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Jean-Pierre Méan
President of the Swiss chapter of Transparency International - TI

Bio
Jean-Pierre Mean is a lawyer admitted to the bar in Quebec/Canada and in Switzerland. He has been General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of SGS, the Swiss inspection company from 1996 to 2008, with an interruption in 2002 and 2003 when he was Chief Compliance Officer of the European Bank for Development and Reconstruction. He is President of the Swiss Chapter of Transparency International and chairs a Task Force which has reissued the Rules on Combating Corruption of the International Chamber of Commerce in 2011.

TI
Transparency International is a non-governmental organisation devoted to fighting and preventing corruption It was founded in 1993 by former World Bank employees who had been confronted with corruption in developing countries in their activity for the Bank. At that time the issue of corruption in World Bank projects was carefully swept under the carpet. The word itself was tabu. It could not be uttered. Instead one spoke of the „C“ word.
TI has 90 chapters and chapters in formation worldwide. TI Switzerland was founded in 1995 as independent, politically neutral association. Every year Transparency publishes a ranking of the countries according to the intensity of domestic corruption, the so-called Corruption Perceptions Index.
http://www.transparency.org

Keywords
Legal, trust, common interest, money, social contract, politics, civil servant, Bribery Act