Mark Pyman (PhD, MSc, FCCA)
Director

Mark Pyman has led Transparency International's defence work since January 2004. Working with a team of anti-corruption experts and former senior military officers, Mark facilitates anti-corruption discussions with the Ministries of Defence (MODs) and military leadership, helps develop anti-corruption plans and training courses, and works with defence companies worldwide to strengthen anti-bribery measures. 

Outside of Transparency International, he is one of the leading independent advisors to the UK Government on the management of major projects and contracts.  Mark was previously Chief Financial Officer of major Shell companies in West Africa and China, and of Shell’s global IT operations. He was Director of Major Change Programmes for Shell across Europe, and later advised on Shell’s global anti-corruption compliance, monitoring and reporting systems.

Prior to joining Shell, he was a founding shareholder and director of Technica, a market-leading consultancy specialising in technical risk assessment.  He holds a PhD from the University of Western Australia, an MSc degree from the University of Bath, England, and a first class honours BSc from Birmingham University, England.  He is a Fellow of the Chartered Associated of Certified Accountants.  |  Contact Mark
                   

Anne-Christine Wegener
Programme Manager

Anne-Christine Wegener has managed the Defence and Security Programme since February 2009. Along with managing the programme, Anne-Christine leads on the Self-Assessment Process with nations.

Anne-Christine holds a Magister Artium (German Master’s equivalent) in North American Studies major, with minors in political science and international law, from Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn, Germany. Her dissertation was titled 'American Security and Energy Policy in Central Asia.'

Prior to joining TI she worked in international development at InWEnt (now GIZ) on capacity building in security, and on social and environmental issues at Friends of Europe in Brussels. She also has several years of private sector experience, having worked for Bayer AG, and for a leading language software company.  |  Contact Anne-Christine.

Air Commodore Alan Waldron CBE AFC SLJ MID

Alan Waldron provides defence, aviation and military contracting advice to Transparency International's Defence and Security team and leads on the development and implementation of our Training Programme and Defence Integrity Pacts.  He has wide operational experience of most major theatres and has also been seconded for tours with a range of organisations including a US Headquarters in the Gulf, the United Nations, the Sultan of Brunei’s Air Force and the Sultan of Oman’s Air Force. A former Director of Training he was also the Director of Air Operations in the UK Ministry of Defence. Outside of TI work, he has interests in animal and countryside matters.

Tobias Bock
Project Officer

Tobias Bock joined Transparency International's Defence and Security Programme  (TI DSP) in February 2010 and is working on anti-corruption in the arms trade, with the UN Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) as his main area of responsibility. He also leads on fundraising as well as monitoring and evaluation.

Tobias studied in Osnabrück, Oslo, and Birmingham and holds an MA in Security Studies (with Distinction) and a BA in European Studies (Political Science, Law, Modern and Contemporary History).

Prior to joining TI DSP, he worked for Haus Rissen - International Institute for Politics and Economics in Hamburg. Tobias also worked with a number of other NGOs, think tanks, and a political party.  |  Contact Tobias.

Tiffany Clarke
Project Officer

Tiffany Clarke works with the global defence industry to raise standards, promote integrity and reduce corruption risk in arms sales. She is responsible for TI's campaign to reduce corruption in defence offsets programmes.  She also leads on the development of the TI's Companies 'Defence Integrity Index', a major new initiative which will measure and compare the anti-corruption capabilities of defence companies worldwide.

She has a B.A. in International Relations and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining TI-DSP, she worked in a defence consulting firm, analysing complex geopolitical problems that posed national security threats to the USA.  |  Contact Tiffany.

Oliver Cover (PhD)
Project Officer (Defence Indices)

Oliver Cover joined Transparency International's Defence and Security Programme in May 2011. He leads on the Government Defence Anti-Corruption Index (GI) and the Defence Companies Anti-Corruption Index (CI).

He has a doctorate from the University of Oxford on the topic of how corruption influences citizens’ political behaviour in countries across the globe, which also featured analysis of how British citizens were able to discriminate between corrupt and non-corrupt behaviour.  |  Contact Oliver.

Maria Gili
Communications Officer

Maria Gili joined as our Communications Officer in April 2011. She is responsible for our publications, website and engagement with our different communities of interest.

She has a MA in Journalism from City University, and an MSc in Political Science and International Relations from Universidad Católica de Chile. Before joining TI, Maria worked as a communications officer for several projects and institutions in Chile, and as a journalist for Latin American media.  |  Contact Maria.

Tamas Godo
Programme Office Manager

Tamas Godo joined Transparency International's Defence and Security Programme (TI DSP) in September 2012 as Programme Office Manager.
Tamas holds an MA degree in International Relations with special focus in Diplomacy and Peace and Conflict Studies from Corvinus University of Budapest and an MSc in Democracy and Comparative Politics from University College London. Prior to working for TI-DSP he worked in UNDP backed bi-communal peace project in Cyprus and had extensively studied the role of political institution in foreign policy decision making. |  Contact Tamas.

Saad Mustafa
Research Officer

Saad Mustafa leads on our research work. Apart from carrying out original research work on integrity building and counter-corruption reform in defence and security, Saad also encourages others to carry out research in this race, through collaboration with researchers, universities, and relevant think tanks and academies.

Saad is a co-author of our Defence Companies Anti-Corruption Index, a major new initiative which will measure and compare the anti-corruption capabilities of defence companies worldwide. He is currently working on an interview study of why corruption did not gain traction in Afghanistan, as well as a project assessing levels of single source procurement in various Ministries of Defence around the world. Saad graduated from Aston University in 2005 with a BSc (hons) in Economics and Management, and subsequently obtained a distinction in his postgraduate degree in History of International relations from the London School of Economics (LSE) |  Contact Saad.

Leah Wawro
Project Officer

Leah Wawro joined TI-DSP as a Project Officer in November 2010. Leah currently works on liaison between TI DSP and TI's National Chapters and local civil society organisations. She is also part of the team working on an index to measure levels of integrity in government defence and security establishments worldwide. Leah previously worked on defence budget transparency and the TI-DSP website.

She holds an MA in International Relations and Arabic from the University of St Andrews. Prior to joining TI-DSP, she worked with War Child (UK), Armadillo at Large, Air America Media, and volunteered with UNRWA and the Iraqi Student Project in Syria.  |  Contact Leah.

Expert Consultants

Nick Seymour

Nick is a Senior Adviser on Africa. He served in the UK Army with operational experience in tours in various parts of the world including Kuwait / Iraq and the Former Yugoslavia. Subsequently he served as Military Advisor in the UK Permanent Mission in New York before migrating across the road to the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations where he was Chief Military Plans, responsible for developing concepts for peacekeeping missions. Subsequently he moved to the political side with a focus on supporting the African Union and assisting it to develop capacity for peacekeeping. On leaving DPKO in June 2011 he moved back to the UK and joined Transparency International (UK)’s Defence and Security Programme as a senior consultant. He also works as an independent consultant on other peacekeeping and training projects.

Gareth Somerset

Gareth is an oceanographer by qualification, a marine engineer by background and an engineering manager and consultant by trade.  His 35+ years in both corporate and small business environments have given him a wide ranging industrial experience within both the defence and commercial sectors.  In 1988, after his early years at Plessey and STC, Gareth co-founded Systems Engineering & Assessment Ltd (SEA).  The company grew over the following 20 years to a company of 250 staff.  SEA was bought in 2007 and Gareth left the organisation in 2008. 

Gareth’s experience has spanned direct engineering, consultancy to industry, academia and MoD, senior technical and business management, executive directorship and, latterly, board observation.  Gareth was awarded an MBE for services to the defence industry in 2000.  He joined Transparency International UK in September 2010 with the principal remit of anti-corruption in the global defence industrial sector, both in terms of corruption assessment and monitoring, and in terms of providing anti-corruption consultancy directly to business.

Sir Stewart Eldon KCMG OBE

Senior Adviser on Defence & Security Issues for Transparency International's Defence and Security team, and former UK Permanent Representative to NATO. Sir Stewart Eldon spent nearly thirty-five years in the British Diplomatic Service, serving as UK Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN in New York from 1998-2002 and as British Ambassador to Ireland from 2003-06.  He retired as UK Permanent Representative to NATO in March 2010.  

During his diplomatic career, he specialized in security policy and multilateral negotiation. He served as Deputy Crisis Manager for the 1990-91 Gulf War, for which he was awarded an OBE in 1991.  He contributed to a study on the UN Security Council published by the International Peace Academy in New York in 2004, and was a Fellow at the Harvard Center for International Affairs in 1993-94.  

He now advises Transparency International UK on counter-corruption issues in Defence and Security (focusing on the linkages between conflict, corruption and organized crime), and works with NATO as a Subject Matter Expert on Building Integrity.  He is also an Accredited Civil & Commercial Mediator and a member of the Parole Board for England & Wales. More information on Stewart Eldon and his work is available on his website, http://www.stewarteldon.com.

Rob Wright

Rob Wright is a consultant working with the Defence and Security Programme on securing appropriate anti-corruption language in the international Arms Trade Treaty being negotiated through the UN (UN Arms Trade Treaty).  He was from 2004-2007 the Director of Export Control and Non-Proliferation in the then Department of Trade and Industry, in which role he oversaw the UK's Export Control Organisation and represented the UK on the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency and on the Executive Council of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.  He has since 2007 been working as an independent consultant on policy and programme issues with a wide range of government departments.  He is an Independent Board member of the Civil Nuclear Policy Authority and a member of the Cabinet Office's Security Vetting Appeal Panel.

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