Former TI-USA Leader Boswell Joins ERC Board of Directors

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“One of the reasons TI-USA is such a force in the effort to improve public and private sector integrity is Nancy’s leadership,” said Dr. Patricia Harned, President of the ERC.  “She will bring her knowledge of the international anti-corruption landscape to our board.  She will be a powerful presence because she has truly made a difference in the world.”

 

Boswell joined TI-USA in its early days and, over 17 years, built the organization into a widely respected advocate for good governance reform.  Under her leadership, the non-profit mobilized a campaign to ensure United States leadership in the worldwide effort to convince other nations to match the United States’ commitment to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).  Boswell brought together a coalition of entities with diverging interests, such as the United States Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO, to support the campaign.    Many thought it would be impossible to get other nations to pursue their own companies for corruption abroad.  But today, the world's major exporting nations, including China, Russia, Germany, and Great Britain have enacted laws criminalizing foreign bribery.

 

Boswell also contributed to important initiatives to raise private sector compliance standards, including the OECD Good Practice Guidance on Internal Controls, Ethics and Compliance and TI’s “Business Principles for Countering Bribery.”  Developed by TI in consultation with a steering committee  comprised of corporate executives, trade union and non-governmental  representatives, the Business Principles provide common sense guidelines for comprehensive corporate anti-bribery programs. The World Economic Forum cites the Principles as an inspiration for the Partnering Against Corruption Initiative (PACI), which has currently 160 signatories in more than 40 countries.

“I’m proud to join the distinguished group of researchers and board members who have made the ERC a leading voice in the discussion of public and private sector integrity,” Boswell said.  “The ERC is committed to supporting industry efforts to make the U.S. workplace meet the highest ethical standards.  Dr. Harned has established herself as one of the real thought leaders in the industry.  I look  forward to working with her on a variety of issues, including foreign corruption, the federal sentencing guidelines for organizations and bringing ERC's considerable tools and research to international attention.”

Ms. Boswell served  as a member of TI's international Board of Directors and as an advisor to  the U.S. State Department Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy. She continues to advise the US Government, as a member of the USTR Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee and the USAID Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid, and the private sector, as an advisory board member of the ABA Asia Rule of Law Initiative and Veracity Worldwide.  Ms. Boswell, an attorney, practiced at Steptoe & Johnson in Washington, DC, focusing on international trade, export controls and public international law.  She was responsible for government affairs at the American Association of University Women  and international financial matters at Citibank.  Boswell graduated summa cum laude from American University’s Washington College of Law.

She now joins the current ERC Board of Directors:

*Mr. Horowitz is being considered by the U.S. Senate for the Justice Department's Inspector General post.  If confirmed, he will step down from the Board.