Transparency International UK welcomes new Chairman

Friday, 21 November 2008

Welcoming new Chairman John Drysdale to the Board of Transparency International UK, Executive Director Chandrashekar Krishnan said:

“John Drysdale, with his broad range of interests and expertise, has made valuable contributions to TI(UK)’s work, particularly in the area of combating money laundering.  TI(UK)’s management team looks forward to working with him as Chairman at a time when the spotlight is very much on the UK’s approach to tackling corruption.“

Commenting on his new role, Chairman John Drysdale said:

“I am very much looking forward to my new role and continuing the good work of my predecessor Laurence Cockcroft. The recent OECD Working Group on bribery highlighted key failings notably the UK’s failure to comply with the 1997 Convention. I am looking forward to raising the profile of the fight against corruption both in the UK and abroad.”

Notes to the editor

John Drysdale is a Chartered Accountant and former banker who, as Chairman of the Transparency International (UK) Money Laundering Working Group, oversaw the research and production of the reports ‘Clean Money, Dirty Money  – Corruption and Money Laundering in the UK’ and ‘One Problem, Two Standards  – A report on the Regulation of Trust and Company Service Providers’ in 2003 and 2004 respectively. He was with Robert Fleming, the merchant bank, for 30 years and during that time gained wide experience of banking operations in the Far East, the Middle East as well as the UK and Europe. John became a member of TI(UK) in 2000 and in 2002 he joined the TI(UK) Board. In the same year he was invited to become a member of the Audit Committee of the Transparency International Secretariat in Berlin.