Anne Lugon-Moulin is an economist by background and holds an MA in Economic Development from the University of Nottingham. She has started her career with the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) where she completed an extensive project on regulatory assessment reform applied to all federal authorization procedures for private enterprises in Switzerland.

She then joined the NGO Transparency International in 1999 to establish the Swiss Chapter of Transparency International. She managed a wide portfolio on anti-corruption projects in Switzerland and with various partners abroad. Eager to discover other sides of the world reality, she gained humanitarian field experience by working with the UN World Food Programme in Rwanda for two and a half years.

Thereafter she joined the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC) in 2003. She worked as Deputy Head of the Governance Division until July 2008.

Her fields of expertise are systemic anti-corruption approaches, governance reforms in developing and transition countries, assets recovery linked to development assistance, and local public finances. She has published several articles on corruption and development and is the author of the SDC anti-corruption strategy.

Anne regularly speaks at international gatherings and conferences on governance, corruption and the role of development assistance in asset recovery.

She is a member of the World Economic Forum Partnering Against Corruption Task Force.