Fredrik Galtung is the chief executive of Tiri, an NGO created in 2003 out of the recognition that the time for talking and raising awareness about corruption has now moved on to the determined reduction and control of corruption by the application of practical knowledge and skills. Tiri works with governments, business, and civil society to find practical solutions to making integrity work. We operate in the belief that improvements in integrity offer perhaps the single largest opportunity for sustainable and equitable development worldwide. Tiri is currently active in more than 40 countries on six continents.

Tiri is supported by a number of leading foundations (e.g. the Aga Khan Foundation, Ford Foundation, Open Society Institute), governments (e.g. Canada, Great Britain, Norway) and international governmental organisations.

Over the past 10 years, Fredrik has consulted on strategic corruption control in more than forty countries, working with governments, international organisations (Council of Europe, World Bank, UN secretariat, UNDP, UNESCO, Unicef, UN Office of Drugs and Crime, etc.), several companies, foundations and governments and development agencies.

Fredrik is considered one of the foremost experts on measurements and metrics pertaining to corruption, fraud and organizational integrity. His expertise in this matter and strategic corruption control has been sought by the UN Secretariat, the World Bank, the Offices of the Presidents Nicaragua, Mexico, Benin, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, the Philippines as well as by specialised anti-corruption agencies, civil society groups, academics and development organisations.

Fredrik began his international career as the founding staff member and Head of Research of Transparency International (TI), the world’s first global anti-corruption NGO, with national chapters in some 100 countries. He was responsible for developing the Bribe Payers Index (BPI) in the course of which he interviewed business leaders in a dozen countries about their first-hand experiences with international bribery. Another of his innovations has been the Global Corruption Barometer (with Gallup International).

Fredrik is the founder of the Public Integrity Education Network facilitated jointly by Tiri and the Central European University. PIEN comprises more than 170 universities in 60 countries intent on developing an effective teaching, training and research programme in the field of public integrity. Fredrik has lectured and taught courses at INSEAD, Cambridge, Oxford, London Business School, London School of Economics, University of Sussex, Tel Aviv University, American University in Beirut, Central European University, Harvard, the Free University of Berlin, University of Hawaii, Tsinghua University, Hong Kong University, among others. Fredrik started the Network for Integrity in Reconstruction, a group of NGOs and policy makers from post-war countries in four continents that addresses the integrity and corruption challenges of reconstruction.

Fredrik is responsible for international initiatives on corruption in the official arms trade, the corruption dimension of post-war reconstruction and governance in primary healthcare provision. He has edited several volumes and articles on corruption. He is fluent in six languages and is a Norwegian national.

Tiri’s head office is London. We also have an operational presence in Jakarta, Jerusalem, Nairobi and The Hague.

Email: fredrik.galtung@tiri.org