Transparency International UK is an independent and a not-for-profit charitable company.  Our Annual Members meeting elects the Board of Trustees.  They work with the Executive to deliver our strategy and provide assurance that our charitable aims are effectively delivered. It is our policy to accept funding – whether monetary or in kind – from any donor, provided that it does not impair our independence to pursue our mission or endanger our integrity and reputation.

Our Strategy

Stopping Corruption, Promoting Integrity: Transparency International UK Strategy 2021-30

Since 1995, Transparency International UK has played a leading role in tackling corruption in the UK, Britain’s role in corruption overseas, and corruption in global sectors critical to international security and development.

Stopping Corruption, Promoting Integrity: Transparency International UK Strategy 2021-30 seeks to build on these strong foundations. It provides guiding principles to drive all of our programmes to achieve the greatest possible impact. It also underscores the need to address corruption with greater scale and ambition, across the UK and internationally.

Our Trustees and Advisory Council

Our Board of Trustees is elected by the Annual Members Meeting.

The Board is responsible for determining our strategy and policy as well as supervising our activities.

Trustees

  • Mike Millward

    Mike Millward

    Chair of Trustees

    Mike Millward’s career has spanned corporate security, fraud investigations, business intelligence and crisis response. His most recent role was that of founder and Managing Director of the business intelligence company MRC Global Risk where he advised clients entering new markets on how to mitigate and manage regulatory, operational and reputational risk. 

    He was previously a Managing Director at Kroll Associates advising clients on regulatory compliance and due diligence and, before joining Kroll, held a similar role at the US risk consultancy Corporate Risk International. Prior to his advisory roles, Mike was head of security and investigations at Merrill Lynch, responsible for corporate security, fraud investigations, due diligence and crisis response, having previously held a similar role at Mercury Communications. 

    Before entering the corporate sector, Mike served 12 years in the Royal Air Force in a number of investigative roles. In 2017, he was invited to join the Board of Hostage International where he is Hon Secretary responsible for the charity’s governance framework and contributes to the charity’s core activities. 

    Mike joined the Transparency International UK Board in November 2023.

  • Hilda Cheong

    Hilda Cheong

    Trustee and Treasurer

    Hilda Cheong is Ethics and Compliance Director at The Crown Estate where she is responsible for developing and implementing its compliance programme, providing guidance on ethical matters and fostering a culture of integrity across the organisation. Prior to this she was a Director in EY (Ernst & Young LLP) where she advised clients on financial crime compliance and internal investigations with a focus on bribery & corruption in the Financial Services sector in UK and Europe. 

    Hilda was a Governor with the City of London Academy Trust (Southwark Hub) from 2015 to 2024, having held roles in the Finance Committee as well as Chair and Vice-Chair. This provided her with insights on voluntary sector governance, strategy, performance monitoring and assurance. 

    Hilda joined the Transparency International UK Board in 2024.

    Hilda is Chair of the Finance, Risk and Audit Committee / Treasurer.

  • Elizabeth David-Barrett

    Professor Liz David-Barrett

    Trustee

    Liz David-Barrett is Professor of Governance and Integrity at the University of Sussex and Director of the Centre for the Study of Corruption. Her research focuses on corruption risks at the interface of business and government, including in state capture, public procurement and bribery in international business – and on approaches to countering these risks, including transnational governance networks in law enforcement and investigative journalism. Recent co-edited books include the Dictionary of Corruption (2023) and Understanding Corruption: How Corruption Works in Practice (2022). 

    Liz engages widely with anti-corruption practitioners globally, in international organisations, governments, the private sector and NGOs; she is also a Senior Advisor at Spotlight on Corruption. In 2022-23, she took leave from Sussex to head the Global Programme on Measuring Corruption at the International Anti-Corruption Academy. Before becoming an academic, Liz worked as a journalist in the Balkans for The Economist and Financial Times. 

    Liz joined the Transparency International UK board in November 2024.

  • Cat Evans

    Cat Evans

    Trustee

    Cat Evans is Director of European Operations and African Outreach at Independent Diplomat. She has extensive diplomatic experience gained from a UK government career specialising in conflict affected and fragile countries working on a range of political, security, development and humanitarian issues. 

    Cat was the British Ambassador to Mali and Non-Resident Ambassador to Niger (2018-2020) where she oversaw the expansion of UK engagement in the Sahel and was a member of the International Mediation for the 2015 Algiers Peace Agreement. She has also led various crisis management responses in the field, including the evacuation of UK nationals from Libya.

    Cat joined the Transparency International UK Board in October 2022.

Our Advisory Council members are appointed by the Board. 

They provide advice to the Board and Chief Executive drawing upon the diversity of their backgrounds from business, public service, unions, the voluntary sector, academia and the community.  

Our Advisory Council

  • David Nussbaum

    David Nussbaum

    President

    David was Chief Executive of The Elders, a group of independent global leaders – mainly former Presidents and UN Secretary Generals – founded by Nelson Mandela working together for peace, justice and human rights, until October 2021. David is now Chair of Anthesis Group, International Alert, and the Joffe Charitable Trust; he is also the Senior Independent Director of Drax Group plc; a Board (‘Council’) member of Chatham House, and of the International Budget Partnership; and a member of the Ethical Investment Advisory Group of the Church of England..

    David’s previously served as Chief Executive of WWF-UK from 2007 where he also chaired WWF’s Global Climate and Energy Initiative; Chief Executive of the Transparency International Secretariat based in Berlin; Finance Director and a Deputy Chief Executive of Oxfam; and as Finance Director of the European packaging business Field Group plc, through its management buyout and subsequent successful flotation on the London Stock Exchange. 

  • Lord Anderson

    The Lord Anderson of Ipswich KBE KC

    Advisory Board Member

    David Anderson (Lord Anderson of Ipswich KBE KC) is a cross-bench peer (since 2018) and a barrister practising from London in the fields of public, EU-related and human rights law. He is a member of the Courts of Appeal of Guernsey and Jersey, a Visiting Professor at King’s College London, and chair of the European Institute at University College London. He also co-chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Rule of Law and chairs the board of trustees of Inter Mediate, a charity founded by Jonathan Powell which facilitates peace negotiations in some of the world’s most complex and dangerous conflicts.

  • Edward Bickham

    Edward Bickham

    Advisory Board Member

    Edward Bickham is the Principal Senior Advisor at Critical Resource and Senior Adviser to the World Gold Council. He is recognised as a leading advisor on sustainability, stakeholder relations and governance issues in the mining and energy sectors. 

    Edward was formerly Executive Vice President, External Affairs for global mining group, Anglo American plc, between 2000 and Autumn 2009. He was Senior Adviser to the World Gold Council including on the development of the Conflict-Free Gold Standard and on resource nationalism (2010 -13) and, more recently, on the development of the Responsible Gold Mining Principles (2017 - ). 

    He was a trustee (2010 -19) and Chair (2015-19), of the Institute of Business Ethics, and has been a Trustee of CARE International UK and Chair of its Programme Committee. He is a Board Member of the International Cyanide Management Institute. He is a Visiting Fellow of Cranfield School of Management since 2010.

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    Laurence Cockcroft

    Advisory Board Member

    Laurence Cockcroft is a development economist whose interest and commitment to development in Africa has lasted since his first experience in Nigeria as a volunteer (VSO) in 1962.He subsequently worked in Africa for the governments of Zambia and Tanzania and later for the corporate sector (Booker Agriculture) for various international development agencies (FA), World Bank, UNIDO) and for a major UK charitable foundation. He has written and spoken widely on issues in African development and wrote a book on Africa‘s political economy, (Africa’s Way: a Journey from the Past) published in 1990. 

    Laurence is a founding member of Transparency International and was formerly chairman of its UK chapter, and is now a senior adviser to Transparency International UK and a member of Transparency International Secretariat. He is the author of 'Global Corruption: Money, Power, and Ethics in the Modern World'.

Transparency

Transparency International UK has a range of policies and procedures to help reduce the risk and impact of integrity violations within our work.

Our commitment to transparency includes voluntarily publishing these policies and procedures, alongside information regarding gifts and hospitality register, potential conflicts of interest and compliance with other ethical and healthy workplace requirements.