François Vincke

François Vincke was admitted to the Brussels Bar after a distinguished career of more than two decades serving as company lawyer, General Counsel and Secretary General of a multinational energy and chemicals corporation. He received his degrees from the Facultés universitaires Notre- Dame de la Paix in Namur, cum laude, from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, magna cum laude and from the Europa-Instituut of the University of Amsterdam. He was assistant professor at the Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen. He was for six years lay judge in the Commercial Court of Brussels.François Vincke serves as Chairman of the Anti-corruption Commission of the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris since 1994. This commission has written the “Rules and Recommendations on Extortion and Bribery in International Business Transactions” of ICC, which were originally issued in 1977, rewritten in 1996, revised in 1999 and adapted in 2005.

He is the co-editor and co-author of the following books: “Fighting Corruption, a Corporate Practices Manual”, ICC Publishing, Paris, 2003, “L’entreprise face à la mondialisation, opportunités et risques, strategies juridiques”, Brussels and Paris, 2006 and “The Fight against corruption in Belgium. Good corporate Practice”, Bruylant, Brussels, 2008. He is co-author of the books “Legal tracks, I, Essays on con- temporary corporate and finance law”, Brussels, 2003 and “Legal tracks, II, Essays on international and domestic contracts and torts”, Brussels, 2005.

He authored numerous articles on corporate governance, corporate practices (mainly addressing self regulation and anti-corruption) and competition and is often asked to speak about these subjects in various fora.

Fritz Heimann

Fritz Heimann an American corporate lawyer, is the Vice Chair of ICC’s Anti-Corruption Commission. He is the co-editor of “Fighting Corruption” and wrote four of its chapters. He is one of the founders of Transparency International and leads TI’s work on international conventions. He was formerly Associate General Counsel of the General Electic Company. Heimann is the co-author with Ben Heineman of “The Long War Against Corruption”, Foreign Affairs, May/June 2006, and “Arrested Development: The Fight Against International Corporate Bribery”, National Interest, November/December 2007.

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Carlos Natera

Carlos Natera is an international lawyer with experience in common law and civil law systems. During his LL.M. he majored in international business with emphasis in intellectual property, anti-corruption issues in global development, money laundering, corporate compliance and project and anti-terrorism financing. He has produced "The Role of the Israel Money Laundering Prohibition Authority to Combat Corruption" and "An Overview of Thailand's Anti-Corruption Legislation." He took special training for the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and has written about fraud in manufacturing in Thailand.

David Lyman

David Lyman is a graduate of Duke University (B.S.E.E.) in North Carolina, USA in 1958, and Hastings College of the Law (J.D.) in San Francisco, California in 1965. He joined Tilleke & Gibbins, Thailand’s oldest law firm, in 1967 following a career in the U.S. Navy Submarine Service, became a senior partner in 1984, and is currently the law firm’s Chairman and Chief Values Officer (CVO).

François Georges

François Georges graduated from the French Ecole Supérieure de Commerce et d’Administration des Entreprises (equivalent to a MBA). More than thirty five years of experience, mainly with EDF, one of the world’s leading energy companies (last position as Head of international corporate relations). Expertise in the field of international relations, sustainable development, corporate social responsibility and the fight against corruption. Since 2008, UN Global Compact senior advisor on the tenth principle (anti-corruption), Chairman of the French ICC commission on anti- corruption and member of its international commission. Also French foreign trade advisor and Senator of Junior Chamber international.

Frank Piantidosi

Mr. Piantidosi is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP (“Deloitte FAS”), and he also serves as the global leader of the Forensic & Dispute Services (“F&DS”) practices of the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu member firms and their affiliates (“DTT Member Firms”).

With over two decades dedicated to the development of the forensic investigations and dispute consulting discipline, Mr. Piantidosi’s experience transcends borders. He led the engagement relating to the Volcker Commission’s investigation of Swiss banks on behalf of Holocaust victims, which resulted in a $1.2 billion settlement and the return of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of assets to victims and their heirs.

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Jermyn P. Brooks

Jermyn P. Brooks qualified as both a UK chartered accountant and as a German Wirtschaftsprüfer, spending his accounting career with PricewaterhouseCoopers, from which he retired as Global Managing Partner in the year 2000. Since that time Jermyn has developed initiatives within Transparency International, the anti-corruption NGO, focusing on the private sector and now leads this effort as Director of Private Sector Programmes, being a frequent writer and speaker on the relationship between good accountability and sound ethical standards in business.

John Raven

John Raven is a Consultant to the World Bank, based in Brussels, Belgium. He was formerly Director General of the International Express Carriers Conference and is Adviser to the ICC Commission on Customs and Trade Regulations.

Jean-Pierre Méan

Jean-Pierre Méan has been General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer for SGS SA, the world leading verification, inspection and certification company from 1996 until 2008. In 2002 and 2003, he was Chief Compliance Officer for the European Bank for Development and Reconstruction in London before returning to his position at SGS. He is now a consultant on anticorruption and integrity and is representing Ethic Intelligence in Switzerland, an organisation certifying corporate anti-corruption systems.

Dr. Méan holds a doctor of laws degree from the University of Basle and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School and is admitted to the bar in Switzerland and Canada. He is Vice President of the Swiss Chapter of Transparency International and a member and of the Anticorruption Commission of the International Chamber of Commerce.

Mark Pieth

Mark Pieth is a Professor of Criminal Law at Basel University, Chairman of the OECD Working Group on Bribery in International Business Transactions, and Member of Swiss Federal Gaming Commission, Chairman of the Board of the Basel Institute on Governance. Formerly Member of the Independent Inquiry Committee into the Iraq Oil-for-Food Programme, the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF) and Head of Section of Economic and Organised Crime at Swiss Ministry of Justice & Police, member of Chemical Action Task Force on Precursor Chemicals, Chairman, UN Intergovernmental Expert Group Commission to determine the extent of illicit trafficking in drugs. Mark Pieth has published extensively in the fields of economic and organised crime, money laundering, corruption, sentencing and criminal procedure.

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Maximilian Burger-Scheidlin

Maximilian Burger-Scheidlin is Executive Director of ICC Austria and a member of the ICC and BIAC Commissions on Anti-Corruption, Paris. He extensively consults companies on foreign trade contracts, cross cultural negotiation tactics and on the prevention of commercial crime (corruption, counterfeiting, import-export fraud, espionage etc.). He is a lecturer at the Donau-University, Austria and member if the ICC World Council.

Michael N. Davies Q.C

Michael Davies joined General Electric Canada as Associate General Counsel and, in 1987, was appointed Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of the company. He retired in 2002. For almost ten years, he was Chair of the Bribery and Corruption Committee of the Canadian Council for International Business and in that capacity has been an active member of the ICC Commission on Anti-Corruption and of the Business and Industry Advisory (BIAC) Task Force on Corruption & Bribery to the OECD Working Group on Bribery in International Business Transactions. He was one of the founders of Transparency International and was, for many years, a director and Vice Chair of the Canadian Chapter of TI.

Phyllis A. Erikson

Phyllis A. Erikson, the retired Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of L.M. Huber Corporation, chaired the working group that developed the Anti-Bribery Toolkit for small and medium-sized enterprises for the Transparency International USA website.

Sandy Merber

Sandy graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, in 1970 with a degree in Physics, and received his JD from Georgetown University in 1975. From 1975 to 1984, he was Staff Attorney, Assistant to the Director, and Deputy Assistant Director at the Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Competition. In 1985 he was appointed Assistant General Counsel of the US Department of the Treasury, where he was the principal legal advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Enforcement, and was responsible for legal support for the Customs Service; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms; Secret Service; and Office of Foreign Assets Control. Sandy joined GE in 1989, and is a part of the International Law and Policy group.

Thomas Pletscher

Thomas Pletscher is a Member of the Executive Board of economiesuisse, Vice-Chair of the ICC Commission on Anti-Corruption and Chair of BIAC Task Force on Bribery and Corruption. As head of the legal and competition department at economie suisse, his main areas of personal responsibility include general legal issues, competition policy, corporate governance, financial market regulations, information society and security policy. He chairs the Swiss Experts group on Corporate Governance which issues the Swiss Code of Best Practice in Corporate Governance. In addition, he is a member of the Swiss Federal Competition Authority. He is also Secretary General of ICC Switzerland..