Executive Committee and Board of Directors

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.

Executive Committee

GOPAC Chair
Dr. Naser J. Al-Sane, Former MP, Kuwait
Chair, ARPAC

Dr. Naser J. Al-Sane was elected to the Kuwait National Assembly in 1992, and re-elected in July 2006 and May 2008. Dr. Al Sane is currently Chair of the Kuwait Parliamentary Committee on Protection of Public Funds and has also initiated and chaired many parliamentary committees and subcommittees. He served as 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 was a founding member of GOPAC and the Arab Regional Chapter – ARPAC – and also serves as the ARPAC Chair.  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).

GOPAC Vice Chair
César Camacho, MP (Mexico)
Chair, LAPAC

César Camacho was born in Toluca, Estado de México. He is a Lawyer from the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México (UAEM), where he also is a teacher in Administrative Law, and in Constitutional Law.

He has a diploma from the Matias Romero Institute of the Foreign Affairs Ministry of the Mexican Government for his attendance to the course "The Foreign Policy of Mexico and the New International Architecture". He also attended the seminar "The Challenges of Mexico's Future: Leadership and Performance Strategies" in the School of Government John F. Kennedy at Harvard University.

At the present time, he is a Federal Deputy of the Congress of the Union, where he presides the Justice Commission, and is part of the Government and Foreign Affairs commissions. Also, César Camacho is a member of the Mexican delegation before the Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU), and acting president of the Latin-American chapter of the Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption (GOPAC).

GOPAC Vice Chair
Augustine Ruzindana (Former MP, Uganda)
Chair, APNAC

Hon. Augustine Ruzindana s a former Inspector General of Government (IGG), Uganda , 1986-1996. As the IGG he was charged with spearheading the fight against corruption, protection of human rights, the rule of law in Uganda and successfully acted as ombudsman during his tenure in office.

Ruzindana was an elected Member of the Constituent Assembly that drafted and promulgated the 1995 Uganda Constitution. Hon Ruzindana was elected to Parliament in 1996 and re-elected in 2001 to represent Ruhaama constituency. As a legislator, he chaired the Public Accounts Committee (1996-2001) recommending reforms to promote the effectiveness and independence of the Auditor General's Office.

 

GOPAC Secretary
Mary K. King (Former Senator, Trinidad & Tobago)
Chair, CaribPAC

Mary Kathleen King is former 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 Treasurer
Hon. Roy Cullen, P.C. (Former MP, Canada)
Chair, Canadian Chapter

Roy Cullen, was first elected in a by – election in 1996 to the Canadian House of Commons and was subsequently re-elected in the 1997, 2000, 2004 and 2006 general elections. He retired as a member of parliament in 2008.  In 1999, Mr. Cullen was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance, and was re-appointed following the 2000 general election. In February 2004, Cullen was elected chair of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance, and on July 20, 2004, Mr. Cullen was appointed parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness.In 2008, Cullen's book The Poverty of Corrupt Nations was published by Blue Butterfly Book Publishing.

 

GOPAC Executive Committee Member (At Large)
Senator Edgardo Angara (Phillipines)
Chair, SEAPAC

Senator Angara 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 (At Large)
Senator Alain Destexhe (Belgium)
Chair, European Chapter

Senator Destexhe was trained as a physician, then completed graduate studies at the Paris Institute of Political Studies. In the early 1990s, he was secretary-general of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) and later was president of the International Crisis Group in Brussels. Alain Destexhe is a Belgian liberal politician. He was elected senator for the Francophone electoral college in 2003, and again in 2007. Destexhe is a member of the liberal Reformist Movement and represents Belgium in the World Economic Forum. He was awarded the Prize of Liberty by Nova Civitas.

Recent Meetings

- 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

- 2008 Board of Directors Meeting Report - Kuwait City, Kuwait, November 16, 2008

pdf - GOPAC Executive Committee meeting Minutes- Mexico, Tuesday, June 16 2009

 

Board of Directors

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   Anglophone Caribbean

Musikari Kombo (Kenya)
Given Lubinda (Zambia)
Assuan C. Benoit Degla (Benin)

 

Mary KING (Trinidad and Tobago)

Arab Region   Australasia

Mahi Bahi Ammar ( Algeria)
Mamdouh El Abadi ( Jordan)
Naser Al Sane ( Kuwait)

 

Seat is temporarily vacant

European Chapter   Latin America

Alain Destexhe (Belgium)
Patrick Meinhardt (Germany)

 

Cesar Camacho (Mexico)
Colbert Martins (Brasil)

Newly Independent States   North America

Volodymyr STRETOVYCH (Ukraine)

 

Roy Cullen (Canada)
Jim Moody (USA)

North East Asia   South East Asia

Chung Sye Kyun (South Korea)

 

Senator Edgardo ANGARA (Philippines)

 

 

 

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