The Franz-Hermann Brüner Memorial Lecture

Mr. Brüner was instrumental in expanding the CII’s influence in its early years, increasing the number and type of participating organisations and using the CII as a forum to raise the bar on the work of all participating integrity offices. Since his death in 2010, prominent or distinguished industry professionals, scholars or dignitaries have been invited to present the Franz-Hermann Brüner Memorial Lecture on the conference’s opening day. The lectures are designed to recognize Mr. Brüner’s role in developing the CII and to honour his achievements and use of investigations as a deterrent to combat fraud and corruption. They also highlight the role of international organisations today in combating fraud and corruption around the world as well as in advancing anti-corruption objectives to which Mr. Brüner was deeply committed.

Past lecturers have been:

  • Mark Pieth, Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology, University of Basel (22nd Conference)
  • Steve A. Linick, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer for Mercy Corps, former Inspector General for the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) (21st Conference);
  • Retrospective Panel with: Ibrahim Pam, Head, Independent Integrity Unit, Green Climate Fund; Ben Swanson, Director of Investigations, United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services; Dominik Schnichels, Director, European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF). Moderated by: Paul Lachal Roberts, Retired Barrister, Former Adviser to the founding Director-General of the European Anti-Fraud Office (20th);
  • Karim Asad Ahmad Khan QC, Assistant Secretary-General, Special Advisor and Head of the Investigative Team for Accountability of Da’esh/ISIL (UNITAD) (19th);
  • Nicholas Ilett, Acting Director-General, European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF), Brussels (18th);
  • Professor Manfred Nowak, Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights, Vienna (17th);
  • The Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG, Justice of the High Court of Australia (1996-2009), President of the International Commission of Jurists (1995-98), Member of the Equitable Access Initiative of the Global Fund (2015-16), Member of the Pacific Friends of the Global Fund (2007- present) (16th);
  • Francine Gross, from the United States Federal Bureau of Investigations Economic Crime Unit (15th);
  • Professor Oluwole Soyinka, 1986 Nobel Prize winner in Literature (14th);
  • Ros Wright CB QC, Chair of Fraud Advisory Panel, ex-Head of Serious Fraud Office (UK) and former Chair of OLAF Supervisory Board (13th);
  • Lanny Breuer, Assistant Attorney General of the United States (12th);
  • Judge Barry O’Keefe, AM QC, Former Commissioner of the Independent Commission Against Corruption (New South Wales) and a former Chief Judge on the NSW Supreme Court (11th)