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The Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and Special Representative for Combating Corruption, Ms Irini Charalambidou, leaves on Sunday for Washington DC to participate as a speaker at the World Bank Group's Global Forum on "Fighting Corruption for Development: Rebuilding Trust," to be held on June 26 and 27, 2023.
Opening remarks will be delivered by renowned Stanford University international economist Dr. Francis Fukuyama. Speakers will include representatives of governments, international organisations, private companies, academics, representatives of civil society and investigative journalists working in the field of anti-corruption.
The Forum is hosted by the World Bank Group and co-organised by, among others, the non-governmental organisation Transparency International, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the United States Government Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
The Forum aims to strengthen synergies between the various actors working to enhance transparency and integrity.
Ms. Charalambidou will be a panel speaker on the role of the media in fighting corruption and building trust.
Other topics include the role of the private sector in fighting corruption, new technologies that contribute to the fight against corruption and the role of supervisory authorities in promoting transparency and integrity.
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