Board of Trustees

Laurence Cockcroft

Laurence Cockcroft is a development economist by profession who has been closely involved with issues relevant to the developing world, and particularly to Africa, since 1966. He has worked for the governments of Tanzania and Zambia, international organisations including the UN, FAO and World Bank, a large UK agribusiness company and for a private Foundation. Laurence published a book, 'Africa's Way: A Journey from the Past', in 1989 on the inter relationship of politics and development questions in Africa. He was a member of the international Board of TI from 1993-1999 and from 2002-2005 and has served on the Board of TI-UK since 1994.  He was Chairman of TI-UK from 2000 to 2008. Between 2000 and 2002 he chaired the international group which developed the Business Principles for Countering Bribery and he pioneered the work of TI-UK on Corruption in the Official Arms Trade.

Nicholas Colloff

Nicholas Colloff is a member of the senior management team at Oxfam GB as their Director of Innovation responsible for developing new approaches to poverty reduction presently focused on finance, renewable energy and urban development.  Prior to this he was Oxfam GB Country Director in Russia where programmes included improving access to essential services which included improving citizens' ability to know and secure their rights to accountable and transparent provision.  He has worked as the director of a venture philanthropy foundation and has helped build organisations working in prisons, the fields of mental health and literacy; and, in micro-finance.  In the latter field he is the founder of two banks and an investment fund located in Eastern Europe.  Nicholas joined the Board of TI-UK in January 2012.

Richard Constant MBE

Richard Constant is President and CEO of Kreab Gavin Anderson Worldwide, a world leading communications consultancy.  He is a non executive director of Homeland Renewable Energy Inc and a Trustee of Help for Heroes.  His early career was spent as a Regular Army Officer in The Royal Green Jackets and, apart from serving in Northern Ireland, Germany, Hong Kong and Cyprus he worked in the Ministry of Defence for The Vice Chief of the General Staff.  After the Army he joined Robert Fleming in their corporate finance department.  Currently he advises a number of UK companies and financial institutions on their financial, corporate and government communications strategies including related projects such as hostile bids and deals, crisis management and corporate responsibility.  He also advises a number of large international companies.  Richard joined the Board of TI-UK in 2009.

John Drysdale, Chairman

John Drysdale joined TI-UK after his retirement from merchant bankers Robert Fleming where his international career spanned over thirty years. John's contribution has been primarily in the financial field, having been Chairman of the working group which published two Reports, one on money laundering and the other on financial services providers.  John joined the Board of TI-UK in 2002 and became Chairman in 2008. He is Chairman of the Development and Nominations Committees and a member of the Membership Committee.  John is a member of the Audit Committee for the TI movement as a whole, based in Berlin and has represented TI-UK at the TI Annual Members Meeting and at other meetings where appropriate.  

Helen Garlick 

Helen Garlick is a barrister and until 2008 had spent her career in the Government Legal Service.  She joined the Serious Fraud Office at its inception in 1988 and worked on several complex fraud cases including Barlow Clowes and BCCI.  For several years she led the SFO’s Mutual Legal Assistance Unit and was their representative on the European Judicial Network.  As Head of the MLA Unit Helen worked on several international corruption cases.  Since leaving the SFO she has continued to be heavily involved in anti-corruption work.  She is a member of the Corruption Hunters Network, an invitation only international group of current and former heads of anti-corruption bodies supported by the Norwegian Government whose aim is to support and build capacity in countries where anti-corruption prosecutors are under severe pressure.  In 2009 she was appointed as Special Prosecutor to advise the government of the Turks and Caicos Islands.  Helen joined the Board of TI-UK in 2010.

Neil Holt

Neil Holt is the international Ethics & Business Conduct Director of the CH2M HILL group of companies, a US based global firm of consulting engineers, which acquired ownership of the Halcrow Group in November 2011. His earlier leadership in developing Halcrow’s detailed Guidelines on the Practice of Business Integrity resulted in an invitation to join the World Economic Forum sponsored ‘Engineering and Construction (E&C) Task Force for Countering Bribery’ a collective outcome of which was the ‘E&C Business Principles’ that were adopted by the World Economic Forum at Davos in January 2004. These subsequently formed the basis of the Partnering Against Corruption Initiative (PACI). Neil works with TI and colleagues from other companies in the engineering and construction sector, to develop and promote anti-corruption activities that are capable of being adopted as ‘best practice’ for both the public and private sectors. He was a founding member of the UK Anti-Corruption Forum and regularly participates in public and private sector sponsored anti-corruption activities, including the Ministry of Justice's working group that advised on the development of the UK Bribery Bill, which was enacted in the summer of 2011.  Neil joined the TI-UK Board in 2006 and is a member of the Finance and Audit and Nominations Committees.

Anne Moore-Williams

Anne Moore-Williams became a legal adviser to the Financial Services Authority in 2005, having practised as a barrister in the private and public sectors since being called to the bar in 1992. She is a specialist in regulatory, financial services, anti-corruption and commercial law. Anne holds an LLM from King's College, London and was called to the New York bar in 2000. Her career includes being a legal adviser to HM Treasury, The Treasury Solicitor's Department and the Law Commission for England & Wales. She has also acted as a legal consultant to the Department for International Development as regards corruption law reform projects. Before becoming a barrister, Anne worked for Reuters as a journalist. Anne joined the Board of TI-UK in 2003.

David Nussbaum

David Nussbaum has been the Chief Executive of WWF-UK, the environmental charity, since 2007. Prior to joining WWF, he was the Chief Executive of Transparency International, based at the International Secretariat in Berlin from 2002 to 2007. David is a Non-Executive Director of the quoted private equity fund Low Carbon Accelerator; and of the Fair Trade finance organisation Shared Interest. Until 2006, he was the (non-executive) Chair of Traidcraft plc, the leading UK Fair Trade company. Previously, David was Finance Director and a Deputy Chief Executive of Oxfam; and prior to that, was the Finance Director of Field Group plc.  David is a chartered accountant and holds degrees in theology from Cambridge and Edinburgh universities, an MSc in Finance from London Business School, and a DCL (hc) from Newcastle University.  David joined the Board of TI-UK in 2008 and is Chairman of the Membership Committee and a member of the Finance and Audit Committee.

Monty Raphael QC 

Monty Raphael QC is a solicitor and until 2005 he was Senior Partner at Peters & Peters where his present full time role is Special Counsel. His lifelong specialism has been white collar crime including corruption and money laundering. He is a past Chair of the Anti-Corruption Working Group of the International Bar Association and was the founder of its Business Crime Committee. He is a Director and Trustee of the Fraud Advisory Panel and Honorary Solicitor and Trustee of the Howard League for Penal Reform. Monty has written and spoken widely on corruption issues. He is Visiting Professor in Criminal Law at the University of Kingston and is the author of ‘Blackstone’s Guide to the Bribery Act’.  Monty has been a member of TI-UK since shortly after it was formed and he joined the Board in 2006.  He was appointed Queen’s Counsel (Honoris Causa) in 2011.

Ian Trumper, Honorary Treasurer

Ian Trumper is a Chartered Accountant and senior managing director of FTI Forensic Accounting Ltd, a firm specialising in a range of civil, criminal and regulatory investigation work, and which is owned by FTI Consulting Inc a US listed company. His particular expertise lies in forensic investigations and expert accounting in civil and criminal litigation. Ian is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and a Member of the Academy of Experts. In 1988 he was seconded to the Serious Fraud Office as an Assistant Director and since that time has specialized in financial investigation work either working for corporate or for regulatory and prosecution agencies. Ian has carried out corruption investigations in Africa, the Far East and Eastern Europe. He has been Honorary Treasurer of TI-UK for several years and joined the Board in 2003.  Ian is Chairman of the Finance and Audit Committee.

Professor Alyson Warhurst

Alyson is CEO and founder of Maplecroft, the leading source of extra-financial risk analysis for the world’s largest multinational corporations; banks and asset managers; governments and NGOs.  Coming from an academic background, Alyson now advises global companies and organisations at board level on issues including: global and political risks, human rights, ethical supply chains, corporate reputation and responsibility. She is a consultant to the World Economic Forum and is on the Board of Trustees at Transparency International UK.  From 1999 to 2009 Alyson was Chair of Strategy and International Development at Warwick Business School, where she won the inaugural Faculty Pioneer “Beyond Grey Pinstripes Award” (called by the FT the “Business School Oscars”) and was made an Honorary Professor in 2010. She is an accomplished speaker at high-level international events and has written several books and more than one hundred articles, including a regular column for Business Week.

Karl A Ziegler

Karl Ziegler is a US National and has been London-based since 1968. A graduate of Andover, Yale and the Harvard Business School he worked in banking for seventeen years, eight of which were served in Kenya. Karl became one of the first members of TI-UK in 1994 and joined the Board on its inception. He is also the founding director of The Centre for Accountability and Debt Relief (CADRE) (1991), whose research on the need for auditing in debt relief and development assistance has been accepted in major public and private sector areas, not least in the TI global movement. In 1996, he co-founded and is Chief Executive of the registered Charity, The Kinnerton Research Centre (KRC), which studies the challenges of corporate best practice in such difficult environments as Russia and Sub-Saharan Africa.