The work of the FACT Coalition and its staff is directed by a Steering Committee of core member organizations, which meet quarterly. A subset of four individual representatives from the Steering Committee are known as the Executive Committee. The day-to-day work of the Coalition is performed by the Strategy Working Groups.
The Steering Committee is the main decision-making body of the coalition, and it is comprised of representatives from the following organizations:
Gary Kalman
Gary Kalman directs the U.S. office of Transparency International, the global anti-corruption coalition. He oversees the organization’s U.S. operations focusing on illicit finance and the U.S. role in global anti-corruption efforts.
He is a founding member of the Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency (FACT) Coalition and served as its Executive Director from 2016 through 2019. In that capacity he worked with the more than 100 state, national and international member organizations to promote policies to combat the harmful impacts of corrupt financial practices.
Gary was an executive vice president with the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL), where he oversaw CRL’s federal policy and legislative work. He directed the federal legislative office for the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG). While at U.S. PIRG, he was a leading voice for congressional ethics and lobbying reform having served on a bipartisan task force convened by the Speaker of the House which led to the creation of the independent Office of Congressional Ethics. He was a founding member and executive committee member of Americans for Financial Reform, a coalition which, in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, led the successful fight for the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform law.
He has testified in Congress on numerous occasions on financial accountability. He previously taught at LaSalle University and Temple University in Philadelphia and he continues to be a regular speaker and commentator on anti-corruption and transparency issues at conferences and events around the world. His comments and work have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and on NPR, Fox News, and MSNBC among other outlets.
Eric LeCompte
Eric LeCompte is the Executive Director of Jubilee USA Network and represents a coalition of 75 US member organizations and 400 faith communities that works with 50 Jubilee global partners. Jubilee USA Network wins critical global financial reforms and won more than $130 billion in debt relief to benefit the world’s poorest people.
Eric leads a network that includes relief, labor, environmental, human rights and religious organizations and he advocates for policies that will eliminate extreme poverty. His member network includes American Jewish World Service, the leadership of Catholic Religious Orders and the Episcopal, Presbyterian, United Methodist, Evangelical Lutheran, Unitarian Universalist and United Church of Christ Churches.
He serves on expert working groups to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights. He consulted UNCTAD on the creation of the recently released road map for sovereign bankruptcy. Eric has more than 16 years of experience working with faith-based organizations to impact global policy on poverty, conflict and human rights.
Eric serves on several boards of faith-based and antipoverty organizations as well as institutions that work for greater financial transparency, including the Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency (FACT) Coalition, where he serves on the executive board.
Eric is a regularly featured commentator in mainstream and financial sector media outlets. His views on debt, tax, trade and finance regularly appear in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Associated Press, Bloomberg, McClatchy News Service, National Public Radio, Agence-France Presse, Market Place, CNN Money,the Financial Times, the Inter Press Serviceand more.
Conrad Martin
Conrad Martin is the Executive Director of the Stewart R. Mott Charitable Trust. Additionally, Mr. Martin serves as the Treasurer of the Fund for Constitutional Government (FCG) and chairs the Board of Directors of HALT — Americans for Legal Reform. FCG is the fiscal sponsor for the FACT coalition.
Mr. Martin also serves on the Boards of the Center for International Policy, the Center for Investigative Reporting, and the American Progressive Caucus Foundation. Mr. Martin served in the Peace Corps from 1981 to 1983 as a Forage Agronomist on the island of Barbados. He is a graduate of Utah State University where he studied Agronomy and International Agricultural Development with a focus in Agricultural Economics.
Membership in the Strategy Working Groups is open to all FACT Coalition member organizations. Currently FACT's Strategy Working Groups are specializing in the following fields: anti-money laundering, international tax reform and transparency, and the intersection of environmental crime and illicit finance.
The current Working Group chairs are:
Erica Hanichak – Anti-Money Laundering
Erica Hanichak is the deputy director at the FACT Coalition, where she leads the group’s engagement with federal policymakers.
Erica is an advocacy professional dedicated to ending global corruption and the abuses it perpetuates. Before joining FACT, Erica spent five years working with U.S.-based nonprofits focused on advancing transparent governance, accountability, and rule of law in the Middle East. From 2017-2020, Erica served as government relations director at Americans for a Free Syria, where she partnered with lawmakers, administration officials, and other grassroots nonprofit organizations to pass and implement bipartisan legislation targeting the networks that fuel mass human rights violations in Syria and the region. She likewise campaigned to augment counterterror financing measures and prevent the diversion and abuse of U.S. humanitarian aid. She previously worked as an analyst of U.S.-Turkish relations in Washington, D.C.
Erica has appeared on Fox News, CBN News, and international television media, and her work and comments have been featured in The Hill, The Daily Beast, and the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, among others. She holds a Bachelors of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University in International Politics, with a focus on International Security and Eurasian Studies.
Zorka Milin – International Tax
Zorka Milin is policy director at the FACT coalition, where she leads on international tax policy and other transparency priorities. Before joining FACT, she served as senior advisor at investigative watchdog Global Witness for almost ten years, focusing on improving financial transparency and accountability in the extraction of natural resources. She has also taught at Georgetown and Yale Universities, and practiced international tax law for over six years with two leading global law firms, Allen & Overy LLP and Linklaters LLP.
She has been interviewed and quoted on anti-corruption, transparency and energy policy in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, BBC World Service, NPR, CNBC, Politico, Financial Times, Guardian, Bloomberg, Reuters, New Yorker and more. Originally from Serbia, she holds a M.A. in international relations from Yale University, as well as a J.D. and LL.M. in international and comparative law from Cornell Law School. She also holds B.A. in mathematics from Grinnell College.
Julia Yansura – Environmental Crime and Illicit Finance
Julia Yansura is the Program Director for Environmental Crime and Illicit Finance at the FACT Coalition. Her work aims to close anti money laundering and anti corruption loopholes that allow the proceeds of environmental crime to be laundered into the U.S. financial system. Geographically, her work is focused on the Western Hemisphere.
Prior to joining FACT, Yansura served as Program Director for Latin America and the Caribbean at Global Financial Integrity, where she led projects in Colombia, Belize, Ecuador and El Salvador covering environmental crimes such as illegal mining and logging, as well as on other topics such as beneficial ownership, real estate, cryptocurrency, and international trade. From 2012-2019, Yansura worked at the Inter-American Dialogue on remittances, mobile money and financial inclusion. She remains passionate about financial inclusion and is convinced that it is possible to make our shared financial system both secure and inclusive.
Yansura is fluent in English and Spanish and has experience working in Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Jamaica, and Belize. She holds an MA in Latin American Studies from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and a BA in Russian from Grinnell College.