TI Australia is welcoming four new Board Directors, including Chair designate Deborah Glass OBE, who begin their term in November 2026.

The new Board Directors bring a wealth of experience, expertise and commitment to the cause of anti-corruption reform.

They include:

Deborah Glass OBE

Deborah Glass was the Victorian Ombudsman from 2014 to 2024.

A law graduate from Monash University, she spent most of her professional life outside Australia, working for a US investment bank in Switzerland before moving into a career in financial services regulation, with the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission, later as CEO of the UK’s Investment Management Regulatory Organisation.

She was then appointed to the Independent Police Complaints Commission of England and Wales, heading up criminal and misconduct investigations into police, and became its Deputy Chair, being awarded an OBE for her service.

She returned to Australia to become the fifth Victorian Ombudsman and first woman in the role.

Deborah is currently an Adjunct Professor of Law at Monash University.

Guy Boyd

Guy is an experienced legal, risk, compliance and financial crime executive with deep expertise across international financial services.  He is a Non-Executive Director on boards of for purpose and for-profit entities and the founder of Boyd Wellington Pty Ltd, a specialist financial crime, risk and compliance advisory business.

Guy has over 30 years’ experience in private legal practice followed by senior legal, compliance and financial crime roles, including as Chief Compliance Officer and Group General Manager Financial Crime at ANZ.  He led large, diverse and multi-jurisdictional teams, advised at Board level, managed major regulatory and legal matters, and oversaw significant compliance and financial crime risk programs across AML/CTF, sanctions, anti-bribery and corruption, fraud, whistleblowing and integrity functions.  Guy remains an advocate for collaboration in combatting financial crime and served as a founding member on the Strategic Advisory Board of AUSTRAC’s Fintel Alliance public-private partnership.

Guy is a graduate of the AICD Directors Course and holds certification from the London School of Economics in AI: Law, Policy and Governance. He holds a Bachelor of Laws, Bachelor of Commerce and Master of Laws from the University of Melbourne.

Ben Kiely

Ben is a senior lawyer and Partner of Mallesons, where he specialises in commercial disputes and investigations. He is also an experienced NGO director.

Ben is a governance and risk management specialist, who has over 17 years’ experience advising Australia’s largest companies (and blue-chip multinationals) on sensitive investigations, Royal Commissions and litigation. He has particular expertise investigating corruption and corporate misconduct. He co-leads Mallesons’ national investigations, anti-corruption and corporate crime practice.

Ben has served as a director of several NGOs, including most recently as Chair of the Board of the Human Rights Law Centre. He has also been a member of the Commission of the Australian Ice Hockey League, the Board of Reprieve Australia, and holds an appointment from the Chief Justice of Victoria as a member of the Victorian Supreme Court Rules Committee.

 

Dr Vafa Ghanzi

Dr Vafa Ghazavi FRSA GAICD is a political theorist and public policy scholar, with interests in the ethical dimensions of social, political and economic life. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Sydney.

Vafa was the inaugural Executive Director for Research and Policy at the Australian Public Policy Institute and before that taught political philosophy at the University of Oxford. He previously worked in Canberra at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, including in its policy planning branch, and the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, and served as an Australian diplomat in Afghanistan, the Balkans and to the United Nations in Vienna.

Vafa has been a Visiting Researcher on ethics at Google DeepMind and a Carr Center Fellow at Harvard University. He currently serves on the management committee of the Centre for Relational Care.

Vafa is a graduate of Harvard University, where he was a Fulbright Scholar, and the University of Oxford, where he was a John Monash Scholar. He is a Graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.