Anna Myers
Anna Myers is Executive Director of the Whistleblowing International Network (WIN). She is a United Kingdom lawyer originally trained and called to the Bar in Canada. She was Deputy Director of Public Concern at Work (now called Protect) and more recently worked at the Government Accountability Project in Washington DC. She also worked at the Council of Europe with the Group of States Against Corruption (GRECO).
She has advised hundreds of individuals on their whistleblowing concerns, trained senior executives and policy makers in the public and private sectors on embedding whistleblowing arrangements to support open and accountable workplaces and protect society, and has worked with numerous governments on whistleblowing law and practice. Anna has helped develop major international standard setting legal instruments and guidance on the protection of public interest whistleblowers for the UN, the OECD, the Council of Europe, and most recently the pioneering EU Directive on whistleblower protection.
Anna launched a voluntary network of civil society organisation with five of the world’s leading whistleblower protection NGOs in 2013 and was the founding Executive Director of the Whistleblowing International Network in 2018. It now boasts 32 membership organisations from 25 countries sharing expertise and advocacy support. WIN’s mission is to strengthen civil society capacity to protect public interest whistleblowers worldwide by sharing legal and technical expertise across borders. WIN also recognises that effective protection for whistleblowers requires the active engagement of civil society on the ground and that international efforts will only be successful if these civil society experts have capacity to partner across borders and lead on policy issues that affect them.
In 2025 the European Whistleblowing Institute established the Myers Moot Court Competition, an annual event designed to inspire the next generation of whistleblowing law professionals. whilst paying tribute to Anna Myers, a lawyer and advocate whose work continues to shape whistleblowing laws and practice globally.