Francis Ndende
Francis is a legal and governance expert. He is an international consultant advising in matters related to Governance, Compliance, Law, Anti-Corruption, Investigation and Anti-Money Laundering.
He holds a MA in International Anti-Corruption Compliance and Collective Action from the International Anti- Corruption Academy in Vienna; a LLM in Commercial Law from the University of Cape Town; a LLB Hons and a B.Ed. from the University of Malawi. He has a Certificate in Risk and Compliance Management from the University of Cape Town, and he is a Certified Forensic Investigator accredited by the International Institute of Certified Forensic Investigation Professionals in London. He also holds the following Certificates: Operation Analysis of Suspicious Transactions, Terrorist Financing in International Cooperation and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters from the Basel Institute.
francis@1stintegrity.co.za
Colette Ashton
Colette consults to government, civil society and business about anti-corruption policy and international best practices. She is the South African expert on Non-Trial Resolutions (negotiated settlements) for corruption offences.
She holds a Masters degree (cum laude) in Anti-Corruption Skills from the UN-founded International Anti-Corruption Academy where she received the award for Best Masters Thesis. She holds a BA Hons (cum laude) LLB from the University of Cape Town, where she received awards including the Bowmans prize for Tax Law; and a certificate in International Tax from Leiden University. She is an admitted attorney and accredited commercial mediator.
colette@1stintegrity.co.za
Praveen Naidoo
Praveen is the Chief Director of the Integrity Management Unit at the National Prosecuting Authority. He is the Chair of the Office for Ethics and Accountability; the new structure being created to have greater oversight function at the NPA. He sits on the National Anti-Corruption Steering Committee.
Praveen studied at the Institute for Global Ethics in Camden, USA, under Prof. Rushworth Kidder, in 2002. In 2005 he joined The Ethics Institute as a Senior Manager: Organisational Ethics where he consulted to multinational both South Africa and some parts of Africa. He completed an MPhil Ethics Degree at UJ, in 2008. He later joined the National School of Government as an IIC, and in 2011 was appointed to SARS as a Senior Integrity Specialist.
praveen@1stintegrity.co.za
Tebello Thabane
Tebello is an advocate of the High Court and senior lecturer in commercial law at the Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town.
He holds a BA (Law), LLB, LLM (Commercial Law), LLM (Human Rights) and a PhD (Commercial law). He specialises in company law, corporate governance and regulatory compliance.
tebello.thabane@uct.ac.za
