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Executive Committee and Board of Directors
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select the members to the GOPAC Board of Directors who,
in turn, set the policy of the organization. The Board selects
a Chair and an Executive Committee who manage the day-to-day
operations of the organization. |
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Executive Committee
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GOPAC
Chair
John Williams, MP, Canada
Chair of NAPAC – Canadian Chapter
On June 28th, 2004, John Williams was re-elected
for a fourth term as the Member of Parliament for the new
riding of Edmonton-St. Albert. Mr. Williams is a member
of the Conservative Party of Canada caucus.
John Williams is the author of The Waste Report, a
periodic publication on government waste that is now a well
known critique of lack of accountability and mismanagement
in government.
Mr. Williams is former Chair of the Public Accounts Committee of the
House of Commons, and is also co-author of a report entitled
“Measuring Quality of Life: The Use of Societal
Outcomes by Parliamentarians” (November 2001).
He is also a member of the Inter-American Dialogue. |
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GOPAC
Vice Chair
Dr. Naser Al Sane, MP, Kuwait
Chair of ARPAC
Dr. Al-Sane, elected in 1992, is a Member of the National
Assembly of Kuwait. He is a Member of the Financial and
Economic Affairs Committee and initiated and chairs a subcommittee
studying a proposed law on property disclosure for public
officials and Vice Chair of the Select Committee investigating
the misuse of public funds in elections. He was also Assistant
Undersecretary for Administrative Developments (1988-1992),
a Member of the Select Committee reviewing conflict of interest
legislation (1997) as well as a Member of the Public Fund
Protection Committee (1994). Dr. Al-Sane holds a Ph.D in
management from Aston University ( United Kingdom) and was
a Speaker at the first international conference of Transparency
International and a speaker at the Arab Administrative Development
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Senator
Edgardo J. Angara
Chair of SEAPAC
EA graduate of the University of the Philippines (Bachelor
of Laws, 1958), and the University of Michigan (Master of
Laws, 1964), and former President of the University of the Philippines,
Senator Angara was first elected to the Senate in 1987.
As a legislator, Angara has authored and sponsored many
landmark laws in education, health, the arts, culture, social
welfare, economics and agriculture. Angara, an anti-corruption
crusader, principally authored and sponsored the Government
Procurement Reform Act. The country’s biggest anti-corruption
measure in history, this law will save the government about
22 billion pesos a year, which can be used to build more
classrooms and other infrastructure. Senator Angara is also
first President of the South East Asia Parliamentarians
Against Corruption or SEAPAC. |
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GOPAC
Executive Committee Member
Senator Mary K. King, Trinidad and Tobago
Interim Chair of Caribbean Chapter
Mary Kathleen King is an Independent Senator in the Parliament
of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. She is the Chairman:
Mary King & Associates Ltd., a Harris Interactive Global
Research Network Member, and a founding member of the Trinidad
& Tobago National Chapter of Transparency International.
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GOPAC Executive Member
Edith Mastenbroek, MEP
Chair of the European Chapter
Ms. Mastenbroek is a Dutch politician and Member of the European Parliament. She is a member of the Labour Party, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control and its Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. She is active on issues such as anti-terrorism, information security, data protection and privacy, and on seeking alternatives to Strasbourg as a meeting place for the European Parliament once a month. She is a core member of the Campaign for Parliamentary Reform (CPR). |
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GOPAC Executive Member
Senator Haide Giri, Argentina
President of the Latin American Chapter
Political activities
Present:
National Senator for the Province of Córdoba (Political Party: Justicialista -Unión por Córdoba)
Member of the following Senate Committees:
Health and Sport – President, Tourism, National Defense, Infrastructure, Housing and Transport, Population and Human Development
Other Activities
Member of the following organizations:
Permanent Member of the Argentinean Inter-Parliamentary Group - IPU
President of the Executive Board of the Latin American Parliamentarians against Corruption – PLACC -
President of the Argentinean Chapter of the Latin American Parliamentarians against Corruption – PLACC
Member of the Friendship Parliamentary Group with the People of Greece
Member of the Executive Board of Córdoba Woman Provincial Council
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GOPAC Executive Member
APNAC Representative – TBD
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- 2002
Board of Directors Meeting Report - Ottawa, Canada October 16, 2002.
- 2004
Board of Directors Meeting Report - Wilton Park, UK,
June 9, 2004 - Photo
Gallery
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Board of Directors
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Fully
organized regional chapters are entitled to three members
on the board. Regional chapters in the process of being
established are entitled to one member on the board.
| Africa
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Anglophone
Caribbean |
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Mary KING (Trinidad and
Tobago) |
| Arab Region |
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Australasia |
Mahi Bahi Ammar ( Algeria)
Mamdouh El Abadi ( Jordan)
Naser Al Sane ( Kuwait) |
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Seat is temporarily vacant |
| European Chapter |
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Latin America |
Edith Mastenbroek, MEP ( Netherlands)
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Haide Giri (Argentina)
Cesar Camacho (Mexico)
Laura Carneiro (Brasil) |
| Newly Independent States
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North America |
Volodymyr STRETOVYCH (Ukraine)
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John WILLIAMS (Canada) |
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South East Asia |
Chung Sye Kyun (South Korea) |
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Senator Edgardo ANGARA (Philippines)
Charoen KANTHAWONGS (Thailand) |
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Global Organization of Parliamentarians
Against Corruption - GOPAC
C/O Parliamentary Centre
255 Albert Street Suite 802 Ottawa, Ontario K1P 6A9 Canada
Tel: 613.237.0143 Ext. 319 Fax: 613.235.8237
info@gopacnetwork.org |
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