Michael serves GAP in multiple capacities. As Deputy Director of GAP’s Corporate & Financial Accountability Program, Michael investigates domestic and international cases with the intention of holding corporations and financial institutions accountable by defending whistleblowers from within those organizations, publicizing wrongdoing and threats to the public welfare, and advocating for the reform of organization policies and legal protections. Michael’s national financial accountability efforts focus on monitoring general regulations and casework in the American financial sector which illustrates whistleblower protection reform needs to take place.
Internationally, Michael focuses on corruption and wrongdoing that has taken place outside the United States, but that the US itself was not heavily involved in. In this latter capacity, Michael also serves GAP as International Officer, through which he assists GAP's International Director and Senior International Officer by undertaking international cases and investigations into corruption, fraud, waste, and abuse at Intergovernmental Organizations such as the World Bank, the United Nations, and the International Monetary Fund. In particular, Michael is currently investigating allegations of corruption involving multiple officials from the former Hosni Mubarak government in Egypt – particularly those surrounding Mahmoud Mohieldin, Egypt's former Minister of Investment and current World Bank Managing Director.
Prior to joining GAP in 2007, Michael graduated summa cum laude from Kent Law School at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England, with a dual LL.M. Master of Laws degree in International Law and International Relations, and magna cum laude from the State University of New York at New Paltz with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Psychology. Michael previously worked as program and production manager at Codhill Press in New Paltz, New York, and assisted in program management at Citizens Campaign for the Environment in Farmingdale, New York. He also interned in the Global Policy Department at the United Nations Association of the USA and at the Supreme Court in Dutchess County, New York.
Michael has been presented numerous awards, including a town board commendation for his civil rights victory defending worker rights in Woodstock, N.Y. in 2004; the Spirit Award for his work in support of the rights to dignity and to life in the medical sector at Vassar Brothers Medical Center in 2005; and the "Achievement Prize" by the Chair of the Board of Examiners of Kent Law School in 2007 for the achievement of Kent's highest scholastic honor. Michael is also a published author of the book, Exceptionalism and the George W. Bush Presidency: A New Extreme Taken at the Expense of the International Rule of Law.
Email Michael at michaelt@whistleblower.org
Phone Michael at 202.457.0034, ext. 144.
