Corruption is prevalent all over the world and continues to increase in complexity. Poor countries lose 1 trillion US dollars a year due to corruption which widens the gap between rich and poor and importantly denies equity, safety and fairness to millions around the world. How can we ensure that political will translates into concrete, immediate and visible actions?
Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Sarah Chayes is a senior associate in the Democracy and Rule of Law Program and the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment. Formerly special adviser to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, she is an expert in South Asia policy, kleptocracy and anticorruption, and civil-military relations. She is working on correlations between acute public corruption and the rise of militant extremism.A former... Read More →
Founder and Chairman Advisory Council, Transparency International
Prof. Dr. Peter Eigen has worked in economic development and governance for several decades and has led initiatives for better global governance and the fight against corruption.A lawyer by training, Eigen has worked as a World Bank manager of programs in Africa and Latin America... Read More →
Roy L. Furman Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School.
Prior to rejoining the Harvard faculty, Lessig was a professor at Stanford Law School, where he founded the school’s Center for Internet and Society, and at the University of Chicago.
He... Read More →
Salil Shetty joined Amnesty International as the organization’s eighth Secretary General in July 2010. A long-term activist on poverty and justice, he leads the movement’s worldwide work to end human rights violations. Prior to joining Amnesty International, Shetty was Director of the United Nations Millennium Campaign... Read More →
