Knowledge Partner Sessions

(Auditorium) Infrastructure is critical to sustainable development: high-quality infrastructure attracts investment, creates jobs, and connects communities, contributing to poverty reduction and improved living standards. Sustainable and inclusive infrastructure also plays a pivotal role in addressing environmental challenges and responding to climate change. However, corruption in this vital sector poses a significant threat, hindering progress toward development, eroding public trust, and, in some cases, enabling serious human rights and environmental abuses. This panel will explore the role that Collective Action approaches, bringing together public and private sectors and civil society, can play in safeguarding infrastructure from corruption risks and increasing transparency and accountability. All Speakers:

(Auditorium) As we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Anti-Bribery Convention and debate measures for its effective implementation, it is timely to put a spotlight on the role of enablers in facilitating corruption and financial crime. Professionals such as accountants, lawyers, and real estate agents should play a crucial role in detecting illicit financial flows. Governments have deployed various strategies to address this complex issue, with varying success. This session will bring new evidence on the role of enablers in facilitating cross-border corruption, spotlight recent efforts to uncover systemic loopholes, and debate needed reforms with stakeholders with diverse mandates and perspectives. Panel: Moderator: Julia Wallace, Deputy Editor in Chief at the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) Speakers: • Auwal Musa Rafsanjani, Executive Director of the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre – CISLAC (Transparency International Nigeria) • Kean Yong Wong, Financial Action Task Force (FATF) • Lisa Kilduff, Policy Analyst at the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) • Maíra Martini, Interim Head of Policy and Advocacy at Transparency International • Sara Carnegie, Director of the Legal Policy and Research Unit at the International Bar Association (IBA) Speakers:

(Auditorium) Eliminating corruption is crucial for leveraging the public and private investment needed for achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The 25th anniversary of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention presents an opportunity to take stock of the measures in place to avoid that our scarce resources are diverted away from their intended use. In line with the priority actions outlined in the Business at OECD Zero Corruption Manifesto, this event brings together practitioners from the private sector and the OECD to discuss how we can: • Change the way we think about corruption • Create meaningful tools and take impactful measures to fight corruption • Act together globally to eradicate corruption AGENDA 14h30 Opening remarks • Hanni Rosenbaum, Executive Director, Business at OECD 14h35 Keynote Speech: Our race to zero corruption • Nicola Allocca, Anticorruption Committee Chair, Business at OECD 14h40 Panel 1: Changing the way we think about corruption The right tone from the top is an essential condition to put in place the rule #1-3 of the Business at OECD Zero Corruption Manifesto Speakers: • Massimiliano Burelli, CEO, Cogne Acciai Speciali • Maurizio Quintavalle, Head of Marsh Advisory Europe, Marsh Advisory Srl Moderator: • Delia Ferreira Rubio, former President of Transparency International 15h00 Panel 2: Creating meaningful tools and taking impactful measures to fight corruption Speakers: • María de las Mercedes Archimbal, Chief Compliance Officer, YPF • Roberto Fiore, Partner, LP Avvocati • Reynaldo Goto, Chief Compliance Officer, BRF Moderator: • Delia Ferreira Rubio, former President of Transparency International 15h20 Panel 3: Acting together globally to eliminate corruption • Katie Simmonds, COO, Sports Integrity Global Alliance (SIGA) • Scott Hanson, Director, Policy & Global Engagement, IFAC • Jesper Johnsøn, Deputy Head of Division, Anti-Corruption and Integrity in Government, Directorate for Public Governance, OECD Moderator: • Delia Ferreira Rubio, former President of Transparency International 15h45 Q&A session 15h55 Closing remarks • Nicolas Pinaud, Acting Head of Division, OECD Anti-Corruption Division All Speakers:

(Auditorium) This session will discuss the main outcomes of the recent anti-corruption conferences organised by the World Bank, OGP and UNODC, as well as the main goals of the conferences organised by the OECD and TI. It will also be an opportunity to discuss the different nature of each of these conferences and identify ways for strengthening coordination among them. Speakers:

(Auditorium) Alexei Navalny's death highlighted the extreme risks faced by those anti-corruption practitioners who put themselves in harm's way by pursuing accountability, transparency and democratic principles. Through the eyes of front-line activists and journalists from Malaysia to Malta, this panel examines the necessity and practical solutions required to protect practitioners from physical harm. Aside from basic human rights and free speech concerns, a society's inability to shield truth tellers has a corrosive effect on its business community, investment climate, rule of law, and quality of life. At a time when the world is mulling such issues after Navalny's terrible fate, panelists provide insight on how most effectively to advocate for the rights of activists and journalists to do such vital work. Agenda Moderator, Louise Shelley, Omer L. and Nancy Hirst Endowed Chair and a University Professor at George Mason University, United States i. Julia Wallace, Deputy Editor in Chief Editorial Management, Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), United Kingdom ii. Cynthia Gabriel, Founder of C4 antio-corruption NGO in Malaysia, and Senior Anti-Corruption Advisor for the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), Malaysia iii. Laurent Richard, Founder and executive director, Forbidden Stories, France iv. Eka Gigauri, Executive Director at Transparency International Georgia Speakers:

(Auditorium) Traditionally, the role of companies in procuring infrastructure contracts was perceived as complying with national and international standards. They were cast in the role of ‘passive’ rather than ‘active’ agents. This was further reinforced by a perception that they were part of the problem in one of the most corrupt business sectors, rather than part of the solution. In simple terms, too often, companies were seen as the ‘corruptor’ and the public sector as the ‘corrupted’. CoST is a partner in the project ‘Galvanizing the Private Sector as Partners in Combating Corruption’ (GPS) and is working closely with OECD to develop and implement the Infrastructure Anti-Corruption Toolbox (I ACT). This session will demonstrate how engaging companies in a public, private dialogue, a key element of I ACT, can improve the integrity of infrastructure investments, build trust and create business opportunities. We will showcase examples including from Uganda and Ukraine that will identify a range of integrity risks and examples of measures used to galvanise the private sector as partners in tackling corruption and inefficiency. All speakers:

(Auditorium) Conscious efforts to enhance inclusion, diversity and gender equality in the workplace have been found to improve business integrity in various ways, including fewer instances of misconduct and stronger governance structures. The reverse is true as well – greater integrity, transparency and accountability in the private sector frequently boosts inclusion, diversity and gender equality in the workplace. Nonetheless, the gender dimensions of business integrity remain insufficiently understood and are rarely integrated into corporate compliance frameworks. So, how can compliance and integrity leaders incorporate a gender perspective into their work? And how can integrity contribute to fostering a healthy company culture that reduces harassment and promotes mental wellbeing in the workplace? This session will discuss the power of gender equality, diversity and inclusion – particularly among business leaders – to strengthen corporate governance and foster a culture of integrity beyond compliance. All speakers: