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9 – How to eliminate the "black holes" of global finance: corruption, tax havens, opaque operations.
Created to circumvent the laws, tax, legal, and regulatory havens are the last resort of those who want to evade taxes or the authorities or the banking prudence rules. Half of the international commercial and financial flows pass through there! The regulation is more necessary than ever to significantly improve the public and private governance in terms of transparency, integrity and responsibility. A growing number of countries have, in recent years, enacted anti-corruption laws. But these laws are not sufficient and international organizations, like Transparency International or Trace, advocate for responsible business governance and conducting principles. They support businesses to help them fight against corruption, and to help them adopt transparent business practices, regardless of pressure from the business world, laws or local customs.
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John CHRISTENSEN - Director - Tax Justice Network (UK)
John CHRISTENSEN has worked for 21 years as economic adviser to the States of Jersey. He then created Tax Justice Network, a global network for fiscal justice, in 2002. This NGO gathers organizations and individuals. It has a number of offices worldwide and campaigns on an international scale in favour of transparency in financial markets, and fiscal fairness.
Download his Powerpoint presentation: Powerpoint John CHRISTENSEN
Carolyn LINDSEY - Director of Member Services - Trace International (USA)
Director of Member Services – TRACE International, Inc.
Carolyn Lindsey is a Director of Member Services at TRACE International, Inc., a non-profit membership association that pools resources to provide practical and cost-effective anti-bribery compliance solutions for multinational companies and their commercial intermediaries. Prior to joining TRACE, Ms. Lindsey was an associate in the Washington, DC office of Powell Goldstein LLP, where she focused her practice on international regulatory issues. She advised clients on complying with the U.S. Foreign Practices Act (“FCPA”) and other international anti-corruption initiatives such as the OECD anti-corruption convention and the United Nations Convention Against Corruption.
In addition to her responsibilities at TRACE, Ms. Lindsey has been an adjunct professor of law at the George Washington University School of Law. She is a graduate of the George Washington University School of Law and Hollins College.
Moderator :
Caio MAGRI - Public Policies Advisor - Instituto Ethos (Brazil)
Instituto Ethos, a Brazilian organization aiming at helping companies into considering corporate social responsibility an everyday management issue,accounts for some 35% of the GNP.
Caio MAGRI joined Instituto Ethos, within which he is Public Policies Aide, after working in favour of Children rights protection for quite a long time. He is also Executive Secretary of Instituto Ethos’ Pact for Integrity and Against Corruption launched in 2006 and gathering mor than 500 signatories in Brazil.
Download his Powerpoint presentation: Powerpoint Caio MAGRI
Moderator :
Brenda PLANT, Co-founder & director, Ethiquette.ca & Ethipedia.net (Canada)
