Webcast interview with Mark Pieth - film

The IBA held a live webcast interview and Q&A on Thursday 16 December 2010 with one of the world's leading experts in combatting corruption. For 20 years, Professor Mark Pieth has chaired the Organisation for Economic Development and Co-operation (OECD) Working Group on Bribery in International Business Transactions.

In 2004 Professor Pieth was appointed by the UN Secretary General to the Independent Inquiry Committee into the Iraq Oil-For-Food Programme. In 2008, he was made a member of the Integrity Advisory Board of the World Bank, advising the President of the Bank and the Audit Committee on integrity issues.

Topics include:

  • The significance and goals of the IBA/OECD/UNODC Anti-Corruption Strategy for the Legal Profession
  • Current and future challenges in combatting international corruption
  • The role that the legal profession and others can play in confronting corruption