Board of Directors
PTF’s Board of Directors brings together a diverse range of individuals from different parts of the world with extensive experience of anti-corruption and international economic development. They meet at least twice per year to review PTF’s progress; discuss its financial, audit, and governance developments; and consider key strategic issues.
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Frank Vogl
Frank is a founding member of the Board of the PTF, a former Vice Chairman, and the Manager of the PTF Anti-Corruption Forum. Frank is also a co-founder of Transparency International and a former Vice…...
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Dirk Mattheisen
Dirk Mattheisen became President of PTF in December of 2021. He is an independent governance professional who provides guidance on corporate governance to international economic and...
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Jonas Mbwangue
Jonas Mbwangue is an economic policy specialist with more than 17 years of experience in the design, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of development projects, programs, and policies, particular in the sectors of agriculture, health,…...
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Bhuvan Bhatnagar
Bhuvan Bhatnagar is a seasoned leader in international development who has worked in two premier multilateral development banks, a grassroots NGO, five global regions, 40+ countries, multiple sectors, and complex corporate roles for 25+ years,…...
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Mervyn King
Mervyn King is a Senior Counsel and former Judge of the Supreme Court of South Africa. He is Professor Extraordinaire at the University of South Africa on Corporate Citizenship, Honorary Professor at the University of…...
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Cissy Kagaba
Cissy Kagaba is a lawyer and the Executive Director of the Anti- Corruption Coalition Uganda (ACCU). Cissy has considerable wealth of experience in human rights and governance related issues having worked with the Uganda Human…...
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Avneet Kohli
Avneet Kohli is a Director with PwC’s Forensic Services Practice in Washington D.C. Her work experience includes assistance in several accounting fraud investigations, anti-corruption compliance assessments, anti-corruption due diligence, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) investigations,…...
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Nathaniel Heller
Nathaniel Heller is the vice president and managing director at Geneva Global, a mission-driven company that helps foundations, organizations, and individuals achieve positive social change through effective philanthropy. From 2017-2019 he served as the executive…...
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Richard Holloway
Richard is an international development professional specialising in training and implementing CSO institutional development, good governance, social accountability, advocacy, and project cycle...
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Casey Kelso
Casey Kelso has been a senior consultant on advocacy strategy and communications since March 2020, with experience living in and working with activists in Sub-Saharan Africa (particularly Southern Africa) and the Arab world (Middle East…...
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Karin Millett
Dr. Karin Millett is an experienced international development expert with broad geographic experience (Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, East/Southeastern Europe and Central Asia), and in-depth experience in...
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Christiaan Poortman
Christiaan (Chrik) Poortman is Board Member of Partnership for Transparency, which supports citizens and civil society organizations improve governance in developing and emerging countries. He is also a...
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Jean-Louis Sarbib
Jean-Louis Sarbib is currently Chief Executive Officer at Development Gateway, an international nonprofit social enterprise with the mission to reduce poverty in developing nations by improving aid effectiveness...
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Shruti Shah
Shruti Shah is the President & CEO of the Coalition for Integrity, where she leads the Coalition’s development and promotion of approaches to combat corruption in business and government. She also leads Coalition...
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Tjaarda Storm Van Leeuwen
Tjaarda P. Storm van Leeuwen is Treasurer of PTF and a part-time energy sector adviser. He retired from the World Bank in 2010, as Adviser and co-manager of the Africa Energy Unit in the Africa…...
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Indira Sandilya
Indira Sandilya is a development communication professional, with many years of work experience in India, Philippines and elsewhere. In India, at the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), an industry lobby group, she designed communication materials.…...
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Hasan Tuluy
Hasan Tuluy is currently a consultant and adviser on economic and social development matters with experience in Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. Since 2014, he has been working primarily...
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Pietronella van den Oever
Pietronella van den Oever is retired from the World Bank and is currently (2011 – 2012) a Visiting Scholar at the Population Reference Bureau in Washington DC, where she is writing a book about her…...
President’s Councillors
President’s Councillors are individuals who have made valuable contributions to PTF and continue to provide guidance and advice.
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Richard Stern
Richard Stern became President of PTF in January 2014. Richard is a retiree from the World Bank where he worked for 30 years. His positions included Vice President of Human Resources, Director for Energy...
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Vinay Bhargava
Vinay served as the senior adviser for Public Sector Governance at the World Bank in 2006-7. From 2002-06 he was World Bank Director of International Affairs and Operations and was responsible for outreach to civil society organizations. Prior to that he was for six years the World Bank’s Resident Representative and Country...
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John Clark
John Clark served as PTF’s Board Chair from 2014-2020. Mr. Clark has worked with development NGOs, the World Bank, United Nations, universities, and as advisor to governments on development and civil society issues. His career has focused on poverty reduction, participation, civil society, globalization and bridging the gap...
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Peter Eigen
Prof. Dr. Peter Eigen is from Germany. A lawyer by training, he founded Transparency International in 1993. Prior to that he worked in different capacities at the World Bank. Peter has worked as a World Bank manager of programs in Africa and Latin America and was the Director of the Regional Mission for Eastern Africa of the...
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Pierre Landell-Mills
Pierre served as PTF’s President and CEO for the organization’s first decade and has been a member of the PTF Board since February 2002. He is a principal of The Policy Practice. He served in the World Bank for 26 years before retiring in 1999. His positions included Country Director, Bangladesh, senior policy advisor on public...
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Daniel Ritchie
Daniel is an independent consultant on economic development. He served in the World Bank for almost 30 years before retiring in 1997. His positions included Director for North Africa and Iran, Director of the Asia Region Technical Department, Deputy Director, Personnel Department, Chief, India Country...
Management and Staff
Members of the PTF Management Team volunteer their services. They are seasoned development and management experts with diverse backgrounds who oversee and direct all aspects of PTF’s operations.
PTF also maintains a small staff and consultants to support program development and evaluation, financial management, technology solutions, communications strategies, and more.
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Dirk Mattheisen
Dirk Mattheisen became President of PTF in December of 2021. He is an independent governance professional who provides guidance on corporate governance to international economic and...
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Richard Stern
Richard Stern became President of PTF in January 2014. Richard is a retiree from the World Bank where he worked for 30 years. His positions included Vice President of Human Resources, Director for Energy...
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Haleh Bridi
Haleh Bridi is Chair of PTF Europe and a member of the Management Team. Haleh is a former Director for the Africa External Communications and Partnerships (AFREC) unit in the Africa Region (AFR). She has…...
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Hadi Abushakra
Hadi Abushakra has recently retired from the World Bank. A lawyer by training, he worked for 26 years at the World Bank and held a number of leadership positions. Prior to that, he was a practicing...
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Vinay Bhargava
Vinay served as the senior adviser for Public Sector Governance at the World Bank in 2006-7. From 2002-06 he was World Bank Director of International Affairs and Operations and was responsible...
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Dante de los Angeles
Dante de los Angeles is a Board Member, Treasurer and Managing Director of PTF Asia, a subsidiary of Partnership for Transparency Fund (PTF) based in Manila, Philippines. He was a PTF Board...
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Simon Gray
Simon Gray has extensive experience working internationally with the World Bank for over 25 years. He held multiple positions, including team leader in private sector and finance for the Africa Region...
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Lars Jeurling
Lars Jeurling has been an adviser to the Partnership for Transparency Fund since 2004 working mostly on Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. Lars worked for nearly 30 years at the World Bank in…...
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Barbara Kafka
Barbara Kafka served for over 33 years at the World Bank in a range of posts which involved her in the economic and social development of countries across Africa, the Middle East and North Africa,…...
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Franz Kaps
Lawyer by training (Masters in Law and German Bar examination) World Bank 1970-2007: Operational assignments in Central America; Egypt; Yugoslavia; Senegal (World Bank Resident Representative)...
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Jeff Kass
Jeff has been a PTF member since April, 2011, serves on the PTF Management and Governance Committees and advises PTF projects in Africa and Asia. He is currently an independent consultant on strategy...
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Daniel Ritchie
Daniel is an independent consultant on economic development. He served in the World Bank for almost 30 years before retiring in 1997. His positions included Director for North Africa and Iran...
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Indira Sandilya
Indira Sandilya is a development communication professional, with many years of work experience in India, Philippines and elsewhere. In India, at the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), an industry...
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Eleanor Schreiber
Ellie has been a member of PTF since 2011. She has worked on PTF projects in Latin America and Eastern Europe in the education, health and rule of law areas and co-managed the Eastern European…...
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Jane Schubert
Jane is retired from a US government contractor whose funding sources were USAID and the World Bank, plus some private foundations. Her professional field is education — launched as a secondary school...
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Gaiv Tata
During his 28 years with the World Bank, Gaiv worked on private sector development, public enterprise reform/privatization and financial sector development/financial inclusion. He also worked on country programs in Sub-Saharan Africa and MENA regions and…...
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Eluned Schweitzer
Eluned Schweitzer has been involved with international development for about twenty years, working in a variety of capacities on social welfare, education and health projects. She specializes in...
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Tjaarda Storm Van Leeuwen
Tjaarda P. Storm van Leeuwen is Treasurer of PTF and a part-time energy sector adviser. He retired from the World Bank in 2010, as Adviser and co-manager of the Africa Energy Unit in the Africa…...
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Roger Sullivan
Roger Sullivan is an International Economist and Team Coach who works on global development issues. He has been a regular contributor and editor to several World Bank Africa reports, including the Kenya...
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Pietronella van den Oever
Pietronella van den Oever is retired from the World Bank and is currently (2011 – 2012) a Visiting Scholar at the Population Reference Bureau in Washington DC, where she is writing a book about her…...
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Geert van der Linden
Geert van der Linden has held various senior management positions in international development. As a vice president at the Asian Development Bank, Geert held the co-responsibility for giving...
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Lorena Curry
Born in Buenos Aires, where she received her degree in Accounting from the University of Buenos Aires and subsequently found employment with the American Embassy in Argentina. Moved to the United States...
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Samuel Stalls
Samuel Stalls is the Program Manager for the Partnership for Transparency. Prior to joining PTF in June 2020, he implemented and managed programs and services for highly vulnerable populations...
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Jillian Hess
Jillian Hess is the Communications Director at Partnership for Transparency. She has communications and program management expertise, as well as experience in event planning and business development. Prior to joining PTF in September 2022, Jillian…...
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Rachel Ansley
Rachel Ansley joins PTF as a communications specialist with development experience. She served in the Peace Corps as a literacy specialist in Guyana...
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Andrew Wells
Andrew Wells is the Program Coordinator for Partnership for Transparency. Prior to joining PTF, Andrew was the Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist and Development Coordinator for Pathways Togo...
