Kate O’Hara – Integrity at Work Programme Manager
Kate is the Integrity at Work (IAW) Programme Manager, using her extensive experience building and strengthening relationships to support current and prospective IAW members. Before coming to TI, Kate spent several years working for the Four Freedoms Fund at NEO Philanthropy in New York. There, she managed incoming and outgoing grants; team operations; project budgets; and internal and external events. Most recently Kate worked as the Major Donors Officer at Pieta helping with high-value fundraising and donor relations. Kate holds a Master’s in Theory and Practice of Human Rights from the University of Essex and a Bachelor’s in International Relations and International Development from Clark University.
The Honourable Mr Justice Peter Charleton – Judge, Supreme Court of Ireland
The Hon. Mr. Justice Peter Charleton, judge of the Supreme Court of Ireland, commenced practice at the Bar of Ireland in 1979 and was appointed a Senior Counsel in 1995. From 2002 to his appointment as a judge of the High Court in 2006 he was counsel to the Morris Tribunal; a statutory enquiry which looked into misconduct in the Garda Síochána (Irish police). In the High Court he was assigned principally to the commercial list. Mr. Justice Charleton was appointed to the Supreme Court in July 2014. A Dubliner, he is married with children. He has published papers in journals, including the Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, the International Journal of Law and the Family, the Yearbook of the International Commission of Jurists, Intellectual Property Law and Policy, the Journal of Criminal Law, the Bar Review, the Journal of the Judicial Studies Institute of Ireland, the Irish Law Times, the Gazette of the Incoporated Law Society of Ireland and the Irish Criminal Law Journal.
John Devitt – Chief Executive, Transparency International Ireland
John is an ethics and communications specialist by training. He holds a first-class Masters degree in Ethics from Dublin City University, is a graduate of European Studies at the University of Limerick and the Public Relations Institute of Ireland. John founded TI Ireland in 2004 and has led TI Ireland’s whistleblowing research and support programme since 2009. He is author or researcher on numerous reports and guidance on the topic of whistleblower protection, ethics and anti-corruption standards, and has advised the Irish Government, United Nations, Council of Europe, and European Commission amongst others on whistleblowing legislation and procedures.
Dr Brigid MacCarthy – Clinical Psychologist, TI Ireland Psychological Support Service
Dr Brigid MacCarthy is an organisational consultant and executive coach with experience of consulting to teams within health and social care services and coaching individuals from a range of corporate and public service settings in the UK and overseas. She has supported individuals and teams under pressure, dealing with moral injury and facing systemic challenges to their value systems. She has a Professional Doctorate from the Tavistock Centre in London. Her thesis was a study of whistleblowing and bystanding: – the systemic issues which shape workers’ reactions to wrong-doing within organizations, across a range of sectors. She is also a Clinical Psychologist and has considerable experience in managing and consulting to services meeting complex mental health needs, and in working clinically with traumatised individuals including refugees who are victims of organised and state-endorsed violence.
Karen Bradley – Accredited Counsellor and Psychotherapist
Karen Bradley is an accredited counsellor and psychotherapist with the Irish Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (IACP). She holds a Higher Diploma and Master’s in Counselling and Psychotherapy. She addresses challenges like work stress, depression, anxiety, and relationship issues. A former fund accountant in financial services, she brings first-hand insight into negative workplace cultures and supports clients referred through Employee Assistance Programmes.
Geraldine McLoughlin – Accredited Psychotherapist
Geraldine McLoughlin is an accredited psychotherapist with the Irish Association for Psychoanalysts and Psychotherapists in Ireland (APPI) and the Irish Council for Psychotherapy (ICP). Currently completing a Master’s in International Human Rights Law, her specialist training includes employment law, employee rights, and restorative justice mechanisms. She has presented internationally on supervision and “whole systems” clinical approaches.
Christian Hunt – Founder, Human Risk
Christian is the founder of Human Risk, a Behavioural Science (BeSci) led Consulting and Training Firm specialising in Ethics & Compliance and the author of a book, ‘Humanizing Rules’. He was formerly Managing Director, Head of Behavioural Science at UBS. Christian joined the Firm in Compliance & Operational Risk Control, leading the function globally for UBS Asset Management. Before joining UBS, he was COO of the UK Prudential Regulation Authority, a subsidiary of the Bank of England responsible for regulating financial services.
Pav Gill – Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Confide Platform
Pav Gill is an influential figure in corporate governance and ethics, renowned for his role in exposing Europe’s €24 billion Wirecard fraud. As a former Magic Circle lawyer and fintech general counsel, Pav has navigated some of the most complex legal and ethical matters worldwide. His experience, coupled with a strong moral compass and compelling journey as a whistleblower, is now fueling the early success of the Confide Platform, an end-to-end whistleblowing and case management software startup he founded in late 2023.
Elizabeth Gardiner – Chief Executive, Protect
Elizabeth has been Protect’s Chief Executive since March 2020. She joined the UK’s whistleblowing charity in 2018 as a qualified solicitor advising whistleblowers on Protect’s free legal Advice Line, and providing consultancy on best practice for employers. Elizabeth has extensive experience in Parliament and policy work. She is also a member of the Whistleblowing International Network board of trustees.
Jennifer Gibson – Co-Founder, Psst.org
Jennifer Gibson is the Legal Director of the Whistleblower Protection Program at The Signals Network. Jennifer is a US lawyer with over fifteen years’ experience investigating, litigating, and advocating on human rights. Most recently, she worked for Reprieve, where she led the organization’s work on extrajudicial killings carried out under the guise of national security. She worked closely with civilian victims of drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, and elsewhere, investigating their cases to secure accountability. Her work involved litigation before both domestic and international courts, as well as public and political advocacy aimed at holding powerful governments and corporations accountable for their roles in the abuses.
Eliza Lockhart – Research Fellow, Centre for Finance and Security at RUSI
Eliza is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Finance and Security at RUSI, and her current projects include whistleblowing, state threats and economic security. Eliza is a lawyer and legal policy expert, having previous experience in whistleblower investigations, international financial crime investigations and expertise in electoral integrity matters.. Eliza has advised on anti-bribery and corruption matters including election fraud, risk and compliance practices, disruptive technologies, and intellectual property law.
Mary Inman – Lawyer and Partner, Whistleblower Partners LLP
Mary is a partner in the San Francisco office of Whistleblower Partners LLP and a veteran whistleblower lawyer, having worked exclusively representing whistleblowers for the past 26 years under the increasing array of U.S. and international whistleblower reward programs. Mary has helped her clients, including Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz and Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, forge partnerships with the various government agencies that leverage whistleblower information to expose corporate fraud. Mary is an internationally recognized expert on the extraterritorial reach of the U.S. whistleblower reward programs and a regular commentator on all things whistleblower for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, BBC, FT, Fortune and Time.
Koen Albers – Instructor, Institute of Internal Auditors Belgium
Koen Albers is member of several audit committees, data protection officer and course instructor for Institute of Internal Auditors Belgium.
Gudrun Vande Walle – Forensic Auditor, Belgian Federal Ombudsman
Gundrum Vande Walle is a Forensic auditor at the Belgian federal Ombudsman, board member of the Institute of Fraud Auditors.
Hugh Penri-Williams – Managing Director, Glaniad
Hugh Penri-Williams is Managing director GLANIAD 1865, CFE, SCCE-I, CIA, CISA, experienced specialist operational security, audit and investigative activity.
Sonny Luypaert – President, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners Belgium
Sonny Luypaert is President of ACFE Belgium, Authorised ACFE Trainer, partner and director at Triple-S Consulting, expertise in finance, controlling, process improvements and corporate governance.
Professor Wim Vandekerckhove – Professor of Business Ethics, EDHEC Business School
Wim Vandekerckhove is Professor of Business Ethics at EDHEC Business School in France. He holds a PhD from Ghent University. Before joining EDHEC, he held a lecturer post at Ghent University (Belgium), visiting scholarships at the University of Oslo (Norway), Griffith University (Australia), the International Anti-Corruption Academy (Austria), and was Professor of Business Ethics at the University of Greenwich (UK). Wim has provided expertise on whistleblowing to various organisations, including Council of Europe, UNODC, the International Olympic Committee, Transparency International, the UK Department of Health, and the British Standards Institute (BSI). He was the convenor for ISO37002, the international standard for whistleblowing management systems.
Gráinne Madden – Founder and Senior Consultant, GMJ Associates
Gráinne Madden is the founder and senior consultant of GMJ Associates, which provides guidance to Irish businesses on responsible business practice. Gráinne’s work includes development of corporate responsibility/ESG strategy, non-financial reporting, governance reviews, development and implementation of ethical compliance programmes and protected disclosure policies. Gráinne also lectures on Corporate Responsibility to MSc and MBA students.
Rory Treanor – Barrister specialising in Employment Law and Workplace Investigations
Rory Treanor is a barrister specialising in Employment litigation and the conduct of sensitive workplace investigations, disciplinary hearings and appeals. Rory has taught for the Law Society and CIPD. He has written policy papers for political parties and non-governmental organisations in the areas of transparency, anti-corruption and employee rights. In addition, Rory has provided training to employers, employees and their representatives regarding practice and procedure before the Workplace Relations Commission and Labour Court. He has also advised legislators on the implementation of the Whistleblower’s Directive.
Anna Myers – Executive Director, Whistleblowing International Network (WIN)
Anna Myers is Executive Director of the Whistleblowing International Network (WIN), a network to strengthen civil society organisations that support whistleblowers around the world. Originally from Canada and a qualified lawyer, Anna was Deputy Director of Public Concern at Work (now Protect) in London and worked for the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) in Strasbourg. She was advisor to the European Committee on Legal Cooperation (CDCJ) on the Council of Europe’s Recommendation on the protection of whistleblowers. Under her leadership, WIN helped secure an EU Directive to protect whistleblowers and set up the EU Whistleblowing Monitor. Anna is on the Steering Committee for the Coalition Against SLAPPs in Europe (CASE).
Prof. David Lewis – Professor of Employment Law and Head, Whistleblowing Research Unit at Middlesex University
David Lewis is Professor of Employment Law and Head of the Whistleblowing Research Unit at Middlesex University. David has been researching the subject of employment protection for whistleblowers since 1993 and has published internationally in law, business ethics, information technology and human resource management journals. He has considerable experience as a consultant for the European Commission, Council of Europe, OECD and UN Office on Drugs and Crime. David has given expert evidence (inter alia) to the Budgetary Control Committee of the European Parliament and the UK Committee on Standards in Public Life. He is a founding trustee of the whistleblowing charity, Parrhesia.
Dana Gold – Sr. Director of Advocacy & Strategy, Government Accountability Project
Dana Gold is the Senior Director of Advocacy & Strategy and Director of the Democracy Protection Initiative for the Government Accountability Project, the leading whistleblower advocacy organization protecting whistleblowers and ensuring their disclosures make a difference. For more than 30 years, Dana has represented and worked with dozens of whistleblowers on issues such as nuclear weapons risks, food safety, climate science censorship, banking fraud and illegal electronic surveillance. She is currently the lead counsel for several whistleblowers who have disclosed risks of harm to both children and adult migrants in immigration detention settings. Her work has been featured in The Washington Post, Newsweek, Slate, The Hill, CNN, and WNYC’s On the Media.
Tom Mueller – Investigative journalist and Senior Fellow at The New School’s Health and Political Economy Project
Tom is a free-lance writer of non-fiction and fiction. He studied at Oxford (DPhil, Rhodes Scholar), Harvard (BA, summa cum laude), and Alief Hastings High School in rural east Texas, home of the Fighting Bears. After that, he worked as an associate in M&A at Goldman Sachs in their London and Frankfurt offices, and he studied classical guitar in Seville, Spain with América Martínez, a disciple of Andrés Segovia.
Kate Kenny – Professor at University of Galway, Exec MBA Programme Director
Giovanni Pellerano – Founder and Project Lead, GlobaLeaks
Giovanni Pellerano is a computer engineer and whistleblowing hacktivist. Co-author of the free and open-source whistleblowing software GlobaLeaks is responsible for its development and the development of the community that has been created around it, as Project Lead.
Giorgio Fraschini – Whistleblowing Manager, Transparency International Italy
Giorgio Fraschini is the Whistleblowing Programme Manager at Transparency International Italy. Giorgio joined the organization in 2009 as a legal expert and contributed to the growth of the chapter. He has built the whistleblowing programme in the last eleven years, with dissemination events, campaigns, roundtables and through the publication of books and policy papers. He also created training programmes for public and private organisations.
Carter Boone – Associate News Product Manager for Safety, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Carter Boone is a Product Manager for Safety at Radio Free Europe, specializing in journalist safety and digital security. Based in Prague, Carter focuses on identifying and mitigating risks for journalists operating in regions under severe press freedom constraints. His work ensures secure communication with sources and audiences while strengthening the organization’s overall security posture.
Ida Nowers – Knowledge and Policy Manager, Transparency International Ireland
Ida oversees the development of TI Ireland’s whistleblowing resources, including the Integrity at Work programme tools and guidance. Ida is a recognised specialist on whistleblower protection law and policy. She was previously global coordinator at the Whistleblowing International Network where she continues to manage the EU Whistleblowing Monitor project. Ida has several years’ experience working directly with whistleblowers as a senior advisor on the UK whistleblowing charity Protect’s advice line, as well as providing support and consultancy to employers on implementing whistleblowing management systems. She holds a Bachelor of Laws from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Marie Terracol – Whistleblower Protection Lead, Transparency International
Marie Terracol is the Whistleblower protection Lead at Transparency International, a global movement working in over 100 countries to end the injustice of corruption. She leads Transparency International’s policy work on whistleblowing and coordinates the movement’ advocacy efforts to improve the protection of whistleblowers across the world, so that they can safely speak up about corruption and other wrongdoing. Marie participated in the working group that developed the ISO 37002:2021 Whistleblowing management systems — Guidelines and is the author of Transparency International Internal Whistleblowing Systems – Best Practice Principles for Public and Private Organisations (2022). She authored several other Transparency International publications on whistleblowing, including A Best Practice Guide for Whistleblowing Legislation (2018), Building on the EU Directive for Whistleblower Protection – Analysis and Recommendations (2019).
Phindi Twala – Senior Manager, Ethics and Compliance for e& Group
Phindi Twala is an experienced ethics and compliance professional with a career spanning across multiple sectors including finance, technology, and public service, and consulting. She holds an MPhil in Development Finance and a Postgraduate degree in Digital Business, underpinned by a strong foundation in Governance. She is passionate about ESG and integrated reporting. She worked at Vodacom in South Africa for 9 years, with responsibilities including the development of conflict-of-interest management systems. Currently, she leads as a Senior Manager Ethics and Compliance at e& Group (Dubai), continuing to drive the effective management of conflict of interests and other ethics topics.
Emelia Asiedu Attoh – Senior Ethics Manager, MTN Ghana
Emelia Asiedu Attoh is a trained lawyer with experience in both private legal practice and corporate practice. She has worked for local and multinational organisations within the banking, pensions, and insurance industries. She has over 10 years experience in the business of integrity/ethics management and conduct risk management. In her previous employments, she has been the head of compliance and ethics management. She is currently the technical lead for ethics management in MTN Ghana, a leading Operating company among the MTN Group of Companies and is also the largest telecommunication company in Ghana. In this role, she is responsible for over 1000 employees and the ethics of a multiregulated, fast paced and remarkably high performing organisation. As a resource, she renders ethics management services to MTN’s affiliate companies including Mobile Money Limited, a fintech company, and Bayobab.
Johanna van Wyngaard – Senior Associate of The Ethics Institute and retired Ethics Officer of the MTN Group
Johanna van Wyngaard has 34 years management experience at corporate head office level, 17 years of which were with the MTN Group – a multinational telecommunications company operating across Africa and the Middle East. She is a Certified Ethics Officer with 11 years’ experience as the Head of Ethics for the MTN Group of companies. In this role she directed ethics management practices across Africa and the Middle East, through a systemic approach to the development of an ethical organisational culture. She was also responsible for integrating ethics management with MTN’s second- and third-line assurance model to help strengthen MTN’s control and compliance environment. She is currently Senior Associate of The Ethics Institute.
Kris Dobie – Senior Manager: Organisational Ethics, The Ethics Institute
Kris Dobie is Senior Manager for Organisational Ethics at The Ethics Institute (TEI), based in Pretoria, South Africa. He holds an MPhil in Workplace Ethics (Cum Laude) from the University of Pretoria. Kris has worked in ethics management since 2004 and has a special interest in corruption prevention and conflicts of interest. Over the years he has supported the South African Government with numerous policy projects, including the 2016 South African Local Government Anti-Corruption Strategy. Kris was the lead researcher on various editions of the Public Sector Ethics Survey as well as the South African Citizens’ Bribery Survey. He co-authored the TEI Ethics Reporting Handbook in 2015, and the Conflict-of-Interest Handbook in 2022.
Tas Brooker, Co-Owner / Producer, Bafta Connect, Wiser Films
Tas Brooker is an award-winning producer and director with over 20 years of experience creating high quality programming for both national and international broadcasters. Recently Tas finished her debut feature length documentary “When We Speak”. This film explores the stories of three courageous women who each (at great personal risk) stood up for what they believed in, exposing injustices committed by some of the most powerful people on earth. When We Speak was nominated for Best Documentary at the prestigious Raindance Film Festival, Longlisted for a BIFA (British Independent Film Awards) Discovery Award and won Best Documentary at the Whistleblowers Summit and Film Festival.
Amélie Perron, RN, PhD, Full Professor, Co-president of the Nursing Observatory, School of Nursing, University of Ottawa
Amélie Perron, RN, PhD is a Full Professor at the School of Nursing at the University of Ottawa, Canada, and Co-President of the Nursing Observatory. She has conducted many studies in Canada, France and Australia on nursing care in psychiatric and forensic psychiatric contexts, and on power dynamics in health organizations that can foster wrongful care decisions and practices. Through the Nursing Observatory, her research focuses on wrongdoing in healthcare, healthcare whistleblowers, the role of disclosures and whistleblowing in protecting the public interest, as well as best practices to design effective speak-up systems. Her research draws heavily from feminist and intersectional scholarship, and is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).
Mahaut Fanchini, Assistant Professor at UPEC (University of Paris-East)
Mahaut Fanchini is a lecturer at the university and a researcher attached to the Management Research Institute (IRG) of UPEC. In 2018, she defended a thesis doctorate in management sciences at Paris-Dauphine University dedicated to launchers warning from the banking sector. Whistleblowers, mobilization of ignorance like strategic resource in crisis situations and elite delinquency are its three subjects of
research.
Meghan Van Portfliet, MBA, PhD, Assistant Teaching Professor- SRS Division, Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado at Boulder
Dr. Meghan Van Portfliet received her PhD from Queen’s University of Belfast in 2019. Her research centers on the topics of whistleblowing and organizational ignorance, and she has been invited to speak on her research in Canada, Indonesia, the UK, the US and Ireland. She has published her research in journals such as The Journal of Business Ethics (a FT50 journal), Organization and ephemera: theory & politics in organisation and is an advisor for Transparency International Ireland on their Integrity at Work program.
Donal O’Connor – Solicitor, Transparency Legal Advice Centre
Donal O ‘Connor is a solicitor of 23 years experience, and held roles as a risk manager and compliance officer in the banking industry intensely dealing with regulatory compliance and risk. He has engaged with regulatory and supervisory authorities, and has experience in employment litigation, workplace investigations, the WRC, and the management of HR issues, policies and procedures. Donal is a graduate of University College Galway, and also holds an international qualification in Data Protection. As a solicitor in the Transparency Legal Advice Centre, Donal advises clients on Protected Disclosures.
Aoife Drudy – Head of Legal, Office of the Protected Disclosures Commissioner
Aoife Drudy is the Head of Legal for the Office of the Protected Disclosures Commissioner. She is also the Head of Legal for the Office of the Ombudsman, the Office of the Information Commissioner, the Office of the Commissioner for Environmental Information, the Commission for Public Service Appointments and the Standards in Public Office Commission.
Dr Simon Gerdemann – Legal Scholar, University of Gottingen
Dr Simon Gerdemann is a principal investigator of the German Research Foundation’s project on the ‘Impact Analysis of German and European Whistleblowing Law’, University of Göttingen.
Dr Vigjilenca Abazi – Founder, European Whistleblowing Institute
Dr. Vigjilenca Abazi is a legal scholar renowned for her expertise in whistleblowing. She is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the European Whistleblowing Institute. Dr. Abazi has spearheaded significant projects on whistleblowing in Europe, including receiving the esteemed VENI grant from the Dutch Research Council and collaborating with EUROCADRES. A trusted voice in policy-making, her contributions include co-drafting the model EU whistleblower law for the European Parliament, authoring reports for the Council of Europe, and overseeing compliance monitoring for the European Commission. Further,