Co-Founder and Director of Policy
The Tiri Network
London
UK
Jeremy Pope will be presenting a keynote on International ethics for Records Managers on Monday.
A dual national Irishman and New Zealander, Jeremy Pope is known through much of the developing world for his work on governance issues, most recently in the field of containing corruption and building just and honest government. He is a trustee of the International Records Management Trust in London.
In 2003, with a colleague, he established Tiri, a not-for-profit organisation specialising in the implementation of anti-corruption standards and conventions both within government and in the private sector and civil society.
Tiri works with a growing global network of specialists, academics, institutions and organisations across a wide range of countries committed to working collectively and individually to raise integrity standards in both public and private institutions. Tiri and its partners believe that by doing so successfully they will assist processes of sustainable development and the reduction of poverty.
Pope has long played an active role in civil society. In the 1970’s he was at the forefront of the “Save Lake Manapouri” environmental movement in New Zealand that laid the foundation for continuing civil society activism there.
Subsequently he was involved in a number of human rights non-government organisations (NGOs), including the Minority Rights Group, the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee (SAN-ROC), the Anti-Apartheid Movement, and the London-based NGO, Interights. Pope also laid the foundation for the Commonwealth Lawyers Association and the Commonwealth Association of Legislative Counsel.
He was one of the seven founders (and was founding Managing Director) of Transparency International (TI), a global coalition against corruption. Pope drove the organisation’s agenda through its formative years, devising its strategies and approaches. His original analysis of the “national integrity system” has been published in more than 20 languages (now titled Confronting Corruption: the Elements of a National Integrity System: The TI Sourcebook 2000). The concept has passed in to common use in development circles and his book is often described as being the “bible” by good governance activists.
During this time, his worldwide reputation earned him the admiring title of “A Gnome for Transparency International” from the prestigious US-based Executive Intelligence Review (March 12, 1999, p. 53).
Pope has served as personal anti-corruption adviser to, among others, the President of the World Bank, James Wolfensohn, to President Olusegun Obasanjo (Nigeria) and to Under-Secretary General Dileep Nair of the UN Office of Internal Oversight (OIOS). With John Githongo he developed the “First One Hundred Days” action plan for the current Kenyan president, President Mwai Kibaki.
Pope has a law degree from the Victoria University of Wellington; is a Barrister-at-Law, Inner Temple, London; and has been a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand since 1962.
After ten years in private practice, for nearly 20 years he held senior posts at the Commonwealth Secretariat where he advised governments and NGOs on policy and on major legal matters. Since then he has broadened into Eastern and Central Europe, the Balkans and Central America.
Pope regularly appears as a commentator on such news programmes as the BBC World Service, CNN and the Voice of America.
Jeremy Pope
Director of Policy
The Tiri Network
Third floor, Downstream Building, 1 London Bridge
London
SE1 9BG
UK
Telephone: +44 20 7022 1905
