The Keynote Address opens the main conference, delivered by a distinguished leader in integrity, investigations, or anticorruption, to inspire participants, highlight the conference theme, provide strategic insight, and unite the investigative community around shared values.
The Franz-Hermann Brüner Memorial Lecture honors the legacy of OLAF’s first Director-General and his contributions to the international investigations community. Delivered annually at the Conference of International Investigators (CII), the lecture is intended as a reflective and forward-looking address that draws lessons from investigative experience, honors the values Brüner championed, and inspires investigations professionals to uphold the highest standards in their work.
Six volumes of General Principles for conducting core investigative activities that greatly expand on the principles within the CII’s Uniform Principles and Guidelines for Investigations. Endorsed at the 21st CII, these Principles provide more in-depth, principles-based, uniform guidance to investigators and Investigative Offices conducting these six core activities: Intake and Evaluation, Scoping and Planning, collection of Physical and Documentary Evidence, collection of Testimonial Evidence, collection of Digital Evidence and Evidence Analysis and Reporting of Findings.
As supplements to the CII’s Uniform Principles and Guidelines, each paper sets out non-binding principles establishing uniform standards to guide investigators and Investigative Offices undertaking these activities. They are purposely not prescriptive in technical details nor implementing practices. These Principles will also form the basis for a future CII Investigator Credential and CII Investigator training pathways.