Elena Panfilova
Business & Management Speaker
Biography
Elena Panfilova graduated from Moscow State University's Department of Political Science and the Diplomatic Academy's Political Science Department with a specialization in international development. She began her career as a freelance political columnist before taking a position with the OECD. In 2000, Mrs. Panfilova returned to Russia to establish the local branch of Transparency International.
Transparency International is a global network including more than 90 locally established national chapters and chapters-in-formation. These bodies fight corruption in the national arena in a number of ways. They bring together relevant players from government, civil society, business and the media to promote transparency in elections, in public administration, in procurement and in business. TI's global network of chapters and contacts also use advocacy campaigns to lobby governments to implement anti-corruption reforms.
TI has the skills, tools, experience, expertise as well as broad participation to fight against corruption on the ground, through global and regional initiatives. Now in its second decade, Transparency International is maturing, intensifying and diversifying its fight against corruption, and Elena, its Russian Director, describes her situation thus:
"I would say that, from the very beginning, the older generation and the younger generation created the concept of state-capture in a very sophisticated way. The young minds needed capital and the former communist elite had it, but they had no market strategy on how to develop it into so called 'clean wealth' through privatization schemes or the trading of shares. ... The very beginning, our elite formulated quite an interesting combination of state-capture of the already captured state, where no formal guys have really left their offices and privatization was done by the same groups of people who had been working in the Soviet structures, but with the added enthusiasm and thinking of a new elite."
Elena Panfilova beliefs that everything is possible and corruption is not a cultural phenomena: "There is always the possibility of cleaning up at least some sectors."
Panfilova's work and that of her organization show ways how this aim is best achieved and how solutions can be worked for the benefit of societies and countries. With their approach and working methods, Transparency International and its ambitious head are also setting standards in efficient NGO organisation.
Expertise
Topics: "Challenges of Campaign Finance Monitoring in Transition Democracies: Focus on Abuse of Public Funds"; "The Abuse of Administrative Resources"
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