📼 The recording of last week’s GI ACE seminar ‘Addressing corruption in crisis situations: towards effective crisis-responses in the Malawian health system’ is now available to watch on YouTube: bit.ly/42hH2KN
📣 Join us this Thursday (16 April) for a #GIACE online seminar: ‘Addressing corruption in crisis situations: towards effective crisis-responses in the Malawian health system’.
🗓️ Thursday 16 April
🕰️ 1pm to 2pm (UK)
🔗 Register now: bit.ly/4bOGhx4
📣 Join us next Thursday (16 April) for a #GIACE online seminar: ‘Addressing corruption in crisis situations: towards effective crisis-responses in the Malawian health system’.
🗓️ Thursday 16 April
🕰️ 1pm to 2pm (UK)
🔗 Register now: bit.ly/4bOGhx4
🚨 The March 2026 edition of the GI ACE Newsletter is out now!
🔗 Read this month’s newsletter: bit.ly/4sCG2MP
🔗 Subscribe to receive future editions via email: bit.ly/4bYg6nW
#AntiCorruption #Governance #Transparency #GIACE
📣 New #GIACE blog!
@jheathershaw.bsky.social argues we need a legal conception of kleptocracy fit our current era of personalist global politics where transnational inter-elite relations and illicit activity have been revealed to span Epstein, Putin, and Gulf monarchies.
📣 Join us on Thursday 16 April for a #GIACE online seminar: ‘Addressing corruption in crisis situations: towards effective crisis-responses in the Malawian health system’.
🗓️ Thursday 16 April
🕰️ 1pm to 2pm (GMT)
🔗 Register now: bit.ly/4bOGhx4
📃 New working paper: Madagascar at a crossroads: breaking the cycle of state capture
Authored by Dafy Faramalala Andriamparany, @lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social, Ketakandriana Rafitoson, and Tom Shipley.
Access the paper in both French and English: bit.ly/4aTWx0L
📼 The recording of our second GI ACE seminar held in collaboration with the Illicit Finance Data Lab, ‘Sourcing data for the next generation of illicit finance research’, is now available to watch on YouTube: bit.ly/4bcmgAj
📣 One day to go! Join us tomorrow (5 March) for the #GIACE online seminar: Sourcing data for the next generation of illicit finance research.
🕰️ 2–3pm (GMT)
🔗 Register: bit.ly/4qNN7bT
KB – Episode 145🎙️
@csc-barrington.bsky.social speaks with @marianizzero.bsky.social about research reframing kleptocracy as a transnational criminal enterprise, and the implications for UK asset recovery and national security.
🎧 Spotify bit.ly/SpotifyKBep145
🎧 SoundCloud bit.ly/SoundCloudKB...
🚨 The February 2026 edition of the GI ACE Newsletter is out now!
🔗 Read this month’s newsletter: bit.ly/4aIui5b
🔗 Subscribe to receive future editions via email: bit.ly/4rxx8j4
📣 Join us on Thursday 5 March for a #GIACE online seminar, held in collaboration with the Illicit Finance Data Lab: 'Sourcing data for the next generation of illicit finance research'.
🔗 Register now: bit.ly/4qNN7bT
📼 Our latest GI ACE seminar, 'The promise and perils of using leaked and sensitive data to research illicit finance’, is available: bit.ly/4ciYrZI
Thank you to @szakonyi.bsky.social, Tom Mayne, and @lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social.
The event was held in collaboration with the Illicit Finance Data Lab.
⛔️ The company receiving the goods having links to a company sanctioned by the US and UK, because it was seen to be “critical” to the Russian war effort
🔗 Read the working paper: bit.ly/4r8KsdP
🔗 Read about the project: bit.ly/4r4WNPZ
🔗 Read the article: www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Specifically, red flags highlighted in the paper are:
⚠️ Risks associated with dual-use goods
🇦🇲 Armenia as a high-risk jurisdiction for re-export of dual-use goods to Russia
The red flags pointed to by our research were described in a recent @csdbuildbridges.bsky.social working paper, ‘Shadow Economies: The Rise of Illicit Networks and Alternative Markets in Sanctions Circumvention’, co-authored by Martin Vladimirov and Tihomira Kostova.
Yesterday @theguardian.com published ‘Experts sound alarm over UK exports to firm linked to Russian war machine’, which hits on several red flags covered by GI ACE research on building institutional resilience to global illicit financial flows.
❓ “Is Peter Mandelson corrupt (assuming the allegations against him are true)?”
In a new blog, @csc-barrington.bsky.social examines this question using corruption analysis rather than focusing solely on criminal liability.
🔗 Read now: bit.ly/3M9SFz6
📣 Online seminar
Join us 2pm to 3pm (GMT) tomorrow for a #GIACE seminar on using leaked and sensitive data to research illicit finance with @szakonyi.bsky.social and Tom Mayne, chaired by
@lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social.
Held in collaboration with the Illicit Finance Data Lab.
Register now 👇
🎙️ New KickBack podcast episode (Ep. 143)
@csc-barrington.bsky.social speaks with @racheldavies.bsky.social (@anticorruption.bsky.social) and Tom Shipley (CSC) to assess what the government’s UK Anti-Corruption Strategy 2025 prioritises, where it marks progress, and where gaps remain.
🎧 Listen:
SoundCloud: bit.ly/SoundcloudKB...
Apple: bit.ly/AppleKB143
Spotify: bit.ly/SpotifyKB143
📣 Online seminar
Join us 2pm to 3pm (GMT) Thursday 5 Feb for a #GIACE seminar on using leaked and sensitive data to research illicit finance with @szakonyi.bsky.social and Tom Mayne, chaired by @lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social.
Held in collaboration with the Illicit Finance Data Lab.
Register now 👇
🚨 The January 2026 edition of the GI ACE Newsletter is out now!
Inside you’ll find information about our latest publications, events, blogs, podcasts, and more.
🔗 Read this month’s newsletter: bit.ly/3LXvojB
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📣 The 10th #ICRN Forum, in part sponsored by GI ACE, is accepting abstract submissions!
📅 Dates: 25-27 June 2026
📍 Location: @rctrust.bsky.social, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
🗓️ Submission deadline: 2 February 2026
🔗 Find out more and submit: bit.ly/4a64CyS
#AntiCorruption #Governance
📣 Blog: ‘Evaluating the evidence base for the UK’s 2025 Anti‑Corruption Strategy’
@csc-barrington.bsky.social argues although the Strategy is the most evidence‑based yet, key data gaps remain and its impact hinges on the implementation of commitments to improve research, evaluation and measurement.
Join us on 5 Feb 2026 (2–3pm GMT) for a GI ACE seminar on using leaked & sensitive data to research illicit finance, with @szakonyi.bsky.social and Tom Mayne, chaired by @lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social. In collaboration with the Illicit Finance Data Lab.
Register here: bit.ly/3ZkcV3U
Drawing lessons from organised crime frameworks in other jurisdictions, the authors outline options to strengthen asset recovery, hold enablers accountable, and reinforce the UK’s global leadership on anti-corruption.
🔗 Paper: bit.ly/4qMDRVE
🔗 Project: bit.ly/49QNsFe
#AntiCorruption #Kleptocracy
The paper argues that kleptocracy should be tackled as a networked criminal enterprise - not just a series of isolated offences - and shows how existing UK legal tools are often underused.
📘 New GI ACE research launched
We marked the parliamentary launch of The Kleptocratic Enterprise, by @marianizzero.bsky.social, @jheathershaw.bsky.social & Tom Mayne of the University of Essex, which examines the gap between the UK’s anti-corruption ambitions and its asset recovery outcomes.
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In the latest Kickback episode, Anna Persson examines systemic corruption as a collective action problem, questioning simplified ideas of political will and state coherence