Louisse Russel-Prywata

Louise Russell-Prywata is Director of Policy and Advocacy at Open Ownership. She leads the organisation's global policy work on beneficial ownership transparency, and oversees the development of technical guidance and research on the implementation and impact of reforms. Previously, Louise led Open Ownership's technical assistance to governments, and prior to this worked within and consulted for a variety of civil society organisations and international governance and anti-corruption initiatives, including five years with Transparency International.

Fridolin Berek

Currently he is an expert staff for corruption prevention at the National Secretariat of Corruption Prevention. In this role he coordinates integration of electronic based national planning including beneficial ownership transparency, actively taking part in the development of quantity assurance tool in the oil and gas sector. In 2017, he coordinated with the CSOs and EITI International Secretariat to prepare and organize BO global conference in Jakarta.  

Regional Workshop on Advancing Beneficial Ownership in Asia and Pacific Region: Policy Approaches for Beneficial Ownership Implementation

This session discussed and explored international examples and practices, mainly at policy level, on collecting BO data, the level of detail that needs to be disclosed, and the challenges that might be faced.

Some of the issues that will be considered in this session include:

  • What BO information should be collected?
  • How BO should information be collected? Integration into existing system or new system – international practices; and
  • Updating the BO information (timeframes and other mechanisms) – international practices and challenges.

UK’s Register of Company Beneficial Owners: The People with Significant Control (PSC) Register

Some of the concepts that discussed in this session include:

  • Benefits of the public disclosure of BO data;
  • Balancing public disclosure of BO data with data protection and privacy laws;
  • The extent to which BO information should be made available to public and any exemptions granted – international good practice; and
  • Practice of charging a fee for data access.

Andrew Irvine

Andy is the Legal and Corporate Engagement Director at the EITI International Secretariat. He advises countries on development of institutional and legal frameworks to achieve EITI standards, particularly with regard to beneficial ownership and contract and revenue transparency. He also provides legal advice to countries and regional teams to support legal reforms and assists in drafting legislation related to extractives transparency.  Additionally, he engages with and develops corporate partners in the mining and oil and gas industries to advance EITI company expectations.