About Us
Transparencia por Colombia is a non-profit organization created in 1998. Its mission is to lead systematic efforts from the civil society to fight against corruption, focused on transforming our public and private institutions in order to have effective and reliable organizations in Colombia; organizations whose citizens and companies are honest; and whose public servants are upright, always placing collective interests before anything else and taking responsibility for their actions.
In order to achieve all of this, Transparencia por Colombia seeks to build broad coalitions with different actors, be at the forefront in the making and spreading of anticorruption knowledge and practices; and to contribute with the strengthening of an organized, responsible and acting citizenry.
Transparencia Colombia is the national chapter of Transparency International, the global coalition against corruption established in 1994, and currently working in approximately 90 countries in all continents.
Since the year 2000, the Corporation has consolidated itself as the Business Ethics Center of the Ethics Resource Center in Colombia, positioning itself through the support it gives to the private sector in everything related to corporate ethics and integrity construction.
Government Body
Governing Council: Its main purpose is to keep the mission, the objective, the aims and the principles of the Corporation, and to watch over their appropriate execution. Right now, it is composed by Alejandro Linares Cantillo, Andrés Echavarría Olano, Rodrigo Gutiérrez Duque, Gustavo Bell Lemus, y Rosa Inés Ospina.
General Members´ Assembly: It is the maximum body of Transparencia por Colombia. Right now, the Corporation counts with 27 members and 2 benefactors, which are legal people, universities, organizations of the civil society and private firms.
Board of Directors: It is in charged of guiding the activities and operation of the Corporation. The actual members of the Board are: Andrés Echavarría Olano, Alejandro Linares Cantillo, Rosa Inés Ospina, Guillermo Carvajalino Sánchez, Gustavo Bell Lemus, Catalina Ortiz, Ramiro Santa García, Rubén Darío Lizarralde, Rodrigo Gutiérrez Duque.
Executive direction: It is elected by the Board of Directors among candidates presented by the Governing Council. Since February the 1st, 2006, Margareth Flórez has been carrying out this position.