International Anti-Corruption Advisory Board

Carlos Castresana

Carlos Castresana has been a practicing Attorney, Magistrate, Investigating Judge and Public Prosecutor for more than 30 years. In 1989 he became a member of the Career of Public Prosecutors of Spain. Since that time he has worked in the Prosecution Offices of Barcelona and Madrid, as well as in the Anti-drug and Anti-corruption Special Prosecution Offices. In 2005 he was promoted to the Supreme Court of Spain.

In 2007, the UN Secretary General appointed Dr. Castresana as Commissioner against Impunity in Guatemala, with the category of Assistant Secretary General of the UN. Dr. Castresana worked in this post until 2010. In recognition of his work in Guatemala Dr. Castresana received the Medal of Honor as Commendatore della Repubblica from Italy, the Grand Cross badge of Honor from Guatemala, the title of Officer of the Legion of Honor from France, and the Order of the Civil Merit from Spain.

He is also a Professor of Criminal Law at Carlos III University of Madrid, and International Criminal Law at the University of San Francisco, California, and Haverford College, Pennsylvania. Dr. Castresana is also a recipient of the National Award for Human Rights in Spain and holds the title of Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Guadalajara, Mexico, and Central University of Chile. In 2016 he was awarded the First Prize for Transparency, Integrity and Fighting Corruption by the General Counsel of Lawyers of Spain and Transparency International. Currently, he is the Head of the Department of Criminal Law in Estudio Jurídico Ejaso, a law firm based in Spain and Portugal.

Anca Jurma

Anca Jurma is Councilor of the Chief Prosecutor of the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA). From December 2002 – March 2017 she was Chief prosecutor of the International Cooperation Service of the DNA. In her capacity, she dealt with under DNA competence (corruption and EU frauds); European integration preparation and since 2006 following CVM mechanism implementation; management of the technical assistance programs in the benefit of or with the participation of DNA. From 2000 to 2002 she was Chief prosecutor of the International Cooperation and Programs Office of the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the Supreme Court of Justice (POSCJ). From 1999-2000 she served as Chief prosecutor of the Professional Training Office at POSCJ.

In 1990-1999 she was prosecutor first at Prosecutor’s Office attached to the 3rd District Court, then at Prosecutor’s Office attached to the Tribunal and finally at the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the Court of Appeal of Bucharest.

Giovanni Kessler

2011-2017 - director General OLAF. Giovanni Kessler is an Italian prosecutor. He served as Public Prosecutor in the criminal courts of Trento, Bolzano and at the Anti-Mafia Department in Sicily from 1986 until 1998. He dealt with organised crime, corruption and financial crimes.

In 2001, he was elected to the Italian Parliament as independent member. He sat on the Justice Affairs Committee and during his five-year term, he authored numerous bills on the International Criminal Court, the European Convention against corruption, the International Judiciary Cooperation and the European Arrest Warrant. From 2003-2006, he also became Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

In 2012, he was elected President of the European Partners Against Corruption / European Anti-Corruption Network (EPAC/EACN), a formal network comprising close to fifty anti-corruption authorities from European Union Member States. The Network was set up to improve cooperation between authorities mandated with the fight against corruption in the European Union, as well as to foster closer relations between Member States and the European institutions.

In 2013, he also became a Member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities (IAACA). IAACA has more than three hundred organisational members which cover nearly all law enforcement national institutions and bodies entrusted with the task of fighting against corruption and more than two thousand individual members, including prosecutors, investigators and experts with experience in anti-corruption research or practice.

Drago Kos

Drago Kos is currently the Chair of the OECD Working Group on Bribery in International Business Transactions, Co-Chair of the Defence Corruption Monitoring Committee in Ukraine and advisor to the Kosovo Anti-Corruption Agency. He used to be International Commissioner and Chair of the Joint Independent Anti-Corruption Monitoring and Evaluation Committee (MEC) in Afghanistan. Between 2003 and 2011 he was the Chairman of the Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO). Between 2011 – 2012 he was a special advisor to the Anti-Corruption Agency of the Republic of Serbia. He is also a former member of COGEL (US Council on the Government Ethics Laws) Global Affairs Committee.

Between 2004 and 2010 he was the first Chairman of the Commission for the Prevention of Corruption in Slovenia. Prior to that he was a Deputy Director of the Slovenian Criminal Investigation Directorate and the Head of the Organised Crime Section of the Slovenian Police.

From October 2010 he is managing partner in R.U.R., LLC, consultancy company, registered in Slovenia. In 2014 he was leading the Slovenian Chamber of Commerce’s Working Group producing the first Guidelines on Slovenian Corporate Integrity.

Daniel Thelesklaf

Daniel Thelesklaf is the Chairman of Moneyval, a Swiss national and a lawyer by profession, is the Director of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of Liechtenstein since 2012. In this capacity, he also chairs the national AML/CFT working group. He has 20 years of experience in Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Combatting the Financing of Terrorism (CFT) and Anti-Corruption work.

After a career in the private sector as Head of Legal and Compliance in a Swiss bank, he joined the Federal Office for Police in 1998 to become the first Director of the Swiss FIU. In 2001, he was appointed as Director of the Liechtenstein supervisory agency responsible for AML/CFT. After that he worked as consultant in various anti-money laundering, anti-terrorist financing and anti-corruption projects and technical assistance missions - mainly in the Caribbean, Eastern and Central Europe and in various Central Asian countries - for the Council of Europe, the IMF, the UN and the OECD.

From 2008-2011, he was Executive Director of the Basel Institute on Governance and supervised the activities of the International Centre for Asset Recovery. From 2005-2015, he acted as Chair of the Anti-Corruption Network (ACN) of the OECD. From 2012-2015, he was also the Chair of the Egmont Training Working Group and a member of the Egmont Committee.

Jesper Hjortenberg

Jesper Hjortenberg is Deputy Prosecutor General in Denmark, Prosecutor General’s Office.

He was born 25/3 1960 at Frederiksberg, Copenhagen.

Graduate (Falkonergaardens upper secondary school) 1979; Master of Law (Copenhagen University) 1984;

Work experience:
Secretary, Directorate of Job Market Training 1984-85; secretary, Directorate of Tax 1985;
legal adviser, The Danish State Railways, judicial office 1985-1988;
Prosecutor, Copenhagen Police 1988-90;
prosecutor, Prosecutor General’s Office 1990-92; prosecutor, Frederikssund Police 1993;
prosecutor and deputy chief prosecutor, Prosecutor General’s Office 1993-98;
chief prosecutor at the office 1998-2007 (head of International Unit 2002-2007) and Deputy Prosecutor General from 2007. Prosecutor at the Danish Supreme Court 1996-2010.

Denmark’s national member at Eurojust, Den Haag, The Netherlands from 2010; Attached to The Danish Embassy, Den Haag from 2010.

Teaching assistant and external lecturer (the latter from 1994) in constitutional law, public law as well as in Danish Human Rights and Minority Protection, Faculty of Law, Copenhagen University 1987-2005; External examiner at Copenhagen University since 2010.

Member of the Bureau at European Committee on Crime Problems (CDPC), The Council of Europe 2005-09 and from 2010 and onwards, its deputy chairman ibid from 2011 and its chairman from 2013 till 2015. Hereafter re-appointed as member of the bureau at CDPC. Member for Denmark of a number of EU and Council of Europe committees and working groups since 1994. Participation in different projects related to prosecution services in other states, inter alia Lithuania, Romania and China.

Author/co-author of a series of articles about criminal law and human rights law, such as “The police complaint system in Denmark“ (co-author, 2012); Contributor to the book Danish Procedural Code with comments.