Riyadh, August 30, 2023, A Kingdom of Saudi Arabia delegation headed by President of the Oversight and Anti-Corruption Authority (Nazaha) Mazin Al-Kahmous will participate in the Global Conference on Harnessing Data to Improve Corruption Measurement, to be hosted by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA), and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The conference, to be held from August 31 to September 1, 2023, at the UN headquarters in Vienna, Austria, is slated to bring together policymakers, scientists, practitioners, and experts from governments, civil society, and academia to exchange knowledge, experience, and good practices in measuring corruption and the impact of anti-corruption measures. Through interactive panels, experts will discuss topics such as developing a UN statistical framework to measure corruption and using technology in the collection, analysis, and use of data. Al-Kahmous will deliver a speech at the conference in which he will showcase the Kingdom's experience, its international efforts, and its relentless endeavor to combat corruption under the leadership of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and HRH the Crown Prince, in line with the Saudi Vision 2030. The conference is a part of Nazaha's Global Initiative on Measuring Corruption, which IACA state parties have approved.
