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Biography

Mrs Olga Savran is the Advisor on Global Relations at the Anti-Corruption Division of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). In this capacity, she leads the Anti-Corruption Network for Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ACN) since 2003, where she developed a programme of peer reviews for the countries of the region, as well as thematic peer learning work on corruption prevention in public administration and on business integrity. Since 2015, Mrs Savran also works on the Anti-Corruption Initiative for Asia-Pacific that is supported by the OECD together with the ADB. Mrs Savran leads the OECD's work on regional and global law-enforcement networks for anti-corruption investigators and prosecutors. She started her career with the OECD in 1996, and over the past years was involved in public governance reforms in the OECD member states as well as in the transition economies. She worked as a senior anti-corruption advisor in SIGMA, EU-OECD programme on public administration, where she conducted anti-corruption assessments and coordinated technical assistance to the EU candidate and neighbouring states, and at the OECD-MENA Investment Programme, where she led the work on business integrity in the Arab countries. Mrs. Savran was educated at the Kiev State University and the University of Amsterdam.