Tim Robinson, Chief Compliance Officer at BHP, joined CIPE’s Anti-Corruption & Governance Center (ACGC) podcast on the margins of December’s International Anti-Corruption Conference to discuss why BHP - one of the world’s largest mining companies - has chosen to actively prioritize integrity and business ownership transparency with its partners and global supply chain. As he shares, "effective anti-corruption measures and an effective anti-corruption environment...helps promote a level playing field...[and] prevents corrupt companies from gaining an unfair and illegal advantage when competing.” Listen now to hear Robinson discuss the specific initiatives that BHP is a part of, including beneficial ownership initiatives and commitments to a sustainable transition to a clean energy future. This episode is co-hosted by Michele Crymes, ACGC Program Director, and Ben Schmidt, Program Officer with ACGC.

Oleksii Sobolev, the recently named Deputy Minister of Economy of Ukraine, joins CIPE’s Anti-Corruption & Governance Center podcast this week to discuss Ukraine's lauded innovations in procurement transparency and accountability. Recorded a few weeks ago while he was still the Chief Executive Officer of Prozorro.Sale, Sobolev provides an insider story of Ukraine’s efforts to strengthen integrity, market competition, and public trust in the government as it developed and launched a uniquely transparent system for government purchases and the sale of government assets, which has already helped process $2.5 billion in transactions involving over 55,000 participants and continues to do so amid the ongoing war. Listen now to hear Sobolev share how the platform connects to over 40 different e-commerce websites - and stores all its information in a centralized and public database - and how interested governments can adopt the same system in their home countries. This episode is hosted by Katya Lysova, Senior Program Officer for Eurasia who is responsible for overseeing CIPE's business integrity programming in the region.

Cheikhou Oumar, President of the Observatory for Monitoring Economic Development Indicators in Africa (OSIDEA), joins CIPE’s Anti-Corruption & Governance Center podcast to discuss Senegal's historic push for ownership transparency in the extractives sector and beyond. Oumar shares his experience at the center of trilateral negotiations with government, business, and civil society as the country has launched and mandated compliance to its first-ever beneficial ownership registry, which currently includes 130 companies and counting. Listen now to hear how the West African country of 16 million has taken on some of the biggest private interests in its $24 billion economy by requiring them to share their ultimate owners, how the private sector has reacted, and what OSIDEA has been doing to raise awareness about how beneficial ownership transparency helps combat corruption and level the playing field in the economy. This episode is hosted by Richard Christel, Program Officer with ACGC and lead for the Anti-Corruption Rapid Response Program.