Basel Institute on Governance

Basel Institute on Governance
Formation2003
FounderMark Pieth
TypeNGO
Legal statusSwiss foundation
PurposeAnti-corruption and governance
HeadquartersBasel, Switzerland
Region
Global
Managing Director
Gretta Fenner
President
Peter Maurer
Websitewww.baselgovernance.org

The Basel Institute on Governance is an independent, international non-profit organisation dedicated to preventing and combating corruption and other financial crimes and to strengthening governance around the world. The organisation was established in Basel, Switzerland in 2003 by Professor Mark Pieth.

It has a regional office for Latin America in Lima, Peru, and field staff based in several countries including in Indonesia, Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa.

The Basel Institute is an Associated Institute of the University of Basel.[1] It is an Institute of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme Network.[2]

It is known for producing the Basel AML Index,[3] an annual ranking for measuring and comparing countries' risk of money laundering and terrorist financing.

  1. ^ "Associated Institutes". www.unibas.ch. Retrieved 2019-12-29.
  2. ^ "Institutes". www.unodc.org. Retrieved 2019-12-29.
  3. ^ "Basel AML Index". index.baselgovernance.org. Retrieved Oct 21, 2022.