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Images/Transparency Protection in the Member States Empowering Professionals the magazine LUMNUS IACAIssue XIX, March 2019 INTERVIEWS with Richard L. Cassin Huguette Labelle Barbara Neiger ALUMNI CONTRIBUTIONS Juliano Franco Neda Grozeva Holy R. Ralaiharinoro ISSUE XIX, MARCH 2019 Empowering Professionals the magazine IssueIACA XIX, March 2019 LUMNUS Welcome Word CONTENTS Dear Alumni, With winter upon us, this issue of IACAlumnus INTERVIEWS provides a good look back on the preceding with Richard L. Cassin months which have kept IACA alumni and staff Huguette Labelle Barbara Neiger busy. During the summer IACA welcomed many Interview Interview Interview ALUMNI CONTRIBUTIONS Juliano Franco more alumni to its network with an array of Neda Grozeva Holy R. Ralaiharinoro open and tailor-made trainings in Laxenburg and beyond. We looked to new alumni for their IACAlumnus - the magazine is the alumni magazine of the International contributions and are pleased to include Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA), addressing alumni around the world who have submissions from alumni who attended recent participated in and, in general, completed at least one of IACA’s programmes or programmes including the eighth edition of activities. the Summer Academy and the fourth edition IACAlumnus - the magazine welcomes contributions by alumni. As a forum to of the Regional Summer Academy which was exchange ideas and latest developments, and feature the career paths of our held in Beijing, China, for anti-corruption alumni, we seek to provide you with a medium to stay connected. To contribute to and compliance practitioners from East and RICHARD L. HUGUETTE BARBARA the magazine please contact [email protected]. Southeast Asia. CASSIN LABELLE NEIGER IACA reserves the right to select and edit any contribution to suit the 06 10 14 publication. We will not consider contributions that have already been Topics covered in issue XIX of IACAlumnus published, in any form, in print or online. include proposed EU whistleblower protection by Juliano Franco, the role of NGOs in the fight against corruption in Bulgaria by Neda inside EDITORIAL Mariana A. Rissetto, Isabelle Kermeen, Ivan Zupan Grozeva, and corruption and migration nexus by Ruggero Scaturro. DESIGN Adrian Ciupagea You can read interviews with key anti- IACA Alumni The Proposal for Impact corruption figures in this issue including 04 Mapping 20 a Directive of the 28 stories PHOTOGRAPHS Richard Cassin, founder, publisher, and editor- European Union on IACA, iStock.com in-chief of the FCPA Blog, Huguette Labelle, the Protection of Alumni Team Vice Chairperson on IACA’s International Whistleblowers PUBLISHER Senior Advisory Board, and Barbara Neiger, International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA) From AoP 2018. international independent lead auditor for Muenchendorfer Strasse 2 17 In Focus: IACA Compliance/Anti-bribery Management Systems. Juliano Franco 2361 Laxenburg, Austria Programmes MACS +43 (0)2236 710 718 100 38 Graduation www.iaca.int We hope you enjoy the read! Keep an eye Alumni Team [email protected] out on our website for upcoming activities Connecting 2018 and announcements about the next issue of 24 Corruption and PRINT IACAlumnus. Migration Alumni Team Federal Ministry of Defence and Sports/Armed Forces The Role of NGOs Printing Centre, Vienna, Austria. Sincerely, R 2018 in the Fight Against E 18 The Alumni team Ruggero Scaturro MB Corruption and Upcoming WAIVER E C the Necessity of IACA promotes academic freedom. The contents of this magazine reflect the E 39 Events opinions of the contributors and do not necessarily represent the views or Reframing Efforts Meet IACA 2019 : 5 D official position of IACA. Neither IACA nor its staff members or partners shall be E 26 Alumni team liable for any inaccuracy, incompleteness, unavailability or error of the Neda Grozeva information provided. Alumni Team DITORIAL DAT DITORIAL 2 INTERNATIONAL ANTI-CORRUPTION AcADEMY E 3 ISSUE XIX, MARCH 2019 Greenland (Denmark) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ICELAND FINLAND SWEDEN RUSSIAN FEDERATION NORWAY ESTONIA RUSSIAN LATVIA FEDERATION DENMARK CANADA LITHUANIA IACA RUS. FED. 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