FIFA has spent years telling anyone who would listen that it changed its ways in regard to its corruption issues. Among their efforts include a new disciplinary code, “independent” judicial bodies, a governance overhaul built to bury the memory of the bribery scandals that put more than a dozen officials in the reach of U.S. prosecutors in 2015. Then, on a Sunday in July, a phone call from the President of the United States undid a good part of that work in a single news cycl

In a previous post for BriberyMatters, I covered the so-called Flamingo Revolution protests, which erupted in Albania against the construction of two resorts, one on a stretch of formerly-protected coastline and the other on a nearby island that was formerly a military site. For this second part of the series, to better understand the underlying dynamics of the situation, I spoke with Esmeralda Ballesha, an Albanian consultant with deep experience in governance, business deve

While the promise of dramatic reforms following Hungary’s April elections has captured headlines, that same month saw another major anti-corruption development in Europe. On April 22, a Moldovan court sentenced former politician, oligarch and power broker Vladimir Plahotniuc to 19 years in prison for his role in the 2014 theft of $1 billion from three Moldovan banks, which had also implicated a number of other business and political leaders.

I am approaching this "Ask the Expert" a little differently this time around. Instead of sharing the answer to a question, I am going to share some of my "lessons learned" as a recent AI adopter in the realm of Learning & Development. I will start by sharing that I began this journey by asking both IT and our company DPO whether the tools I was using were within the bylaws of our company AI policy.

While the promise of dramatic reforms following Hungary’s April elections has captured headlines, that same month saw another major anti-corruption development in Europe. On April 22, a Moldovan court sentenced former politician, oligarch and power broker Vladimir Plahotniuc to 19 years in prison for his role in the 2014 theft of $1 billion from three Moldovan banks, which had also implicated a number of other business and political leaders.

In November 2025 for BriberyMatters, I examined the status of Ukraine’s ongoing fight against corruption. With the next annual Ukraine Recovery Conference taking place in several weeks in Gdansk, Poland, it is a good moment to return to the question of how to ensure transparency in the reconstruction process, and, in particular, the role of businesses in the effort.