WINNERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL ANTI-CORRUPTION EXCELLENCE AWARD

The Perdana International Anti-Corruption Champion Foundation a foundation established to preserve, research and disseminate information on the past Prime Ministers of Malaysia. The foundation’s main aim is to increase awareness of Malaysia’s intellectual heritage based on its belief that past leadership can provide important resources and insights for future development and to initiate greater understanding and co-operation through research and idea-sharing, while inspiring a positive change in the values of individuals and organizations throughout the world.

Dr. Adam Graycar, a recipient for his contributions to the field of corruption studies within the category of Academic Research and Education, is the author of over 250 corruption-related scholarly publications. Alongside this, he is an editor of a number of prestigious academic journals, has two doctorates from the University of New South Wales, and is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.

Dr. Michael Levi has degrees from Oxford, Cambridge, Southampton and Cardiff Universities and has been Professor of Criminology at Cardiff University since 1991. He has been conducting international research on the control of fraud and organized crime, corruption and money laundering, and the financing of terrorism since 1972, and has conducted a wide range of studies on these, publishing widely on these subjects as well as editing major journals. In addition to his academic post, he is a Senior Research Fellow at the Rand Europe and an Associate Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute.

ONG Tolotsoa is an NGO from Madagascar, created in 2010, whose work focuses on the development, improvement, and promotion of democracy through the civic engagement of young people and students. The organization brings together volunteer students spread over seven towns in Madagascar.

The Center for the Study of Democracy was founded in 1989 as a public policy institute that promotes the reform process in Europe through impact on policy and civil society. The organization’s mission is to build bridges between scholars and policymakers, and it does so by engaging scholars to publish research related to countering corruption, good governance, crime and security, and civil society development.

Mr. Riad Kobaissi, has been a media figure for over a decade in Lebanon. Long before Lebanese journalists embraced the culture of investigative journalism, Mr. Kobaissi was a pioneer in this field, who reshaped the media sphere in the region with his research and television reports about corruption in Lebanese administrations.

Instituto Observatório Político e Socioambiental, created in 2018 in Brazil, assists civil society in the inspection of public spending, and empowers the people, groups, and organizations that are fighting for institutional reforms and public awareness. The institute uses innovative technology solutions to improve the monitoring of investigation processes, to establish detection networks, and to create partnerships between non-governmental organizations, universities, public authorities and other entities.