I am a certified business strategist, author of a science book, and licensed economist with over 15 years of experience in Strategy Development and Execution, Corporate Governance, Performance Management and KPIs, A.I. ethics, Risk Management systems, Anti-Corruption programs, and Anti-Bribery systems, with a passion for science and R&D.
In December 2022, I discovered the Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) Manual, a comprehensive guide to the intricacies of fraud detection and prevention, decided to undertake the 90-Day CFE Exam Challenge, and successfully passed all four exams on my first attempt by March 2023, scoring over 96% on each.
I developed new anti-corruption and anti-fraud skills and upskilled from a licensed economist and certified strategist with tech credentials to an anti-corruption innovator, driven by the unacceptable global injustices and the inefficiencies of anti-corruption institutions and human rights agencies, which are often captured by a small percentage of private interest groups who appoint their own representatives as decision-makers to maintain the status quo while misusing public funds.
My focus is on investigating complex transnational white-collar crimes, developing efficient strategies, policies, standards, and legislative proposals that surpass the current ineffective ones (which have cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars) and to:
- combat the $1 trillion lost annually to public procurement fraud, the $1.5 trillion lost to aggressive tax optimization schemes practiced by multinational corporations with significant market share.
- counteract grand corruption and state capture.
- include mandatory rights for victims of corruption in national legislation, through this solution I envisioned: “mandatory separate objectives, initiatives, and actions for victims of corruption included in the National Anti-Corruption Strategies,” and enforcing human rights laws that combat the concentration of wealth and power (obtained by illegally benefiting from the transfer of public funds into the accounts of specific individuals (real beneficiaries) through +$million -dollar state contracts obtained through public procurement frauds, subsidies, etc.), ensuring that public funds are directed towards those individuals and entities who genuinely achieve public interest goals.
This is crucial because the current system often breaks the social contract and undermines the state's right to collect taxes when those funds are misdirected towards individuals and entities who receive(d) more than their fair share from public funds and fail to serve the public interest, while simultaneously discriminating against a significant portion of the population (faced with the unfair competition of those who use the proceeds from corruption for their development or to bribe to gain illegal ongoing privileged access to state contracts and public funds) and against experts who already have the systems and innovations to address these global systemic corruption factors.
These private interest groups want to continue exploiting the system (collect dividends for their shares in polluting companies and shares in corporations robbing the communities of $1.5 trillion yearly through aggressive tax optimization schemes), then control the public institutions and human rights agencies mandated to fight against these injustices, where these private interest groups that caused the harm in the world select the decision makers with the help of headhunting firms controlled by them (they are the main shareholders, hence real and consumed conflict of interest with identifiable prejudicies and victims of corruption) with the intent to benefit from public funds robbed from the population through taxes while perpetually serving their private interest groups.
Some of my recent, independent, and relevant Applied Research and Anti-Corruption and Human Rights Solution Design Initiatives and Publications:
May-June 2024: "Ending Global Corruption: New Standards For Accountability, Anti-Corruption, And Human Rights".
This work, while rooted in Applied Research and potentially relevant to the academic environment, is primarily an Actionable Innovation Project. It starts with a unique Diagnostic component of the mechanisms of corruption at the global and national levels and continues with a Proposal of (concrete) Solutions - intended for the general audience.
July 2023: "Anti-corruption systems for a meritocratic democracy”.
December 2023 - Letter sent to the United Nations Secretary General
To be continued.