With the departure of the former Director of ICAR, Jack D. Smith, and despite a number of potentially interesting dossiers received from candidates for this post, the Foundation Board decided to unite the management function of ICAR with the overall management of the Institute and to strengthen the secondary level of management responsibilities over time. Consequently, starting on 1 July 2007, the ICAR management was resumed by the Director of the Institute, Gretta Fenner.

Due to a substantial increase in activities, a considerable number of new staff was hired and joined the Institute during 2007:

• Zhanna Kozhamberdiyeva, PhD student and legal expert, joined on 1 February 2007
• Kaspar Fischer (Switzerland, 80%), IT expert, joined on 22 March 2007
• Alan Bacarese (UK, 100%), Sr. Asset Recovery Specialist on secondment from UK Crown Prosecution Service, joined on 1 May 2007
• Mirella Mahlstein (Switzerland, 20%), Research Assistant, joined on 1 July 2007
• Tom Lasich (US, 100%), Sr Asset Recovery Specialist, joined on 5 July 2007
• Annette Frey (Switzerland, 40&), Research assistant ICAR, from 1 July to 31 August 2007
• Keila Häusler (Brazil, 20-30%), Research assistant ICAR, joined on 1 October 2007
• Yara Esquivel Soto (Costa Rica, 100%), Asset Recovery Specialist, joined on 1 October 2007
• Peter Huppertz (Germany, 60%), IT and e-learning expert, joined on 1 October 2007
• Matthias Wilde (Switzerland, 50%), Administration and Project Assistance, joined on 15 October 2007

Furthermore, for 2008, the Institute succeeded in hiring Daniel Thelesklaf at 40% (increasing to 70% and more during 2008) to start with ICAR as Sr Asset Recovery Specialist on 1 January 2008, and in selecting a new PhD student for ICAR to prepare a PhD thesis under the supervision of Prof Anne Peters starting on 1 March 2008, to replace Zhanna Kozhamberdiyeva who will complete her PhD thesis in early 2008.

The Institute also continues to rely on external senior advisors for selected projects, in particular in the area of corporate anti-bribery compliance.