International Records Management Trust

Trustees

Sarah Tyacke CB (Chair)

Sarah Tyacke DB, was Keeper of Public Records for the United Kingdom Government from 1992 to 2006 and Historical Manuscripts Commissioner and Chief Executive of The National Archives of England and Wales from 2003 to 2006. She recently retired from these posts. Previously, she was Director of Special Collections at the British Library from 1986 to 1991. She served as Vice President of the International Council on Archives (ICA) from 1996 to 2000 and as President of the Hakluyt Society from 1997 to 2002. Mrs Tyacke was responsible for the strategic approach to records management and digital records in UK government and the wider public sector, and implementation of the Freedom of Information Act 2005 in respect of archives.

  
Sarah Tyacke CB

Robert Annibale

Bob Annibale has been with Citibank since 1982, and, until recently, he was the Regional Treasurer for 35 Citibank branches across Central/Eastern Europe, Middle East, Africa and South Asia. He is the Senior Treasury Risk Officer for all of Citigroup/Citibank's businesses globally. Bridging a professional career in finance with extensive experience in academia and government, his work at Citigroup has focused on liquidity/price risk, treasury management and domestic capital markets issues in the emerging markets. He is an Associate Member of the Centre of African Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), and he also serves on the Council of the Royal African Society. Mr Annibale is a Member of the Board at the University of London, Institute of Commonwealth Studies and the University of Oxford's Centre for the Study of African Economies, St Anthony's College. He represents Citibank on a number of community and regeneration boards in London.

 

  
Robert Annibale

Barry Supple

Barry Supple CBE, FBA, is Emeritus Professor of Economic History, University of Cambridge, and a former Director of the Leverhulme Trust.  Between 1955 and 1981 he held academic appointments at the Harvard Business School, McGill University, the University of Sussex (where he was Pro Vice-Chancellor) and the University of Oxford.  He was elected to the Chair of Economic History in Cambridge in 1981 and to the Mastership of St Catharine’s College in 1983.  At various times, Professor Supple has been President of the Economic History Society, a Council member of the UK Social Science Research Council, Chairman of its Postgraduate Training Board and its Economic and Social History Committee, and Chairman of the modern History Section and Foreign Secretary of the British Academy.  In 1993 he left Cambridge to be Director of the Leverhulme Trust, retiring from this post in 2001.  He is presently the Chairman of the International Advisory Panel for the Endangered Archives Programme, which is administered by the British Library on behalf of the Arcadia Trust (formerly the Lisbet Rausing Charitable Fund).

 

  
Sarah Tyacke CB (Chair) Sarah Tyacke DB, was Keeper of Public Records for the United Kingdom Government from 1992 to 2006 and Historical Manuscripts Commissioner and Chief Executive of The National Archives of England and Wales from 2003 to 2006. She recently retired from these posts. Previously, she was Director of Special Collections at the British Library from 1986 to 1991. She served as Vice President of the International Council on Archives (ICA) from 1996 to 2000 and as President of the Hakluyt Society from 1997 to 2002. Mrs Tyacke was responsible for the strategic approach to records management and digital records in UK government and the wider public sector, and implementation of the Freedom of Information Act 2005 in respect of archives. Robert Annibale Bob Annibale has been with Citibank since 1982, and, until recently, he was the Regional Treasurer for 35 Citibank branches across Central/Eastern Europe, Middle East, Africa and South Asia. He is the Senior Treasury Risk Officer for all of Citigroup/Citibank's businesses globally. Bridging a professional career in finance with extensive experience in academia and government, his work at Citigroup has focused on liquidity/price risk, treasury management and domestic capital markets issues in the emerging markets. He is an Associate Member of the Centre of African Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), and he also serves on the Council of the Royal African Society. Mr Annibale is a Member of the Board at the University of London, Institute of Commonwealth Studies and the University of Oxford's Centre for the Study of African Economies, St Anthony's College. He represents Citibank on a number of community and regeneration boards in London. Barry Supple Barry Supple CBE, FBA, is Emeritus Professor of Economic History, University of Cambridge, and a former Director of the Leverhulme Trust.  Between 1955 and 1981 he held academic appointments at the Harvard Business School, McGill University, the University of Sussex (where he was Pro Vice-Chancellor) and the University of Oxford.  He was elected to the Chair of Economic History in Cambridge in 1981 and to the Mastership of St Catharine’s College in 1983.  At various times, Professor Supple has been President of the Economic History Society, a Council member of the UK Social Science Research Council, Chairman of its Postgraduate Training Board and its Economic and Social History Committee, and Chairman of the modern History Section and Foreign Secretary of the British Academy.  In 1993 he left Cambridge to be Director of the Leverhulme Trust, retiring from this post in 2001.  He is presently the Chairman of the International Advisory Panel for the Endangered Archives Programme, which is administered by the British Library on behalf of the Arcadia Trust (formerly the Lisbet Rausing Charitable Fund). Maja Daruwala  Maja Daruwala sits on several other governing boards and advisory councils, including the Open Society Justice Maja Daruwala is Executive Director of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), an international NGO that works to support human rights within the Commonwealth. A lawyer with extensive international experience, she has worked with the Ford Foundation in New Delhi, India (1992 to 1996) and with The Law and Society Trust in Colombo, Sri Lanka (1980 to 1986). Mrs Daruwala writes regularly for the national press in India on the protection of civil liberties and the promotion of good governance. She is concerned, in particular, with supporting greater accountability through police reform and greater participation for the public through the promotion of widespread human rights education. She has edited two reports on the status of poverty and right to information prepared for biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOGM) meetings. Mrs Daruwala is Chair of the Minority Rights Group International in London; member of the State Council for Right to Information, Government of Delhi; and member of the Commonwealth Foundation's Civil Society Advisory Committee. She sits on several other governing boards and advisory councils, including the Open Society Justice Initiative, the International Women's Health Coalition (both based in New York) and the Voluntary Action Network India, an umbrella organisation aimed at protecting civil society. Michel Gillibrand Michael Gillibrand is a non-executive director of a private British lease finance company, a member of the Academy of Corporate Governance (a research association based in Hyderabad, India); he also serves as an adviser to the Commonwealth Association for Corporate Governance. Mr Gillibrand spent nine years as the special adviser and departmental director responsible for public sector reform and governance at the Commonwealth Secretariat. Previously, he spent a total of 20 years as the resident chief adviser at government ministries in the Middle East and as managing director for the Middle East for a large US research and consultancy company. In addition, he directs and helps to implement a wide range of policy, strategy and investment assignments for governments and large private sector corporations in the Middle East, Europe, Africa, South and South East Asia and the Caribbean. James Manor James Manor has been Professorial Fellow of Political Science at the Institute of Development Studies (University of Sussex) since 1987. He is currently the VKRV Rao Professor at the Institute for Social and Economic Change in Bangalore India. He was Professor of Government at Harvard University (1985 to 1987) and Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and part-time Professor of Commonwealth Politics at the University of London (1993 to 1997). His other activities include consultancies for the World Bank; UNDP; the OECD; the Ford Foundation; IFAD; UNCDF; and for the Swedish, Dutch, Irish, Norwegian and Colombian Governments. Recently, he was appointed to the Emeka Anyaoku Chair of Commonwealth Studies at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London. As a political scientist, Professor Manor’s research has focused on in South Asia, but he has research experience elsewhere, including sub-Saharan Africa. His main over-riding interest is in state-society relations. He has recently done studies of democratic decentralisation in Asia and Africa, elections, and politicians’ survival strategies.    Jeremy Pope Jeremy Pope was a founder member of Transparency International (TI) and served for five years as its founding Managing Director. With Fredrik Galtung, he now heads TIRI (the governance-access-learning network), which specialises in research, training, building networks and developing new tools for fighting corruption. He had his own private practice as a barrister and solicitor in New Zealand prior to working, between 1976 and 1993, as Director of its Legal and Constitutional Affairs Division at the Commonwealth Secretariat and as Legal Adviser to the Commonwealth Secretary General. He has published widely on legal topics and current affairs. Among other activities, Mr Pope was legal adviser to the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group in South Africa in 1986, and has been responsible for the observing of elections in Bangladesh, Ghana, Namibia and Uganda. He has advised over 40 governments on a variety of matters and has worked with many NGOs in partnership, including work with INTERIGHTS. He is the author of Confronting Corruption: The Elements of a National Integrity System (now in 25 languages). Joseph Rugumyamheto The Honourable Joseph Rugumyamheto, a graduate of Stanford University, spent 30 years in the Tanzania public service, ultimately serving for five years as the Permanent Secretary for Public Service Management in the President’s Office, where he reported directly to the President of Tanzania.  He was responsible for all civil servants in the Government of Tanzania and for human resource management and development policies.  He is widely credited with being instrumental in achieving wide-ranging reform in the Tanzanian public service and for achieving enormous improvement in public service delivery to the poor.  He contributed to development in numerous capacities including serving as Chairman of the Government Board of the Eastern and Southern African Management Institute, Member of the Board of Research on Poverty Elimination, and Chairman of the Board of Global Development Learning Centre Network.  The Honourable Rugumyamheto retired in January 2006, and is now Chairman of the Board/Director at Douglas Lake Minerals Limited, a joint venture company holding mineral concession rights in Tanzania. In April 2006 he was awarded, at the World Bank, the Jit Gill Memorial Award for Outstanding Public Service.  His steadfast encouragement of good governance reforms and his distinguished contribution to the public good through effective public service reforms were ho

Maja Daruwala 

Maja Daruwala sits on several other governing boards and advisory councils, including the Open Society Justice Maja Daruwala is Executive Director of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), an international NGO that works to support human rights within the Commonwealth. A lawyer with extensive international experience, she has worked with the Ford Foundation in New Delhi, India (1992 to 1996) and with The Law and Society Trust in Colombo, Sri Lanka (1980 to 1986). Mrs Daruwala writes regularly for the national press in India on the protection of civil liberties and the promotion of good governance. She is concerned, in particular, with supporting greater accountability through police reform and greater participation for the public through the promotion of widespread human rights education. She has edited two reports on the status of poverty and right to information prepared for biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOGM) meetings. Mrs Daruwala is Chair of the Minority Rights Group International in London; member of the State Council for Right to Information, Government of Delhi; and member of the Commonwealth Foundation's Civil Society Advisory Committee. She sits on several other governing boards and advisory councils, including the Open Society Justice Initiative, the International Women's Health Coalition (both based in New York) and the Voluntary Action Network India, an umbrella organisation aimed at protecting civil society.

 

   Sarah Tyacke CB (Chair) Sarah Tyacke DB, was Keeper of Public Records for the United Kingdom Government from 1992 to 2006 and Historical Manuscripts Commissioner and Chief Executive of The National Archives of England and Wales from 2003 to 2006. She recently retired from these posts. Previously, she was Director of Special Collections at the British Library from 1986 to 1991. She served as Vice President of the International Council on Archives (ICA) from 1996 to 2000 and as President of the Hakluyt Society from 1997 to 2002. Mrs Tyacke was responsible for the strategic approach to records management and digital records in UK government and the wider public sector, and implementation of the Freedom of Information Act 2005 in respect of archives. Robert Annibale Bob Annibale has been with Citibank since 1982, and, until recently, he was the Regional Treasurer for 35 Citibank branches across Central/Eastern Europe, Middle East, Africa and South Asia. He is the Senior Treasury Risk Officer for all of Citigroup/Citibank's businesses globally. Bridging a professional career in finance with extensive experience in academia and government, his work at Citigroup has focused on liquidity/price risk, treasury management and domestic capital markets issues in the emerging markets. He is an Associate Member of the Centre of African Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), and he also serves on the Council of the Royal African Society. Mr Annibale is a Member of the Board at the University of London, Institute of Commonwealth Studies and the University of Oxford's Centre for the Study of African Economies, St Anthony's College. He represents Citibank on a number of community and regeneration boards in London. Barry Supple Barry Supple CBE, FBA, is Emeritus Professor of Economic History, University of Cambridge, and a former Director of the Leverhulme Trust.  Between 1955 and 1981 he held academic appointments at the Harvard Business School, McGill University, the University of Sussex (where he was Pro Vice-Chancellor) and the University of Oxford.  He was elected to the Chair of Economic History in Cambridge in 1981 and to the Mastership of St Catharine’s College in 1983.  At various times, Professor Supple has been President of the Economic History Society, a Council member of the UK Social Science Research Council, Chairman of its Postgraduate Training Board and its Economic and Social History Committee, and Chairman of the modern History Section and Foreign Secretary of the British Academy.  In 1993 he left Cambridge to be Director of the Leverhulme Trust, retiring from this post in 2001.  He is presently the Chairman of the International Advisory Panel for the Endangered Archives Programme, which is administered by the British Library on behalf of the Arcadia Trust (formerly the Lisbet Rausing Charitable Fund). Maja Daruwala  Maja Daruwala sits on several other governing boards and advisory councils, including the Open Society Justice Maja Daruwala is Executive Director of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), an international NGO that works to support human rights within the Commonwealth. A lawyer with extensive international experience, she has worked with the Ford Foundation in New Delhi, India (1992 to 1996) and with The Law and Society Trust in Colombo, Sri Lanka (1980 to 1986). Mrs Daruwala writes regularly for the national press in India on the protection of civil liberties and the promotion of good governance. She is concerned, in particular, with supporting greater accountability through police reform and greater participation for the public through the promotion of widespread human rights education. She has edited two reports on the status of poverty and right to information prepared for biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOGM) meetings. Mrs Daruwala is Chair of the Minority Rights Group International in London; member of the State Council for Right to Information, Government of Delhi; and member of the Commonwealth Foundation's Civil Society Advisory Committee. She sits on several other governing boards and advisory councils, including the Open Society Justice Initiative, the International Women's Health Coalition (both based in New York) and the Voluntary Action Network India, an umbrella organisation aimed at protecting civil society. Michel Gillibrand Michael Gillibrand is a non-executive director of a private British lease finance company, a member of the Academy of Corporate Governance (a research association based in Hyderabad, India); he also serves as an adviser to the Commonwealth Association for Corporate Governance. Mr Gillibrand spent nine years as the special adviser and departmental director responsible for public sector reform and governance at the Commonwealth Secretariat. Previously, he spent a total of 20 years as the resident chief adviser at government ministries in the Middle East and as managing director for the Middle East for a large US research and consultancy company. In addition, he directs and helps to implement a wide range of policy, strategy and investment assignments for governments and large private sector corporations in the Middle East, Europe, Africa, South and South East Asia and the Caribbean. James Manor James Manor has been Professorial Fellow of Political Science at the Institute of Development Studies (University of Sussex) since 1987. He is currently the VKRV Rao Professor at the Institute for Social and Economic Change in Bangalore India. He was Professor of Government at Harvard University (1985 to 1987) and Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and part-time Professor of Commonwealth Politics at the University of London (1993 to 1997). His other activities include consultancies for the World Bank; UNDP; the OECD; the Ford Foundation; IFAD; UNCDF; and for the Swedish, Dutch, Irish, Norwegian and Colombian Governments. Recently, he was appointed to the Emeka Anyaoku Chair of Commonwealth Studies at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London. As a political scientist, Professor Manor’s research has focused on in South Asia, but he has research experience elsewhere, including sub-Saharan Africa. His main over-riding interest is in state-society relations. He has recently done studies of democratic decentralisation in Asia and Africa, elections, and politicians’ survival strategies.    Jeremy Pope Jeremy Pope was a founder member of Transparency International (TI) and served for five years as its founding Managing Director. With Fredrik Galtung, he now heads TIRI (the governance-access-learning network), which specialises in research, training, building networks and developing new tools for fighting corruption. He had his own private practice as a barrister and solicitor in New Zealand prior to working, between 1976 and 1993, as Director of its Legal and Constitutional Affairs Division at the Commonwealth Secretariat and as Legal Adviser to the Commonwealth Secretary General. He has published widely on legal topics and current affairs. Among other activities, Mr Pope was legal adviser to the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group in South Africa in 1986, and has been responsible for the observing of elections in Bangladesh, Ghana, Namibia and Uganda. He has advised over 40 governments on a variety of matters and has worked with many NGOs in partnership, including work with INTERIGHTS. He is the author of Confronting Corruption: The Elements of a National Integrity System (now in 25 languages). Joseph Rugumyamheto The Honourable Joseph Rugumyamheto, a graduate of Stanford University, spent 30 years in the Tanzania public service, ultimately serving for five years as the Permanent Secretary for Public Service Management in the President’s Office, where he reported directly to the President of Tanzania.  He was responsible for all civil servants in the Government of Tanzania and for human resource management and development policies.  He is widely credited with being instrumental in achieving wide-ranging reform in the Tanzanian public service and for achieving enormous improvement in public service delivery to the poor.  He contributed to development in numerous capacities including serving as Chairman of the Government Board of the Eastern and Southern African Management Institute, Member of the Board of Research on Poverty Elimination, and Chairman of the Board of Global Development Learning Centre Network.  The Honourable Rugumyamheto retired in January 2006, and is now Chairman of the Board/Director at Douglas Lake Minerals Limited, a joint venture company holding mineral concession rights in Tanzania. In April 2006 he was awarded, at the World Bank, the Jit Gill Memorial Award for Outstanding Public Service.  His steadfast encouragement of good governance reforms and his distinguished contribution to the public good through effective public service reforms were honoured.   

Michel Gillibrand

Michael Gillibrand is a non-executive director of a private British lease finance company, a member of the Academy of Corporate Governance (a research association based in Hyderabad, India); he also serves as an adviser to the Commonwealth Association for Corporate Governance. Mr Gillibrand spent nine years as the special adviser and departmental director responsible for public sector reform and governance at the Commonwealth Secretariat. Previously, he spent a total of 20 years as the resident chief adviser at government ministries in the Middle East and as managing director for the Middle East for a large US research and consultancy company. In addition, he directs and helps to implement a wide range of policy, strategy and investment assignments for governments and large private sector corporations in the Middle East, Europe, Africa, South and South East Asia and the Caribbean.

 

   Michel Gillibrand

James Manor

James Manor has been Professorial Fellow of Political Science at the Institute of Development Studies (University of Sussex) since 1987. He is currently the VKRV Rao Professor at the Institute for Social and Economic Change in Bangalore India. He was Professor of Government at Harvard University (1985 to 1987) and Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and part-time Professor of Commonwealth Politics at the University of London (1993 to 1997). His other activities include consultancies for the World Bank; UNDP; the OECD; the Ford Foundation; IFAD; UNCDF; and for the Swedish, Dutch, Irish, Norwegian and Colombian Governments. Recently, he was appointed to the Emeka Anyaoku Chair of Commonwealth Studies at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London. As a political scientist, Professor Manor’s research has focused on in South Asia, but he has research experience elsewhere, including sub-Saharan Africa. His main over-riding interest is in state-society relations. He has recently done studies of democratic decentralisation in Asia and Africa, elections, and politicians’ survival strategies.   

 

   James Manor

Jeremy Pope

Jeremy Pope was a founder member of Transparency International (TI) and served for five years as its founding Managing Director. With Fredrik Galtung, he now heads TIRI (the governance-access-learning network), which specialises in research, training, building networks and developing new tools for fighting corruption. He had his own private practice as a barrister and solicitor in New Zealand prior to working, between 1976 and 1993, as Director of its Legal and Constitutional Affairs Division at the Commonwealth Secretariat and as Legal Adviser to the Commonwealth Secretary General. He has published widely on legal topics and current affairs. Among other activities, Mr Pope was legal adviser to the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group in South Africa in 1986, and has been responsible for the observing of elections in Bangladesh, Ghana, Namibia and Uganda. He has advised over 40 governments on a variety of matters and has worked with many NGOs in partnership, including work with INTERIGHTS. He is the author of Confronting Corruption: The Elements of a National Integrity System (now in 25 languages).

 

   Trustees Sarah Tyacke CB (Chair) - Sarah Tyacke DB, was Keeper of Public Records for the United Kingdom Government from 1992 to 2006 and Historical Manuscripts Commissioner and Chief Executive of The National Archives of England and Wales from 2003 to 2006. She recently retired from these posts.  Previously, she was Director of Special Collections at the British Library from 1986 to 1991. She served as Vice President of the International Council on Archives (ICA) from 1996 to 2000 and as President of the Hakluyt Society from 1997 to 2002. Mrs Tyacke was responsible for the strategic approach to records management and digital records in UK government and the wider public sector, and implementation of the Freedom of Information Act 2005 in respect of archives. Robert Annibale - Bob Annibale has been with Citibank since 1982, and, until recently, he was the Regional Treasurer for 35 Citibank branches across Central/Eastern Europe, Middle East, Africa and South Asia.  He is the Senior Treasury Risk Officer for all of Citigroup/Citibank's businesses globally.  Bridging a professional career in finance with extensive experience in academia and government, his work at Citigroup has focused on liquidity/price risk, treasury management and domestic capital markets issues in the emerging markets.  He is an Associate Member of the Centre of African Studies, SOAS, and also serves on the Council of the Royal African Society.  Mr Annibale is a Member of the Board at the University of London, Institute of Commonwealth Studies and the University of Oxford's Centre for the Study of African Economies, St Anthony's College.  He represents Citibank on a number of community and regeneration boards in London. Maja Daruwala  - Maja Daruwala sits on several other governing boards and advisory councils, including the Open Society Justice Maja Daruwala is Executive Director of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), an international NGO that works to support human rights within the Commonwealth.  A lawyer with extensive international experience, she has worked with the Ford Foundation in New Delhi, India (1992 to 1996) and with The Law and Society Trust in Colombo, Sri Lanka (1980 to 1986).  Mrs Daruwala writes regularly for the national press in India on the protection of civil liberties and the promotion of good governance.  She is concerned, in particular, with supporting greater accountability through police reform and greater participation for the public through the promotion of widespread human rights education.  She has edited two reports on the status of poverty and right to information prepared for biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOGM) meetings.  Mrs Daruwala is Chair of the Minority Rights Group International in London; member of the State Council for Right to Information, Government of Delhi; and member of the Commonwealth Foundation's Civil Society Advisory Committee.  She Initiative, the International Women's Health Coalition (both based in New York) and the Voluntary Action Network India, an umbrella organisation aimed at protecting civil society. Michel Gillibrand - Michael Gillibrand is a non-executive director of a private British lease finance company, a member of the Academy of Corporate Governance (a research association based in Hyderabad, India) and an adviser to the Centre of Management Development (a government management development and policy institute based in Kerala, India) and the Commonwealth Association for Corporate Governance.  Mr Gillibrand spent nine years as the special adviser and departmental director responsible for public sector reform and governance at the Commonwealth Secretariat.  Previously, he spent a total of 20 years as the resident chief adviser at government ministries in the Middle East, and as managing director for the Middle East for a large US research and consultancy company, as well as directing and implementing a wide range of policy, strategy and investment assignments for governments and large private sector corporations in the Middle East, Europe, Africa, South and South East Asia and the Caribbean. James Manor - James Manor has been Professorial Fellow of Political Science at the Institute of Development Studies (University of Sussex) since 1987. He is currently the VKRV Rao Professor at the Institute for Social and Economic Change in Bangalore India.  He was Professor of Government at Harvard University (1985 to 1987) and Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and part-time Professor of Commonwealth Politics at the University of London (1993 to 1997).  His other activities include consultancies for the World Bank; UNDP; the OECD; the Ford Foundation; IFAD; UNCDF; and for the Swedish, Dutch, Irish, Norwegian and Colombian Governments.  Recently, he was appointed to the Emeka Anyaoku Chair of Commonwealth Studies at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London.  As a political scientist, Professor Manor’s research has focused on in South Asia, but he has research experience elsewhere, including sub-Saharan Africa.  His main over-riding interest is in state-society relations.  He has recently done studies of democratic decentralisation in Asia and Africa, elections, and politicians’ survival strategies.     Jeremy Pope - Jeremy Pope was a founder member of Transparency International (TI) and served for five years as its founding Managing Director.  With Fredrik Galtung, he now heads TIRI (the governance-access-learning network), which specialises in research, training, building networks and developing new tools for fighting corruption.  He had his own private practice as a barrister and solicitor in New Zealand prior to working, between 1976 and 1993, as Director of its Legal and Constitutional Affairs Division at the Commonwealth Secretariat and as Legal Adviser to the Commonwealth Secretary General.  Prior to joining the Commonwealth Secretariat he had his own private practice as barrister and solicitor in New Zealand.  He has published widely on legal topics and current affairs.  Among other activities, Mr Pope was legal adviser to the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group in South Africa in 1986, and has been responsible for the observing of elections in Bangladesh, Ghana, Namibia and Uganda.  He has advised over 40 governments on a variety of matters and has worked with many NGOs in partnership, including work with INTERIGHTS.  He is the author of Confronting Corruption: The Elements of a National Integrity System (now in 25 languages).

Joseph Rugumyamheto

The Honourable Joseph Rugumyamheto, a graduate of Stanford University, spent 30 years in the Tanzania public service, ultimately serving for five years as the Permanent Secretary for Public Service Management in the President’s Office, where he reported directly to the President of Tanzania.  He was responsible for all civil servants in the Government of Tanzania and for human resource management and development policies.  He is widely credited with being instrumental in achieving wide-ranging reform in the Tanzanian public service and for achieving enormous improvement in public service delivery to the poor.  He contributed to development in numerous capacities including serving as Chairman of the Government Board of the Eastern and Southern African Management Institute, Member of the Board of Research on Poverty Elimination, and Chairman of the Board of Global Development Learning Centre Network.  The Honourable Rugumyamheto retired in January 2006, and is now Chairman of the Board/Director at Douglas Lake Minerals Limited, a joint venture company holding mineral concession rights in Tanzania. In April 2006 he was awarded, at the World Bank, the Jit Gill Memorial Award for Outstanding Public Service.  His steadfast encouragement of good governance reforms and his distinguished contribution to the public good through effective public service reforms were honoured.   

   Sarah Tyacke CB (Chair) Sarah Tyacke DB, was Keeper of Public Records for the United Kingdom Government from 1992 to 2006 and Historical Manuscripts Commissioner and Chief Executive of The National Archives of England and Wales from 2003 to 2006. She recently retired from these posts. Previously, she was Director of Special Collections at the British Library from 1986 to 1991. She served as Vice President of the International Council on Archives (ICA) from 1996 to 2000 and as President of the Hakluyt Society from 1997 to 2002. Mrs Tyacke was responsible for the strategic approach to records management and digital records in UK government and the wider public sector, and implementation of the Freedom of Information Act 2005 in respect of archives. Robert Annibale Bob Annibale has been with Citibank since 1982, and, until recently, he was the Regional Treasurer for 35 Citibank branches across Central/Eastern Europe, Middle East, Africa and South Asia. He is the Senior Treasury Risk Officer for all of Citigroup/Citibank's businesses globally. Bridging a professional career in finance with extensive experience in academia and government, his work at Citigroup has focused on liquidity/price risk, treasury management and domestic capital markets issues in the emerging markets. He is an Associate Member of the Centre of African Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), and he also serves on the Council of the Royal African Society. Mr Annibale is a Member of the Board at the University of London, Institute of Commonwealth Studies and the University of Oxford's Centre for the Study of African Economies, St Anthony's College. He represents Citibank on a number of community and regeneration boards in London. Barry Supple Barry Supple CBE, FBA, is Emeritus Professor of Economic History, University of Cambridge, and a former Director of the Leverhulme Trust.  Between 1955 and 1981 he held academic appointments at the Harvard Business School, McGill University, the University of Sussex (where he was Pro Vice-Chancellor) and the University of Oxford.  He was elected to the Chair of Economic History in Cambridge in 1981 and to the Mastership of St Catharine’s College in 1983.  At various times, Professor Supple has been President of the Economic History Society, a Council member of the UK Social Science Research Council, Chairman of its Postgraduate Training Board and its Economic and Social History Committee, and Chairman of the modern History Section and Foreign Secretary of the British Academy.  In 1993 he left Cambridge to be Director of the Leverhulme Trust, retiring from this post in 2001.  He is presently the Chairman of the International Advisory Panel for the Endangered Archives Programme, which is administered by the British Library on behalf of the Arcadia Trust (formerly the Lisbet Rausing Charitable Fund). Maja Daruwala  Maja Daruwala sits on several other governing boards and advisory councils, including the Open Society Justice Maja Daruwala is Executive Director of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), an international NGO that works to support human rights within the Commonwealth. A lawyer with extensive international experience, she has worked with the Ford Foundation in New Delhi, India (1992 to 1996) and with The Law and Society Trust in Colombo, Sri Lanka (1980 to 1986). Mrs Daruwala writes regularly for the national press in India on the protection of civil liberties and the promotion of good governance. She is concerned, in particular, with supporting greater accountability through police reform and greater participation for the public through the promotion of widespread human rights education. She has edited two reports on the status of poverty and right to information prepared for biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOGM) meetings. Mrs Daruwala is Chair of the Minority Rights Group International in London; member of the State Council for Right to Information, Government of Delhi; and member of the Commonwealth Foundation's Civil Society Advisory Committee. She sits on several other governing boards and advisory councils, including the Open Society Justice Initiative, the International Women's Health Coalition (both based in New York) and the Voluntary Action Network India, an umbrella organisation aimed at protecting civil society. Michel Gillibrand Michael Gillibrand is a non-executive director of a private British lease finance company, a member of the Academy of Corporate Governance (a research association based in Hyderabad, India); he also serves as an adviser to the Commonwealth Association for Corporate Governance. Mr Gillibrand spent nine years as the special adviser and departmental director responsible for public sector reform and governance at the Commonwealth Secretariat. Previously, he spent a total of 20 years as the resident chief adviser at government ministries in the Middle East and as managing director for the Middle East for a large US research and consultancy company. In addition, he directs and helps to implement a wide range of policy, strategy and investment assignments for governments and large private sector corporations in the Middle East, Europe, Africa, South and South East Asia and the Caribbean. James Manor James Manor has been Professorial Fellow of Political Science at the Institute of Development Studies (University of Sussex) since 1987. He is currently the VKRV Rao Professor at the Institute for Social and Economic Change in Bangalore India. He was Professor of Government at Harvard University (1985 to 1987) and Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and part-time Professor of Commonwealth Politics at the University of London (1993 to 1997). His other activities include consultancies for the World Bank; UNDP; the OECD; the Ford Foundation; IFAD; UNCDF; and for the Swedish, Dutch, Irish, Norwegian and Colombian Governments. Recently, he was appointed to the Emeka Anyaoku Chair of Commonwealth Studies at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London. As a political scientist, Professor Manor’s research has focused on in South Asia, but he has research experience elsewhere, including sub-Saharan Africa. His main over-riding interest is in state-society relations. He has recently done studies of democratic decentralisation in Asia and Africa, elections, and politicians’ survival strategies.    Jeremy Pope Jeremy Pope was a founder member of Transparency International (TI) and served for five years as its founding Managing Director. With Fredrik Galtung, he now heads TIRI (the governance-access-learning network), which specialises in research, training, building networks and developing new tools for fighting corruption. He had his own private practice as a barrister and solicitor in New Zealand prior to working, between 1976 and 1993, as Director of its Legal and Constitutional Affairs Division at the Commonwealth Secretariat and as Legal Adviser to the Commonwealth Secretary General. He has published widely on legal topics and current affairs. Among other activities, Mr Pope was legal adviser to the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group in South Africa in 1986, and has been responsible for the observing of elections in Bangladesh, Ghana, Namibia and Uganda. He has advised over 40 governments on a variety of matters and has worked with many NGOs in partnership, including work with INTERIGHTS. He is the author of Confronting Corruption: The Elements of a National Integrity System (now in 25 languages). Joseph Rugumyamheto The Honourable Joseph Rugumyamheto, a graduate of Stanford University, spent 30 years in the Tanzania public service, ultimately serving for five years as the Permanent Secretary for Public Service Management in the President’s Office, where he reported directly to the President of Tanzania.  He was responsible for all civil servants in the Government of Tanzania and for human resource management and development policies.  He is widely credited with being instrumental in achieving wide-ranging reform in the Tanzanian public service and for achieving enormous improvement in public service delivery to the poor.  He contributed to development in numerous capacities including serving as Chairman of the Government Board of the Eastern and Southern African Management Institute, Member of the Board of Research on Poverty Elimination, and Chairman of the Board of Global Development Learning Centre Network.  The Honourable Rugumyamheto retired in January 2006, and is now Chairman of the Board/Director at Douglas Lake Minerals Limited, a joint venture company holding mineral concession rights in Tanzania. In April 2006 he was awarded, at the World Bank, the Jit Gill Memorial Award for Outstanding Public Service.  His steadfast encouragement of good governance reforms and his distinguished contribution to the public good through effective public service reforms were honoured.   


 

 
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