Workshop 4: Best Practices in Investigations: Remote Investigations (Interviews and Evidence Management)
Workshop 4 aims to explore advanced and emerging approaches for conducting secure, credible, and ethical remote investigations. Introduce innovative tools, adaptive protocols, and cross-jurisdictional practices to strengthen virtual interviewing, digital evidence handling, and remote workflow management while anticipating future investigative trends.
Magdalena Zold (UNICEF)
Yves Robert Onana (AfDB)
Yves Robert ONANA is the Division Manager for Investigations at the African Development Bank Group, where he oversees responses to allegations of fraud, corruption, collusion, coercion, obstruction, and staff misconduct in Bank-financed operations. He brings over 20 years of experience in integrity, compliance, and investigations, having previously served as Chief Investigator for staff misconduct at the AfDB and in senior roles with multinational companies across Africa and the Indian Ocean region. A graduate of Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, IAE Paris, and the University of Douala, Yves is also a Certified Fraud Examiner with advanced credentials in ethics and investigations.
Rody Butler (INTERPOL)
Mr. Rody Butler is currently the Coordinator of Internal Investigations within the Office of Internal Oversight in INTERPOL, based at the INTERPOL General Secretariat, in Lyon France. Rody has been with INTERPOL since July 2023, previously he held the position of Senior Investigating Officer (SIO) in the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC), Irelands Police Oversight Body. Rody has 27 years of combined criminal, disciplinary and administrative investigation experience in both a national and in an international setting, providing Police training in Ireland, with the College of Policing in the United Kingdom and in Kosovo. Rody has also worked internationally over several years with the United Nations in various duty stations, with NATO, the OSCE, the Council of Europe and with various other NGO’s. Rody is a former board member of the Network of European Integrity and Whistleblowing Authorities (NEIWA).
Benoit Doublet (IFAD)
Originally from a corporate and public sector background, Benoit’s career took a decisive turn in 2014 after a transformative year working with development organizations, mainly in Africa.
Since then, Benoit has gained extensive investigative and compliance expertise on integrity-related matters, working in a wide variety of settings at both national and international levels. In his various roles at the World Bank (Integrity Vice Presidency) and within the United Nations system (International Fund for Agricultural Development), Benoit reviewed and advised on integrity compliance programs, participated in and led investigations into allegations of integrity violations, and advised on integrity-related issues linked to development financing.
Over the course of his career, Benoit has worked for a business consulting firm (Groupe Alpha), the French Senate, Laurent Cohen-Tanugi Avocats (boutique international law firm), the French National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (Parquet National Financier), the World Bank’s Integrity Vice Presidency and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), where he recently served as an Investigation Officer and investigative focal point for West and Central Africa.
A member of the Paris and New York Bars and founder of the firm Drakensberg, Benoit currently consults for IFAD’s Office of Audit and Oversight (Investigation Section).
