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When

Tuesday, 20th May 2025, from 6pm - 7:30pm BST

Where

Online via Zoom.

Format

There'll be a great line-up of speakers plus ample scope for discussion and debate.

About the book...

Corruption is a pervasive challenge in organisations and institutions across all sectors. Whether you lead a department or oversee operations on a regional, national, or international scale, addressing corruption is likely not your primary expertise – yet it directly impacts your ability to deliver results.

In this practical and accessible guide, anti-corruption experts Mark Pyman and Paul Heywood introduce a powerful framework designed specifically for professionals like you. Moving beyond abstract, national-level strategies, they offer a sector-based approach that enables you to recognise, analyse, and effectively combat corruption where it matters most – in your own field.

The book outlines the SFRA method, a four-step process to help you:

Focus on your sector: Tackle corruption at the level where you have the most expertise and influence.
Break down the problem: Identify and prioritise specific, manageable issues rather than vague, overarching concerns.
Explore remediation strategies: Discover practical, real-world solutions backed by over 60 detailed examples.
Take targeted action: Use a variety of analytical lenses to select the most effective strategies for your context.

Packed with clear guidance, practical tools, and sector-specific insights, this book equips you to build more resilient organisations where integrity is embedded in core processes. Whether you are a practitioner, policymaker, or academic, Tackling Corruption offers the knowledge and strategies needed to drive meaningful, lasting change.

About the author...

DR. MARK PYMAN

Dr. Mark Pyman is an experienced advocate, scholar and practitioner at the forefront of enabling large organisations – public and private – to take effective action to reduce corruption. He currently co-leads CurbingCorruption (with Professor Paul Heywood), an organisation dedicated to assisting front-line reformers to tackle corruption on a Sector-by-Sector basis (here). He was a Committee Member in the Afghanistan Independent Anti-Corruption Committee (MEC) 2015-2017, prior to which he founded and led the Security and Defence Anti-Corruption Programme at Transparency International (here). From 2004-2015, he led the team’s engagements with Defence Ministries, including Afghanistan, Bulgaria, Burundi, Colombia, Georgia, India, Kenya, Latvia, Lebanon, Norway, Palestine, Poland, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Taiwan, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, UK, USA. He developed innovative methodologies for evaluating the corruption vulnerabilities of the world’s defence ministries (here) and of all the major defence companies (here), ongoing analyses that are viewed as the most authoritative available in the sector.

His work was instrumental in shaping the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty, influencing NATO policy, and raising international focus on corruption in policy forums such as Munich Security Conference.

Prior to TI, Mark Pyman worked for 18 years in multiple global roles with Shell International, including postings as Chief Financial Officer in West Africa and China, roles that included responsibility for identifying, preventing and dealing with corruption issues. In the first part of his career he and four colleagues started up and grew a risk analysis company to market leadership, assessing the risks of fires and explosions in large industrial installations.

He and Paul are the authors of the 2024 book ‘Sector-based action against corruption: a guide for organisations and professionals’ (here). The book is available as a free download, so that companies, organisations and ministries can request that their staff download the book and use it as a base for building a common approach to the corruption issues in their organisation.