Guest Speaker from OECD Talks About Combating Foreign Bribery

On March 25, Mary Crane-Charef of the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) was a guest speaker in Dr. Anand's International Organizations class at the School of in International Relations and Diplomacy at AGS. Mary Crane-Charef is Communications Officer at the Anti-Corruption Division, Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs of the OECD. Her presentation focused mainly on the implementation and enforcement of the Anti-Bribery Convention. "Too few realise that the bribery of foreign public officials in international business is a serious crime with serious consequences. Foreign bribery distorts competitive markets and undermines governments and sustainable economic development. The OECD confronts this problem with the Anti-Bribery Convention, which entered into force in 1999. Since then, thirty-eight countries have recognised the risks foreign bribery presents and criminalized this behavior." says Crane-Charef. She also shared a few career tips with students wishing to work in international organizations such as OECD.