ACE research informs the new UK Anti-Corruption Strategy 2025

The new UK Anti-Corruption Strategy 2025: Supporting growth, strengthening security, protecting democracy describes the Anti-Corruption Evidence programme - including SOC ACE, GI ACE and SOAS ACE - as “world-leading” providers of evidence on understanding the scale and harms of corruption. Drawing on SOC ACE research by Olivia Allison and Professor David Lewis, the strategy recognises that “corruption is a transnational security challenge which fuels instability and state capture and increases threats back into the UK, including from kleptocrats, criminals and hostile states.”

The strategy also cements the UK’s commitment to exploring the “feasibility of introducing financial incentives schemes and support for individuals reporting economic crime”, citing Eliza Lockhart’s SOC ACE paper on the role of financial rewards for whistleblowers in tackling economic crime.

Professor Heather Marquette attended the launch of the Strategy at Mansion House, along with other ACE researchers (from left to right): Dr Susan Hawley (GI ACE/Spotlight on Corruption), Professor Heather Marquette (SOC ACE/University of Birmingham), Dr Dan Haberly (GI ACE/University of Sussex), Professor John Heathershaw (GI ACE/University of Exeter), Dr Thomas Mayne (GI ACE/SOC ACE/University of Exeter), Professor Liz David-Barrett (GI ACE Director/University of Sussex), Professor Robert Barrington (GI ACE Director of Operations/University of Sussex) and Dr Maria Nizzero (SOC ACE/UK Finance/University of Exeter) (not pictured, Kathryn Westmore (SOC ACE/RUSI).