Mrs Gretta Fenner Zinkernagel is the Managing Director of the Basel Institute on Governance, where she also holds the position of Director of the Institute's International Centre for Asset Recovery. She has already held these positions from 2005 to 2008, during the founding years of the Institute, and has joined the Institute again in late 2011 after three years in Australia and Oxford, United Kingdom.

During these intermittent years, she advised governments, donors, international organisations and multinational corporations in governance and anti-corruption related topics as well as organisational change and development processes and policy design. Prior to joining the Basel Institute, from 2000 to 2005, Mrs Zinkernagel worked at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris managing anti-corruption programmes in the Asia-Pacific region; in this context she played a key role in establishing the Asian Development Bank (ADB)/OECD Anti-Corruption Initiative for Asia-Pacific.

Mrs Zinkernagel is a political scientist by training and degrees from the Free University Berlin, Germany, and the Paris Institute for Political Science. In 2010, she further completed an MBA at the Curtin University Graduate School of Business, Australia. She has published widely and speaks regularly on anti-corruption and governance topics in relevant international forums.