Mark Pieth (born 9 March 1953) is Professor of Criminal Law at the

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, Switzerland and a prominent

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expert. Pieth's career as a legal expert, defence lawyer, judge and compliance advisor includes several roles on the international stage, such as a member of the

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, Chair of a United Nations Intergovernmental Expert Group on illicit drug trafficking and 24 years as Chair of the OECD Working Group on Bribery, which monitors the

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. He is known for spearheading initiatives to combat

corruption Corruption is a form of dishonesty or a criminal offense which is undertaken by a person or an organization which is entrusted in a position of authority, in order to acquire illicit benefits or abuse power for one's personal gain. Corruption m ...

and

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in all its forms through regulations, country monitoring, compliance, advocacy and arbitration. In the field of commodities, he was appointed by the

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Kofi Annan to the Independent Inquiry Committee into the Iraq

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. He is President of the

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, a research and policy institute he founded to help combat public and private sector abuses of power.

Publications

Over the last 17 years, Mark Pieth has authored or edited 34 books in the fields of economic and organised crime, corruption, money laundering and criminal law. The ones in English include: * Pieth, Mark, Lucinda A. Low, and Nicola Bonucci. ''The OECD Convention on Bribery: A Commentary : a Commentary on the Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions of 21 November 1997''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. * Pieth, Mark. ''Financing Terrorism''. Dordrecht: Springer, 2011. * Pieth, Mark,(editor) and Eva Joly. ''Recovering stolen assets''. Bern ]: Peter Lang, 2008. * Pieth, Mark, and Gemma Aiolfi. ''A Comparative Guide to Anti-Money Laundering: A Critical Analysis of Systems in Singapore, Switzerland, the UK and the USA''. Cheltenham: Elgar, 2004. Recent publications aimed the general public include: * * "Salis Verlag: Gold Laundering"
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External links

Personal website and CV
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