Delia Ferreira Rubio

Chair, Transparency International

Delia Ferreira Rubio is the Chair of Transparency International (elected in October 2017 and re-elected in November 2020).

She is a Lawyer graduated from Córdoba National University (Argentina) and graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Ph.D. degree in Law from Madrid’s Complutense University (Spain). In 2022 she received the Honoris Causa Doctorate from Córdoba National University.

She is Member of the Vanguard Committee of the WEF Partnership Against Corruption Initiative (PACI) and Member of the Board of the UN Global Compact.

She served as Member of the Steering Committee of OGP - Open Government Partnership (2018-2021), and as Co-chair of the Global Future Council on Anticorruption of the World Economic Forum (2019-2022).

She was Chief Advisor for several Representatives and Senators at the Argentine National Congress from 1990 to 2005, advising the Constitutional Committee of both the House of Representatives and the Senate, and she also served as Advisor at the National Accounting Office for two years.

She has consulted on Political Finance, Anti-corruption, and Transparency related issues with various international organizations and NGOs around the world.

She has authored numerous publications on Transparency and Anti-corruption, Political Corruption, Public and Parliamentary Ethics and Comparative Politics, among other subjects.