Shruti Shah Letter on COVID-19 Transparency
April 30, 2020C4I President and CEO Shruti Shah recently published a letter to the editors of the Washington Post urging leadership and transparency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read the letter here.
Coalition for Integrity on COVID-19 Oversight
April 30, 2020Coalition for Integrity recently published a piece in The Global Anticorruption Blog on integrity and oversight in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially related to recent stimulus packages. Read the post here.
Call for Nominations: 2020 Integrity Award and Corporate Leadership Award
April 30, 2020The Integrity Award is designed to recognize contributions by an individual or organization to the advancement of the fight against corruption and to the promotion of transparency and accountability within business, government and civil society in the United States or abroad. The previous recipients of the Integrity Award are United States Representative Carolyn Maloney, United States Senator Chuck Grassley, William F. Browder, CEO & Founder, Hermitage Capital Management, the late United States Senator John McCain, former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, former President Jimmy Carter, Sir James D. Wolfensohn, former President of The World Bank Group, former U.S. Senator Richard G. Lugar, former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Paul Volcker.
The Coalition for Integrity Corporate Leadership Award is designed to recognize leadership level contributions by a company to corporate anti-corruption compliance, transparency, business ethics and integrity, including internal innovations and contributions in shaping collective action initiatives with other industry members. Previous recipients of the Corporate Leadership Award are FedEx, Parsons Corporation, Bechtel Group, Inc., General Electric, The Coca-Cola Company, Fluor Corporation, Raytheon Company and PepsiCo.
The awards will be presented at the Coalition for Integrity’s 2020 Integrity Award Dinner, the signature fundraising and anti-corruption awareness raising event of the Coalition for Integrity.
To be eligible, the individual or organization, in addition to having a reputation for integrity, must have a demonstrated and sustained track record of actions and ideas relating to the promotion of ethics and integrity, anti-corruption programs and/or corporate social responsibility in the U.S and/or internationally.
Nominations may be submitted by a person(s) or organizations(s). To be eligible for consideration, a nomination form with details of the nominee, the person or organization submitting the nomination, and the reasons for the nomination must be submitted. The deadline for submission of nominations is July 31, 2020.
The Integrity Award nomination form is available here, and the Corporate Leadership Award nomination form is available here.
To review the award nomination guidelines, please click here.
Call for Nominations: 2020 Integrity Award and Corporate Leadership Award
April 30, 2020In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Coalition for Integrity is heartened by the displays of courage and integrity among so many officials and workers in the relief effort. In this spirit, we are pleased to announce a call for nominations for our 2020 Integrity Award and Corporate Leadership Award. Read more here.
Coalition for Integrity’s Evaluation of United States’ Foreign Bribery Enforcement
March 16, 2020The Coalition for Integrity has submitted comments to the OECD in connection with the Phase 4 Evaluation of the United States’ Implementation of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention. Read the comments here.
Integrity First- Alan Larson- Chairperson C4I Board of Directors
March 4, 2020Our Board Chair, Alan Larson using his deep foreign service experience and his services as both Ambassador to the OECD and Under Secretary of State for economic, business and agricultural affairs has contributed an excellent article to the Foreign Service Journal.
In the article he explains how corruption is a deadly virus that can infect any nation. Fighting corruption abroad and banishing it from U.S. foreign policy must be core responsibilities of U.S. diplomats. “Integrity First” should be a central tenet of U.S. foreign policy initiatives and fundamental to the way foreign policy professionals help formulate and conduct foreign policy. Read more here.
PROTECT THE RULE OF LAW AND JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE
March 4, 2020In recent actions, President Trump and Attorney General Barr have undercut U.S. credibility in the fight against corruption and undermined U.S. efforts to influence good governance around the world. Prompt action is necessary to reestablish trust that rule of law and judicial independence will be protected. Otherwise, these actions will upend years of efforts to combat corruption at home and around the world.
Read Coalition for Integrity’s statement on protecting the rule of law and judicial independence here.
Integrity First – Alan Larson- Chairperson of the C4I Board of Directors
March 4, 2020Our Board Chair, Alan Larson using his deep foreign service experience and his services as both Ambassador to the OECD and Under Secretary of State for economic, business and agricultural affairs has contributed an excellent article to the Foreign Service Journal.
In the article he explains how corruption is a deadly virus that can infect any nation. Fighting corruption abroad and banishing it from U.S. foreign policy must be core responsibilities of U.S. diplomats. “Integrity First” should be a central tenet of U.S. foreign policy initiatives and fundamental to the way foreign policy professionals help formulate and conduct foreign policy. Read more here
How Africa’s richest woman bought her way out of scrutiny from Western banks
February 11, 2020Shruti Shah quoted in the Luanda Leaks story about the vulnerability of real estate to laundered money and the lack of due diligence by the real estate industry on buyer’s identities and the sources of their funds. Read more here
New – Coalition for Integrity Podcast on VA Ethics
February 11, 2020Virginia has done nothing to address the lack of enforcement power of its ethics agencies despite scoring in the bottom 10% of all states in the S.W.A.M.P Index. It is important that state ethics agencies have the power to independently investigate, hold public hearings, and issue subpoenas, reprimands, and fines. A toothless ethics agency cannot serve the public well. Michael Deal’s podcast interviewing Ms. Shah, President and CEO of the Coalition for Integrity and discussing the Coalition’s work to change dismal state of VA ethics is now live: http://democracy4change.org/virginia-among-the-worst-states-in-the-union-in-terms-of-ethics-and-transparency/