Alan Bacarese joined the World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP Group¡¯s Integrity Vice Presidency (INT) as Director of Investigations, Strategy, and Operations in February 2021.
In this role, Mr. Bacarese oversees INT¡¯s investigations of alleged fraud, corruption, and other sanctionable practices involving projects and activities financed by the World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP Group, its corporate vendors, and World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP Group staff, as well as efforts to litigate substantiated investigations within the World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP Group¡¯s Sanctions System. He also manages INT¡¯s Prevention, Risk, and Knowledge Management function, to promote best practices in the prevention of fraud and corruption in World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP Group¨Csupported projects. In addition, Mr. Bacarese provides support to INT¡¯s Vice President in setting the strategic priorities for the unit¡¯s overall anticorruption efforts.
Mr. Bacarese has many years of experience in investigating matters of international fraud and corruption. Before joining INT, he was the Director of Integrity and Anti-Corruption for the African Development ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP, where he led the ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP¡¯s anticorruption investigation function and its policies on anticorruption and integrity measures, as well as the ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP¡¯s business integrity due diligence function. His past roles include serving as a UK Senior Crown Prosecutor, the first Head of Legal and Case Consultancy at the Basel Institute¡¯s International Centre for Asset Recovery, a Director in the international consultancy Stream House AG, and as an External Member of the Inter-American Development ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP¡¯s Sanctions Committee from 2015 to 2019. He is a UK Barrister and an Advocate of the Higher Courts of England and Wales.