Ramandeep Chhina

Dr. Ramandeep Chhina is an International anti-money laundering and combating financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) expert working in this field since 2005. She has worked as a solicitor in the Economic Crime department of a law firm in England and Wales (UK). For the past nearly ten years, Ramandeep is working in academia doing research in the field of international trade finance and financial crime, particularly on issues relating to fraud, money laundering and bribery in international trade transactions.

Maira Martini

Maíra Martini is the Research and Policy Expert on corrupt money flows at the Transparency International Secretariat in Berlin (TI-S) and leads the TI movement work on illicit financial flows, anti-money laundering, and beneficial ownership transparency. She is the author of several TI reports on these issues. Maíra is part of the Global Anti-Corruption Consortium, a ground-breaking partnership with investigative journalists from the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project.

Beneficial ownership data verification Key concepts, practical steps and the importance of structured data Stephen Abbott

This session looked at various BO data verification challenges, at policy, technical and practical level, international practice, and different enforcement and verification mechanisms to enhance BO transparency.

Some of the issues that were considered during this session include:

Stephen Abbott Pugh

Stephen Abbott Pugh is Open Ownership’s Data and Technology Manager. He looks after the overall technical roadmap for the organisation, providing technical assistance to governments with implementing technology reforms to advance beneficial ownership transparency. He is the product owner of the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard and the Open Ownership Register, along with a range of other technical products.

BO Data collection & disclosure: technical & practical considerations

This session continued the discussion on BO data collection and disclosures, mainly focusing on technical considerations, data standard, and the challenges faced.

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

  • Current mechanisms to collect BO data and the challenges faced;
  • International practices in collecting structured BO information: Beneficial Ownership Data
    Standard and the EITI BO disclosure form; and
  • Storage of historical BO information – policy and technical considerations.

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.