GOPAC’s regional chapters 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.

GOPAC Chair
John Williams, MP, Canada
Chair of NAPAC – Canadian Chapter

On June 28^th, 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.

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 Organization ( Cairo, 1998).

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.

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.

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).

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

GOPAC Executive Member
APNAC Representative – TBD

- 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

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.