Shervin Majlessi is the Regional Advisor on Anti-Corruption at UNODC’s Regional Office for Southeast Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok, Thailand, since August 2011. Before taking up his position in Bangkok, he managed UNDP’s Accountability and Transparency Project in Kabul, Afghanistan, on secondment. Within the UN system, he has served at New York Office of the UNODC and at the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Geneva, focusing on good governance/corruption issues. Prior to joining the UN, he was a Deputy Counsel for the Independent Inquiry Committee into the UN Oil-for-Food Programme (Volcker Committee) and has also worked for the Department of Institutional Integrity of the World Bank and in private legal practice.

Shervin holds a PhD and a Master of Laws in International Economic Law from McGill University (Canada), a Master of Laws in International Finance from Havard Law School (USA), and a Bachelor of Law and Master of Public International Law from University of Tehran (Iran).

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