Dr Migai Akech is a law researcher and teacher based at the University of Nairobi, and an advocate of the High Court of Kenya.  He was educated at the
University of Nairobi, Cambridge University and New York University (NYU) School of Law, where he was a Hauser Global Scholar.   He teaches administrative law, public procurement law, property law, law and development, and international economic law.  He has also taught at the New York University School of Law, the University of the Western Cape and the University of Pretoria.

He has substantial experience in the drafting of policy and law, and is drafting a land policy for the Government of Kenya.  He is also engaged as a consultant by the National Council for Law Reporting, Kenya, where he edits the Council's land and environmental law reports.  

He has published widely on public procurement, privatization, judicial review, biotechnology, trade and development, and the protection of customary land rights. His research interests are administrative law, the political economy of regulation, property law, and trade and development.  His current research focuses on law and democracy (participation and accountability) in the contracting State in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Dan Assaf is a doctoral candidate (direct entry) at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. Dan Assaf’s research focuses on the regulatory and governance mechanisms used to address the problem of critical information infrastructure protection. His research interests lie in the intersection of law, economics and security, with emphasis on homeland security and information-security.

Dan Assaf is an adjunct faculty member at Ryerson University’s School of Business Management, where he teaches the course Law of the Marketplace. He received his LL.B. and B.A. (economics) in 2003, both from Tel Aviv University and was called to the Israeli Bar in 2004.

Julia Black is a Reader of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She completed her first degree and her DPhil at Oxford University, and joined the LSE Law Department in 1994.  Her primary research interest is regulation. In 2001-2 she received a British Academy / Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship to develop her work on regulation. She has written extensively in the area, and also advised policy makers, consumer bodies, think tanks and regulators in the UK and overseas on issues of institutional design, regulatory policy and implementation. She is also a research associate of the ESRC Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR), based at LSE.

Monica Blagescu manages the Accountability Programme at the One World Trust. The Programme aims to generate wider commitment to principles and values of accountability; increase the accountability of organisations to those they affect, and strengthen the capacity of civil society to better engage in decision-making processes.

Monica has eight years of practical and research experience on good governance, accountability at national and transnational levels, humanitarian emergencies and security sector reform. Most recently, she delivered practical research, evaluations and policy recommendations on accountability, partnerships, and civil society engagement in policy processes for the Open Society Institute, Overseas Development Institute, CIVICUS – World Alliance for Citizen Participation, and The Westminster Foundation for Democracy.

Before moving to the UK, Monica worked for the UNHCR Regional Centre for Emergency Training in International Humanitarian Response (Asia-Pacific) and the Peace and Governance Programme at the United Nations University Headquarters in Tokyo.

She is a member of the High-Level Panel on IMF Board Accountability; the Standard Reference Group of Humanitarian Accountability Partnership International; the Working Group on Quality Standards at the British Overseas NGOs for Development; and Working Group on Governance and Democracy at the Commonwealth Foundation.

Prof Edith Brown Weiss was appointed to the World Bank Inspection Panel in September 2002. She has taught and published widely on issues of international law and global policies, including environmental and compliance issues. She is the Francis Cabell Brown Professor of International Law at Georgetown University Law Center, where she has been on the faculty since 1978 and has directed international multi-disciplinary research projects.  Before Georgetown, she was a professor at Princeton University. Ms. Brown Weiss has won many prizes for her work, including the Elizabeth Haub prize from the Free University of Brussels and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) for international environmental law, and the 2003 American Bar Association Award in recognition of distinguished achievements in Environmental Law and Policy.  She has also received many awards for her books and articles.  She served as President of the American Society of International Law and as Associate General Counsel for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where she established the Division of International Law. Ms. Brown Weiss is a member of 10 editorial boards, including those of the American Journal of International Law and the Journal of International Economic Law.  She has been a board member, trustee, or advisor for the Japanese Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, the Cousteau Society, the Center for International Environmental Law, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, among others.  Ms. Brown Weiss has been a Special Legal Advisor to the North American Commission on Environmental Cooperation.  She has been a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences' Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources; the Water Science and Technology Board; and the Committee on Sustainable Water Supplies in the Middle East.  She is an elected member of the American Law Institute, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law.  Ms. Brown Weiss received a bachelor's of arts degree from Stanford University with Great Distinction, an LL.B. (J.D.) from Harvard Law School, a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California at Berkeley, and an Honorary Doctor of Laws from Chicago-Kent College of Law.

Richard Calland is a founding member and Executive Director of the Open Democracy Advice Centre (ODAC) in Cape Town and Programme Manager of the Economic Governance programme at IDASA where he has worked since 1994 (heading its main governance programme, the Political Information & Monitoring Service from its inception in March 1995 until April 2003). His latest book Anatomy of South Africa: Who Holds the Power? was published in October 2006. He is co-editor of an earlier ODAC publication – The Right to Know, the Right to Live: Access to Information & Socio-economic Justice (2002) – and also of Thabo Mbeki’s World: The Politics & Ideology of the South African President (2002). Calland is a political columnist for the Mail & Guardian newspaper. He is a member of the International Task Team on Transparency of the Institute for Public Dialogue at Columbia University, directed by Professor Joseph Stiglitz. He also consults extensively around the world; in recent years, he has advised on transparency policy, access to information law and anti-corruption strategies to the governments of Jamaica, Bolivia, Peru and Nicaragua, as a consultant to the Carter Center. Prior to coming to South Africa in 1994, Calland practised at the London Bar for seven years, specialising in Public Law. He has an LLM in Comparative Constitutional Law from the University of Cape Town (1994) and a Diploma in World Politics from the London School of Economics.

Anke Draude completed her degree in cultural sciences in 2005 at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt(Oder). Currently, she is working at the Research Centre (SFB) 700 “Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood” at the Free University of Berlin. As a member of the A1 project “Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood: Contributions to the Formation of Theories” she is concentrating on the question of how well European patterns of thought can be applied to non-OECD areas, and on the concepts of neopatrimonialism and clientelism from a comparative perspective.

Anke Draude’s master thesis in cultural sciences deals with the implicit eurocentrism of the discourse about corruption in developing and transition countries. It discusses the drawbacks and opportunities of a reflective exposure to the inescapable reference to modernity in developmental studies (Draude, Anke (forthcoming): Der blinde Fleck der Entwicklungstheorie: Von der Unüberwindbarkeit der Modernisierungstheorie im Korruptionsdiskurs. Münster: Lit-Verlag). 

Furthermore, Anke Draude developed the subject-matter of her talk at the Non-State Actors conference in Basel in a Working Paper which has recently been published. It is available on the website of the Research Centre (SFB) 700 (DRAUDE, Anke (2007): Focus Non-Western Forms of Governance: In Favour of an Equivalence Functionalist Observation of Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood. SFB-Governance Working Paper Series, No. 2, DFG Research Center (SFB) 700, Berlin, January 2007).

Manfred Elsig joined the World Trade Institute (WTI) as a senior research fellow. He is affiliated through the project with the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva. He studied at the Universities of Bern and Bordeaux and earned a degree in political science in 1997. He worked from 1997-1999 at the Swiss Federal Office for Foreign Economic Affairs. He later joined the Political Science Institute of the University of Zurich and received his PhD (Dr. phil) in 2002. Before joining the WTI, he worked for UBS financial services group and as a personal advisor to the Minister of Economy of Canton Zurich. He taught at the University of Zurich, at the University of Berne and at the London School of Economics and Political Science courses on IPE, trade diplomacy, globalization and European integration. His research focuses primarily on the politics of international trade, European trade policy, US-EU relations, and private actors in global politics.

Prof Till Förster is Professor for Social Anthropology at the University of Basel. He has held this position since 2001. Previously, he has been Professor and Director of the Africa Center of the University of Beyreuth and Associate Professor for Social Anthropology at the University of Cologne.

Prior to pursuing the academic career, Mr Förster has gathered extensive experience in development work through his involvement in a variety of projects in Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, or Niger, which dealt with such diverse issues as the implementation of biogas plants, irrigated rice cultivation, land use and land ownership, or integrated rural and urban development.

His particular research interests lie in the analysis of statehood, the risks of the failing states, and the growing importance of non-state actors, as well as questions of cultural identity and new forms of cultural interaction, participation and representation in African societies.

Fredrik Galtung is the chief executive of Tiri. Tiri is an NGO created in 2003 out of the recognition that the time for talking and raising awareness about corruption has now moved on to the determined reduction and control of corruption by the application of practical knowledge and skills. Fredrik has been called “one of the world’s leading innovators in the fields of public integrity and anti-corruption.” Over the past 10 years, Fredrik has consulted on strategic corruption control in more than forty countries, working with governments, international organisations (Council of Europe, World Bank, UN secretariat, UNDP, UNESCO, Unicef, UN Office of Drugs and Crime, etc.), several companies, foundations and governments and development agencies.

Fredrik is considered one of the foremost experts on measurements and metrics pertaining to corruption, fraud and organizational integrity. His expertise in this matter and strategic corruption control has been sought by the UN Secretariat, the World Bank, the Offices of the Presidents Nicaragua, Mexico, Benin, Mali, Nigeria, the Philippines as well as by specialised anti-corruption agencies, civil society groups, academics and development organisations.

Fredrik began his international career as the founding staff member and Head of Research of Transparency International (TI), the world’s first global anti-corruption NGO, with national chapters in some 100 countries. Amongst others, he was responsible for developing the Bribe Payers Index (BPI). Another of his innovations has been the Global Corruption Barometer (with Gallup International).

Fredrik is the founder of the Public Integrity Education Network facilitated jointly by Tiri and the Central European University. In 2003 he was a founding faculty member of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government's course on “Corruption Control and Organisational Integrity,” a teaching assignment that continues. Fredrik has lectured and taught courses at INSEAD, Cambridge, Oxford, London Business School, London School of Economics, University of Sussex, Tel Aviv University, American University in Beirut, Central European University, Harvard, the Free University of Berlin, University of Hawaii, Tsinghua University, Hong Kong University, among others.

Fredrik has edited several volumes and articles on corruption. He is fluent in six languages. He is a Norwegian national.

Laurent Goetschel, born in 1965, received his Ph.D. from the Graduate Institute of International Relations (IUHEI) at the University of Geneva (1993). He worked as a journalist with the Swiss service of the Associated Press (AP), conducted research with the IUHEI's Program for Strategic and International Security Studies (1990-1992) and with the Graduate Institute of Public Administration (IDHEAP) at the University of Lausanne (1992-1995), where he was also a lecturer (1994-1995). After having served as a visiting scholar with the Center for European Studies at Harvard University (1995-1996) he joined the Swiss Peace Foundation (swisspeace) as a research analyst. He has taught Swiss foreign policy in the Institute of Political Science at the University of Berne from 1997 to 2003 and directed a Swiss National Science Foundation's research programme on Swiss foreign policy from 1997 to 2000. Since then he has been director of swisspeace and professor of political science at the Europe Institute of the University of Basle. From 2003 to 2004 he served as the political advisor to the Swiss minister for foreign affairs Micheline Calmy-Rey.

Stéphane Guéneau has a degree in economics from Montpellier University, France. Prior to joining IDDRI (Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations) as Programme Manager in 2003, he worked as the Trade and Environment Specialist for Solagral, a French NGO. In addition, he has acted as consultant for several international, regional and French organizations. Mr. Guéneau experienced a series of training and research activities on governance, trade, agriculture and forest issues, specifically in Brazil and West Africa. From 1999 through 2000, he was visiting Professor at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, Centre for Post-Graduation Studies on Agriculture and Development. From 1999 through 2003, he organized various research and training activities in Benin, Burkina Faso and Mali. Since 2003, he has participated in the French National Group on Tropical Forest, and has coordinated the redaction of the French White Paper on tropical forests. Mr. Guéneau is currently involving in various research and cooperation projects on forest standards and certification, particularly in the Brazilian Amazon region. He actively participates in a research programme called “Governing through standards. Standardization devices in the governance of sustainable development”, funded by the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche. He has published various articles on trade and sustainable development, forest and governance.

Peter Hägel has studied Political Science at Freie Universität Berlin, Columbia University and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. Since 2006, he is Assistant Professor in the Department of International and Comparative Politics at The American University of Paris. His research concentrates on transformations of sovereignty and the free movement of persons and capital, particularly within the context of the European Union and globalization. His latest publications include: States and Transnational Actors: Who’s Influencing Whom? In: European Journal of International Relations 11/4 (2005, with Pauline Peretz), pp. 467-193; Regieren ohne Souveränität? Neue Perspektiven zum Wandel einer umstrittenen Institution, in: Berliner Journal für Soziologie 15/1 (2005), pp. 121-130; L’incertaine mondialisation du contrôle: La France et l’Allemagne dans la lutte contre la corruption et le blanchiment, in: Déviance et Société 29/3 (2005), pp. 243-258.

Born in 1944 in Basel, Switzerland, she took her Master's degree in Sociology, Political Science and Psychoanalysis in 1971 and her PhD in Sociology in 1975 at the Justus-Liebig University of Giessen. In 1981 she obtained the habilitation in Political Science at the University of Münster. She was Professor of Political and Administrative Science at the University of Konstanz, and held a chair for political science at the University of Bielefeld (1990-1995). From 1995 to 1999 she was Professor of Public Policy in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute (RSCAS: Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies) in Florence/Italy, and from 1999-2003 Director of the Max Planck Project Group ‘Common Goods: Law, Politics and Economics’, now Max Planck Institute ‘Research on Common Goods’, in Bonn/Germany. Since 2003 she has been at the RSCAS where she holds the Chair of Political Science jointly with the Department of Political and Social Sciences, and is Cluster Leader in the New Gov Integrated Project funded by the Commission under FP 6.

Her research focuses on new modes of governance in Europe, on the deregulation and re-regulation of the utilities' sectors, institutional theory and changing legislative processes in the European Union. She has been awarded (jointly with Helmut Willke) the Leibniz Prize for scholarly excellence by the German Science Foundation (1994), and has been elected a regular member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (1995). From 1986-1995 she was a member of the Executive Committee of the German Association of Political Science, from 1987-1991 a delegate of the Council of the International Political Science Association and from 1996-1997 a member of Scientific Advisory Council on the Environment of the German Government.

Her main publications are in the fields of policy analysis and implementation research, comparative policy making, European policy-making processes, theories of institutional change and legislative processes, and regulation of the utilities. From 1991-1995 she worked as Chief Editor for the journal Politische Vierteljahresschrift.

Mohammad Aynul Islam is a research officer at the Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS), Dhaka. He received BSS (honours) and MSS degrees in Political Science from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Mr. Islam is interested in the issues of governance and institutions of developing countries with special reference to Bangladesh. Currently he is doing research on the promotion of ‘microgovernance’ addressing new governance deficits where the actual causes, practices, and environment of governance identified. Mr. Islam has recently completed a research on ‘political institutions and governance in Bangladesh: changes and continuity.’  He is also part-time teaching faculty at the Department of Government and Politics, Asian University of Bangladesh, Dhaka. He has several published articles on different journals in Bangladesh.

Ulrike Joras joined swisspeace in March 2006 as the project coordinator for the area „Business and Peace“.  Before coming to Switzerland, Ulrike worked for several years for the United Nations Fund for International Partnerships in New York, for the Center for Development Research in Bonn and briefly at the Department of International Economics of the University of Munich.  She holds a PhD and a MA in Economic Geography from the University in Aachen, Germany.

Regarded as a leading expert, researcher, and adviser to countries on governance and development, Mr. Kaufmann, along with his staff and colleagues, has pioneered survey methodologies and capacity building approaches for good governance and anti-corruption programs around the world. He currently heads groups on Global Governance and Knowledge for Development, and previously held positions at the World Bank which include managing a team on Finance, Regulation and Governance, heading capacity building for Latin America, and also serving as Lead Economist both in economies in transition as well as in the Bank's research department.

In the early nineties, he was the first Chief of Mission of the World Bank to Ukraine, and then he was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University prior to resuming his career at the World Bank. He is also a member of the World Economic Forum (Davos) Faculty. His research on economic development, governance, the unofficial economy, macro-economics, investment, corruption, privatization, and urban and labor economics has been published in leading journals.

Mr. Kaufmann is a frequent speaker on governance issues in major fora, such as the recent keynote presentation at the First Global Forum on Media Development, as well as the Annual Goodman Lecture at the University of Toronto in 2005, and his work on governance and development is often reported in media and policy circles. A Chilean national, he received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard, and a B.A. in Economics and Statistics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Andreas Klinke is a political scientist who is heading the research group ‘Governance of Infrastructure’ at the Eawag which is affiliated to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. He worked as lecturer at King’s College London before. He was director of the risk research projects at the Center of Technology Assessment in Stuttgart. He did also work as research associate at the University of Stuttgart and at the German Advisory Council of Global Change.

Elmar B Koch, LLD, MBA, PhD, is currently in the Secretariat of “Central Banking Studies” at the BIS (Bank for International Settlements). Earlier assignments at BIS included the Secretariat of the G10 Ministers and Governors (2002-06), Secretariat of the Central Bank Governance Forum (2003-06), mediator between Governments of the former Yugoslavia (2001-02), Senior Economist for “Special Meetings” (2000-01) and Senior Economist for “All Governors and Emerging Market Economies” (responsible for Eastern Europe incl.. Russia, Africa and India) (1995-2000). Before 1995 he held positions as Deputy Head of Statistics, in the Eurocurrency Standing Committee and Secretariat of Data Bank Services.

He published in economics, finance and law in the US, Europe and Asia. He was associate professor of finance in the US and lectured in particular at the Joint Vienna Institute, at central banks (e.g. India, South Africa) and at the Financial Stability Institute and the University of Basel. He is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of International Economics and Economic Policy and referees for other journals. His experience covers macro-economics (monetary and financial policy), the international financial architecture and such areas as monetary policy instruments/transmission mechanism, pension funds, “collective action clauses”, IMF finances, sovereign debt, e-finance, bank restructuring, central bank law and insolvency law, governance, real effective exchange rates and statistical methodologies.

Eva Kocher completed her university studies in law in 1990 and the lawyer’s/practitioner’s exam in 1993. The doctoral thesis on the codetermination of Works Councils in economic affairs was published in 1994. Her “Habilitation” thesis on a comparison of German and English procedural consumer law will was completed in 2004. She practises law in Hamburg and is a private lecturer at the University of Hamburg (department of economics and politics in the Faculty for Social and Economical Sciences). Her research interests in labour law and civil law include legal questions of private regulation on social standards; she is the coordinator of the German team in the comparative and multidisciplinary project „ESTER“ (Social regulation of European transnational companies).

Ibrahim Lamorde is an Assistant Commissioner of Police who works with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The EFCC is a body established by Law in 2003 to investigate and prosecute all economic and financial crimes in Nigeria.Mr Lamorde has been investigating and prosecuting these kinds of crimes for so many years now and he has greatly helped to develop law and infrastructure for carrying out such tasks.

To pursue offenders effectively, Mr. Lamorde has worked closely with other government Law enforcement agencies such as the FBI, Metropolitan Police, United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), Internet Crime Complaints Centre (IC3), Dutch Police, German Police, South African Police etc.

He has attended several courses, seminars and workshops on corruption  and other economic and financial crimes in the UK, USA, Germany, France, South Africa, Singapore etc .He has also attended courses at the Harvard University in 2005.He was the Chief Investigation Officer of Ermera District of East Timor of United Nations Civilian Police (March 2000 to March 2001) and also one of the pioneer Officers of the Nigerian Special Fraud Unit (1993 to 2002).He also holds a membership of the Nigeria Institute of Public Relations and the Nigeria Institute of Management.

Mr. Lamorde is presently the Director of Operations of EFCC and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology from the Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria.
Mr. Lamorde can be reached at ilamorde(at)efccnigeria.org.

Anna Leander has been an associate professor at the Department of Intercultural Communication and Management at the Copenhagen Business School since January 2005. She started her academic career as assistant professor of Political Science at the Central European University of Budapest in 1995. She has subsequently worked as a researcher at the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (2000-2003) and as associate professor at Political Science and Public at the University of Southern Denmark (Odense) (2003-2005).

Anna Leander completed her PhD in Social and Political Sciences at the European University Institute in Florence (in collaboration with the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris) in 1997. She had previously studied at the London School of Economics (MSc of the World Economy), at Bornova University in Turkey (Certificate of Turkish Language) and at the l'Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Diploma in International Relations).

Anna Leander’s current research and teaching interests lay in the field of international political economy with a focus on the security field. She has worked on developing an educational programme and courses in this field. She has recently published Eroding State Authority? Private Military Companies and the Legitimate Use of Force. Rome: Centro Militare di Studi Strategici, 2006 and Stefano Guzzini and Anna Leander (eds) (2006) Constructivism and International Relations: Wendt and his critics. London and New York: Routledge.

For a full CV and a complete list of publications please see www.cbs.dk/staff/ale.

Michael Miklaucic was educated at the University of California, London School of Economics, and Johns Hopkins SAIS. Prior to joining USAID, Michael worked in non-governmental organizations on democracy and human rights in the Arab world, legal reform and training for development, global security issues, and elections and political party development in Haiti.  He joined USAID in 1996 as rule of law advisor in the Office of Democracy and Governance. In 2002, Michael left USAID to serve as deputy to the ambassador at large for war crimes issues at the Department of State. He returned to USAID in October 2003, serving as Program Officer for the Office of Democracy and Governance and Chief of the Operations and Response Division.  He also heads the Crisis Response Team and is technical officer for the Illicit Power Structures project.

Philippe Montigny is the President of ETHIC Intelligence, an Agency dedicated to the certification of anti-corruption and anti-money laundering mechanisms. He is also Executive Director of International Development & Strategies, a Consulting Group dealing with Economic Intelligence, Strategic Development and Governance. He has extensive expertise of the prevention of corruption and of the fight against extortion both with companies’ CEO’s and Ministers of African Countries. Since 2001, he has been chairing the Working Group on Corruption Prevention of the French Council of Investors in Africa (CIAN). He co-authored various books and articles on corruption including :  Fighting Corruption with Abdoulaye Bio Tchané, former Finance Minister of Benin and current IMF Director for Africa (Paris, Harmattan – 2000) and Companies and international corruption. Laws, risks, strategies and challenges (Paris, Ellipse – 2006).

Between 1987 and 1997 he worked with the OECD, first as Principal Administrator in the Private Office of the OECD Secretary General, and then as Special Advisor to the President of the OECD Development Center.  In 1993 during the war in Bosnia, he was seconded to the UNHCR as Field Officer, posted on the Serbian frontlines. He was previously the Head of the Evaluation Department at the French Ministry for Industry and Research (1985-1987).

Philippe Montigny holds a diploma in Philosophy (Sorbonne University) and is a graduated auditor of the High Studies Institute on National Defence (Paris) where he now lectures on business intelligence.

Prof. Dr. Dieter Neubert, studied sociology, social anthropology and pedagogy in Mainz with degrees in pedagogy (diploma 1979) and sociology (PhD 1986). He habilitated 1995 in sociology at the Free University of Berlin. He taught at the University of Mainz, at the College of Education in Heidelberg, the University of Hohenheim, the Free University of Berlin, the University of Landau, and at the University of Kaunas (Lithuania). His main area of research is Africa (Kenya, Rwanda, Mozambique) additionally he worked in Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Thailand). His research focuses on the sociology of development and political sociology with research topics like NGOs, sociology of conflicts, local knowledge and participatory methods.

Mark Pieth is Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology at the University of Basel, Switzerland, since 1993. From 1989 to 1993 he was Head of Section on Economic and Organised Crime in the Swiss Federal Office of Justice (Ministry of Justice and Police). Since 1990 Prof. Pieth has been chairing the OECD Working Group on Bribery in International Business Transactions. He was recently appointed a Member of the Independent Inquiry Committee into the Iraq Oil-for-Food Programme by the UN Secretary General. He has also assumed various presidencies and memberships of national commissions in Switzerland. He has been a consultant to corporations, international organisations and foreign governments on issues related to governance and has participated in the Wolfsberg AML Banking Initiative as a facilitator.

Anne Peters is Professor of Public International Law at the University of Basel, a position she has held since 2001. Prior to taking up this post she was Assistant Professor at the Walther-Schücking-Institute of Public International Law at the Christian Albrechts University Kiel. Originally from Berlin, Anne Peters studied Modern Greek and Spanish as well as law at the universities of Würzburg, Lausanne, and Freiburg in Breisgau. She was awarded the prize from the Scientific Society at Freibrug im Breisgau for her dissertation, and scholarships from the DAAD of the Harvard Law School and the German Research Community for her studies in the USA. Anne Peters has also held teaching and research posts at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg and the Max-Planck-Institute of foreign and international criminal law in Freiburg.

Aseem Prakash is Associate Professor of Political Science at University of
Washington-Seattle. From 1997 to 2002, he was Assistant Professor of Strategic Management and Public Policy at the School of Business, The George Washington University. He received a Joint Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science and the School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA), Indiana University, Bloomington. His dissertation won the Academy of Management's 1998 Organization and the Natural Environment best dissertation award. Prior to his Ph.D., he completed his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and then worked as a manager in the marketing department of Procter and Gamble for three years.

Aseem Prakash is interested in issues of governance: how do governance
institutions emerge, how they function, and how they impact outcomes. Much of
his research focuses on non-governmental institutions in the environmental
policy area, and how business-government-NGO dynamics influence their adoption, functioning, and efficacy. He is also examining issues pertaining to NGO advocacy and the impact of globalization on macro and micro institutitons.
Aseem Prakash is the author of Greening the Firm (2000, Cambridge University
Press), the co-author of The Voluntary Environmentalists (2006, Cambridge
University Press), and the co-editor of Globalization and Governance (1999,
Routledge), Coping with Globalization (2000, Routledge), and Responding to
Globalization (2000, Routledge). He has published 30 articles in refereed
journals including American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics,
World Politics, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and Public Administration Review. He has also won several teaching awards.

Jeanette Schade is associate fellow at the Institute for Development and Peace (INEF) in Duisburg, Germany. During her five years as a regular research assistant of the institute she focused on civil society, NGOs, and global policy networks. Currently she receives a scholarship of the FAZIT Foundation to complete her doctoral thesis on “US Politics of Civil Society Building in Developing Countries”. Mrs. Schade holds an M.A. in Philosophy, Munich School of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy of the Society of Jesus, and an M.A. in Development Policy Studies (focus on NGOs), University of Bremen. Since early 2005 she is member of the working group on civil society participation in development co-operation of the German Commission of Justitia et Pax, Bonn.

Selected publications: Between Projectitis and the Formation of Countervailing Power, in: Hippler, Jochen (Ed.): Nation Building. A Key Concept for Peaceful Conflict Transformation?; London 2005: Pluto Press, 125-136; Herausforderungen internationaler Kooperation in der zivilen Konfliktbearbeitung (Challenges of international cooperation regarding civil conflict management), with Angelika Spelten; in: Ratsch, Ulrich / Mutz, Reinhard / Schoch, Bruno / Hauswedell, Corinna / Weller, Christoph (Ed.) Friedensgutachten 2005 (Peace Survey 2005): Münster: LIT-Verlag 2005, 147-155; Unilaterales US-Handeln im multilateralen Kontext – Eine tabellarische Übersicht (Unilateral actions of the United States in multilateral contexts); in Hippler, Jochen / Schade, Jeanette: US-Unilateralismus als Problem von internationaler Politik und Global Governance (US-unilateralism as a problem for international politics and global governance), INEF-Report 70, University of Duisburg 2003; “Zivilgesellschaft” - Überblick über eine vielschichtige Debatte ('Civil society’: survey of a complex debate); INEF Report Nr. 59, Duisburg, Universität-Duisburg 2002.

Marcus Schaper is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland. His research deals with transatlantic policy issues from a comparative institutionalist perspective with an emphasis on regulatory and environmental topics. Prior to pursuing his doctorate he was a project manager at the Aspen Institute Berlin where he was in charge of developing and conducting projects which sought to defuse potential transatlantic disagreements. He also held fellowships at SWP (the German Institute for International and Security Affairs) and the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (Johns Hopkins University), and worked at the World Bank Institute. Schaper holds graduate degrees from the University of Maryland (M.A., government and politics) and Universität Potsdam (Diploma, political science).

Ambassador Paul R. Seger has been Head of the Directorate of International Law of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) in Berne, Switzerland since July 2003.

He started his diplomatic career as Legal Officer in this Directorate in 1983. He was Deputy Chief of Mission of the Swiss Embassy in Kinshasa in 1986 and, from 1987 until 1991, worked as Diplomatic Officer in the Section for International Law becoming Deputy Head of Section in 1989.

From 1991 until 1995 he worked as Legal Adviser of the Permanent Observer Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations in New York. Afterwards he changed to the Federal Department for Foreign Affairs (DFA) as Head of the Section for International Law and Deputy Head of the Division for International Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law until 2000. This was followed by three years in the Swiss Embassy in Buenos Aires as Deputy Chief of Mission.

Paul Seger also works as a lecturer at the Law Faculty of the University of Basel where he originally received his Law Degree.

Amadu Sesay, Sierra Leonean, was educated at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and holds BSc, and PhD degrees in International Relations. He is a Professor of International Relations, Department of International Relations, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, where has worked since 1978. He headed the department from 2000 to 2006, and was recently a Visiting Professor at the Institute for the Study of Politics, Bordeaux, France, where he taught a course on the “Regionalization of Conflicts and Conflict Resolution in Africa.”

Egle Svilpaite is Research Fellow at the Faculty of Law, Basel University (Switzerland ). She received her degree in law from Vilnius University (Lithuania), LL.M. from Lund University (Sweden) and Ph.D. from Mykolas Romeris University (Lithuania ). Egle Svilpaite lectured in International Law and International Organizations at Mykolas Romeris University in Lithuania. She began her career as an in-house lawyer, and later practiced law for 4 years with the Law Firm Zabiela, Zabielaite and Partners. From 2003-2005 she served as a Senior Legal Adviser in the Legal Department of the Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania.

Francis K. Wairagu holds a M. Phil degree in Philosophy from Moi University. He is a lecturer at the same University in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the School of Social Cultural and Development Studies. . His areas of specialization are Social Political Philosophy and Moral Philosophy. He is pursuing a Doctorate degree in Philosophy at the University of Nairobi. Mr. Wairagu has conducted research on small arms, governance, ethnicity, land and conflict, among other fields. He is currently researching on security-related issues at the Security Research and Information Centre (SRIC), a Nairobi-based NGO.

Ulrike Wanitzek is Professor Extraordinary of private law, comparative law and sociology of law at the Institute of African Studies and the Faculty of Law and Economics, University of Bayreuth, Germany. She studied law with a focus on international law at the University of Augsburg and was awarded her doctoral and habilitation degrees in law by the University of Bayreuth. She is teaching and publishing on issues of family and succession laws, land laws, human rights and legal pluralism with a focus on the laws of Tanzania and Ghana, but also issues of German family law and the sociology of law. She is a co-founder and co-editor of the journal Recht in Afrika/Law in Africa/Droit en Afrique and a board member of the Commission on Folk Law and Legal Pluralism and the Association of African Law. She acts as the vice chair of the board of advisers for international programmes of the Church Development Service (EED). Recent books include Local Land Law and Globalization. A Comparative Study of Peri-Urban Areas in Benin, Ghana and Tanzania (co-edited with G.R. Woodman and H. Sippel, 2004) and Rechtliche Elternschaft bei medizinisch unterstützter Fortpflanzung (Legal parenthood in cases of medically assisted procreation, 2002).

Steven Wheatley is Senior Lecturer in International Law, and Director of the Centre for International Governance at the University of Leeds, UK. His research is concerned with the legitimacy (and putative legality) of the exercise of political authority in the light of the emergence of a ‘democracy norm’ in international law. Steven is the author of Democracy, Minorities and International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2005), and most recently ‘The Security Council, democratic legitimacy and regime change in Iraq’, 17 European Journal of International Law (2006).