Online event: Beneficial ownership transparency evidence centre launch

Alexandra Gillies, Chief Impact Officer, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)

Alexandra Gillies is the Chief Impact Officer of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), an international network of investigative journalists. Her team works to expand the use of investigative reporting by groups dedicated to protecting democracy and combatting corruption and organized crime. She joined OCCRP in 2022, and also serves as the director of the Global Anti-Corruption Consortium, a partnership led by OCCRP and Transparency International that connects investigative journalism with civil society advocacy. Previously, Alexandra led anti-corruption work at the Natural Resource Governance Institute, focused on the oil, mining, and commodity trading sectors. She is the author of the book Crude Intentions: How Oil Corruption Contaminates the World (OUP, 2020), and holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge where she researched the politics of Nigeria’s oil sector.

Juan Cristóbal Moreno, Head of the Chilean Observatory on Public Procurement at ChileCompra

BA in Sociology, MA in Geography, PhD in Territorial, Space and Society Studies, University of Chile. Head of the Chilean Observatory on Public Procurement at ChileCompra since 2022. Formerly head of the Studies and Statistics Department at the Chilean National Public Health Insurance Office (FONASA, 2020-2022), head of the Social Analysis Department at the Chilean Ministry of Social Development (2014-2020) and studies analyst at the Chilean Ministry of Housing and Urban Development (2005-2014). Lecturer at the Universidad de Chile and consultant for United Nations agencies, including ECLAC and UN-Habitat.

Changcit Elizabeth Jagaba, Head of the Anti-Corruption Department, Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit

Changcit Elizabeth Jagaba is a seasoned financial intelligence analyst with over 15 years’ experience in operational and strategic analysis and has facilitated AML/CFT training at domestic, regional, and international levels. She actively participated in Nigeria’s first National Risk Assessment on ML/TF, focusing on other financial institutions, and was a member of the team that led Nigeria out of FATF’s grey list in October 2025. In December 2025, she represented Nigeria on a panel describing a practical case study on the impact of beneficial ownership transparency, jointly organised by Nigeria, Open Ownership, UNODC and 3 other countries at the 11th Conference of States Parties in Doha, Qatar. She is an Assistant Director at the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU), where she led the Emerging Technology Compliance Department to enhance the AML/CFT compliance framework of Virtual Asset Service Providers, Mobile Money Operators, Payment Service Providers, and other related fintech operators. She currently heads the Anti-Corruption Department, where she and her team have developed proactive intelligence on high profile corruption and provide intelligence to law enforcement to support corruption investigation cases.

Carol Seregni, Assistant Professor of Accounting at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Carol Seregni is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the Wharton School. Her research focuses on disclosure regulation and firm transparency. Professor Seregni completed her doctoral studies at the University of Mannheim and held a two-year non-degree visiting Ph.D. position at the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business. She received a Master of Science in Accounting, Financial Management, and Control from Bocconi University, a Master in Management from the University of Mannheim, and a Bachelor of Science in Management from Bocconi University. She is currently a research fellow at TRR 266 Accounting for Transparency.