Auwal Musa Rafsanjani from Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre/Transparency International Nigeria and OCCRP Deputy Editor in Chief Julia Wallace at the OECD Global Anti-Corruption & Integrity Forum © OECD 2024, Hervé Cortinat
OCCRP’s Impact Department works to expand the use of investigative journalism by groups dedicated to protecting democracy and combatting corruption and organized crime.
Our aim is increased accountability. We want the actors who engage in wrongdoing to face legal consequences, and reform in the policies and practices that enable corruption and crime.
All OCCRP Impact activities are designed and conducted with guardrails in place that preserve our editorial independence and journalistic ethics.
OCCRP’s impact partners include a diverse mix of civil society organizations, think tanks, and universities from around the world. These partners use investigative reporting and data to conduct:
• Legal casework
• Advocacy
• Research and analysis
• Cross-stakeholder events and exchanges.
The Impact team also facilitates dialogue based on our published work, so that journalists and other key stakeholders, such as policymakers, law enforcement, and private sector firms, are better informed about leading issues in global crime and corruption.
At the forefront of this work is the Global Anti-Corruption Consortium (GACC), an initiative co-led by OCCRP and Transparency International, to foster cooperation between investigative journalists and civil society in the fight against corruption.
Alexandra is Chief of Impact and the director of the Global Anti-Corruption Consortium at OCCRP. Previously, she led anti-corruption work at the Natural Resource Governance Institute, conducting research and advocacy aimed at advancing transparency and fighting corruption in the oil, mining, and commodity trading sectors. Alexandra is the author of the book Crude Intentions: How Oil Corruption Contaminates the World (OUP, 2020). She holds a PhD in international relations from the University of Cambridge and was a Fulbright scholar in Nigeria.
Andrea is a program manager for the Impact Department. Prior to joining OCCRP, he worked on international development and cooperation programs with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, International Organization for Migration, International Development Law Organization, and Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. His field experience includes work on justice sector development in Afghanistan and peacebuilding in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Mariia is a program officer for the Impact Department. Previously, she worked as a project manager at the Anti-Corruption Research and Education Centre in Ukraine. As an Open Society University Network Fellow, she worked as a visiting researcher at the European Center for Anti-Corruption and State-Building (ERCAS). She completed a master’s degree in international relations at the Institute of International Relations (Ukraine) as well as a master’s degree in public policy at Hertie School (Germany).
Sara Frisan is a Program Assistant for the Impact Department. Previously, she worked as a geopolitical intelligence analyst focusing on political and armed violence in Latin and Central America, and gained experience in anti-money laundering investigations. She completed a master’s degree in conflict studies and human rights at Utrecht University (Netherlands) as well as a master’s degree in international sciences and peace and conflict studies at the Università degli Studi di Torino (Italy), where her academic research concentrated on rebel and criminal governance alongside civilian resistance.