Clancy Moore

CEO

Clancy brings over 15 years of advocacy and international development experience in the Solomon Islands, Myanmar, and Australia, including leadership roles with Oxfam and ActionAid. He previously led the Australian arm of the global anti-corruption coalition, Publish What You Pay calling for greater transparency in the mining, oil and gas sectors. He lectures at several Australian universities and appears regularly in the media. Clancy and his family live on the land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nations

Ana Carballo

Head of International Programmes

Dr. Ana Estefanía Carballo leads Transparency International Australia’s Accountable Mining Programme. She has conducted extensive research on natural resources governance, particularly the lithium mining industry associated with the energy transition and has over 15 years of experience working with civil society organisations globally, but particularly in Latin America, Europe and the Asia- Pacific Region.  She believes that strengthening natural resources governance is crucial to ensuring sustainable, accountable and equitable practices in the mining industry and is passionate about TI Australia’s work in facilitating anti-corruption initiatives for the sector.

Ana is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Melbourne and prior to coming to Australia, completed her PhD at the University of Westminster in the UK and her MA at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, Germany. 

Pilar Acosta

Project Administrator

Pilar Acosta is an anthropologist from Universidad de los Andes, with a Master’s degree in Visual Anthropology from Goldsmith College-University of London and a specialisation in Organizations, Social Responsibility and Development from Cider, Universidad de los Andes. Expert in sustainability and strengthening the governance of natural resources. She has designed and implemented strategies for sustainability, responsible business conduct, human rights and business, gender equality, transparency and anti-corruption for the energy mining sector.

She has led projects for citizen control of the General Royalties System, social and environmental management, civic space, conflict prevention, and local economic development with a differential approach. She is an expert in strengthening citizen participation through initiatives for access to information, open data, and management of Prior Consultations. She served as an alternate member of civil society at the EITI MSG in Colombia in 2022 and 2024. Pilar brings to the team over 13 years of experience working with mining and oil companies, international cooperation, and civil society organisations in Latin America.

Jessie Xu

Project Officer

Zhanran (Jessie) Xu provides project support to the China Project at Transparency International Australia. She holds a Master of Geography from The University of Melbourne, where she is also currently completing her PhD in human geography, with a focus on Chinese critical minerals investments in Australia in the context of the energy transition. Through an interdisciplinary approach, Zhanran has conducted in-depth analysis of China-Australia cooperation in the mineral supply chain.

Aside from her role at TI Australia and academic research, Zhanran also has research and work experience in China at Sinochem Environmental Monitoring Centre and at Monash University as research assistant for the TCFD disclosure project.