51. Thomas Stelzer on the Panel on International Financial Accountability, Transparency & Integrity
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51. Thomas Stelzer on the Panel on International Financial Accountability, Transparency & Integrity Welcome to a new episode of Kickback - The Global Anti-Corruption Podcast. What you are about to hear is an interview between Matthew Stephenson and Thomas Stelzer. The interview takes a deep dive into the recent report by the UN high-level panel on international financial accountability, transparency & integrity (FACTI). We link to it in the show notes so can follow along with the specifics. The two also mention UNCAC. To make sure that everybody can follow along, this means the UN convention against corruption. As you heard in the intro snippet: One of the concrete issues that the report demands are more research on (anti-)corruption and a comprehensive repository to make it easier to find corruption-related research. Good news is that something very close to the repository that Thomas has in mind exists already. One of the benefits of the podcast is that we get to learn about all the great work by the different organizations working on anti-corruption. This way we found out that Global Integrity in collaboration with the Interdisciplinary Corruption Research has recently published a The (Anti-)Corruption Corpus for Corruption Researchers & Practitioners. We link to it in the show notes. If you want to get such updates, we invite you to follow us on Twitter @KickbackGAP where we shared the release note of the database. But now without further ado, here is the interview. Thomas Stelzer is the dean of the international anti-corruption academy (IACA) and panelist of the UN high-level panel on international financial accountability, transparency & integrity (FACTI). Thomas outlines how his extensive experience going back to being closely involved in the process of drafting and implementing UNCAC led him to his current position and his work for FACTI. The two discuss the overall purpose and goals of the recently released Report of the High-Level Panel on International Financial Accountability, Transparency & Integrity for Achieving the 2030 Agenda (links to full report and summary can be found below). They also touch on a few concrete points in more detail, such as the standardization of foreign bribery legislation mentioned, what type of beneficial ownership registries are most effective, and the challenge of achieving fairness in international asset recovery. Thomas reiterates the demand voiced in the report for more academic research to substantiate policy-making. Finally, he outlines the next steps to make sure that the report is implemented. References: FACTI report and summary can be found here: https://www.factipanel.org/ The (Anti-)Corruption Corpus for Corruption Researchers & Practitioners https://library.globalintegrity.org/
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