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] 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.[4] Moreira denied these allegations, which were not upheld in subsequent investigations commissioned by Transparency International.[5]

Moreira is a board member of the United Nations Global Compact[6] and a Council representative on the International Land Coalition.[7] 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."[8][9] In 2019, she admonished Western banks for facilitating corruption in Gambia.[10][11]

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.[12]

In June 2020, the Guardian reported that Moreira had made a complaint of bullying against the Board of Transparency International and that she had been dismissed by Transparency International in February 2020. The article quoted a friend of Moreira as saying: “TI tried to persuade Patricia to take a payoff in exchange for dropping her formal complaint against the board. She refused, and walked away from negotiations. She plans to sue TI for unfair dismissal, and wants to see her bullying complaints properly investigated by an independent party.” The article suggested that row could damage Transparency International’s hopes of securing further funding from the UK’s Department for International Development, which has given it almost £5m since 2017.[13]

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. Doshi, Vidhi (21 August 2019). "Transparency International staff complain of bullying and harassment". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
  5. Report by Taylor Wessing LLP, commissioned by Transparency International and published on 2 June 2020
  6. "UN Global Compact Board". UN Global Compact. United Nations Global Compact. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
  7. "Patricia Moreira". International Land Coalition. Retrieved 2019-11-13.
  8. "World Marks Anti-Corruption Day". Voice of America. Retrieved 2019-11-13.
  9. ""We Need Action Now!"". IACC Series. 2018-10-22. Retrieved 2019-11-13.
  10. "EX-PRESIDENT'S THEFT FROM GAMBIA TOPS $300 MILLION". amsterdamnews.com. Retrieved 2019-11-13.
  11. Biscevic, Tajna. "TI: Gambia Corruption Enabled by Western Banks". www.occrp.org. Retrieved 2019-11-13.
  12. "Corruption causing "a global crisis of democracy"". Government & civil service news. Retrieved 2019-11-13.
  13. Anti-corruption watchdog hit by legal row over staff ‘bullying’, theguardian.com by Jamie Doward, 6 June 2020 accessed 18 June 2020
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