Session 8: Tackling strategic corruption and foreign interference

Mar 27, 2025 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Main Room

Description

Strategic corruption is a key tool leveraged by foreign powers and can render significant damage to the economy, sovereignty and national security of target states. Moreover, strategic corruption often plays out as an enabler and an amplifier for foreign interference activities across diverse channels such as political financing, elite capture, election interference, or economic coercion. From the unique perspectives of business, government and civil society, this session will explore existing practices of strategic corruption, ranging from revolving doors, to political finance or economic coercion, and unpack the differences and similarities with standard corruption practices. Informed by the devastating impact on businesses and governments, this session will provide an opportunity to identify practical solutions grounded on transparency and integrity to better tackle this pressing corruption challenge and adapt the anticorruption toolbox to today’s more challenging geopolitical environment.