Ethical
Dilemmas
Bureau

We take pride in helping you build an integrity system that is embedded in your company and in its dealings with regulators, partners and customers.

Resolving ethical dilemmas

Managers are often faced with ethical challenges. We call these challenges "dilemmas", because they do not have a single correct solution. Our function is to look deep into the essence of your dilemma, assess the risks and recommend a course of action.

I am the CEO of a contractor.

A customer invites me to draft the terms of reference for a bid and then take part in the same bid. What could be the consequences?

I am the founder

of a creative agency, which I set up, and I am offered an attractive work assignment by a client. My functions will include the selection of contractors for creative tasks. How do I resolve the conflict of interest?

I am the subject of an internal investigation.

What should I do to minimize harm to myself and my colleagues?

I know that the management

of the company where I work steals from shareholders. What should I do?

You are a government official

responsible for awarding contracts for public infrastructure projects. A close friend who owns a construction company is interested in bidding on a lucrative project. They ask for your help in securing the contract. What should you do to maintain your ethical integrity and the public's trust?

You are a healthcare professional

working at a hospital. A family member is in desperate need of a medical procedure, and the only specialist who can perform it is your colleague. They offer to prioritize your family member's case, potentially bumping other patients in the queue. How do you navigate the ethical dilemma of balancing your professional obligations and personal relationships?

Integrity for donors
and CSR programs

We can help you find the right balance between control and initiative, reporting and freedom of action, regulation and discretion in work with grants and CSR. We can:

Adjust the level of transparency for your system of grant provision.
Set up accountability mechanisms.
Help you set the optimal balance between control and freedom of the implementing parties.
Draw up a list of governance requirements for prospective grant recipients.
Carry out due diligence of grant applicants.








RISK ASSESSMENT AND MITIGATION TOOL

Integrity in the corporate sphere

Our mission is to make integrity a part of working life. We help companies to design and operate ethical and compliance processes.

Build an integrated accountability framework
that includes formal compliance procedures, adapt and fine-tune specific parts of the framework.

Reduce risks in existing processes, ensure compliance with international standards and recommendations.
Develop a strategy for letting your partners
customers and other relevant stakeholders know about your success in ensuring integrity.

Conduct independent corruption-related risk assessment and understand how to minimize such risks.
Provide relevant training to managers
shareholders, employees and other relevant parties.

Access the experience and services of anti-corruption and ethics professionals from outside Russia.

Outsource the services of an ethics commission.
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Who we are

Elena Panfilova

Elena Panfilova

Partner

Elena's professional roles from 1999 to the present have included founder, general director and chairwoman of Transparency International-Russia. In 2014-17 she served as vice-chair of the Transparency International coalition against corruption. She has helped to design compliance systems for some of Russia's biggest companies, and is the author of courses on professional ethics taught at the National Research University-Higher School of Economics, the Higher School of Business at Moscow State University, and the Russian Presidential Academy of the National Economy and Public Administration.

Anton Pominov

Partner

Anton is an economist by education. He has 12 years' experience of anti-corruption, professional ethics and integrity work.

In 2014-2020 he served as General Director of Transparency International-Russia, one of the most prominent NGOs in Russia (over 2000 media mentions per year). Under his leadership the team of Transparency International-Russia expanded to 45 people working in five offices across the country.

From November 2017 to the present Anton has served as an elected member of the Membership accreditation committee of Transparency International.

Anton Pominov
Timur Kakabadze

Timur Kakabadze

Partner

Timur's background is in advertising, consulting and communications. He has 13 years of managerial experience, including chief executive roles at advertising agencies and work with Russian and international companies in a range of industries.

Timur's skill is to help companies, their owners and managers be better, faster and bolder in crucial projects, ongoing or planned. He coordinates and advises projects at the junction between management, innovation, strategy, infrastructure development and creative disruption.



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