Gretta Fenner | Basel Institute on Governance

Gretta Fenner

Managing Director
+41 61 205 55 11
gretta.fenner@baselgovernance.org

It is with great sadness that we confirm the tragic death of our Managing Director Gretta Fenner in a car accident.

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Gretta Fenner was the Managing Director of the Basel Institute on Governance and Director of its International Centre for Asset Recovery. She led the organisation from 2005–2008 and from 2011 to April 2024.

Gretta was an internationally known speaker and advisor on anti-corruption, asset recovery, business integrity and broader issues of public governance.

Before joining the Basel Institute, Gretta managed the OECD’s anti-corruption programmes in the Asia-Pacific region.

A political scientist by training, she obtained bachelor's and master's degrees from the Otto-Suhr-Institute at the Freie Universität Berlin and Sciences Po Paris, as well as an MBA from the Curtin University Graduate School of Business, Australia.

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FCPA Blog: Will the UN Security Council (finally) take up the fight against corruption?

FCPA Blog: Are companies and executives responsible for human rights violations abroad?

FCPA Blog: Basel AML Index – Going beyond the money laundering leaderboard

FCPA Blog: How seizing sanctioned assets can strengthen the rule of law

A Swiss–Peruvian asset recovery case boosts prospects for non-conviction based forfeiture (The Academy Bulletin)

Don’t let a kleptocrat’s war destroy Ukraine’s reconstruction

Ukraine Recovery Conference: Anti-corruption as a critical condition for sustainable recovery

Annual Report 2021: Defeating corruption for peace, prosperity, equality and dignity

Mozambique’s tuna bonds scandal: yes it’s about money, but more than that – it’s about human lives

Annual Report 2020: On fighting the pandemic of corruption

A make-or-break moment: Gretta Fenner urges Ukrainian political leaders to speed up asset recovery and remove obstacles to combating corruption

Gretta Fenner's address at the UNGASS 2021 plenary session

What the FinCEN leaks reveal about systems to fight financial crime – BBC interview with Gretta Fenner

Corruption risks and remedies in a crisis – insights from an ADB webinar

How asset recovery can support the fight against wildlife trafficking

Perspectives 3: Asset recovery and wildlife trafficking

Our Annual Report 2019: looking back, but mostly forward

How to curb corruption in natural disaster situations – and pandemics

Corruption in natural disaster situations – can our experiences help prevent corruption related to covid-19?

Asset recovery in the light of covid-19 - five questions open to debate

Debating asset recovery in the light of covid-19

COVID-19: What does “business continuity” look like at the Basel Institute?

Quick Guide 13: Financial crime in illegal wildlife trade

Supporting the UN Global Compact and its Ten Principles

Reflections on 2018: International Centre for Asset Recovery

A dream of fools? Foreward to our Annual Report 2018

Returning Stolen Assets - Learning from past practice

Practical hurdles to effective international recovery of stolen assets

Curbing the risks of and opportunities for corruption in natural disaster situations

Financial institutions and the fight against corruption

Emerging Trends in Asset Recovery

Non-State Actors as Standard Setters

Collective Action Conference 2014: How can companies more effectively fight corruption?

Working Paper 24: It takes two to tango. Decision-making processes on asset return

Working Paper 17: The role of donors in the recovery of stolen assets

Working Paper 3: Verhaltensregeln für die Verwaltung von Vorsorgeeinrichtungen