Knowledge Partner Session - Empowering whistleblowers: Strengthening protections in the fight against corruption. Presented by The National Whistleblower Center
Mar 25, 2025 | 10:30 AM - 12:00 PMKnowledge Partner Sessions (Auditorium)
Mar 25, 2025 | 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Knowledge Partner Sessions (Auditorium)
Description
Whistleblowers play a crucial role in the ongoing fight against corruption. Current trends in the U.S. highlight the urgent need for enhanced international whistleblower protections to enable NGOs and member states to effectively work with whistleblowers in prosecuting foreign bribery and money laundering cases. The session will discuss the legal framework needed to permit whistleblowers to play a key role in winning major anti-corruption cases.
Speakers
• Stephen Kohn, partner in the law firm of Kohn, Kohn and Colapinto and the Chairman for the Board of the National Whistleblower Center.
• Eliza Lockhart, Attorney and Research Fellow at the Centre for Finance and Security at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)
• María de los Ángeles Estrada, Lawyer, leading Transparency, Anti Corruption, and Digitalization Initiative in Mexico
• Christopher Wylie, whistleblower, exposing massive privacy violations by Facebook and Cambridge Analytica
• Eric Hylton, former Deputy of the IRS’s Criminal Investigation Division and head of International Operations.
• Emin Huseynov, human rights defender, journalist, and whistleblower-advocate.
