Shruti Shah, President and CEO of Coalition for Integrity, was recently quoted in an article in the New Republic discussing ongoing waste at the Pentagon. Read the article here.
Coalition for Integrity CEO Shruti Shah on Need for COVID-19 Oversight
C4I CEO Shruti Shah recently discussed the potential for fraud in the COVID-19 stimulus package on the Allen & Overy podcast. Listen to it here.
Shruti Shah Letter on COVID-19 Transparency
C4I President and CEO Shruti Shah recently published a letter to the editors of the Washington Post urging leadership and transparency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read the letter here.
Coalition for Integrity on COVID-19 Oversight
Coalition for Integrity recently published a piece in The Global Anticorruption Blog on integrity and oversight in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially related to recent stimulus packages. Read the post here.
Call for Nominations: 2020 Integrity Award and Corporate Leadership Award
The Integrity Award is designed to recognize contributions by an individual or organization to the advancement of the fight against corruption and to the promotion of transparency and accountability within business, government and civil society in the United States or abroad. The previous recipients of the Integrity Award are United States Representative Carolyn Maloney, United States Senator Chuck Grassley, William F. Browder, CEO & Founder, Hermitage Capital Management, the late United States Senator John McCain, former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, former President Jimmy Carter, Sir James D. Wolfensohn, former President of The World Bank Group, former U.S. Senator Richard G. Lugar, former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Paul Volcker.
The Coalition for Integrity Corporate Leadership Award is designed to recognize leadership level contributions by a company to corporate anti-corruption compliance, transparency, business ethics and integrity, including internal innovations and contributions in shaping collective action initiatives with other industry members. Previous recipients of the Corporate Leadership Award are FedEx, Parsons Corporation, Bechtel Group, Inc., General Electric, The Coca-Cola Company, Fluor Corporation, Raytheon Company and PepsiCo.
The awards will be presented at the Coalition for Integrity’s 2020 Integrity Award Dinner, the signature fundraising and anti-corruption awareness raising event of the Coalition for Integrity.
To be eligible, the individual or organization, in addition to having a reputation for integrity, must have a demonstrated and sustained track record of actions and ideas relating to the promotion of ethics and integrity, anti-corruption programs and/or corporate social responsibility in the U.S and/or internationally.
Nominations may be submitted by a person(s) or organizations(s). To be eligible for consideration, a nomination form with details of the nominee, the person or organization submitting the nomination, and the reasons for the nomination must be submitted. The deadline for submission of nominations is July 31, 2020.
The Integrity Award nomination form is available here, and the Corporate Leadership Award nomination form is available here.
To review the award nomination guidelines, please click here.
Call for Nominations: 2020 Integrity Award and Corporate Leadership Award
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Coalition for Integrity is heartened by the displays of courage and integrity among so many officials and workers in the relief effort. In this spirit, we are pleased to announce a call for nominations for our 2020 Integrity Award and Corporate Leadership Award. Read more here.
Coalition for Integrity’s Evaluation of United States’ Foreign Bribery Enforcement
The Coalition for Integrity has submitted comments to the OECD in connection with the Phase 4 Evaluation of the United States’ Implementation of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention. Read the comments here.
Integrity First- Alan Larson- Chairperson C4I Board of Directors
Our Board Chair, Alan Larson using his deep foreign service experience and his services as both Ambassador to the OECD and Under Secretary of State for economic, business and agricultural affairs has contributed an excellent article to the Foreign Service Journal.
In the article he explains how corruption is a deadly virus that can infect any nation. Fighting corruption abroad and banishing it from U.S. foreign policy must be core responsibilities of U.S. diplomats. “Integrity First” should be a central tenet of U.S. foreign policy initiatives and fundamental to the way foreign policy professionals help formulate and conduct foreign policy. Read more here.
PROTECT THE RULE OF LAW AND JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE
In recent actions, President Trump and Attorney General Barr have undercut U.S. credibility in the fight against corruption and undermined U.S. efforts to influence good governance around the world. Prompt action is necessary to reestablish trust that rule of law and judicial independence will be protected. Otherwise, these actions will upend years of efforts to combat corruption at home and around the world.
Read Coalition for Integrity’s statement on protecting the rule of law and judicial independence here.