Managing for Integrity: Strategies and Approaches

Co-sponsored by the Local Government and Public SerRaising integrity standards is increasingly recognized as an effective tool to foster development and strengthen legitimate democratic governance. This course meets a need for critical and strategic approaches to successfully reform institutions to improve levels of governance and integrity. Organizational integrity here refers in large measure to internal processes of control and value-driven reform. This course is aimed at managers, internal control specialists (e.g. investigators, compliance officers, inspectors, etc.) as well as civil society. It will also be open to academics interested in offering similar courses at their universities.

Held for the fifth time in 2009, this intensive advanced course addresses critically the challenges of integrity reform and strategic corruption control. Drawing on interdisciplinary academic perspectives and lessons learned from practice, this course represents one of the few targeted, applied, and yet conceptually grounded efforts currently available internationally for the analysis of corruption and anti-corruption. Topics covered include cross-cutting issues such as definitions, measurements, and research methodology, and also distinct areas such as access to information, fiscal transparency, and risk assessment and management.

The approach offered by the course is interdisciplinary, straddling law, economics, business, public administration, and public sector ethics, as well as politics, statistical, and ethnographic approaches. The course will familiarize participants with the core ingredients of a strategic and critical approach for effective and sustainable organizational integrity.

Faculty

Fredrik Galtung, chief executive of Tiri, is the Director of the course. He has advised numerous governments, IGOs, NGOs, and businesses on integrity change and anti-corruption on four continents for the past 15 years.
Fredrik will act as the convener of the Policy Lab on "Evidence as a Management Tool".

Harinder Baweja is Tehelka.com's editor of investigations. Tehelka is one of India's foremost investigative news outlets. A current affairs reporter, she has written extensively on Punjab, Kashmir, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. She was also in Iraq in mid-2003, reporting on the US invasion.

Steve Berkman, joined the World Bank's Africa region group in 1983. He was called back from retirement in 1998 to help establish the Anti-Corruption and Fraud Investigation Unit and was a lead investigator on several cases. He is the author of The World Bank and the Gods of Lending. 

Elizabeth Filkin was the UK parliament's first commissioner for public standards. She has chaired the board of numerous charities and currently sits on the board of several listed companies.

Nuhu Ribadu, St. Anthony's College, University of Oxford, UK

Cathy James is deputy director of the UK's Public Concern at Work, a charity that promotes accountability and responsible whistle-blowing. She runs the confidential helpline. Before joining PCAW she held a senior position in the National Health Service and before that was a partner in a large city law firm.

TS Krishnamurthy is the former chief election commissioner of India, was a senior official in the Ministry of Finance, and now sits on the board of several NGOs and companies. He is the author of Amazing Democracy.

Nina Schuler is head of GrantCheck, a Tiri program. Before joining Tiri she worked for the Asia Foundation in Sri Lanka, GTZ in Indonesia, and the World Bank in numerous other countries.

Ornit Shani, Ph.D., is the director of the modern India program at Haifa University and researches ethnic politics and citizenship in South Asia.

Murray Sheard, Ph.D., is the program director for professional integrity in Tiri. He was an academic and consultant advising on professional ethics in New Zealand before joining Tiri.
Murray will act as the convener of the Policy Lab on "Transforming Values to Practice".

Tay Keong Tan, Ph.D., was a senior official in the UN's Office of Internal Oversight Services, has been a faculty member at the National University of Singapore, and is the head of the Singapore International Foundation. He also consults with the World Bank.