Event: Open Ownership participation in IACC 2022

At the upcoming International Anti-Corruption Conference, Open Ownership will be contributing to multiple panels and organising a special session on energy transition.

1. Global action on financial integrity to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
2. Building digital assets to actualise the vision of BOT to counter corruption on the path to a sustainable future
3. Who’s Behind Clean Energy’s Big Names? Learning from Beneficial Ownership Transparency in the Extractive Sector

“Global action on financial integrity to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals”

7 December 2022 from 18.00 - 20:00 EST; 23.00 - 01.00 GMT

Join Thom Townsend and others for this high-level interactive debate represented by UNDP, the Government of Norway, Transparency International, UNODC, The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), and Global Financial Integrity, aims to assess the current progress, gaps, and challenges in addressing a range of issues on financial integrity, including tax transparency, fiscal transparency, procurement and contact transparency, and beneficial ownership transparency.

Building digital assets to actualise the vision of BOT to counter corruption on the path to a sustainable future”

8 December 2022 from 18.00 - 20.00 EST; 23.00 - 01.00 GMT

Thom Townsend is on a panel convened by The Digital Economist. The future-focused session will include speakers from Microsoft, MIT Connection Service, and the Global Blockchain Business Council.

"Who’s Behind Clean Energy’s Big Names? Learning from Beneficial Ownership Transparency in the Extractive Sector".

10 December 2022 from 14.30 - 16.30 EST; 19.30 - 21.30 GMT

This exciting session is organised by Open Ownership within the Opening Extractives programme, and will feature speakers from Extractives Industries Transparency Initiative, Dixi Group Ukraine, Natural Resource Governance Institute, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, the Ghana Anti-Corruption Commission and Government of Zambia. The Opening Extractives programme will also launch its Peer Learning Programme for Beneficial Ownership Practitioners.

Though predominantly an in-person event in Washington D.C., those interested can register for the online elements of the conference.