Vanessa Erogbogbo is Chief, Sustainable and Inclusive Value Chains section at the International Trade Centre and a member of the Management Action Group. She has over 20 years of experience in private sector development having worked in both international development and the private sector.rnShe oversees ITC’s work on sustainable value chains, and trade and gender encompassing the Trade for Sustainable Development programme which powers SMEs for a sustainable future with a focus on labour, social impact, climate change and environment; and the SheTrades initiative which is connecting 3 million women to market by 2021.rnVanessa is a member of the advisory board of the Geneva Trade Platform and is vice-chairperson of the EQUALS Global Partnership steering committee. She previously held positions at the International Finance Corporation, Standard Chartered Bank, and as an entrepreneur.rnShe holds an MBA from the London Business School, and MSc Information Technology and B.Eng Hons in Civil Engineering from Loughborough University, UK.rn

Mihály Fazekas is an assistant professor at the Central European University, School of Public Policy, with a focus on using Big Data methods to understand the quality of government globally. He is also the scientific director of an innovative think-tank, the Government Transparency Institute , while serving as a non-resident research fellow at the University of Cambridge. He has a PhD from the University of Cambridge where he pioneered Big Data methods to measure and understand high-level corruption in Central- and Eastern Europe. Among others, he has worked for the European Commission, OECD, World Bank, or the Ecole Nationale d’Administration. His latest research efforts concentrate on fair competition, transparency, and openness in public procurement markets with particular emphasis on quantitative analysis of corruption risks , bid rigging , the EU’s Single Market , and protectionism using large-scale administrative databases. Together with Bence Tóth and István János Tóth , he was awarded first prize in a U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre competition for their pioneering work in developing new proxy measures of corruption understood as deliberately restricted competition.