Open Ownership at the World Bank Anticorruption Global Forum
Next week, the World Bank Group's Anticorruption for Development Global Program (AC4D) and the International Corruption Hunters Alliance (ICHA) invite you to the Partnerships for Anticorruption Global Forum, scheduled for April 8-9, 2025, in Washington, D.C. This will be a hybrid event, and joining links are available on the event page.
Open Ownership's Executive Director Thom Townsend will be moderating a session on 8 April, day one of the event.
Join the session virtually here.
Session name: Implementation of beneficial ownership transparency reforms: country experience
Beneficial ownership transparency (BOT) is well recognised as a critical measure for combating anti-corruption. The role for beneficial ownership transparency is increasingly being understood in the context of many other development objectives, for example for enhancing domestic revenue mobilisation through tax collection, increasing competition in public procurement, to name a few. With over 90-live beneficial ownership (BO) registers and the increasing international momentum in BO reforms, many countries that don’t have existing BO information systems are looking to introduce them, while others are aiming to upgrade systems. In this session, panelists will bring perspectives from their countries and share their experience and successes in implementing such reforms, including through financial and technical assistance from development partners and donor agencies. These include examples from countries that introduced these measures in key economic sectors such as in the extractives industry and in public procurement.
Venue: World Bank Group Headquarters, Washington, DC, Room MC C2-350
Date and time: 15:00 - 16:00 (EDT) on Thursday, 8 April 2025
Thom will be joined by speakers:
- Opening Remarks: Jens K. Kristensen, Lead Public Sector Specialist, Eastern and Southern Africa Region, The World Bank
- Srbuhi Galyan, Minister of Justice, Armenia
- Grace Malera, Office of the Ombudsman, Malawi
- Reida Kashta, General Director, Public Procurement Agency, Albania
- Michael Hegarty, Policy Adviser, Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, United Kingdom
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About the event
ICHA and AC4D will bring together 300 partners, leaders, and practitioners from government, academia, civil society, the private sector, and other international development organisations working on anti-corruption and integrity.
The 2025 Global Forum which will focus on the importance of partnerships in collectively advancing the fight against corruption will be streamed online and will include panel discussions on critical topics such as accountability, institutions and the rule of law, beneficial ownership transparency and fighting illicit financial flows, procurement systems and private partnerships, and data, technology, and climate change.
The Forum will be hosted by the World Bank Group and co-hosted by Transparency International, the Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office from the UK (FCDO), the Government of Norway, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the Chandler Foundation, and the Open Government Partnership.
