Fritz F. Heimann

Fritz F. Heimann has been a lawyer with General Electric for over forty years. He served as Associate General Counsel from 1975 until 1995 and is now Counselor to the General Counsel. He is one of the founders of Transparency International and is also the Chairman of TI-USA.

Mr. Heimann chairs the Working Group on Bribery and Corruption of the U.S. Council for International Business and is a member of the International Chamber of Commerce Committee on Extortion and Bribery. He has been actively involved in the work on the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials and on the ICC's Rules of Conduct to Combat Extortion and Bribery.  He is the author of "Combating International Corruption: The Role of the Business Community," included in "Corruption and the World Economy," Institute for International Economics, June 1997.