Speakers

Mr Woo joined the Immigration Department as Assistant Immigration Officer in 1988. He was appointed Officer of the Correctional Services Department in 1989. He was promoted to Senior Superintendent of Correctional Services in 2011, Assistant Commissioner of Correctional Services in 2012 and Deputy Commissioner of Correctional Services in 2018. He was Commissioner of Correctional Services from 2018 to March 2022 before retiring from the civil service.

On 1 July 2022, Mr Woo was appointed by the Central People’s Government, People’s Republic of China, as Commissioner of the Independent Commission Against Corruption of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. In his over 33 years of experience in custodial and offenders’ rehabilitation, Mr Woo had established close partnership with ICAC in unveiling corruption-related crimes with vigor. Mr Woo is also a keen advocate of innovative technology and will continue to exert technological leverage for the anti-corruption cause.

Mr Woo was awarded the Correctional Services Distinguished Service Medal and the Silver Bauhinia Star Medal by the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in 2018 and 2022 respectively.

Mohamed BENALILOU, born in 1975 in Ouezzane, was appointed by His Majesty King Mohammed VI in March 2025 as Chairman of the National Authority for Probity, Prevention and the Fight Against Corruption (INPPLC). His appointment reflects a distinguished career marked by judicial excellence, institutional leadership, and strong commitment to integrity and good governance.

A graduate of the Higher Institute of Judicial Studies in Rabat and holder of a postgraduate law diploma, Mr Benalilou has served in Morocco’s judiciary at all levels, including as a judge at the Court of First Instance, the Administrative Court of Rabat, and the Court of Cassation. He also served as an Investigating Judge at the Special Court of Justice, which specializes in corruption-related cases.

In addition to his judicial duties, he has held several key administrative roles at the Ministry of Justice and the Supreme Council of the Judicial Power, including Director of Human Resources, Chief of Staff to the Minister of Justice, and Director of Studies and Cooperation.

Mr Benalilou has been an active member of numerous national constitutional bodies and anti-corruption institutions, including the Supreme Council of the Judicial Power, the National Anti-Corruption Commission, and the Financial Intelligence Unit. Internationally, he has contributed to several expert groups and initiatives under the United Nations and Arab networks, including the UNCAC review process and regional legal cooperation projects.

He is also an accomplished academic, having taught criminal law and procedure at the Higher Institute of the Judiciary and other institutions, and has authored multiple legal publications, including a notable book on terrorism and freedom of expression.

Decorated with the National Order of Merit (Officer Class) by the King, Mr Benalilou is also recognized internationally through his leadership roles in organizations such as the International Ombudsman Institute and the Francophone Association of Ombudsmen and Mediators.

His extensive experience across the judicial, administrative, academic, and international arenas makes him a highly qualified and influential figure in the global fight against corruption.

Ms. Brigitte Strobel-Shaw serves as the Chief of the Corruption and Financial Crime Branch, as the Director ad interim of the Division for Treaty Affairs of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the secretary of the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption. Previously, she held various other positions within UNODC and the wider United Nations system. A lawyer by training, Ms. Strobel-Shaw also previously worked for a private law firm. With an LLM and two advanced law degrees, Ms. Strobel-Shaw is an accomplished legal professional with a wealth of experience on anti-corruption.

Dr Matthew Chang has dedicated approximately 20 years to the Operations Department of the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), progressing through the ranks to his current position as Principal Investigator. His career has encompassed diverse investigative roles, focusing on syndicated corruption in public works, sports, government, and public funding schemes. He had also led a compliance unit overseeing interception and surveillance operations. He currently heads the Digital Task Force, where he leads the development of the ICAC's AI anti-corruption system, "Tianma". Dr Chang has spoken at international anti-corruption symposiums and workshops in Hong Kong and abroad, and he holds a PhD in Computer Science, obtained in Hong Kong, and an LLB (Hons) from the United Kingdom.

Mr Leonard Gaoretelelwe Lekgetho is a dedicated public servant, investigator, and leader whose career has been shaped by a deep commitment to justice, integrity, and service. Appointed Acting Head of the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) on 1 February 2026 by the President of South Africa, he now leads South Africa’s flagship anti-corruption agency with a clear vision: to protect public resources and restore trust in state institutions.

Mr Lekgetho earned a Bachelor of Arts in Education from the University of North West, followed by a B.Sc. Honours in Geographic Information Systems from the aforementioned institution. His passion for law and accountability led him to complete an LLB through the University of South Africa, rounding out a rich academic portfolio that also includes Postgraduate Diplomas in Criminal Justice, Cyber Law, and advanced project management.

Mr Lekgetho is not new to leadership at the SIU. For over 20 years, he has held nearly every investigative and leadership role within the SIU, including Chief Forensic Investigator, Assistant Project Manager, Project Manager, Chief National Investigations Officer and Chief Operations Officer. His work has spanned high-profile corruption cases, forensic audits, cybercrime investigations, and strategic oversight of national and provincial operations. He’s also served as a Special Investigator with the Directorate of Special Operations, also known as the Scorpions.

Mr Lekgetho’s training is as diverse as his experience. He’s completed investigation training at the FBI Academy in Washington, D.C., and has completed specialised programmes in cyber forensics, supply chain management, and anti-corruption leadership through institutions such as CSIR, Deloitte, and the Commonwealth Africa Anti-Corruption Centre.

Known for his calm authority, collaborative spirit, and sharp strategic mind, Mr Lekgetho is not only a leader but a mentor who builds teams, nurtures talent, and inspires excellence. His appointment as Acting Head of the SIU is a testament to his integrity, resilience, and lifelong dedication to public service.

Mr Abdi A. Mohamud, MBS, is the Chief Executive Officer of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) from January 2025. Prior to his appointment, he served as the Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Director in charge of Investigation at the EACC.

Prior to joining the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission in 2005, Mr Mohamud had served in the National Police Service for almost two decades where rose through the ranks.

Owing to his outstanding contribution in the fight against corruption, he was conferred with the national honours of Head of State Commendation (HSC) and Moran of the Order of the Burning Spear (MBS) by the Head of State and Government.

Mr Mohamud is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya and a seasoned investigator with a wealth of experience spanning over three decades in corruption and economic crimes investigation. Additionally, Mr Mohamud has undergone various trainings both locally and internationally on diverse aspects of corruption investigation and prevention.

Mr Mohamud also holds a Master of Science Degree in Security and Risk Management from the University of Leicester, United Kingdom, Bachelor of Laws Degree from Mt. Kenya University and Professional Diploma in Law from the Kenya School of Law.

Juhani Grossmann directs the Basel Institute’s Green Corruption programme and is Senior Advisor for Central and Eastern Europe, in which role he heads the Institute’s Representative Office in Ukraine. He joined the Basel Institute in April 2020.

As Director of the Green Corruption programme, he provides strategic oversight of the 20-member team located in eight countries, consisting of financial investigations and corruption prevention experts. The team advises law enforcement on the financial elements of crimes that affect the environment as well as building robust corruption prevention systems at natural resource agencies and state-owned enterprises. The Green Corruption programme’s strategy for 2025-28 envisions a strategic prioritisation of engagements related to forestry, critical minerals and renewables.

As Senior Advisor on Central and Eastern Europe, Juhani leads the Basel Institute’s multi-faceted support to Ukraine since the wide-scale invasion in 2022. This includes advisory work to Ukrainian Ministries, agencies and state-owned enterprises, and close collaboration with Ukrainian civil society with the aim of strengthening the integrity of Ukraine’s Restoration efforts.

Prior to joining the Institute, he spent close to 20 years in Indonesia, the Philippines, Ukraine and Russia leading anti-corruption and good governance programmes, advising governments and civil society on internal controls and compliance, public service complaint-handling systems, strategic communications, access to public information, election oversight and integrity, and campaign finance regulation.

Juhani holds a Master’s degree in Public Management from Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, Germany, as well as an MA in International Conflict Resolution and a BA in Political Science, both from Landegg International University in Switzerland.

Felipe Barbosa Brandt is the Director of Law Enforcement of Legal Entities at the Office of the Comptroller General (CGU) of Brazil. Previously, he served as Deputy Director of Law Enforcement of Legal Entities within the CGU. He has also worked as an advisor to a Federal Judge and held various positions at Caixa Econômica Federal, a Brazilian state-owned bank.

Ms Alexandra Rogkakou, has been a public official of the Greek State for almost 32 years. In her long term of office, she has served in many different positions, and has long administrative experience in handling cases and dealing with and managing emergencies.

Her involvement with issues of illegal occupation of ancients, antiquities and more generally specific issues of the Ministry of Culture contributed to her inclusion in the Body of Inspectors-Auditors of Public Administration, where for almost a decade, she carried out a series of audits on corruption and maladministration. After her transition as a Special Inspector to the Inspector General of Public Administration for 4 years, she participated in special corruption audits on naturalisations, citizenship, misappropriation of money, etc.

After the establishment of the National Transparency Authority (NTA) in 2019, she was appointed as Head of the Inspection and Audit Unit, the work of which is reflected in the Authority’s Annual Reports. Following the resignation of the Governor, Mr Angelos Binis, she acts as Interim Governor of the NTA, by July 2022.

She has studied Psychology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and holds a Master’s Degree in Human Resource Management from the Athens University of Economics and Business, while she holds a Certificate of Auditing Adequacy.

Samuel De Jaegere joined IACA in January 2025 as Head of the Global Programme on Measuring Corruption. Together with experts from around the world, he developed a research methodology to measure the effectiveness of anti-corruption agencies and collected data for 50 anti-corruption agencies globally in the pilot survey last year in 2025. He has worked on anti-corruption for nearly two decades in the UN System across four continents. In 2012, he organized the Jakarta Conference on Principles for Anti-Corruption Agencies and in 2018 developed the Colombo Commentary providing guidance on how to implement the Jakarta Principles. Under the auspices of UNODC, he initiated the establishment of the GlobE Network, a network of anti-corruption law enforcement agencies. He served as regional anti-corruption specialist in Asia for UNDP and coordinated UNODC's anti-corruption activities in Africa. He also spearheaded the UN's work on grand corruption. He negotiated the Oslo Statement on Corruption involving Vast Quantities of Assets with 64 recommendations to tackle grand corruption, which included the first UN references to the possibility of establishing an international anti-corruption court and the first principles on transparency in political finance. He also founded CENOZO, a hub for investigative journalism in West Africa. He holds a European Master's Degree in Human Rights and Democratization (E.MA) and a Law Degree from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.

Barrister-at-law 1993-2006

Permanent Magistrate 2006-2013

Principal Magistrate 2013-2014

Chief Magistrate 2014-2018

District Judge since 2018 (handling trials of serious crimes such as corruption, drugs, fraud, money laundering etc)

University of Hong Kong guest lecturer since 2017

Valentina Pavličić was born on April 1st, 1968. in Podgorica. She graduated in 1990. from the Faculty of Law of the University of Montenegro in Podgorica. She passed the Judicial exam before the commission of the Ministry of Justice of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in Belgrade in February 1997. She was a long-time criminal judge in the Montenegrin judiciary, where she acted as a judge in the most complex procedural and substantive criminal cases.

Since December 2024. Mrs Pavličić has been serving as President of the Supreme Court of Montenegro.

In June 2026, she began her four-year term as a member of the European Commission for Democracy by Law.

From February 2024. to December 2024, she was a consultant for the Council of Europe.

From September 2015. to February 2024. Agent of Montenegro before the European Court of Human Rights.

• From 2013. to 2015. she was the President of the Criminal Division of the High Court in Podgorica.
• From 2008. to 2015. she was a judge of the Special Department for Organized Crime, Corruption, Terrorism and War Crimes of the High Court in Podgorica.
• Since 2017. she has been a lecturer, expert and consultant within the joint project of the Council of Europe and the European Union "Horizontal Facility" program for the Western Balkans and Turkey.
• From 2016. to 2019. she was a member of the Working Group for Freedom of Expression and Association with Other Human Rights of the Steering Committee for Human Rights (CDDH-EXP) in Strasbourg, France.
• Since 2016. she has been a lecturer at legal academies and seminars on the Rule of law.
• Since 2015. she has been a member of the Steering Committee for Human Rights (CDDH) in Strasbourg, France.
• Since 2015. she has been a member of the Committee of Experts for the European Convention on Human Rights (DH-SYSC) in Strasbourg, France.
• Since 2014. she has been a lecturer at initial and continuous trainings at the Center for Judicial Training and the State Prosecutor's Office of Montenegro.
• Since 2014. she has been an expert of the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ).
• Since 2012. she has been an expert of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in the field of human trafficking and cross-border crime.

Member of the Judicial Council of Montenegro by function, a member of the Council for the Rule of Law, as well as of the National Council for the Fight against Corruption, a member of the Bar Exam Commission, president of the Judge Evaluation Commission, and president of the Witness Protection Commission.

Author of numerous publications intended primarily for the professional and academic community, i.e. legal practitioners, in order to promote and spread knowledge about the application of the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights and convention standards, as well as a lecturer at numerous domestic and international seminars and conferences.

Speaks English and Italian language.

Before joining the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) at its headquarters in Vienna, Victor served as a Chief Investigator in the Operations Department of the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) of Hong Kong, bringing more than a decade of frontline experience in anti-corruption investigations. Throughout his investigative career, he specialized in complex corruption, fraud and financial investigations, including cases involving sophisticated financial arrangements and organized criminal activity. He led and contributed to a wide range of major criminal investigations that resulted in successful prosecutions and convictions of senior individuals and members of criminal enterprises.

At UNODC, Victor supports field-based technical assistance and helps coordinate capacity-building initiatives across different regions. His work includes the design and delivery of specialized training on corruption and financial investigations with the leverage on technologies for anti-corruption authorities, law enforcement agencies, prosecutors and other relevant institutions. Over the past years, he has delivered a series of professional training programmes aimed at strengthening investigative capacity and enhancing practitioners’ ability to address complex corruption and financial crime. These activities have included in-person training and technical assistance in Argentina, Botswana, Chad, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Mongolia, Senegal, South Africa, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Viet Nam, reflecting engagement across Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America.

Victor holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from The University of Hong Kong, as well as a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) and a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from universities in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong.

Mr Vincent Lim is the Deputy Director and concurrently the Director of Intelligence at the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB), Singapore. With 26 years of experience in anti-corruption enforcement, Mr Lim plays a strategic leadership role in shaping the Bureau’s investigative and intelligence capabilities.

Throughout his career, Mr Lim has led high-profile corruption investigations across both public and private sectors, and has overseen the development of policies, training, and operational frameworks to strengthen investigative outcomes. As former Director of Investigations, he guided CPIB’s case strategy and spearheaded the development of Singapore Standard ISO 37001: Anti-Bribery Management SysteMs

Mr Lim also served at the Ministry of Home Affairs under the Office of the Chief Science and Technology Officer. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from the National University of Singapore.

Mr Biró started his professional career in 1998 as an auditor at KPMG, first in Hungary and later in Germany. From 2004, he was an internal auditor (Eastern Europe, Middle East, Africa, and the United States) at the Avery Dennison Corporation. From 2006, he was Compliance Officer at the Bristol-Myers Squibb Group in Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria.

In 2007, he joined Ernst & Young, a global consulting firm, where he reached Partner level in 2012. In 2020, he joined PwC Central & Eastern Europe as a Partner. He led fact-finding and compliance services teams in Hungary and neighbouring countries, including Romania and the Balkans.

Mr Biró holds a BA degree from the International Business School of Budapest. He is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and a Certified Healthcare Compliance Officer.

Mr CHEUNG has served as the Deputy Director at the Hong Kong International Academy Against Corruption of ICAC since 2025. He oversees strategic portfolios encompassing international anti-corruption training, local institutional capacity building and anti-corruption research. With over two decades of frontline experience, he dealt with cross-sectoral investigations involving both public and private entities, and specializes in financial market corruption and complex commercial fraud.

Mr CHEUNG holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, a Bachelor of Laws from the University of London and a Master of Public Administration from Peking University.

An active and dedicated part of Romania’s integrity system since its inception, Mr Păun brings over a decade of hands-on expertise to institutional compliance and prevention at the National Integrity Agency (ANI). He holds a Master’s degree in European Union Law, combining a strong legal background with practical IT expertise.

During the development of the new Prevent 2.0 system—designed to automatically detect conflicts of interest in public procurement procedures—Mr Păun served in two key positions: first as Technical IT Coordinator defining system parameters, and later as Integrity Coordinator. By leveraging his 10 years of prevention experience alongside his technical background, he successfully translated complex legal requirements into actionable IT solutions to ensure the modernization of the integrity system. Driven by a commitment to continuous professional development, he consistently integrates the latest IT trends into the systems he contributes to.