WHO WE ARE

Gary Kalman is the Executive Director of TI US. He oversees the organization’s U.S. operations focusing on illicit finance and the U.S. role in global anti-corruption efforts. He was a founding member the Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency (FACT) Coalition, a nonpartisan alliance promoting policies to combat the harmful impacts of corrupt financial practices and served as Executive Director from 2016 to 2019. He was also a founder of Americans for Financial Reform, a coalition that, in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, led the successful fight for the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill. Shortly after coming to Washington, he directed the federal legislative office for the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG). While at U.S. PIRG, he was a leading voice for congressional ethics and lobbying reform having sat on a bipartisan task force convened by the Speaker of the House. He is currently an Advisory Council member for the International Coalition Against Illicit Economies.  He has testified before Congress on numerous occasions on financial accountability and is a regular speaker and commentator on anti-corruption and transparency issues at conferences, events and in the media.

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Scott Greytak is an anticorruption attorney and the Director of Advocacy for TI US. His work focuses on designing anticorruption laws and policies, organizing and leading ideologically inclusive coalitions, and lobbying the U.S. Congress and administration. Greytak was named a Top Lobbyist in 2021, 2023, and 2024 by the National Institute for Lobbying & Ethics. He is an Advisory Board member for the Vandenberg Coalition, which promotes a strong and proud American foreign policy responsive to the interests of Americans all across our country.

In 2021 and 2023, respectively, TI US helped craft and pass the most significant U.S. anticorruption and anti-money laundering law in a generation (the Corporate Transparency Act), as well as the most important U.S. anti-foreign-bribery law in nearly 50 years (the Foreign Extortion Prevention Act).

Before joining TI, Greytak helped pass over a dozen state and local anticorruption reforms for the largest grassroots anticorruption organization in the U.S; designed legal challenges to cases such as Citizens United v. FEC; and authored Bankrolling the Bench, the leading report on judicial corruption in the United States. He holds Juris Doctor and Bachelor of Arts degrees from Ohio State University.

Annalise Burkhart is TI US’s Program and Research Associate. She focuses on issues related to asset recovery, good governance, and illicit financial flows, in addition to elevating the work of Transparency International chapters as the U.S. liaison to the network. She oversees digital outreach for advocacy campaigns and helps manage the day-to-day logistics of the office.

Prior to joining TI, Burkhart focused on financial crime investigations and worked as a researcher for investigative journalists specializing in the Freedom of Information Act. A vocal transparency advocate, she lived and worked in Beirut, Lebanon, conducting research into corruption in the country’s security sector. She previously interned in the Office of Congressman Steve Cohen, where she focused on judiciary issues. A graduate of the University of Tennessee, Burkhart received her B.A. in political science and Arabic.

Colby Goodman is a Senior Researcher at Transparency International Defense and Security (TI-DS) and a member of the TI US team. He conducts research and provides advice on corruption risks within the international arms trade and other forms of defense sector corruption. Prior to joining TI-DS, he was the director of the Security Assistance Monitor program at the Center for International Policy. Goodman also served as Deputy Director at the United Nations Office of Disarmament Affairs Regional Office in Africa to support African efforts in establishing effective controls on conventional arms transfers. He has led or participated in field research in West Africa, South Asia, and Mexico. Goodman’s commentary or opinion pieces have appeared in major U.S. newspapers and media outlets covering U.S. foreign policy and the Pentagon. He is a member of the Forum on the Arms Trade’s Steering Committee and a graduate of the Middlebury Institute for International Studies’ master program on International Policy studies.

Katie Plywaczewski is the intern for TI US. She is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Foreign Service at Georgetown University, concentrating on Global Politics and Security, researching topics related to illicit finance, international development, and global governance. She is also a member of the Georgetown Anti-Poverty Society, Georgetown Women in Foreign Affairs, and a founding member of the Georgetown Anti-Corruption Association.

Prior to her work with TI US, She earned a degree in Criminal Justice & Criminology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2022 where she held a consultancy position with the United Nations Office on Drugs & Crime (UNODC) and currently continues to work closely with other multilateral institutions. Her previous roles include a fellowship with the United Nations Association-NCA, work in the International Institutions and Global Governance Program within the Council on Foreign Relations, and an advocacy position at the Juvenile Justice Institute of Nebraska.

Ian Gary joined the Fund for Constitutional Government (FCG) as executive director in June 2022. Ian is a senior policy, research and advocacy professional with over 30 years of experience in financial transparency and accountability, international development, and the reform of natural resource governance.

Ian also serves as the executive director of the Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency (FACT) Coalition. Prior to joining FACT in November 2020, Ian directed Oxfam America’s global policy, advocacy and program work focused on promoting transparent and accountable financial flows – for example from oil and mining revenues, taxes and aid – to fight poverty.  Prior to joining Oxfam in 2005, Ian was Strategic Issues Advisor for Africa and Strategic Issues Advisor for Extractive Industries at Catholic Relief Services (CRS) from 1999 to 2005. He has held positions with the Ford Foundation as well as international development organizations in the U.S. and Africa.

Ian is the author of the Oxfam America report Ghana’s Big Test: Oil’s Challenge to Democratic Development (2009); co-author, with Terry Lynn Karl of Stanford University, of the CRS report Bottom of the Barrel: Africa’s Oil Boom and the Poor (2003); and co-author of Chad’s Oil: Miracle or Mirage? (2005), issued by CRS and the Bank Information Center. Ian has been a member of the World Bank Extractive Industries Advisory Group; a member of the Global Steering Committee of Publish What You Pay; and a founding steering committee member of the Open Contracting Partnership. Ian is a board member of Advocates for Community Alternatives, an NGO based in Accra, Ghana.

Ian has been a frequent commentator on extractive industries and other development issues in major media outlets including New York Times, The Economist, The Guardian (UK), Le Monde, Washington Post, Financial Times, BBC, and NPR.  He has testified before the US Congress and given presentations at The Brookings Institute, European Parliament, World Bank, IMF, Royal Institute of International Affairs, United Nations, U.S. State Department and Oxford University, among other venues. He holds a MA degree from the University of Leeds (UK) in the Politics of International Resources and Development and a BA from the University of Missouri School of Journalism.

David M. Luna is President and CEO of Luna Global Networks & Convergence Strategies LLC.  A former US diplomat and national security official, David is a globally-recognized strategic thought leader, advocate for security of humanity, and a leading voice internationally on crime convergence, transnational threats, international affairs, geopolitical risks, changing character of war, illicit trade, threat finance, and global illicit economies (“dark side of globalization”) that fuel greater insecurity and instability around the world.  David is also Founder and Executive Director of the International Coalition Against Illicit Economies (ICAIE).

David held numerous senior positions with the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL), including directorships for national security, transnational crime, and anti-corruption and good governance; and advisor to the Secretary’s Coordinator for the Rule of Law. David also served as an Assistant Counsel to the President, Office of the Counsel to the President, The White House; and other positions with the U.S. Department of Labor and U.S. Senate.

David is currently the Chair of the Business at OECD Anti-Illicit Trade Expert Group (AITEG); Chair of the Anti-Illicit Trade Committee (AITC), United States Council for International Business (USCIB); Chair of the Peace & Security Committee, United Nations Association of the USA – National Capitol Area (UNA-NCA); Member of the Business Twenty (B20/G20) Integrity & Compliance Task Force; and previously served as the President of the OECD Task Force on Countering Illicit Trade; Vice Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Illicit Trade and Organized Crime, Chair, APEC Anti-Corruption and Transparency (ACT) Working Group; Chair of the U.S.-China Anti-Corruption Working Group of the Joint Law Enforcement Liaison Group and in other leadership positions in the G7, and other diplomatic fora and public-private partnerships on anti-crime and global security.  David is also the Chair of a Summit for Democracy (S4D) Kleptocracy and Illicit Finance Working Group — a civil society-driven dialogue to fight corruption and money laundering to defend democracy against authoritarianism, confront hubs of illicit trade, and safeguard human rights and security.

David is a Senior Fellow for National Security and co-Director of the Anti-Illicit Trade Institute at the Terrorism, Transnational Crime, and Corruption Center (TraCCC), Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University. David is a graduate (M.S.S.) of the U.S. Army War College, and received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, J.D. from The Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America, and awarded numerous certificates from the Harvard Business School (HBS).

Jana Morgan is a dedicated political activist, seasoned campaign strategist, and thought leader who has spent her career fighting against government and corporate corruption and to protect the rights of others.

In her most recent role as the Director of the 250+ member coalition, Declaration for American Democracy, Jana led a nationwide campaign to pass sweeping democracy reform legislation that would protect and expand the right to vote, get big money out of politics, end gerrymandering, and stop election subversion. Through her leadership, this legislation saw passage through the House of Representatives, as well as debate and floor votes in the Senate.

Previously she was the Campaigns and Advocacy Director for the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable, where she led the organization’s efforts to combat corporate capture. She also spearheaded the launch of Protect the Protest, a coalition aimed at stopping frivolous corporate lawsuits against activists. Earlier in her career she spent four years as Director of Publish What You Pay – United States where she led the 40+ member coalition’s efforts to bring transparency and accountability to the oil, gas, and mining sector. Prior to that, Jana worked at Global Witness, conducting advocacy and in-country field research on Afghanistan’s extractive sector, conflict minerals exploitation in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, and the development of governance systems for Uganda’s emerging oil sector.

Jana holds an MA in International Relations from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University and a Certificate of Advanced Study in Conflict Resolution. She received her BA in Government from St. Lawrence University.

An expert on issues of corporate responsibility, good governance, and cross-sectoral partnerships, Michael loves to design, develop and lead global programs and initiatives. He currently leads the Transparency and Accountability Initiative (TAI) funder collaborative strengthening the impact of funder investments that embed transparency, civic participation and accountability as essential elements of tacking today’s pressing problems, be that the climate emergency, pandemics or financial secrecy.  He joined TAI after almost two decades working on different aspects of the global good governance and development agenda, including over ten years with the World Bank in a variety of roles relating to anti corruption, governance of extractive industries, and multi-stakeholder governance. This included a focus on contracting issues through which he helped shepherd development of a new global initiative on Open Contracting to promote better outcomes from the estimated $9.5 trillion in public-private contracts globally. Michael previously worked on industry codes of conduct and as a consultant on corporate responsibility and partnerships. Michael has advanced degrees from the University of Cambridge and Johns Hopkins University. He is a frequent author and blogger and misses his time as a radio DJ.

Conrad Martin is a veteran, widely known and highly respected advocate for open government and anti-corruption initiatives.  Until his recent retirement, he served as the Executive Director of the Fund for Constitutional Government, a nonprofit organization created to eliminate corruption in government and foster constitutional principles of governance. The Fund serves as an incubator for several important anti-corruption organizations, among those developed during his tenure include the Project on Government Oversight (POGO), the Government Accountability Project (GAP), and the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC).

He also served as the Executive Director of Stewart R. Mott Charitable Trust, managing an annual grants budget of approximately $1.5 million. The Trust made grants in the areas of government accountability, arms control, political finance reform, civil rights/civil liberties, and population & reproductive rights.

Early in his career, Conrad spent 2 years in the Peace Corps from 1981 to 1983 as a Forage Agronomist on the island of Barbados.

Born in Mexico, Conrad is fluent in conversational Spanish and has traveled widely in South America, Central America, Europe, and the Near East.