Board of Directors

Anabel Cruz, Chair

Uruguay

Anabel Cruz was elected to the PTF Board in December 2002. Anabel is a noted specialist in research, training, and education on the role of civil society organizations in the promotion of democracy and transparency in development processes, particularly in the post dictatorship era in Latin America. She has designed projects and programs to strengthen NGOs and measure their impact. Upon returning to Uruguay in 1985, she founded ICD, the Communication and Development Institute, a research center promoting awareness and actions dedicated to promoting community engagement in national political, economic, and social life. Anabel is a founder of the National Association of NGOs in Uruguay and of the international foundation El Taller and is Chair of the Board of CIVICUS. Anabel is an Engineer and Social Scientist by training.

Frank Vogl, Vice Chair

United States

Frank is a founding member of the Board of the PTF. He is President of Vogl Communications, a strategic management consulting firm specializing in issues of corporate globalization. He is also a member of the Board of Transparency International. Frank was a journalist on economics and business with Reuters and The Times of London before becoming Director of Information and Public Affairs of the World Bank from 1981 to 1990. He is an author and frequent contributor to publications on ethics and corruption issues. He is an advisor to the Ethics Resource Center of the United States and a member of the Brookings Institution Council. Frank holds a degree in politics.

Daniel Ritchie, President

United States

Daniel has been a PTF Board Member since February 2002. He is an independent consultant on economic development. He served in the World Bank for almost 30 years before retiring in 1997. His positions included Director for North Africa and Iran, Director of the Asia Region Technical Department, Deputy Director, Personnel Department, Chief, India Country Operations, Chief, Agriculture and Rural Development, Southern Europe. He currently serves as President of a scholarship fund in Kenya, Board Member for a scholarship fund for girls in South Sudan, and Board Member of other NGOs. Dan holds a degree in public administration.

Ron Points, Treasurer

United States

Ron is a specialist in government accounting and Financial management. He has 35 years experience in financial accounting, reporting policies, and internal controls. Ron was the US Government representative at international meetings to establish public sector accounting standards. At Pricewaterhouse Coopers he was responsible for their International Financial Management Consulting Practice. He has also been the Manager of Financial Management for East Asia at theWorld Bank and has worked for the US General Accounting Office responsible for developing and maintaining economic standards.

Vinay Bhargava, Chief Technical Officer

India

Vinay served as the senior adviser for Public Sector Governance at the World Bank in 2006-7. From 2002-06 he was World Bank Director of International Affairs and Operations and was responsible for outreach to civil society organizations. Prior to that he was for six years the World Bank`s Resident Representative and Country Director for the Philippines. Vinay has over 25 years experience in economic development and donor assistance covering Asia, Africa, Middle East and Eastern Europe. He was the lead author of a report on Combating Corruption in the Philippines (2000) and on Challenging Corruption in Asia. He also contributed a chapter to the book The Many Faces of Corruption (2007). He has a PhD in agricultural economics.

Peter Eigen

Germany

Peter was Chair of the PTF from its inception in March 2000 until February 2001, and continues to serve on the Board. He is the founder of Transparency International and is currently Chairman of its Advisory Board. Peter is the chairman of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative and of the Berlin Civil Society Centre. He served in the World Bank for 25 years, where he held various management positions in the Latin America and Africa Regions of the Bank, and was Director of the Regional Mission of the World Bank in Eastern Africa from 1988 until his retirement from the Bank in 1991. He has taught law at the universities of Frankfurt and Georgetown, at the John F. Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University, and serves currently as professor at the Freie Universität Berlin. He is a Trustee of the Crown Agents Foundation and Center for International Environmental Law. Peter is a lawyer by training.

Pierre Landell-Mills

United Kingdom

Served as PTF’s President and CEO for the organization’s first decade and has been a member of the PTF Board since February 2002. He is a principal of The Policy Practice. He served in the World Bank for 26 years before retiring in 1999. His positions included Country Director, Bangladesh, senior policy advisor on public sector management and environmentally sustainable development, and Staff Director and main author of the 1983 World Development Report on Managing Development and a 1989 report on Sub-Saharan Africa: From Crisis to Sustainable Growth. Prior to joining the Bank, he worked for seven years with the Government of Botswana and for two years in the Tanzania Treasury. Pierre has a Masters degree in economics from Cambridge University in 1965.

Barry Metzger

United States

Barry is an original member of the PTF Board. He is a partner with Baker & McKenzie LLP in New York, where he is a member of the Global Finance Group. From 1995 to 1999, he was General Counsel for the Asian Development Bank. In over thirty years legal practice, Barry is a recognized authority on Asian legal systems and economic law reform. He has written extensively on corporate governance reform in Asia and its effect on economic development and direct foreign investment in the region. He has been involved in a variety of innovative financing transactions, including the first syndicated loan to the Bank of China. Barry has a law degree from Harvard University.

Muthoni Muriu

Kenya

Muthoni has been a PTF Board member since November 2003. She has twenty years’ experience in international development work and a passion for social justice issues. As Director of Regional Programmes for Oxfam America, she provides strategic leadership and management oversight for their international programmes. In addition to steering policy and systems integration, she is responsible for ensuring that Oxfam’s international programs are well resourced and maintain the integrity of their impact objectives. She has worked within the Oxfam International confederation for eleven years, Prior to joining Oxfam in 2000, she worked with various regional organizations in Africa, focusing on international policy and development issues. She is fluent in English, French, and Kiswahili and holds a BSc in Politics and International Relations from the London School of Political Science and Economics and an MSc in Public Policy and Management from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Gerry van der Linden

The Netherlands

Gerry was elected to the PTF Board in May 2007. Gerry has recently retired as Vice-President of the Asian Development Bank and was responsible for knowledge management and sustainable development. He was previously director-general responsible for ADB operations in Azerbaijan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. In 1992 he chaired a Working Group preparing for a major reorganization of ADB. He has also worked for UNDP and the Dutch government. He holds a Masters degree in Economics from Erasmus University. Gerry is Chair of the PTF`s Audit and Governance Committee