Name: Jermyn Brooks (UK)
Title: Board Member of International IDEA
Current and Previous Positions: Since May 2003 Mr Brooks is a member of the Board of Directors of Transparency International (an international anti-bribery and corruption NGO based in Berlin and London). From the year 2000 until that date Mr Brooks was Executive Director and CFO of Transparency International. He moved to this voluntary position after a career with PricewaterhouseCoopers.
His career took him from work in the City of London to Frankfurt, where he had turns at auditing, corporate finance and management consultancy before becoming senior partner of the PW German firm in 1989. Prior to that he worked for a number of years in Iran, Turkey and Austria, and after the fall of the Berlin Wall he was heavily involved in helping the transitional economies in East Germany, Eastern Europe and Russia. In 1993 he was elected senior partner of Price Waterhouse Europe and worldwide chairman of the firm in 1997. In 1998 he played a key role in negotiating the PwC merger and until 2000 when he retired had the task of completing the merger in some 150 countries around the world.
During the latter ten years Mr Brooks held responsibility for the firm's relationships to some of its largest multinational clients, such as Royal Dutch Shell, Roche, Ericsson, Volvo and Pearson. He also championed the introduction of corporate social responsibility and sustainability issues into PwC's strategies and lectured and wrote frequently on these subjects and on the practical implications for the private sector of these challenges to traditional corporate thinking. This initiative also included support for the work being conducted by TI in relation to work on an integrity standard for the private sector. Mr Brooks continues to support this project as well as TI's initiatives relating to improved banking controls over money laundering and the contribution of good accounting and auditing to greater corporate transparency and accountability and as an essential element of good governance.
