His Excellency Lyonpo Lekey Dorji upon conferment of Dakyen by His Majesty The King assumed the charge of the Ministry of Finance on January 28, 2024.

Mr. Lekey possesses vast experience as a civil servant, corporate executive, private sector entrepreneur and startup investor. He also carries extensive international development expertise having worked as consultant to the World Bank, ADB, PricewaterhouseCoopers and other International Organizations together with corporate management knowledge through leadership in the Board of Directors and Commissions.

He is a seasoned public figure having served as the Member of Parliament and as the Minister of the erstwhile Ministry of Economic Affairs (2016-2018) during the second elected Government (2013-2018). Mr. Lekey is therefore, proficient in the affairs of the legislative affairs, parliamentary committees and international engagements.

Academically outstanding, Mr. Lekey holds an electrical and telecommunications engineering degrees as an International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and Fulbright fellowships from the UK and US respectively.

His Excellency Lyonpo Namgyal Dorji is the Minister for Industry, Commerce & Employment. Prior to joining politics, he served in various capacities in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade. He has a master degree in International Relations and Diplomacy from the Australian National University (ANU).

His Majesty the King appointed the Third Commission of the ACC on 14 October 2020. Chairperson Deki Pema was the former Commissioner of Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB). She served as the Commissioner of ECB for two consecutive Five-Year terms under the Constitution from 2010 to 2020. She was also the Election Commissioner of the ECB prior to the adoption of the Constitution in 2008 for a period of five years (2006-2010). The Chairperson started her career as Trainee Officer in Dzongkhag Administration of Trashigang in 1991 and also has vast experience as a Development Planner having served the Policy & Planning Division of the Ministry of Agriculture for over 13 years.

Mr. Kiew is an international expert in the field of integrity risk strategy and management, anti-corruption law, policy, and investigations. He is currently the Advisor in the Office of Anti-Corruption and Integrity (OAI) at the Asian Development Bank (ADB), where he manages the front office operations of OAI, including policy and strategic advice on anti-corruption and integrity policies and controls, developing integrity capacity building to ADB’s developing member countries, technology services, and knowledge and communications.

Mr. Kiew has a proven track record of managing complex and high-profile investigations of prohibited practices in relation to the development finance operations of multilateral institutions. He led the external investigations team at the Office of the Chief Compliance Officer of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), where he oversaw and directed external investigations of counterparties, developed processes and controls to mitigate and manage corruption and fraud risk in bank operations, and delivered training programs on integrity and monitoring standards to EBRD staff and counterparties.  Prior to that role, he evaluated anticorruption policies and implementation of OECD member countries under the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention.  As a lawyer in the private sector, he represented multinational companies in corruption, fraud, and money laundering investigations and assisted them in developing anticorruption compliance programs.

Julio Bacio Terracino is the Head of the Anti-Corruption and Integrity in Government Division at the OECD. He has 20 years of experience on anti-corruption, and in his function, he advises countries in the design and implementation of policies that ensure public integrity and prevent corruption. He has contributed to the design of analytical frameworks for the creation of public integrity systems, building a culture of integrity and ensuring accountability. He also has expertise in addressing corruption in public procurement, as well as promoting transparency and integrity in political processes. Previously, Julio was an independent consultant on anti-corruption, a human rights and governance officer at the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and a legal adviser in the private sector. Of Argentinian and Italian nationality, Julio obtained his PhD and Master’s degree in International Law at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva and his Bachelor of Laws at the University of Buenos Aires.

Julia Fromholz is the Head of the Anti-Corruption Division in the OECD’s Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs (DAF). In this role, she leads the OECD’s work on combating bribery in international business and promoting business integrity. The Anti-Corruption Division is the secretariat to the OECD’s Working Group on Bribery, which monitors implementation of the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions (the Anti-Bribery Convention), a legally binding international agreement, and related instruments. The Division also engages in dialogue and training with businesses, civil society organizations, and non-Member countries to encourage high standards for anti-corruption laws and policies. Before joining the OECD in 2024, Ms. Fromholz spent twenty years in civil society, academia, and the U.S. Department of State, leading programs and policy development on the rule of law and international human rights, after having started her career as a management consultant and lawyer in the private sector.