Patricia Moreira

Patricia Moreira was the managing director of the international secretariat of Transparency International, an organization that campaigns against corruption, between October 2017 and February 2020.

Patricia Moreira
Patricia Moreira at the Future Against Corruption Award Ceremony
NationalitySpanish-Brazilian
Alma mater
OccupationManaging director

Early life and education

Moreira is Spanish-Brazilian.[1] She has a BA in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles, an MBA from INSEAD, France, and conducted PhD research in Social Entrepreneurship at ICADE University in Madrid.[2]

Career

Moreira worked as a management consultant for Juárez & Associates and Arthur D. Little for ten years, and then for the Spanish aid organisation Ayuda en Acción, rising to the director general.[2][3] She was CEO of Ayuda en Acción from 2009.[1]

In October 2017, she succeeded Cobus de Swardt as head of Transparency International.[2]

Moreira was a board member of the United Nations Global Compact[4] and a Council representative on the International Land Coalition.[5] In 2018 she spoke at the 18th International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) in Copenhagen, Denmark, arguing that "corruption hits most the poor who suffer the consequences of corrupt regimes."[6][7] In 2019, she admonished Western banks for facilitating corruption in Gambia.[8][9]

In 2019 she argued that citizen's rights and democratic institutions were threatened by the trend for more authoritarian and populist regimes across the world which should be resisted by greater checks and balances.[10]

Controversy with Transparency International

In August 2019, The Guardian reported on how current and former staff members of Transparency International had said that under Moreira it had promoted a culture of "bullying" and "failed in its duty of care" and used "gagging orders" in termination agreements.[11]

The report cited a staff survey carried out by the staff representatives (works council), which found that 66% of 92 respondents had observed or experienced bullying at TI and one in five felt sexual harassment to be a problem. [12]

Two investigations followed, conducted by law firm Taylor Wessing and Transparency International’s Ethics Panel.[13]The findings, which were also disputed by Moreira,[14] identified some individual incidents in which the values and principles of transparency and accountability were not ensured entirely, and one case that might qualify as harassment at the workplace.[15][16]

Moreira was dismissed in February 2020. In June 2020, the Observer reported that Moreira had made a complaint of bullying against the Board of Transparency International and claimed she had been unfairly dismissed. She was reportedly planning to sue Transparency International for unfair dismissal. [17]

References
  1. "Patricia Moreira Managing Director, Transparency International". World Bank. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
  2. e.V., Transparency International. "Patricia Moreira appointed Managing Director of Transparency International". transparency.org. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  3. "Patricia Moreira, nueva directora de Ayuda en Acción". compromisoempresarial.com. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  4. "UN Global Compact Board". UN Global Compact. United Nations Global Compact. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
  5. "Patricia Moreira". International Land Coalition. Retrieved 2019-11-13.
  6. "World Marks Anti-Corruption Day". Voice of America. Retrieved 2019-11-13.
  7. ""We Need Action Now!"". IACC Series. 2018-10-22. Retrieved 2019-11-13.
  8. "EX-PRESIDENT'S THEFT FROM GAMBIA TOPS $300 MILLION". amsterdamnews.com. Retrieved 2019-11-13.
  9. Biscevic, Tajna. "TI: Gambia Corruption Enabled by Western Banks". www.occrp.org. Retrieved 2019-11-13.
  10. "Corruption causing "a global crisis of democracy"". Government & civil service news. Retrieved 2019-11-13.
  11. Doshi, Vidhi (21 August 2019). "Transparency International staff complain of bullying and harassment". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
  12. Doshi, Vidhi (2019-08-21). "Transparency International staff complain of bullying and harassment". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-11-12.
  13. "Report of the Independent Ethics Panel" (PDF). 20 May 2020.
  14. Doward, Jamie (June 6, 2020). "Anti-corruption watchdog hit by legal row over staff 'bullying'" – via www.theguardian.com.
  15. "Independent review into allegations of ethical misconduct at the…". Transparency.org.
  16. "Transparency International investigation Report" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 July 2020.
  17. Doward, Jamie (June 6, 2020). "Anti-corruption watchdog hit by legal row over staff 'bullying'" – via www.theguardian.com.
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