taught at the Faculty of Law of Bissau and at the Faculty of Law of Lisbon University.\n\nIn addition, he has been a consultant for the EU, UNDP, the UN Peacebuilding Support Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNOGBIS) and the West African Economic and Monetary Union (OEMOA).\n\nJoão holds a Law degree from the University of Coimbra in Portugal, with a specialisation in International Law. He also holds post-graduate degrees in the areas of International Development, Human Rights and Peace Operations and Humanitarian Action.",[45],"61421","joao-pedro-campos",[],[28],[31],{"id":157,"status":6,"sort":20,"user_created":10,"date_created":158,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":109,"first_name":159,"last_name":160,"position":59,"phone":20,"email":161,"image":162,"cv":163,"category":45,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":164,"nid":165,"slug":166,"function":20,"country":167,"directorate":169,"hidden":32},809,"2026-04-23T22:19:12.000Z","Dennis","Cheng","dennis.cheng@baselgovernance.org","10cf6346-5715-4684-82ca-5fb720b31039","Dennis Cheng joined the Basel Institute on Governance in May 2024 as Senior Specialist, Asset Recovery in Mexico, having previously worked with the Institute's Latin America team from 2021 to 2022.\n\nDennis Cheng is a specialist in forfeiture and asset management systems. He has worked as a consultant and advisor to international organisations including the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission of the Organization of American States (CICAD\u002FOAS), the Office of the United Nations Against Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Office of International Narcotics Affairs and Law Enforcement (INL) of the United States Embassies in El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Peru, as well as DAI Global UK and the Cooperation Program on drug policy between Latin America, the Caribbean and the European Union (COPOLAD).\n\nHe was the Director of the Seized and Forfeited Assets Project in Latin America (BIDAL), a CICAD\u002FOAS project, working on the creation and improvement of national asset seizure and forfeiture systems as well as specialised agencies. He has provided technical assistance in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, Uruguay, Paraguay and Peru, and has participated in asset confiscation law projects in several Latin American countries. In addition, he is co-founder of the Asset Recovery Network of the Financial Action Task Force of Latin America (GAFILAT).",[45],"50783","dennis-cheng",[168],"Latin America",[31],{"id":171,"status":6,"sort":172,"user_created":8,"date_created":173,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":174,"first_name":175,"last_name":176,"position":177,"phone":15,"email":178,"image":179,"cv":180,"category":45,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":181,"nid":182,"slug":183,"function":184,"country":185,"directorate":186,"hidden":32},727,43,"2025-03-27T21:21:58.000Z","2026-04-23T22:28:14.000Z","Blessings","Chilima","Specialist, Finance","blessings.chilima@baselgovernance.org","5b481f07-8ed9-4e7b-a301-468091cf04a4","Blessings Chilima joined the Basel Institute on Governance in August 2021 and is currently Specialist, Finance in Malawi.\n\nHe is a professional accountant with specialist experience in the field of international development and humanitarian aid.\n\nAfter graduating from the University of Malawi – The Polytechnic with a degree in accounting, finance and auditing, Blessings worked for five years with World Vision International (WVI) as a PMU Grants Finance Officer. In this role, he supported educational and youth-focused projects including THRIVE Malawi, Action for Adolescence (A4A) and the World Food Programme's Literacy Promotion Project.\n\nHe then worked as Programme Accountant at United Purpose (formerly Concern Universal), where he supported two European Union-funded projects: EU ProACT-FUTURE and EU SoSuRe-FUTURE. The latter programme focused on alleviating Covid-related impacts on nutrition and social protection in Malawi.\n\nIn these roles he undertook a wide range of accounting responsibilities, including the preparation of financial reports, sub-grantee management, budget preparation, tax submissions and auditing procedures.",[45],"60206","blessings-chilima",[136],[28],[31],{"id":188,"status":6,"sort":20,"user_created":10,"date_created":189,"user_updated":37,"date_updated":190,"first_name":191,"last_name":192,"position":193,"phone":20,"email":194,"image":195,"cv":196,"category":45,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":197,"nid":198,"slug":199,"function":200,"country":201,"directorate":202,"hidden":32},832,"2026-06-02T21:30:16.000Z","2026-06-02T21:33:54.000Z","Promise Trust","Chiwalo","Programme Manager","promise.chiwalo@baselgovernance.org","67453e7e-bb91-456d-a710-c5565deb28f4","Promise Trust Chiwalo joined the Basel Institute on Governance in May 2026 as a Programme Manager, based in Malawi.\n\nPromise is a programme and project management professional with over six years of experience in the non-profit and higher education sectors. His areas of expertise include strategic programme and project design, planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and stakeholder engagement.\n\nBefore joining the Basel Institute, Promise served as an Individual Consultant – Project Officer at the Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources. In this role, he oversaw the implementation of a World Bank-funded Skills for a Vibrant Economy (SAVE) project. The initiative aimed to increase access, particularly for women, to labour market-relevant skills development programs in priority areas of the economy. He also worked as a Program Coordinator for CorpsAfrica, where he coordinated a youth-focused, community-led development programme.\n\nPromise holds a Master of Science in Project Management from the Copperbelt University and a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Extension from the Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources. He is also a PMP® certified project management professional.",[45],"62791","promise-trust-chiwalo",[136],[28],[31],{"id":204,"status":6,"sort":20,"user_created":10,"date_created":205,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":109,"first_name":206,"last_name":207,"position":59,"phone":20,"email":208,"image":209,"cv":210,"category":45,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":211,"nid":212,"slug":213,"function":20,"country":214,"directorate":215,"hidden":32},811,"2026-04-23T22:19:13.000Z","Maria","Cordeiro","maria.cordeiro@baselgovernance.org","a2e1256f-7ea8-46d0-a28d-c9b7320b899b","Maria Eugenia Batista Cordeiro joined the Basel Institute on Governance in September 2025 as a Senior Specialist in Asset Recovery with our International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR). Based in Bogotá, she supports Latin American authorities in strengthening financial investigations and asset recovery efforts through mentoring, training and case-based assistance.\n\nBefore joining the Basel Institute, Maria Eugenia worked for over a decade at the Rio Grande do Norte State Prosecution’s Office in Brazil, where she managed the Anti-Money Laundering Laboratory and supported prosecutors in complex financial crime cases. She has also served as a consultant to Transparency International on financial intelligence analysis.\n\nShe holds a Master’s degree in Law and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Political Science and International Relations, researching the political use of organised crime to evade economic sanctions. Maria Eugenia is an alumna of the George C. Marshall Center and the William J. Perry Center, and an expert member of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.\n\nShe is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish and English.",[45],"62504","maria-cordeiro",[168],[31],{"id":217,"status":6,"sort":218,"user_created":8,"date_created":173,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":174,"first_name":219,"last_name":220,"position":221,"phone":15,"email":222,"image":223,"cv":224,"category":45,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":225,"nid":226,"slug":227,"function":228,"country":229,"directorate":230,"hidden":32},728,44,"Arlen","Cordero","Senior Programme Manager","arlen.cordero@baselgovernance.org","96bbf9ad-cf61-4cbe-80fd-fd19a552d469","Arlen Cordero joined the Basel Institute in November 2024 as Senior Programme Manager for the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR). Based in the Basel Institute’s Latin America office in Peru, Arlen is providing programme management expertise to ICAR-funded work in the region.\n\nArlen brings over 14 years of management experience in international development and humanitarian assistance. She has worked with NGOs, INGOs, the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and the Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations, and has managed projects funded by major donors. She has extensive expertise in strategic planning, proposal negotiation, programme execution and coordination.\n\nOver her career, she has developed a deep understanding of humanitarian needs and trends, focusing on disaster response, urban violence, migration, psycho-social support and access to essential services like health and education. Arlen's experience spans countries such as Mozambique, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Cuba, Honduras, Nicaragua and others, where she has led different teams, overseeing strategic planning exercises, project implementation and emergency response efforts, working alongside governments, regional organisations, local authorities and donors.\n\nArlen holds a Bachelor (Hons) in International Affairs with a concentration in International Cooperation Administration and Management and a Master in International Humanitarian Action. She is fluent in English and Spanish, practices target archery and loves music.",[31,45],"62179","arlen-cordero",[136],[168],[31],{"id":232,"status":6,"sort":233,"user_created":8,"date_created":234,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":235,"first_name":236,"last_name":220,"position":59,"phone":15,"email":237,"image":238,"cv":239,"category":45,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":240,"nid":241,"slug":242,"function":243,"country":244,"directorate":245,"hidden":32},729,45,"2025-03-27T21:21:59.000Z","2026-06-04T14:36:44.000Z","Diana","diana.cordero@baselgovernance.org","a8048123-5f46-4a90-8b2f-cbb4b1478309","Diana Cordero joined the Base Institute on Governance in 2018 and is currently a Senior Specialist, Asset Recovery at the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR). \n\nIn her role, she supports the Ecuadorian judicial authorities in developing and implementing legal strategies to recover illicit assets laundered in foreign jurisdictions. Since May 2021, she has been working at the Directorate of Cooperation and International Affairs of the Prosecutor General Office of Ecuador, which serves as the central authority for mutual legal assistance.\n\nTo strengthen the capacities of enforcement and judicial authorities, she also contributes to the design and implementation of training programmes within the institutions with which ICAR maintains cooperation agreements.\n\nBefore joining the Basel Institute, Diana worked within the Peruvian Judiciary. She served as a lawyer at the Special Public Prosecutor's Office for Corruption Offences and as an associate lawyer at a law firm specialising in economic criminal law.\n\nDiana holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law from the Universidad Católica Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo and a Master’s degree in Criminal Law from the Universidad Pedro Ruiz Gallo, both in Peru. She also holds a Master’s degree in Anti-Corruption Policies from the University of Salamanca in Spain. She was admitted to the Bar Association of Peru in 2013.",[31,45],"60","diana-cordero",[],[168],[31],{"id":247,"status":6,"sort":248,"user_created":8,"date_created":249,"user_updated":37,"date_updated":250,"first_name":251,"last_name":252,"position":253,"phone":15,"email":254,"image":255,"cv":256,"category":45,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":257,"nid":258,"slug":259,"function":260,"country":261,"directorate":262,"hidden":32},733,48,"2025-03-27T21:22:02.000Z","2026-04-23T23:37:00.000Z","Walther","Delgado","Deputy Head, Latin America ICAR \u002F Senior Specialist, Asset Recovery (Green Corruption)","walther.delgado@baselgovernance.org","70f4c32c-f3e4-4a15-a470-c0c24b727603","Walther Javier Delgado Tovar joined the Basel Institute on Governance in November 2021. As of 2024, he serves as Deputy Head, Latin America for our International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) as well as Senior Specialist, Asset Recovery working with the Basel Institute's Green Corruption programme. \n\nIn this role, among other things, he supports prosecutors and specialised environmental prosecutors in Peru and Bolivia in implementing financial investigations in order to recover illicit assets. This includes through training, mentoring, legal technical assistance, case strategy design and international cooperation.\n\nWalther has worked for 16 years as a criminal prosecutor, dedicating the last 10 years to the investigation and prosecution of highly complex national corruption cases committed by criminal organisations. He participated as Deputy Prosecutor in the oral trials against former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori for crimes of corruption of public officials and crimes against humanity. He was also involved in the successful prosecutions of several regional Peruvian heads of governments and mayors for crimes including illicit enrichment, money laundering and aggravated collusion, and succeeded in recovering significant quantities of assets in these cases. \n\nWalther has wide-ranging expertise in special investigative procedures, such as effective collaboration, and was a member of the Steering Committee of the National Commission of Seized Assets, an entity in charge of the administration of seized and confiscated assets.\n\nHe has written several books on criminal matters, criminal procedure and Extinción de dominio (Peru’s non-conviction based forfeiture law), and more than a dozen articles in specialised journals. He has been heavily involved in the implementation of the extinción de dominio law in Peru, through his academic publications since 2009.\n\nWalther holds a Bachelor of Law and a Master's in Criminal Sciences, and has studied for a PhD in Law and Political Science from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru.",[45],"60722","walther-delgado",[],[168],[31,263],"Green Corruption",{"id":265,"status":6,"sort":266,"user_created":8,"date_created":249,"user_updated":37,"date_updated":267,"first_name":268,"last_name":269,"position":59,"phone":15,"email":270,"image":271,"cv":272,"category":45,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":273,"nid":274,"slug":275,"function":276,"country":277,"directorate":278,"hidden":32},734,49,"2025-07-13T12:29:39.000Z","Joseph","Dominguez","joseph.dominguez@baselgovernance.org","6e3bdc0f-4ccb-481d-9b86-0aa811588c00","Joseph Celso Dominguez Miñano joined the Basel Institute on Governance in July 2024 as Senior Asset Recovery Specialist at the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR).\n\nIn this role, he provides technical assistance to \"extinción de dominio\" prosecutors regarding the Odebrecht cases in Peru in order to recover illicit assets. This includes mentoring, legal technical assistance, the design of case strategies and international cooperation.\n\nA lawyer by profession since 2012, Joseph worked for five years as a prosecutor in the investigation of cases linked to Odebrecht and Brazilian companies in Peru, gaining extensive experience in highly complex national cases of corruption and money laundering committed by criminal organisations.\n\nJoseph holds a Law Degree and is currently studying towards a Master's Degree in Criminal Sciences at the Pontificia Universidad Católica of Perú.",[45],"62022","joseph-dominguez",[],[168],[31],{"id":280,"status":6,"sort":281,"user_created":8,"date_created":282,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":283,"first_name":284,"last_name":285,"position":286,"phone":15,"email":287,"image":288,"cv":289,"category":100,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":290,"nid":291,"slug":292,"function":293,"country":294,"directorate":295,"hidden":32},735,50,"2025-03-27T21:22:03.000Z","2026-04-23T22:28:15.000Z","Alexandru","Donciu","Specialist, Financial Investigations (Virtual Assets)","alexandru.donciu@baselgovernance.org","6730bf6b-38ae-497a-b686-a0074b7f6c0f","Alexandru Donciu joined the Basel Institute on Governance in March 2025 as a Specialist, Financial Investigations (Virtual Assets). He works in the training team at the International Centre for Asset Recovery.\n\nBefore joining the Basel Institute, Alexandru served as the Assistant Director and Head of the Analysis Division at the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) in Mauritius, where he oversaw and provided input to financial investigations. He also led the development of national processes and legal framework amendments, and provided virtual assets investigation training for national law enforcement agencies. Alexandru was involved in national risk assessment exercises and preparing progress reports for relevant international bodies.\n\nSince 2017, Alexandru has also held prominent positions in international organisations, including the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and the Law Enforcement and Intelligence Cooperation Agency (LEICA). He offered consultancy, training and expertise to government authorities across multiple jurisdictions in areas such as money laundering, cybercrime, crypto investigations, OSINT and digital forensics.\n\nFrom 2008 to 2018, Alexandru worked as analyst for the Financial Intelligence Unit of Moldova. He began as a Superior Investigative Officer and later served as Head of Strategic Analysis Division. In these roles, Alexandru was responsible for analysing financial intelligence and investigating financial crimes dominantly related to cybercrime, e-money and virtual assets, and carrying out strategic analysis.\n\nWith a career spanning over a decade, Alexandru has been involved in numerous high-impact investigations. He has also investigated large-scale fraud and financial crimes across borders, showcasing a deep understanding of both traditional financial systems and emerging virtual assets.",[22,100],"62301","alexandru-donciu",[26],[29],[31],{"id":297,"status":6,"sort":298,"user_created":8,"date_created":299,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":89,"first_name":300,"last_name":301,"position":302,"phone":303,"email":304,"image":305,"cv":306,"category":97,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":307,"nid":308,"slug":309,"function":310,"country":311,"directorate":312,"hidden":32},698,16,"2025-03-27T21:21:39.000Z","Andrew","Dornbierer","Head, Policy and Research ICAR","+41 61 205 55 39","andrew.dornbierer@baselgovernance.org","39eca4a9-c4da-4d85-bbc2-3ef74d461bb2","Andrew Dornbierer is Head of Policy and Research at the Basel Institute's International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR). He was promoted to the position in March 2025, having previously served as Senior Specialist, Asset Recovery.\n\nSince joining the Basel Institute in 2012, Andrew has worked extensively on financial investigation strategies, illicit enrichment-focused case strategies, and international cooperation in corruption and money laundering investigations.\n\nHe is a recognised international expert on illicit enrichment (unexplained wealth) legislation and the author of the 2021 book [\\*Illicit Enrichment: A Guide to Laws Targeting Unexplained Wealth\\*](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fillicit-enrichment-guide-laws-targeting-unexplained-wealth), published in open-access format in English, French and Spanish.\n\nAndrew is also a Certified Fraud Examiner, having completed the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners exams in 2023.\n\nAndrew was admitted as a lawyer of the Supreme Court of Western Australia in 2012 and has lived and worked both in Switzerland and in Tanzania, where he provided hands-on mentoring to practitioners at the country's primary anti-corruption agency.",[31,100],"41","andrew-dornbierer",[],[29],[31],{"id":314,"status":6,"sort":20,"user_created":10,"date_created":205,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":109,"first_name":315,"last_name":316,"position":317,"phone":20,"email":318,"image":319,"cv":320,"category":45,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":321,"nid":322,"slug":323,"function":20,"country":324,"directorate":325,"hidden":32},812,"Luís Filipe","Ferreira da Mota","Senior Specialist, Financial Investigations","luis.mota@baselgovernance.org","5c1008e0-5120-442c-945c-63a4e2fc05e0","Luís Filipe Ferreira da Mota joined the Basel Institute on Governance in March 2026 as Senior Specialist, Financial Investigations in Mozambique. As part of our International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) team, he supports the Prosecutor-General’s Office (PGR) in combating corruption, money laundering and asset recovery through technical assistance and investigative support.\n\nLuís is a dedicated professional with over two decades of experience in financial investigations, anti-corruption and public financial oversight, with work spanning Portugal, Timor-Leste and Mozambique.\n\nIn Timor-Leste, he worked as an International Advisor for the European Union Governance Programme, supporting the Court of Auditors in strengthening public financial oversight, strategic planning and professional training.\n\nIn Portugal, Luís served as an Expert in the Technical Advisory Unit (NAT) of the Prosecutor-General’s Office, providing consultancy on financial investigations and contributing to a think tank focused on EU fraud prevention. He has been an auditor at the Portuguese Court of Auditors since 2002.\n\nHis work focuses on financial investigations and public auditing, with a strong emphasis on anti-corruption, transparency, compliance and the effective management of public resources.\n\nLuís holds a degree in Business Administration (ISCTE) and postgraduate qualifications in Accounting (OVERGEST-ISCTE) and Development Economics and International Cooperation (ISEG).",[45],"62709","luis-filipe-ferreira-da-mota",[28],[31],{"id":327,"status":6,"sort":328,"user_created":8,"date_created":329,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":330,"first_name":331,"last_name":332,"position":333,"phone":334,"email":335,"image":336,"cv":337,"category":100,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":338,"nid":339,"slug":340,"function":341,"country":344,"directorate":345,"hidden":32},740,55,"2025-03-27T21:22:06.000Z","2026-04-23T23:19:10.000Z","José","Girau","Specialist, eLearning","+41 61 205 55 11","jose.girau@baselgovernance.org","30bd5272-e628-493e-989e-a53789785362","José joined the Basel Institute on Governance in November 2019 as Specialist, eLearning.\n\nPrior to this, José worked for many years as a freelance IT consultant and IT Manager at the University of Basel Department of Biomedicine. He trained as an IT specialist at the Siemens-Nixdorf centre in Freiburg, and worked at Sun Microsystems for various Swiss banks and insurance companies with Unix operating systems, mainframes and storage systems.\n\nJosé studied aerospace engineering at the Technische Universität Berlin, science in Marburg and Konstanz, and landscape planning and biology at the University of Freiburg, where he graduated with a diploma. He worked for several years as an environmental biologist, creating landscape plans and environmental recreation concepts.",[99,100],"18072","jose-girau",[342,343],"Basel LEARN","IT & Web",[29],[31,346],"Operations",{"id":348,"status":6,"sort":349,"user_created":8,"date_created":350,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":351,"first_name":352,"last_name":353,"position":354,"phone":355,"email":356,"image":357,"cv":358,"category":97,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":359,"nid":360,"slug":361,"function":362,"country":364,"directorate":365,"hidden":32},699,15,"2025-03-27T21:21:40.000Z","2026-06-04T14:36:42.000Z","Peter","Huppertz","Head, IT and eLearning","+41 61 205 55 18","peter.huppertz@baselgovernance.org","549e011b-da68-49b5-9c86-af8d150d79ea","Peter Huppertz is Head of the IT and eLearning team at the Basel Institute on Governance. In this role he is responsible for the strategic and operational management of the Basel Institute's IT unit, which covers eLearning, websites, visual design, IT support and other related products and services. \n\nPeter is also co-lead of a cross-cutting training and learning platform initiative and a member of the Extended Management Team.\n\nPeter plans and develops eLearning courses in cooperation with internal and external experts, manages the development of the [Basel LEARN](https:\u002F\u002Flearn.baselgovernance.org\u002F) and [Basel Open Intelligence](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fbasel-open-intelligence) tools, and is responsible for the IT-related development of the [Basel AML Index](https:\u002F\u002Findex.baselgovernance.org\u002F). He also oversees, coordinates and manages project-specific IT tools, visual design and internal web\u002FIT projects.\n\nHe holds a Master of Arts in Educational Media from the University Duisburg-Essen in Germany and a Diploma in Media Technology from the University of Applied Science, Mittweida, Germany. \n\nPrior to joining the Basel Institute, Peter worked as a Research Assistant at the University of Education in Freiburg. There he conducted training courses on creating and using media in educational scenarios, developed software environments to support learning and worked on a research project involving the use of interactive video for teacher training. During his studies, Peter worked for several IT companies, advertising agencies and movie post-production companies.",[31,99,100],"1","peter-huppertz",[342,363,343,26],"Extended Management",[29],[31,346],{"id":367,"status":6,"sort":20,"user_created":10,"date_created":189,"user_updated":37,"date_updated":368,"first_name":352,"last_name":369,"position":370,"phone":20,"email":371,"image":372,"cv":373,"category":45,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":374,"nid":375,"slug":376,"function":20,"country":377,"directorate":378,"hidden":32},833,"2026-06-02T21:34:09.000Z","James","Senior Specialist, Financial Investigation","peter.james@baselgovernance.org","6edf163c-f700-4287-8264-8af0335efebb","Peter James joined the Basel Institute on Governance in April 2026 as a Senior Specialist, Financial Investigation, based in Sri Lanka. He joins our International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) to deliver technical assistance to Sri Lanka’s anti-corruption and economic crime authorities.\n\nIn this role, Peter focuses on strengthening the investigation and prosecution capacity of corruption cases, enhancing mutual assistance frameworks and building effective, sustainable mechanisms to develop the country’s asset recovery process.\n\nA highly experienced financial investigator, Peter has an extensive background in tackling complex economic crime. He began his career in London with the Metropolitan Police and the Serious Fraud Office, specialising in the investigation of complex national and international fraud, money laundering, bribery and corruption.\n\nHe later worked in the corporate investigation sector before serving as a Fraud and Financial Investigator for a Special Investigation and Prosecution Team in a British Overseas Territory.  Established by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO), this team was tasked with investigation allegations of fraud, money laundering, bribery and corruption involving former government ministers and senior public officials.\n\nMost recently, Peter served as an anti-corruption Consultant with the Integrity Commission in the Turks and Caicos Islands.\n\nPeter holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business and Public Administration.",[45],"62771","peter-james",[119],[31],{"id":380,"status":6,"sort":381,"user_created":8,"date_created":382,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":235,"first_name":383,"last_name":384,"position":385,"phone":15,"email":386,"image":387,"cv":388,"category":45,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":389,"nid":390,"slug":391,"function":392,"country":393,"directorate":394,"hidden":32},747,61,"2025-03-27T21:22:10.000Z","Phillip","Kagucia","Team Leader, Malawi","phil.kagucia@baselgovernance.org","47ac9ddb-08dc-4659-97ad-2640516babef","Phillip Kagucia (OGW) is Team Leader, Malawi, having been promoted to this position in November 2025. He joined the Basel Institute’s International Centre for Asset Recovery team in Malawi in April 2024 as Senior Specialist, Asset Recovery. In his current role, he continues to lend his expertise on asset recovery to various law enforcement agencies in the anti-corruption institutional framework.\n\nPhillip is an advocate with over 20 years of experience in civil litigation and asset recovery. He joined Kenya's Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) in 2010 after years in private practice. In 2017, he became the first lawyer in Kenya’s history to successfully argue several high-profile cases on forfeiture of unexplained wealth.\n\nAs Deputy Director in charge of asset recovery at the EACC, Phillip also served as the Head of the institution's Mutual Legal Assistance Unit, which relied on international cooperation to prosecute corruption cases. During this time, he was exposed to the rigorous mutual evaluation process of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). He was a member of Kenya's national task force established to navigate the assessment of compliance with the FATF recommendations under the Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group (ESAAMLG).\n\nAdditionally, Phillip has been a trainer on various topics including evidence analysis, unexplained wealth and mutual legal assistance (MLA).\n\nPhillip holds a Bachelor of Law degree from Northumbria University in the UK, a Master of Arts in International Studies from the University of Nairobi and a second Master’s degree in Anti-Corruption Studies from the International Anti-Corruption Academy in Vienna, Austria. For his efforts in anti-corruption law enforcement, particularly in asset recovery, he was awarded with National Honours in the \"Order of the Grand Warrior\" (OGW) by the President of the Republic of Kenya.",[45],"61204","phillip-kagucia",[],[28],[31],{"id":396,"status":6,"sort":397,"user_created":8,"date_created":398,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":399,"first_name":400,"last_name":401,"position":317,"phone":402,"email":403,"image":404,"cv":405,"category":45,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":406,"nid":407,"slug":408,"function":409,"country":410,"directorate":411,"hidden":32},750,64,"2025-03-27T21:22:12.000Z","2026-06-04T14:36:45.000Z","Wonder","Kapofu","+263775577670","wonder.kapofu@baselgovernance.org","a82ba89f-9815-4dc9-bd5d-46889b3506bf","Wonder Kapofu joined the Basel Institute on Governance as Senior Specialist, Financial Investigations in December 2022. Based in Malawi, he currently contributes to the efforts of the Basel Institute's International Centre for Asset Recovery to improve asset recovery in the country in collaboration with our law enforcement partners. He also offers support to local counterparts on issues related to financial risk and integrity.\n\nPreviously, he supported the Basel Institute's Green Corruption programme in efforts to enhance law enforcement in relation to environmental crimes.\n\nPrior to joining the Basel Institute, Wonder worked extensively at Zimbabwe’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) in both the Analysis division and as Deputy Director in the Legal and Policy division. During his tenure at the FIU, he also led the Secretariat of the National Task Force on AML\u002FCFT.  Additionally, he also co-chaired several of the country’s national risk assessments programmes.\n\nWonder has also worked with other countries in the region through programmes of the Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group. He was a lead reviewer with the FATF’s International Cooperation Review Africa-Middle East Group.\n\nPrior to joining the FIU, he worked in similar roles of enforcing compliance in various law enforcement agencies, which included the Department of Customs and Border Control as well as the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority. Wonder has also worked as a technical consultant on AML\u002FCFT and financial crimes with other international agencies.\n\nWonder holds a Doctorate of Business Administration from the University of Lusaka, Zambia.  He is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and a Certified Financial Crime Specialist, (CFCS), as well as a Certified Management Accountant (Adv Dip CIMA).",[45],"61322","wonder-kapofu",[],[28],[31],{"id":413,"status":6,"sort":414,"user_created":8,"date_created":415,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":72,"first_name":416,"last_name":417,"position":418,"phone":15,"email":419,"image":420,"cv":421,"category":45,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":422,"nid":423,"slug":424,"function":425,"country":426,"directorate":427,"hidden":32},754,67,"2025-03-27T21:22:15.000Z","Carolyne","Lamptey","Team Leader, Ghana","carolyne.lamptey@baselgovernance.org","c9e38650-004f-48eb-a860-af14a66d1bb1","Carolyne Lamptey is Team Leader, Ghana, at the Basel Institute on Governance since November 2025. She leads the Ghana programme of the Basel Institute's International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR), strengthening the Office of the Special Prosecutor's asset recovery provisions and supporting the development of a non-conviction based forfeiture regime in the country.\n\nPreviously, she was Team Leader, Malawi. She joined the ICAR Malawi team in February 2022 to support the UK-funded Tackling Serious and Organised Corruption (TSOC) programme. She worked with the Malawian authorities in pursuing non-conviction based forfeiture orders under the country's Financial Crime Act through case work support, mentoring and policy review.\n\nCarolyne Lamptey is a barrister, called to the Bar of England and Wales, with over 20 years of prosecutorial practice. She is a former Team Leader and Senior Lawyer with the UK’s Crown Prosecution Service. \n\nCarolyne has prosecuted for all the major prosecuting authorities in England and Wales and for the last 18 years has specialised in asset recovery\u002Fproceeds of crime. She has extensive international experience that includes supporting the Egyptian authorities, as a Regional Asset Recovery Adviser in the cross-Whitehall Taskforce, to recover proceeds of crime from the regime of former President Hosni Mubarak that had been frozen under EU\u002FUK sanctions. She has also delivered training for UNODC, the EU and ICAR. \n\nPrior to joining the Basel Institute, Carolyne’s most recent role was in Ghana as the Prosecution Adviser on a UK-funded Project, Strengthening Action against Corruption (STAAC).\n\nShe has an LLB in Law and an LLM in Human Rights Law, both from the University of London.",[45],"60855","carolyne-lamptey",[],[28],[31],{"id":429,"status":6,"sort":430,"user_created":8,"date_created":415,"user_updated":37,"date_updated":431,"first_name":432,"last_name":433,"position":434,"phone":15,"email":435,"image":436,"cv":437,"category":45,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":438,"nid":439,"slug":440,"function":441,"country":442,"directorate":443,"hidden":32},755,68,"2025-07-13T12:34:58.000Z","Ash","Leber","Senior Specialist, Financial Analysis","ash.leber@baselgovernance.org","c3027086-5361-4fd8-9448-dce41af000f8","Ash Leber joined the Basel Institute in April 2021 as a financial data analyst within the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) Malawi team.\n\nAsh is an accomplished senior level professional in law enforcement, intelligence analysis, financial intelligence, data management, data analysis and IBM i2 analytical solutions. He holds a bachelor degree in Justice Studies from Edith Cowan University and a graduate diploma in Criminal Intelligence from Charles Sturt University, both in Australia. \n\nAsh formerly served as a Business Development Manager and Training Director for 15 years with Visual Analysis (VA-Worldwide). In his capacity with VA-Worldwide, Ash consulted on IBM i2 solutions, intelligence methods and AML\u002FCFT analysis. His work involved developing database solutions along with charting visualization, as well as conducting OSINT and social network analysis.\n\nHe is an accredited Anacapa Sciences intelligence trainer, having managed, developed and delivered the programme of Criminal Intelligence Analysis and Financial Manipulation Analysis for VA-Worldwide since 2006 in Australia, Asia and Africa.\n\nPrior to joining VA-Worldwide, Ash worked for 20 years with the Western Australia Police Service, where he fulfilled numerous roles from officer to investigator to lead intelligence analyst to executive level positions. In addition, Ash has developed expertise in conducting wildlife trafficking investigations and intelligence gathering.\n\nAsh has spoken at events around the globe regarding criminal intelligence analysis, social network analysis and the structures of organised crime. He has regularly presented for the University of Groningen School of Illicit Trade, Charles Sturt University, Macquarie University, Australian Institute of Professional Intelligence Officers (AIPIO), NSW Police i-Focus and Interpol. Ash is a member of the International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts (IALEIA) and International Association of Crime Analysts (IACA).",[45],"57803","ash-leber",[],[28],[31],{"id":445,"status":6,"sort":446,"user_created":8,"date_created":447,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":448,"first_name":449,"last_name":450,"position":451,"phone":452,"email":453,"image":454,"cv":455,"category":456,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":457,"nid":459,"slug":460,"function":461,"country":463,"directorate":464,"hidden":32},695,6,"2025-03-27T21:21:37.000Z","2026-04-23T23:19:08.000Z","Iker","Lekuona","Director, ICAR","+41 61 205 55 14","iker.lekuona@baselgovernance.org","81209b38-d306-4ad4-8e94-6e96ad1daa78","Iker Lekuona joined the Basel Institute on Governance in May 2019 and is currently Director of the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR). He is a governance and anti-corruption specialist with over 15 years of experience at strategic, management, programme and policy levels for multilateral, civil society and private sector organisations. \n\nAs Director, he is responsible for the overall direction and leadership of ICAR’s country programmes and teams in Asia Pacific, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. He is also a member of the Basel Institute's Management Group.\n\nPrior to joining the Basel Institute, Iker was Head of Governance and Stability at the international development firm Adam Smith International (ASI). In this role, he oversaw, managed, and grew a portfolio of anti-corruption programmes worth USD 35 million across Sub-Saharan Africa. \n\nAs a Governance Specialist for the World Bank in Uganda, he contributed to designing and delivering a portfolio of supply- and demand-side governance programmes. These included coordinating the evaluation of the Government of Uganda’s cross-sectoral performance for a USD 250m-per-year, multi-donor budget support operation; supporting the implementation of the anti-corruption component of the country’s largest social protection programme; and providing technical assistance to a civil society coalition monitoring government contracts in the education, health and road sectors. \n\nMoreover, Iker created and led the strategic research and capacity building departments of PODER, a non-governmental organisation whose goal is to improve corporate transparency and accountability in Latin America. \n\nIker holds an MA in Social Sciences – International Relations and Political Theory – from the University of Chicago, a Graduate Minor in Human Rights from the University of Minnesota, and a BA in English from the University of Deusto.","Director",[458,31],"Senior management","13151","iker-lekuona",[462,363],"Core Management",[29],[31],{"id":466,"status":6,"sort":467,"user_created":8,"date_created":468,"user_updated":37,"date_updated":469,"first_name":470,"last_name":471,"position":472,"phone":15,"email":473,"image":474,"cv":475,"category":45,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":476,"nid":477,"slug":478,"function":479,"country":480,"directorate":481,"hidden":32},756,69,"2025-03-27T21:22:16.000Z","2025-07-13T12:35:21.000Z","Erika","Lorenzo","Specialist, Asset Recovery","erika.lorenzo@baselgovernance.org","142b5e47-4341-43b7-84fa-061f02ea91d6","Erika Lorenzo joined the Basel Institute on Governance in September 2022 and is currently a Specialist, Asset Recovery for the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) in Peru.\n\nA lawyer by training, Erika has specialist experience in “following the money” to trace and recover illicit assets.\n\nShe previously worked in the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Peru, where she supported investigations into high-profile cases of corruption and money laundering under Peru’s non-conviction based forfeiture legislation.\n\nBetween 2019–2022, Erika worked for the Subnational Public Finance Management Strengthening Programme in Peru, implemented by the Basel Institute on Governance under a long-running programme of the Swiss Cooperation–SECO. In this role, she also provided significant support to asset recovery investigations.\n\nShe holds a Master’s in Criminal Law from San Martín de Porres University and a Bachelor’s in Law from Hermilio Valdizan University, both in Peru.",[45],"61192","erika-lorenzo",[],[168],[31],{"id":483,"status":6,"sort":484,"user_created":8,"date_created":485,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":89,"first_name":486,"last_name":487,"position":488,"phone":15,"email":489,"image":490,"cv":491,"category":97,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":492,"nid":493,"slug":494,"function":495,"country":496,"directorate":497,"hidden":32},700,17,"2025-03-27T21:21:41.000Z","Simon","Marsh","Head, Africa ICAR","simon.marsh@baselgovernance.org","de8ea9ba-93fa-48c0-bd4c-0955dbe0e179","Simon Marsh is Head of Africa at the Basel Institute’s International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR).\n\nHe joined the Basel Institute in 2013 and worked closely with Kenya's law enforcement agencies for several years, helping them to recover illicit assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Working hand in hand with investigators and prosecutors on complex cases of financial crime, he provides training, mentoring and strategic legal and policy advice, with a focus on regional and international cooperation.\n\nSince 2021, he has led the development of ICAR’s work across the Eastern and Southern Africa region as well as fostering engagement between the jurisdictions. In addition to his core role, Simon was instrumental in the establishment of the Basel Institute’s Green Corruption programme, which applies a follow-the-money approach to environmental crimes. In 2016, he worked with colleagues to co-found the Working Group on Cryptocurrencies and Criminal Finances, an initiative of the Basel Institute on Governance, Europol and INTERPOL.\n\nSimon spent over 13 years as a Police Officer with the Metropolitan Police in London, where he was selected in 2004 as Detective Sergeant and in 2010 for the rank of Detective Inspector. He has been specialising in asset recovery, money laundering and corruption since 2006. Simon holds an MA in Terrorism, International Crime and Global Security from Coventry University in the UK, where he occasionally lectures on money laundering and organised crime.",[31,45],"62","simon-marsh",[],[28],[31],{"id":499,"status":6,"sort":500,"user_created":8,"date_created":501,"user_updated":37,"date_updated":502,"first_name":503,"last_name":504,"position":505,"phone":15,"email":506,"image":507,"cv":508,"category":45,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":509,"nid":510,"slug":511,"function":512,"country":513,"directorate":515,"hidden":32},762,74,"2025-03-27T21:22:20.000Z","2025-07-13T12:36:47.000Z","David","Mattan","Senior Specialist, Asset Recovery ","david.mattan@baselgovernance.org","8a48dd19-4d22-4527-8d84-ee42816a122d","David Mattan joined the Basel Institute on Governance and its International Centre for Asset Recovery in November 2024 as Senior Specialist, Asset Recovery, based in Moldova. He previously worked at the Basel Institute from 2020–2021 as Senior Asset Recovery Specialist based in Nairobi.\n\nA graduate in law from Cambridge University in England, David worked for over 25 years in the field of asset recovery. His career includes being a senior police officer and prosecutor in Israel, and a specialist prosecutor in the Crown Prosecution Service in England, where he was the in-house prosecutor for a multi-institutional money laundering and asset recovery team.\n\nLicensed (not practicing) in Israel, England and Wales, and New York State, David served as Key Expert for a three-year EU-funded project in Kosovo, drafting asset recovery legislation and mentoring and training specialist prosecutors. He has also delivered workshops on comparative asset recovery systems, anti-money laundering investigations and prosecutions, financial investigations and international cooperation in several jurisdictions, including North Macedonia, Albania, Serbia, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Ghana, Romania, Moldova, Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan.",[45],"20161","david-mattan",[],[514],"Europe",[31],{"id":517,"status":6,"sort":518,"user_created":8,"date_created":519,"user_updated":37,"date_updated":520,"first_name":521,"last_name":522,"position":472,"phone":15,"email":523,"image":524,"cv":525,"category":100,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":526,"nid":527,"slug":528,"function":529,"country":530,"directorate":531,"hidden":32},767,78,"2025-03-27T21:22:23.000Z","2025-07-13T12:37:51.000Z","Emmanuel","Mringo","emmanuel.mringo@baselgovernance.org","5216ef5d-41a7-4e26-803e-9ffa1c4a5a96","Emmanuel Jacob Mringo joined the Basel Institute on Governance in January 2023 as a Specialist, Asset Recovery. He works within the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) training team.\n\nPrior to joining the institute, Emmanuel worked as an investigator and prosecutor for the Tanzanian anti-corruption agency, the Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau (PCCB). In this role, he was involved in the investigation and prosecution of corruption and economic offences. He subsequently transferred to the Tanzanian Ministry of Finance and Planning, where he worked as a Legal Officer.\n\nFrom October to December 2022, Emmanuel worked as a consultant for ICAR in developing training materials for financial investigations in the context of environmental crime.\n\nEmmanuel was one of the certified ICAR trainers from the Institute's train-the-trainer programme in Tanzania in 2017. He has since been involved in several training courses conducted by the PCCB, using the ICAR training methodology to build capacity within Tanzania's law enforcement agencies. \n\nEmmanuel holds an LLB degree from Mzumbe University in Tanzania and an LLM in Oil and Gas from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. Emmanuel is also a Certified Public Private Partnership (PPP) Specialist with APMG International.",[22,100],"61377","emmanuel-mringo",[26],[28],[31],{"id":533,"status":6,"sort":534,"user_created":8,"date_created":535,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":536,"first_name":537,"last_name":538,"position":539,"phone":15,"email":540,"image":541,"cv":542,"category":45,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":543,"nid":544,"slug":545,"function":546,"country":547,"directorate":548,"hidden":32},768,79,"2025-03-27T21:22:24.000Z","2026-05-20T21:43:11.000Z","Julius","Muraya","Team Leader, Zambia","julius.muraya@baselgovernance.org","b9dde470-9890-4202-8cd6-809951889b60","Julius Muraya joined the International Centre for Asset Recovery at the Basel Institute on Governance in January 2023 as a Senior Specialist, Asset Recovery, and was promoted to team leader in November 2024. He is based in Zambia, where he leads a team providing mentoring, technical advisory and training support to the Anti-Corruption Commission and other government partners in the fight against corruption and organised crime.\n\nJulius is an advocate of the High Court of Kenya of over 30 years' standing. He has extensive experience in courtroom practice of public law with an emphasis on the seizure, confiscation and forfeiture of corruptly acquired assets.\n\nHe worked with the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), Kenya for 16 years, where he served in different capacities in the investigations and asset recovery departments. In his position as the Deputy Director in charge of Civil Litigation and Asset Recovery at the EACC, he led asset recovery efforts with remarkable success. Among others, it was during his tenure that jurisprudence on unexplained wealth in Kenya was effectively applied; successfully concluded cases have since attracted international attention as exemplary case studies. \n\n \n\nJulius has extensive hands-on experience in complex transnational financial investigations. He also served as head of the Mutual Legal Assistance Unit, where he prepared and coordinated the successful execution of dozens of mutual legal assistance as well as extradition requests in jurisdictions with varied legal systems, customs and practices. In November 2020, he co-chaired the Joint Technical Team sessions that negotiated Mutual Legal Assistance, Extradition, and Exchange of Prisoners Treaties between Kenya and the United Republic of Tanzania. He was also a member of the Kenyan technical team that negotiated a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty between Kenya and the United Arab Emirates as well as the People’s Republic of China.  \n\n \n\nHe has widely trained and mentored practitioners in asset tracing and recovery skills. He has broad experience in public sector reforms, having been intensely engaged in the review of policy, legal and institutional frameworks in the fight against corruption and in strengthening public sector accountability frameworks. In recognition of his outstanding and distinguished service to the nation of Kenya, Julius received the Presidential award of the Order of Grand Warrior (OGW) in December 2018.\n\n \n\nIn February 2022, Julius joined the GIZ Global Program on Combating Illicit Financial Flows (GP-IFF) where served as Advisor for Africa. In this role, Julius worked closely with the relevant African Union bodies and pan-African practitioner networks to provide technical support aimed at implementing a coherent continental policy and operational response to the devastating effects of illicit financial flows on sustainable development.",[31,45],"61347","julius-muraya",[],[28],[31],{"id":550,"status":6,"sort":551,"user_created":8,"date_created":552,"user_updated":37,"date_updated":553,"first_name":554,"last_name":555,"position":59,"phone":15,"email":556,"image":557,"cv":558,"category":45,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":559,"nid":560,"slug":561,"function":562,"country":563,"directorate":564,"hidden":32},770,81,"2025-03-27T21:22:25.000Z","2025-07-13T12:38:25.000Z","Shane","Nainappan","shane.nainappan@baselgovernance.org","13a53bf3-1774-4e43-808b-760fab6caa06","Shane joined the Basel Institute in December 2023 as Senior Specialist, Asset Recovery for the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) in Tanzania. He previously worked at the Institute as Senior Asset Recovery Advisor from April 2017 to March 2021.\n\nShane joins us from the Bailiwick of Guernsey, where he was the Head of Operations for the newly established Economic & Financial Crime Bureau of Guernsey. Admitted as a Barrister in England and Wales in 1994, as an Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in 1995 and to the Roll of Solicitors of England and Wales in 1999, he brings a wealth of experience and knowledge across a broad spectrum of legal practice. Shane spent his early years as a Civil Litigator, then serving as a Senior Crown Prosecutor for over 17 years and more recently as a Senior Law Enforcement Officer in Guernsey.\n\nShane’s practice over the last 25 years has focused primarily on the preservation and recovery of assets, initially for financial institutions and, subsequently, transnationally for governments. With experience of working in the UK, South East Asia, the Gulf and East Africa, he is adept at enhancing cross border cooperation to improve the level of engagement between jurisdictions with the aim of influencing domestic and inter-government policy, the repatriation of illicit proceeds and the enhancement of prosecution rates in line with global developments.\n\nAs an accomplished Financial Crime and Cross Border Specialist, and in recognition of his work as a Prosecutor with the United Kingdom Crown Prosecution Service, his time in the Gulf and wider contributions to law and order representing the UK, Shane was appointed by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the Queen’s Honours Lists of June 2015.",[45],"63","shane-nainappan",[],[28],[31],{"id":566,"status":6,"sort":20,"user_created":10,"date_created":567,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":568,"first_name":569,"last_name":570,"position":571,"phone":20,"email":572,"image":573,"cv":574,"category":100,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":575,"nid":576,"slug":577,"function":578,"country":579,"directorate":580,"hidden":32},819,"2026-04-23T22:19:16.000Z","2026-05-20T21:28:34.000Z","Dr Christopher","Nell","Specialist, Financial Crime Risk","christopher.nell@baselgovernance.org","57df0e62-c1be-4964-94d1-bcf85c0e9c8b","Dr Christopher Nell joined the Basel Institute on Governance in April 2026 as Specialist, Financial Crime Risk. In this role, he works on the [Basel AML Index](https:\u002F\u002Findex.baselgovernance.org\u002F) and related analysis, helping to strengthen datasets and methodologies, analyse risk indicators and support country risk assessments and publications.\n\nChristopher is an economist with over a decade of experience in quantitative analysis, statistical modelling and empirical research on taxation, public financial management and governance. His previous roles covered tax evasion, fiscal transparency and integrity, energy and natural resource governance, and economic risk analysis and revenue forecasting.\n\nBefore joining the Basel Institute, Christopher worked in different countries including in Austria, Brazil, Chile, Mozambique, Rwanda and the United Kingdom. Among the positions he held were senior advisory roles at the Rwanda Revenue Authority and at Transparency International's national chapter in Mozambique through placements with the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ). He was also a researcher at the International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD) at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), provided consultancy services for the African Tax Administration Forum (ATAF) and delivered training in statistical data analysis.\n\nChristopher holds a PhD in Economics (with distinction) from the University of Vienna and an MSc in Economics (with distinction) from the University of Warwick. During his PhD studies he was also a visiting research scholar at Monash University.",[31,99,100],"62742","dr-christopher-nell",[82],[29],[31],{"id":582,"status":6,"sort":583,"user_created":8,"date_created":584,"user_updated":37,"date_updated":585,"first_name":586,"last_name":587,"position":588,"phone":15,"email":589,"image":590,"cv":591,"category":45,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":592,"nid":593,"slug":594,"function":595,"country":596,"directorate":597,"hidden":32},771,82,"2025-03-27T21:22:26.000Z","2025-07-13T12:38:37.000Z","Mathews","Nkosi","Senior Specialist, Monitoring and Evaluation","mathews.nkosi@baselgovernance.org","011afc88-09db-45e8-9902-abfc11057f59","Mathews Nkosi joined the Basel Institute of Governance in January 2022 as an Associate, Monitoring and Evaluation. Based in Malawi, he supports the multi-year Tackling Serious and Organised Corruption (TSOC) programme of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, which is implemented by the Basel Institute through its local team. \n\nMathews has over 15 years of experience in programme quality and development, with an emphasis on monitoring and evaluation (M&E). He has worked with both international and local organisations in Malawi, supporting the development of robust and impactful programmes using theory of change and logical frameworks. He places particular emphasis on programme reporting, data collection and analysis using specialist software, and capacity building on participatory monitoring, evaluation and research. \n\nWith this extensive experience, Mathews has supported both local community-based organisations in establishing sound M&E systems, as well as international organisations including World Vision International, Save the Children International and Options Consultancy Services.  \n\nMathews is a member of the Malawi Monitoring and Evaluation Association and is also a smallholder dairy farmer. \n\nMathews holds a Master in Development Studies from Kimmage Development Studies Centre in Ireland and a Bachelor of Education Degree from Chancellor College, Malawi.",[45],"60860","mathews-nkosi",[],[28],[31],{"id":599,"status":6,"sort":600,"user_created":8,"date_created":601,"user_updated":37,"date_updated":602,"first_name":369,"last_name":603,"position":604,"phone":15,"email":605,"image":606,"cv":607,"category":100,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":608,"nid":609,"slug":610,"function":611,"country":612,"directorate":613,"hidden":32},772,83,"2025-03-27T21:22:27.000Z","2025-07-13T12:38:49.000Z","Oluka","Programme Officer","james.oluka@baselgovernance.org","6e8c9e3b-7b9b-4e81-91ee-c2f981a31782","James Edielu Oluka joined the Basel Institute’s International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) in March 2023. As a Programme Officer, James supports the administrative aspects of delivering ICAR training programmes in partner countries.\n\nPrior to joining the Basel Institute, James worked with Teso-Karamoja Media Agency (TEKAMA) as a Programme Coordinator, where he helped grow the organisation’s programmes and contributed to the strengthening of systems within the organisation and among partners. While with TEKAMA, James organised the biggest community-led environmental campaign that aimed to plant 25 million trees in five years in the Teso subregion of Uganda. \n\nBetween September 2021 and August 2022, James worked with the African Youth Peer Review Committee (AYPRC) as a volunteer Head of Programmes. Here, he led the development and implementation of youth-focused programmes across Africa, and contributed to the widening in geographical scope of the organisation’s programmes from eight to 13 countries over just one year. While with the AYPRC, James held sessions with eight African national parliaments to discuss a just transition from fossil fuels to clean energy. A significant number of legislators across Africa subsequently signed a resolution for a fossil fuel-free future.\n\nIn October 2022, James was appointed as a member and Deputy Head of the Directorate of Youth Policy Development of the African Network of Youth Policy Experts (AfriNYPE). In this voluntary role, he is a regular contributor to the development and strengthening of youth-related policies across Africa. James is passionate about and strongly supports youth involvement in climate justice, participation and social accountability.\n\nJames obtained a degree in Library and Information Science from Makerere University in Uganda, a certificate in Climate Justice from Kenyatta University and a certificate in Digital Communications Networks from online learning platform Alison. James is a member of the African Group of Negotiators Experts Support (AGNES).",[22,100],"61440","james-oluka",[26],[28],[31],{"id":615,"status":6,"sort":20,"user_created":10,"date_created":616,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":568,"first_name":617,"last_name":618,"position":472,"phone":20,"email":619,"image":620,"cv":621,"category":45,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":622,"nid":623,"slug":624,"function":20,"country":625,"directorate":626,"hidden":32},821,"2026-04-23T22:19:17.000Z","Celestina","Ordaz","celestina.ordaz@baselgovernance.org","54360e1e-cfc3-4408-a849-98bd5d6fb8e9","Celestina Ordaz joined the Basel Institute in May 2024 as a Specialist, Asset Recovery, based in Mexico.\n\nCelestina completed her university studies at the Autonomous University of Mexico, specialising in procedural law. She held several positions in the judicial branch of the State of Mexico and passed the competitive exam for the position of civil judge.\n\nIn 1999, she joined the Federal Judiciary. From 2011 to 2015 she was assigned to the only court specialised in *Extinción de dominio* (non-conviction based forfeiture) in Mexico, whose main function was to prepare draft sentences and process cases in this field throughout the Mexican Republic. During this period Celestina participated as a speaker in courses organised by the Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training (OPDAT) of the US Department of Justice and the Attorney General's Office of the State of Mexico.\n\nCelestina also contributed to a regional exchange on mock trial methodology in *Extinción de dominio* organised by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative.\n\nCelestina holds a Master’s degree in Corporate Business Law and completed several diploma courses relating to human rights protection and commercial insolvency proceedings.",[31,45],"62366","celestina-ordaz",[168],[31],{"id":628,"status":6,"sort":20,"user_created":10,"date_created":629,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":568,"first_name":630,"last_name":631,"position":604,"phone":20,"email":632,"image":633,"cv":634,"category":45,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":635,"nid":636,"slug":637,"function":638,"country":639,"directorate":640,"hidden":32},822,"2026-04-23T22:19:18.000Z","Corina","Pavlișciuc","corina.pavlisciuc@baselgovernance.org","1c5ce2fa-99c4-42f5-84e7-518c29913ab8","Corina Pavlișciuc joined the Basel Institute on Governance in July 2025 as Programme Officer in Moldova. She supports the implementation of our International Centre for Asset Recovery’s (ICAR) programme in the country, which aims to strengthen Moldova’s capacity to confiscate and recover stolen assets.\n\nCorina brings over 16 years of experience in public administration and programme coordination across Moldova’s public institutions and the international development sector. Corina joins us from the European Union High Level Advisers Mission to the Republic of Moldova and the State Tax Service of the Republic of Moldova, where she held key roles in policy reform, institutional development and external cooperation.\n\nCorina is the author of several taxpayer-oriented guides and operational instructions, designed to enhance interaction between the fiscal authority and the general public, with a special focus on accessibility and education.\n\nDriven by a strong commitment to civic engagement and financial literacy, Corina is a member of FINEDU Moldova, an NGO affiliated with the OECD International Network on Financial Education. She contributes to the National Strategy for Financial Education, coordinated by the National Bank of Moldova.\n\nCorina holds a Master’s degree in Public Law from the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Moldova and a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova. She is also an alumna of the International Visitors Leadership Programme (IVLP) of the U.S. Department of State, focused on leadership and global engagement.",[45],"62454","corina-pavlisciuc",[136],[514],[31],{"id":642,"status":6,"sort":643,"user_created":8,"date_created":644,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":11,"first_name":645,"last_name":646,"position":647,"phone":334,"email":648,"image":649,"cv":650,"category":97,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":651,"nid":652,"slug":653,"function":654,"country":655,"directorate":656,"hidden":32},702,13,"2025-03-27T21:21:42.000Z","Amanda","Procter","Co-Head, Programmes ICAR","amanda.procter@baselgovernance.org","a934b487-5888-4346-8027-71a4666962cf","Amanda Procter joined the Basel Institute on Governance in June 2021 and is currently Co-Head of Programmes for the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR). As part of this role Amanda jointly leads a cross-cutting programme management platform initiative at the Basel Institute and is a member of the Extended Management Team.\n\nAmanda is a development professional with 20 years’ experience managing development projects in Central America and East Africa. During her eight years with Save the Children, she supported two country offices to institute a systematic approach to award management, strengthening office capacity to secure and manage donor funds with a high level of compliance. In the role of Zanzibar Representative, she contributed to Save the Children becoming the iNGO partner of choice in Zanzibar and garnering a high level of government trust and engagement, including representation on the National Epidemic Taskforce. Prior to that, Amanda worked in leadership positions for Canadian NGOs financing education-focused community development initiatives in Central America.\n\nAmanda holds a Masters in Planning from the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia and an Honours Bachelor of Arts in International Development from the University of Toronto at Scarborough.",[31,100],"59471","amanda-procter",[363,136],[29],[31],{"id":658,"status":6,"sort":659,"user_created":8,"date_created":660,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":89,"first_name":661,"last_name":662,"position":663,"phone":664,"email":665,"image":666,"cv":667,"category":97,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":668,"nid":669,"slug":670,"function":671,"country":672,"directorate":673,"hidden":32},703,7,"2025-03-27T21:21:43.000Z","Stephen","Ratcliffe","Head, Investigations ICAR \u002F Security Focal Point","+41 61 205 55 16","stephen.ratcliffe@baselgovernance.org","4b36867a-c06e-479a-83cf-dced5a35fbbf","Steve is a Head of Investigations in the Basel Institute's International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR). He was promoted to this role in 2024, having joined the Institute in August 2015 as a Senior Specialist in Financial Investigations.\n\nPreviously he worked for the Royal Cayman Islands Police and was in charge of their financial crime and intelligence departments. He co-chaired the group which wrote the money-laundering risk assessment in advance of the FATF inspection due in 2017.\n\nPrior to this he was a police officer in the UK’s Metropolitan Police for 31 years where most recently he was a senior officer within the serious and organised crime division between 2007-2014. His work specialised in targeting nationally and internationally significant criminals who had amassed sizeable criminal assets and therefore required a detailed, complex and sustained investigative response.\n\nAfter the terrorist attacks of September 2001 he was responsible for creating the National Terrorist Financial Investigation Unit (NTFIU) based in Scotland Yard. This multi-agency and multi-disciplinary body was responsible for the investigation of terrorist financing; the creation of training courses and their delivery nationally and internationally and the mainstreaming of financial investigation into pro-active terrorist investigations.\n\nSteve holds a master's degree from the University of Cambridge in Applied Criminology and Management.",[31,100],"47","stephen-ratcliffe",[],[29],[31],{"id":675,"status":6,"sort":676,"user_created":8,"date_created":660,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":448,"first_name":677,"last_name":678,"position":679,"phone":334,"email":680,"image":681,"cv":682,"category":97,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":683,"nid":684,"slug":685,"function":686,"country":687,"directorate":688,"hidden":32},704,8,"Thierry","Ravalomanda","Head, Training ICAR","thierry.ravalomanda@baselgovernance.org","c62dd983-c817-4419-90fb-c7697d7a449f","Thierry Ravalomanda is Head of Training at the Basel Institute’s International Centre of Asset Recovery (ICAR). In this role he oversees, coordinates and delivers technical training programmes in financial investigations and asset recovery for developing and transition countries.\n\nThierry is also co-lead of a cross-cutting training and learning platform initiative and a member of the Extended Management Team.\n\nOriginally a judicial officer from Madagascar, Thierry joined the [ICAR Training Team](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fasset-recovery\u002Ftraining-programmes) in 2015 as a Senior Asset Recovery Specialist. He was promoted to his current role in July 2023, having previously served as Deputy Head of Training ICAR.\n\nThierry obtained his Masters in Law from the French University of Reunion Island and was afterwards admitted to the École Nationale de la Magistrature et des Greffes in Antananarivo, Madagascar. Here he obtained his diploma of aptitude for the profession of magistrate, qualifying him to be a judge or a prosecutor.\n\nHe was first appointed as a Deputy Public Prosecutor in the First Instance Court of Antananarivo and specialised in anti-corruption by joining the newly formed Anti Corruption Judiciary Unit. He was in charge of the investigation and prosecution of large-scale corruption cases and other economic and financial crimes and attended various relevant training courses offered by different international institutions.\n\nAfter five years working as a prosecutor, Thierry was appointed as the head of the legal department of the Financial Intelligence Unit of Madagascar. Leading a team of analysts and intelligence officers, he conducted the gathering of information and intelligence analysis to unveil possible money laundering and terrorist financing activities and wrote intelligence reports that were sent to the Public Prosecutor for further investigation.\n\nHe was personally in charge of the analysis of complex and sensitive cases. Part of his assignment was to provide training and technical assistance to AML\u002FCFT national stakeholders, especially to key law enforcement agencies and judicial officers. He contributed significantly to the writing of a handbook on anti-money laundering for prosecutors and judges. He was also in charge of international co-operation, working closely with the judiciary and law enforcement agencies of partner countries.",[31,22,100],"48","thierry-ravalomanda",[363,26],[29],[31],{"id":690,"status":6,"sort":691,"user_created":8,"date_created":692,"user_updated":37,"date_updated":693,"first_name":694,"last_name":695,"position":472,"phone":15,"email":696,"image":697,"cv":698,"category":45,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":699,"nid":700,"slug":701,"function":702,"country":703,"directorate":704,"hidden":32},778,87,"2025-03-27T21:22:30.000Z","2025-07-13T12:40:59.000Z","Sergio","Rodriguez","sergio.rodriguez@baselgovernance.org","46f20087-0abc-4df1-aa26-760622cb30cb","Sergio Rodriguez Salinas joined the Basel Institute’s International Centre for Asset Recovery in Latin America in September 2022. As of June 2024, he works partly as a core member of the International Centre for Asset Recovery training team. In addition, he carries out research on various legal topics, including emerging trends and best practices in asset recovery, and develops knowledge products.\n\nSergio’s background combines both academic and practical experience. On the academic side, he is a Professor in the Law Department of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP), where he originally obtained his law degree. He is currently pursuing a master’s degree in University Teaching at PUCP and a PhD in Law and Business Administration at the University of Lleida, Spain.\n\nHis practical experience includes service as a Prosecutor’s Assistant in Peru’s Special Prosecutor's Office for Public-Sector Corruption, as part of a special investigation team focused on the Lava Jato corruption and money laundering complex of cases. He has also worked as a consultant for several national and international organisations, including the German development agency GIZ, the International Labor Organization, the American Bar Association and the Basel Institute on Governance.",[31,22,45],"61244","sergio-rodriguez",[26],[168],[31],{"id":706,"status":6,"sort":707,"user_created":8,"date_created":708,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":536,"first_name":709,"last_name":710,"position":711,"phone":15,"email":712,"image":713,"cv":714,"category":45,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":715,"nid":716,"slug":717,"function":718,"country":719,"directorate":720,"hidden":32},780,89,"2025-03-27T21:22:32.000Z","Misozi","Samuti Chimbe","Programme Manager, Southern and East Africa","misozi.samuti@baselgovernance.org","fc096928-2dd8-4da1-9585-642aeaa0972c","Misozi Samuti Chimbe, joined the Basel Institute on Governance in August 2018 and is currently Senior Programme Manager, based in Malawi. She initially worked as Financial Administrator, became Programme Manager for Malawi in 2019 and Programme Manager, Southern and East Africa in 2024.\n\nIn her current function as Senior Programme Manager, Misozi supports the delivery of the Basel Institute's International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) programming in Zambia and Tanzania.\n\nMisozi has extensive experience in programme design, reporting and stakeholder engagement, and has successfully led teams and managed complex projects in collaboration with international donors such as the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Global Affairs Canada and USAID. Her previous roles as a Financial Administrator and Finance and Administration Manager honed her skills in financial reporting, risk management and donor relations.\n\nMisozi is an accountant by profession. She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (Cum Laude) in Accounting from the University of Eastern Africa, Baraton, and has further enhanced her expertise with certifications in Forensic Accounting from the University of West Virginia.",[45],"64","misozi-samuti-chimbe",[136],[28],[31],{"id":722,"status":6,"sort":723,"user_created":8,"date_created":708,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":330,"first_name":724,"last_name":725,"position":333,"phone":334,"email":726,"image":727,"cv":728,"category":100,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":729,"nid":730,"slug":731,"function":732,"country":733,"directorate":734,"hidden":32},781,90,"Carmen","Santos","carmen.santos@baselgovernance.org","6e2c1543-708b-4850-8396-49dc12b77220","Carmen joined the Basel Institute on Governance in July 2022 as Specialist, eLearning. In her role, she designs and develops eLearning courses for the Basel Institute’s LEARN platform.\n\nHer career has always been related to adult education, and more specifically online training. Before joining the Institute, Carmen expanded her skills by working as a Learning Consultant in Portugal. There, she collaborated with financial institutions on subjects such as anti-money laundering, anti-corruption, corporate sustainability, work ethics and client service.\n\nIn her most recent position, she was a Learning Advisor and Proofreader for a pharmaceutical company in Switzerland. In this role, she managed eLearning Projects in areas including artwork software, supply chain planning, demand planning and production.\n\nOriginally from Portugal, Carmen graduated from the University of Lisbon with a master’s degree in Adult Education, with a specialisation in the Recognition of Prior Learning Process.",[100],"61172","carmen-santos",[342,343],[29],[31,346],{"id":736,"status":6,"sort":737,"user_created":8,"date_created":738,"user_updated":37,"date_updated":739,"first_name":740,"last_name":741,"position":59,"phone":15,"email":742,"image":743,"cv":744,"category":100,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":745,"nid":746,"slug":747,"function":748,"country":749,"directorate":750,"hidden":32},783,91,"2025-03-27T21:22:33.000Z","2025-07-13T12:41:44.000Z","Anne-Claude","Scheidegger","anne-claude.scheidegger@baselgovernance.org","1528ce07-4f3e-4df4-bf89-586292f04422","Anne-Claude Scheidegger joined the Basel Institute on Governance in July 2024 as a Senior Specialist, Asset Recovery. She works in the training team at the International Centre for Asset Recovery.\n\nSince 2008, Anne-Claude has worked for prosecution authorities in Switzerland, including as a prosecutor at cantonal and federal level, specialising in the fight against economic crime. As a federal prosecutor, she worked in the White-Collar Crime Division in the Office of Attorney General. In this capacity, she was in charge of criminal proceedings, particularly of international corruption and money laundering, and of cooperation with foreign prosecution authorities through mutual legal assistance procedures.\n\nSince 2012, Anne-Claude has also been a lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Fribourg, where she teaches criminal law exercises for the Bachelor of Law degree. She has put this activity on standby for two years to dedicate herself fully to her role at the Institute. She was also a lecturer for the Certificate of Advanced Studies for \"Magistrature Pénale\" at the Haute-Ecole Arc, Neuchâtel.\n\nAnne-Claude has contributed to a number of publications in the field of criminal law and economic crime.",[31,22,100],"61998","anne-claude-scheidegger",[26],[29],[31],{"id":752,"status":6,"sort":753,"user_created":8,"date_created":754,"user_updated":37,"date_updated":755,"first_name":756,"last_name":757,"position":59,"phone":334,"email":758,"image":759,"cv":760,"category":100,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":761,"nid":762,"slug":763,"function":764,"country":765,"directorate":766,"hidden":32},789,95,"2025-03-27T21:22:37.000Z","2025-07-13T12:43:20.000Z","Rita","Simões","rita.simoes@baselgovernance.org","a04756af-9167-4dcf-bd2d-9abc2185103e","Rita Simões joined the Basel Institute on Governance in November 2024 as a Senior Specialist, Asset Recovery focusing on policy.\n\nRita has over 20 years of experience as a public prosecutor, with a particular focus on financial crime, asset recovery and international cooperation. She has also gained considerable expertise as a speaker and trainer on these topics.\n\nBefore joining the Basel Institute, Rita served as Assistant to the National Member for Portugal at Eurojust, where she worked on international cooperation cases involving both European Union Member States and third countries. She was actively involved in several Eurojust working groups, with a particular emphasis on asset recovery, money laundering, corruption and conflicts of jurisdiction.\n\nRita began her career with a multidisciplinary approach, handling civil, criminal and family cases before specialising in criminal investigations. She led numerous complex investigations into fraud and tax fraud at the Lisbon Department for Criminal Investigation and Prosecution (2007–2012).\n\nBetween 2012 and 2020, Rita served at the Central Department for Criminal Investigation and Prosecution (DCIAP), a division of Portugal’s Public Prosecution Service responsible for investigating highly complex and organised crime. During her time at DCIAP, she was involved in large-scale economic and financial crime investigations, as well as anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML-CTF).\n\nRita has published three papers on asset recovery and international cooperation.\n\nShe holds a law degree from the University of Coimbra.",[31,100],"62149","rita-simoes",[],[29],[31],{"id":768,"status":6,"sort":769,"user_created":8,"date_created":770,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":448,"first_name":771,"last_name":772,"position":773,"phone":774,"email":775,"image":776,"cv":777,"category":97,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":778,"nid":780,"slug":781,"function":782,"country":783,"directorate":784,"hidden":32},705,9,"2025-03-27T21:21:44.000Z","Oscar","Solorzano","Head, Latin America ICAR","+51 977 187 775","oscar.solorzano@baselgovernance.org","4f3c43e4-ae3d-40c0-8fd8-ae56368f21a0","Oscar Solórzano is the Head of Latin America for the Basel Institute's International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) and the Institute's legal representative in Peru.\n\nSince joining ICAR in 2012, Oscar has worked on a range of high-profile international corruption and asset recovery cases in Peru and across Latin America. Working with judicial, prosecutorial and law enforcement authorities, he helps to develop and execute strategies to trace illicit assets laundered to foreign jurisdictions, including seizing and confiscating the proceeds of the crime.\n\nIn particular, he gives advice on the application of non-conviction-based confiscation laws as strategies for the international recovery of assets. He also provides legal advice around mutual legal assistance in criminal matters. Oscar regularly represents the Basel Institute as a speaker at international seminars and conferences on anti-money laundering, anti-corruption, international cooperation and asset recovery.\n\nPrior to joining the Basel Institute, Oscar was working as a research fellow and as teaching staff for a course on economic criminal law at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. While working in Geneva, he was involved in several publications and research projects concerning the corruption of public officials, asset recovery, money laundering, confiscation and corporate liability of legal entities. This exposure led him to subsequently undertake a doctoral thesis in 2009 entitled “The international asset recovery of illicit assets of high-ranking public officials” at the University of Geneva.\n\nHe holds a law degree plus a Master of Law in International Relations from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He was admitted to the Peruvian bar in 2019 after gaining a second law degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, where he occasionally lectures on matters of asset recovery, mutual legal assistance and financial crime. He speaks fluent English, Spanish, Italian, French and Portuguese.",[31,779,45],"Peru office","65","oscar-solorzano",[],[168,29],[31],{"id":786,"status":6,"sort":787,"user_created":8,"date_created":770,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":89,"first_name":788,"last_name":789,"position":790,"phone":791,"email":792,"image":793,"cv":794,"category":97,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":795,"nid":796,"slug":797,"function":798,"country":799,"directorate":800,"hidden":32},706,10,"Jonathan","Spicer","Head, Legal ICAR","+41 61 205 55 37","jonathan.spicer@baselgovernance.org","c381306f-deda-46c6-9f73-8cdc17391f95","Jonathan Spicer is Head of Legal at the Basel Institute's International Centre for Asset Recovery. He was promoted in 2024, having served as Senior Specialist, Asset Recovery from October 2017. He is a barrister specialised in asset recovery, financial crime and international co-operation.\n\nBetween 1997 and 2014, Jonathan was at the independent Bar prosecuting and defending in cases involving serious and organised crime, fraud, money laundering and the proceeds of crime. In 2011 he was recognised in the Legal 500 as being a leading junior in criminal work that “calmly and patiently deals with substantial matters clearly and with an eye for detail”. He was appointed by the Crown Prosecution Service as a specialist advocate in serious and organised crime, fraud and proceeds of crime at the highest level.\n\nHe joined the Crown Prosecution Service as a Specialist Prosecutor and Crown Advocate in 2014. Working in the CPS International Justice and Organised Crime Division, he pioneered a new roving role in international asset recovery, primarily focussed on European jurisdictions. Within this role he provided advice to domestic and overseas prosecutors on securing the freezing of criminal assets and subsequent confiscation in international cases. Having developed networks of judicial, prosecutorial and law enforcement contacts across Europe and through the promotion of using video conferencing technology, more assets were recovered from overseas and an increase in requests for assistance from overseas authorities.\n\nJonathan represented the UK and the CPS at international conferences speaking on international cooperation and asset recovery, as well as attending EU ARO and CARIN steering group meetings. His experience includes cases involving assets frozen under the EU misappropriations sanctions and he latterly covered the CPS liaison prosecutor role for the United Arab Emirates.\n\nJonathan is a contributing editor to a leading textbook on consumer and trading standards law, where he edits the chapter on criminal enforcement including asset recovery.",[31,100],"50","jonathan-spicer",[],[29],[31],{"id":802,"status":6,"sort":803,"user_created":8,"date_created":804,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":330,"first_name":805,"last_name":806,"position":193,"phone":334,"email":807,"image":808,"cv":809,"category":100,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":810,"nid":811,"slug":812,"function":813,"country":814,"directorate":815,"hidden":32},791,97,"2025-03-27T21:22:39.000Z","Taradhinta","Suryandari","taradhinta.suryandari@baselgovernance.org","8e393f61-5c1b-48c9-8bc6-b82e2b380708","Taradhinta Suryandari joined the Basel Institute on Governance in June 2021 and is currently Programme Manager for the Green Corruption programme.\n\nIn her early career in development assistance, she worked as a research assistant for various on-campus research projects focusing on human rights, non-violent action, and disaster reconstruction. She supported both the research and administrative aspects of these projects.\n\nPrior to joining the Basel Institute, Tara worked as a Program Assistant for the USAID-funded CEGAH project, supporting programmes on corruption surveys, CSO monitoring on corruption prevention strategies, and investigative journalism. She also supported the project on administrative-related tasks, monitoring and evaluation (M&E), and communications. \n\nTara holds a Bachelor of Political Science (International Relations) from Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.",[100],"59272","taradhinta-suryandari",[136],[29],[31,263],{"id":817,"status":6,"sort":818,"user_created":8,"date_created":804,"user_updated":37,"date_updated":819,"first_name":820,"last_name":821,"position":822,"phone":15,"email":823,"image":824,"cv":825,"category":45,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":826,"nid":827,"slug":828,"function":829,"country":830,"directorate":831,"hidden":32},792,98,"2025-07-13T12:44:22.000Z","Chris","Sutton","Team Leader, Tanzania","chris.sutton@baselgovernance.org","a81a38b0-cf1f-4975-b949-662bd2bd0135","Chris joined the Basel Institute on Governance's International Centre for Asset Recovery as a Senior Investigations and Asset Recovery Specialist in April 2020 and is currently Team Leader, Tanzania. \n\nChris is a former senior UK law enforcement officer and detective with 30 years' experience, the vast majority of which has been focused on combating transnational organised crime. His final policing role was as Deputy Head of Tasking for the UK National Crime Agency, where he was the Senior Manager responsible for tasking all investigations, operations and intelligence collection activities conducted globally.\n\nExtensive international experience has included establishing and mentoring an anti-corruption unit in Afghanistan and being deployed to the USA as a liaison officer embedded within the US Naval Criminal Investigative Service, investigating transnational organised crime with a maritime nexus. Chris was then deployed to the Middle East, where he was the UK lead responsible for establishing an international and inter-agency intelligence fusion centre investigating the most significant criminal and terrorist groups operating in the Middle East, Asia and Africa.\n\nImmediately prior to joining the International Centre for Asset Recovery, Chris was again based in Afghanistan as a senior anti-corruption consultant with the United Nations Development Programme, where he supported the development of the Anti-Corruption Justice Centre. \n\nChris holds an MSc (with distinction) in Financial Investigation from the University of Central Lancashire, UK, a BA (Hons) in Applied Investigation from the University of Sunderland, UK, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Transnational Organised Crime from the University of Staffordshire, UK. He has lectured in countering transnational organised crime at Liverpool John Moores University, UK, and the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Germany.",[45],"23869","chris-sutton",[],[28],[31],{"id":833,"status":6,"sort":20,"user_created":10,"date_created":834,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":835,"first_name":836,"last_name":837,"position":317,"phone":20,"email":838,"image":839,"cv":840,"category":45,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":841,"nid":842,"slug":843,"function":20,"country":844,"directorate":845,"hidden":32},825,"2026-04-23T22:19:19.000Z","2026-05-20T21:28:35.000Z","Russell","Thomas","russell.thomas@baselgovernance.org","093deab6-8883-4816-9491-18fa36db5083","Russell Thomas joined the Basel Institute on Governance in August 2025 as Senior Specialist, Financial Investigations. Russell is based in Ghana, where he is working with anti-corruption and economic crime authorities. He is delivering a programme of our International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) to strengthen the investigation and prosecution of corruption cases, and support legal and policy reform to develop Ghana’s asset recovery regime.\n\nAs a law enforcement practioner Russell comes with more than 32 years of professional experience working in law enforcement operations and intelligence in the UK and across numerous international jurisdictions.\n\nBefore joining the Basel Institute in August 2025, Russell was working for the United Kingdom National Crime Agency as an International Liaison officer based in Karachi, Pakistan. Amongst other portfolios Russell had a specific focus on developing bilateral cooperation to support anti-money laundering and serious organised crime investigations.\n\nFrom 2017 to 2019 Russell worked as an International Liaision Officer in Afghanistan, providing specialist advice to the office of the Attorney General in establishing an Office of Asset Recovery.\n\nHis work combatting transnational organised crime has included deployments in Lithuania, Mali and Ireland.\n\nHe previously worked in Counter Terrorism Intelligence developing a deeper understanding of illcit finance flows supporting global terrorist organisations.\n\nRussell gained experience in capability delivery whilst an instructor within United Kingdom National Police Training, delivering a criminal law syllabus to probationary officers within the England & Wales Police service. This included investigative interviewing, an area he remains passionate about.",[45],"62503","russell-thomas",[28],[31],{"id":847,"status":6,"sort":848,"user_created":8,"date_created":849,"user_updated":37,"date_updated":850,"first_name":851,"last_name":852,"position":59,"phone":334,"email":853,"image":854,"cv":855,"category":100,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":856,"nid":857,"slug":858,"function":859,"country":860,"directorate":861,"hidden":32},795,100,"2025-03-27T21:22:41.000Z","2025-07-13T12:44:49.000Z","Tom","Walugembe","tom.walugembe@baselgovernance.org","88567ba7-08b5-453a-a77f-e7dc7c6e0c86","Tom Walugembe joined the Basel Institute on Governance in January 2020 and is currently Senior Specialist, Asset Recovery at the International Centre for Asset Recovery.\n\nAfter qualifying as lawyer in Uganda in 2010, Tom joined the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, where he has recently been working as a Senior State Attorney. \n\nThroughout his career as a prosecutor, Tom prosecuted numerous serious crimes including murder, manslaughter, robbery and others. Between 2014 and 2019, Tom focused on the prosecution of economic crimes. He prosecuted several high-profile corruption cases. In 2016, Tom secured the first money laundering conviction in Uganda in the case of Uganda v Serwamba David Musoke and Others.\n\nTom also secured various restraining orders, compensation orders and confiscation orders against properties that were proceeds of crime, leading to the recovery of illicit wealth worth millions of dollars.\n\nTom holds an LLB from Makerere University in Uganda and an LLM in Computer and Communications Law from Queen Mary University of London. Tom is also a certified Privacy Professional with the International Association of Privacy Professionals.",[31,22,100],"19870","tom-walugembe",[26],[28],[31],{"id":863,"status":6,"sort":864,"user_created":8,"date_created":865,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":11,"first_name":352,"last_name":866,"position":647,"phone":867,"email":868,"image":869,"cv":870,"category":97,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":871,"nid":872,"slug":873,"function":874,"country":875,"directorate":876,"hidden":32},707,11,"2025-03-27T21:21:45.000Z","Wilson","+41 61 205 56 78","peter.wilson@baselgovernance.org","5458f919-d652-4758-930a-a1758ce3d47a","Peter Wilson joined the Basel Institute on Governance in December 2019 and is currently Co-Head of Programmes for the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR). As part of this role Peter jointly leads a cross-cutting programme management platform initiative at the Basel Institute and is a member of the Extended Management Team.\n\nHe has more than 10 years’ experience managing the delivery of complex development programmes in anti-corruption, local governance, and civil society strengthening for non-governmental and private sector organisations. Peter has managed programmes for international development partners – including DANIDA, DFID, EU, GIZ, SDC, USAID and the World Bank – in East Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, and Central and South East Asia.\n\nPrior to joining the Basel Institute on Governance, Peter was based in Kampala, Uganda, managing the Strengthening Uganda’s Anti-corruption Response Technical Advisory Facility (SUGAR TAF), a £14 million DFID- and EU-funded anti-corruption project implemented by Adam Smith International (ASI) in partnership with the Basel Institute on Governance. During his time with ASI, Peter managed a number of projects in Tunisia and Jordan, including the delivery of mentorship and institutional development support to strengthen the investigation and prosecution of corruption related cases at the Anti-Corruption Justice Centre (ACJC) in Kabul, Afghanistan. \n\nPrior to working with ASI, Peter worked with international NGOs – including Concern Worldwide, International Rescue Committee and People in Need – in Afghanistan and Myanmar. \n\nPeter holds a LLB in Law and a MA in Conflict, Security and Development from King’s College London.",[31,100],"19321","peter-wilson",[363,136],[29],[31],{"id":878,"status":6,"sort":879,"user_created":8,"date_created":880,"user_updated":37,"date_updated":881,"first_name":882,"last_name":883,"position":14,"phone":15,"email":884,"image":885,"cv":886,"category":19,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":887,"nid":888,"slug":889,"function":890,"country":891,"directorate":892,"hidden":32},797,102,"2025-03-27T21:22:42.000Z","2025-07-13T12:45:29.000Z","Rudolf","Wyss","rudolf.wyss@baselgovernance.org","9715d5e8-d600-4726-b52c-128ecfcc8e47","Rudolf Wyss is a lawyer by training and is admitted to the Bar in Switzerland. He has 35 years of experience in Swiss Federal law enforcement, having served with the Federal Office for Police in matters of International Police Cooperation, and later investigated cases of illegal dealing in drugs, arms and money forgery at the Swiss Federal Prosecutor's Office.\n\nBefore joining the International Centre for Asset Recovery, Rudolf was Head of Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA) and Extradition in Switzerland and Deputy Director of the Swiss Federal Office of Justice (Federal Ministry of Justice and Police), where he worked from 1996 to his retirement from federal service at the end of 2011. During that time he had the lead responsibility for several historic asset recovery cases, most notably the Marcos case and the Abacha case. Rudolf has also played a key role in the revisions of the Swiss MLA-legislation. He comes with vast and demonstrated experience in negotiating MLA-treaties.\n\nFurthermore, Rudolf has published widely on topics pertaining to international mutual legal assistance in criminal matters.\n\nHe advises foreign jurisdictions on asset recovery cases with a particular focus on countries such as Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein, Germany, as well as on asset recovery cases in the context of the International Criminal Court.\n\nHe has been working as Senior Asset Recovery Consultant for ICAR since early 2012.",[19],"56","rudolf-wyss",[],[29],[31],{"id":894,"status":6,"sort":895,"user_created":8,"date_created":896,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":536,"first_name":897,"last_name":898,"position":193,"phone":334,"email":899,"image":900,"cv":901,"category":100,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":902,"nid":903,"slug":904,"function":905,"country":906,"directorate":907,"hidden":32},800,105,"2025-03-27T21:22:44.000Z","Lala","Zinkevych","lala.zinkevych@baselgovernance.org","99e3d100-891f-4eba-90de-b6f8030abefc","Lala Zinkevych joined the Basel Institute on Governance in October 2024 as a Programme Manager. She brings over 15 years of experience leading governance and human rights programmes across Ukraine and Eastern Europe.\n\nBefore joining the Basel Institute, Lala served as a Programme and Policy Adviser with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), where she led large-scale protection and recovery programmes in Ukraine. Previously, she managed multimillion democracy support programmes at the National Democratic Institute and advised the World Bank’s Governance Global Practice in Washington, D.C., with a focus on anti-corruption and justice sector reforms in Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus.\n\nFrom 2015 to 2018, Lala supported key governance, anti-corruption and information security reforms as part of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine’s Reforms Office.\n\nLala holds a Master of Science in Social Policy from the University of Oxford.",[100],"62126","lala-zinkevych",[136],[29],[31,263],1780855219073]