[4] The process of creating an international organization focusing on anti-corruption education dates back to the year 2005, when an Interpol working group started to discuss such endeavor[5] and was firstly raised publicly in 2006 at an Interpol General Assembly.

[11] It started its first Masters program in February 2013; at that time the coursework was run in seven twelve-day blocks, taken over two years.

IACA's approach towards its Masters programs is described as holistic by the OSCE and the research portal of the French Ministry for the Economy and Finance.

[14] A working group was set up in December 2018 to restructure the income situation and generate membership contributions.

[16] The position remained vacant and was taken over by Christiane Pohn-Hufnagel, the organizations Chief of Staff and Head of General Services, in an acting capacity.

[17] Another international controversy that was discussed within IACA occurred in 2012, when tensions arose as the representative of Syria stressed that, notwithstanding the election of the Israeli Mordechai Kremnitzer to IACA's board of governors, his government did not accept Israel's right of existence.