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Title: International Director
Education: Ph.D. (candidate) in Political Theory, University of Witwatersrand; M.Phil in Comparative Social Research, Oxford University; Masters in Political Philosophy, University of Stellenbosch Prior to the founding of Global Integrity, Marianne Camerer headed anti-corruption research at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), a leading South African think tank. In 2000 she was a founding director of the Open Democracy Advice Center (ODAC), a Cape Town-based NGO, on whose board she continues to serve. In 2003, Camerer led Global Integrity's 25 country pilot, working from the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C. Camerer was a 2005 Yale World Fellow and 2006 Bucerius Fellow and has consulted extensively on governance issues, including work for the World Bank and United Nations. As a current Fellow of the Center for Applied Ethics she teaches a course in business ethics at the University of Stellenbosch. Expertise: anti-corruption, whistle-blowing, democratic governance, leadership, survey design, research methodology, civil society and advocacy, southern Africa, South Africa. Recommended reading:
Afroza Chowdhury
Title: Research Associate
Education: Master of Public Policy (candidate), Georgetown University Bachelor of Arts in Economics, Bard College Afroza Chowdhury's academic and professional interests explore how rigid institutions adversely affect women's property rights and hence their overall social and economic well-being. Her research has also examined patrimonial rule in Africa, narcotics-related corruption in Mexico, and the intersection of Islam and women's property rights in South and Southeast Asia. Before joining Global Integrity, Chowdhury worked at the Department of Commerce and the U.S.-Afghanistan Reconstruction Council. Expertise: gender, property rights, governance.
Nathaniel Heller
Title: Managing Director
Education: Masters of Science in Foreign Service, Georgetown University; Bachelors of International Relations and Spanish Literature, University of Delaware Heller has split time between social entrepreneurship, investigative reporting and traditional public service since 1999, when he joined the Center for Public Integrity and began, along with Marianne Camerer and Charles Lewis, to develop the Integrity Indicators and conceptual model for what would become Global Integrity. At the Center, Heller reported on public service and government accountability; his work was covered by the Associated Press, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, Moscow Times, The Guardian (London), and Newsweek. His reporting on the human rights impact of post-9/11 U.S. military training abroad won awards from both Investigative Reporters and Editors and the Society for Professional Journalists. In 2002 he joined the State Department, focusing on European security and transatlantic relations. He later served as a foreign policy fellow to Senator Edward Kennedy in 2004. In 2005, Heller returned to stand up Global Integrity as an independent international organization and has led the group since. Expertise: governance, corruption, media freedom, social entrepreneurship, international security, European security, transatlantic relations, U.S. foreign policy. Recommended reading:
Raymond June
Title: Senior Researcher
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley; A.M., The University of Chicago; M.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison; B.A., Loyola University of Chicago Raymond has pursued ethnographic research in the Czech Republic, where he examined the processes through which transnational anti-corruption policy ideas took root locally. This project, which has resulted in two publications, was supported by grants from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and University of California, Berkeley. More recently, he has developed an interest in African governance, focusing on issues of decentralization as well as the increasing role of foreign assistance from former Eastern bloc countries. Expertise: governance, corruption, decentralization, NGOs and civil society, public policy. Recommended reading:
Jonathan Werve
Title: Director of Operations
Education: Bachelors of Political Science, Colorado College Originally educated in political theory, Werve has worked as a journalist in Southeast Asia and Europe, covering grassroots responses to globalization. In 2002, he joined the Center for Public Integrity, a public interest watchdog, where he worked as a reporter, graphic designer and project manager, including work on the 2002 and 2004 Global Integrity pilots. His work for the Center documenting the political influence of the oil and defense industries has been recognized by the Society of Environmental Journalists, Society of Professional Journalists, Investigative Reporters & Editors, and the Online News Association. Expertise: governance, corruption, globalization, media freedom, sustainability, social entrepreneurship, Thailand. Recommended reading:
Yuksel Yilmaz
Title: Research Associate
Education: Master of Public Policy (candidate), Georgetown University After completing his Bachelors degree in public administration at Ankara University, Yuksel worked in government as an assistant accounting controller in the Ministry of Finance, where he carried out audits of government accounting offices focusing primarily on government procurement. In 2001, he joined the office of the Prime Minister's Inspection Board, the highest-level anti-corruption agency in Turkey. Besides investigating allegations of corruption, he took part in the preparation of a new anti-corruption plan, entitled "Enhancing good governance and increasing accountability in Turkey," and was a member of the technical committee overseeing implementation of the new plan. He also represented the Prime Minister and the Turkish government at international meetings on corruption and good governance. Expertise: governance, corruption, government accounts, procurement, internal and external auditing. Recommended reading:
Global Integrity's Board of DirectorsNathaniel HellerIn November 1996, Susan Albrecht joined the Alfred Friendly Press Fellowships as program coordinator. In 2000, she became executive director. From January to May of 1996, she spent five months in Germany studying German in Heidelberg and working at the international student office of the University of Stuttgart. She was sponsored by the Ministry for Science and Technology of the state of Baden-Wurtenberg. From 1993-95, Susan worked at NAFSA: Association of International Educators -- a non-profit organization that promotes the exchange of students and scholars to and from the United States. At NAFSA, she worked on the ASPIRE program which focused on the professional and personal reentry of Asian students returning home after acquiring their American university degrees. During college, Susan had internships with AFS and Youth for Understanding (two youth exchange programs) and the Institute of International Education (New York, Washington, and Budapest). She graduated in 1993 from The American University with a B.A. in International Studies having spent her junior year abroad in Budapest and Brussels.
Advocacy practitioners around the world have translated his writings on advocacy, civil society and lobbying into many different languages. His writings have appeared as essays in college text books and in major U.S. publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor, the Los Angeles Times and other newspapers. His most recent publication is a chapter in the Non-Profit Lobbying Guide (by Bob Smucker) entitled: Being A Public Interest Lobbyist Is Something To Write Home About. David is also one of three co-authors of Advocacy for Social Justice: A Global Action and Reflection Guide. David has been an advocate and strategist on many of the major social justice and political reform issues in the United States since the early 1960s. These issues include civil rights, anti-poverty and reforming U.S. political processes by eliminating abuses of power and the corrupting influence of money on American politics. He played a leading role in the fight for Congress to end its support for the Vietnam War. From 1984-92 David led the Professionals' Coalition for Nuclear Arms Control - physicians, scientists, lawyers, and social workers - to stop the United States nuclear arms build-up by supporting arms control agreements and reducing the military budget. He served as president of Common Cause from 1975-81, the largest voluntary membership organization in the United States working on government accountability issues. He is also a Senior Fellow at Experience Corp/Civic Ventures.
Before joining Georgetown University, Dr. Murphy worked as an assistant vice president at Citicorp, focusing on bank-government relations, Baker-15 debt, negotiation strategy and International Monetary Fund capitalization; he worked on long-term US-Soviet relations and Middle East politics for Secretary of State Shultz in the Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State (where he drafted articles which appeared under the Secretary's name); and on foreign policy issues for Democratic Congressional and Presidential candidates. He was a Teaching Fellow in five courses at Harvard University (for Samuel P. Huntington and Joseph Nye) and three at MIT. He has conducted academic research in New York, Geneva, Basle, Brussels, Paris, London, and Tokyo, as well as in emerging markets around the world (including Burma, Thailand, Indonesia, China; Mali, Senegal, Guinée, Ethiopia, Kenya; Morocco, Egypt; Brazil, and Mexico). He has consulted for World Bank and U.S. Agency for International Development missions in Africa and Southeast Asia, and appeared on CNN and other news shows.
Melissa Thomas is the Associate Professor of International Development at The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at The Johns Hopkins University. She teaches classes on development, foreign aid, corruption, and law and development. In 2008, she received the Fisher Excellence in Teaching award. Before coming to SAIS, Melissa worked as a consultant on governance, corruption, rule of law and aid effectiveness. Melissa has worked with the World Bank, USAID, DFID, the U.S. Department of Defense, and counterpart governments providing policy and technical advice, conducting negotiations, monitoring the implementation of conditions, designing and managing technical assistance projects, and conducting qualitative and quantitative studies. She has worked in Senegal, Benin, Mali, Chad, Cameroon, Uganda, Madagascar, Peru and Georgia. Her published work has appeared in journals such as Foreign Affairs, International Affairs and the Journal of Modern African Studies. She holds a B.A. in Computer and Information Science from the University of California, Santa Cruz; a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University.
Global Integrity's Advisory BoardAlan HenriksonProfessor Alan K. Henrikson is Director of The Fletcher Roundtable on a New World Order, an international discussion and research initiative of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, where he teaches American diplomatic history, contemporary U.S.-European relations, political geography, and diplomacy. In November 2005 he was Visiting Professor at the European Commission in Brussels where he taught a course on American Foreign Policy Making. During the Spring of 2003 he was Fulbright/Diplomatic Academy Visiting Professor of International Relations at the Diplomatische Akademie in Vienna. He has been an Associate and a Visiting Scholar at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, where he also has served as Counselor on Canadian Affairs. During 1986-1987 he was Lloyd I. Miller Visiting Professor of Diplomatic History and Scholar-in-Residence at the Center for the Study of Foreign Affairs in the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. Department of State in Washington. He also has been a Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Defence Studies in Tokyo and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Visiting Professor of Diplomatic History at the China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing. He has written widely on the history and current problems of U.S. foreign policy, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, U.S.-European Union relations, the Nordic/Arctic area, Canadian-U.S.-Mexican continental integration, the diplomacy of Caribbean island and also other smaller countries, the geostrategic "mental maps" of American foreign policy makers, and the emergence of "consensus" from multilateral diplomacy and international organization -- the subject of his Negotiating World Order: The Artisanship and Architecture of Global Diplomacy. Alan Henrikson received A.B., A.M., and Ph.D. degrees in History from Harvard University where he was a Harvard National Scholar and a Danforth Graduate Fellow. He holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Oxford, where he read Philosophy-Politics-and-Economics (P.-P.-E.) at Balliol College as a Rhodes Scholar. He studied as well at the International Summer School of the University of Oslo in Norway. He is past President of the United Nations Association of Greater Boston (UNA-GB) and currently is a member of the National Council of the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA). He also has served as a Vice President of the World Affairs Council of Boston. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Boston Committee on Foreign Relations and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
Paromita Goswami seeks to empower some of India's poorest and most marginalized citizens — the residents of the Chandrapur and Gadchiroli districts of the state of Maharashtra. To protect their rights and help them access justice, Goswami has created three non-profit organizations in four years. The first organization, Elgar Pratishthan, concentrates on the economic and educational development of the rural community. Goswami subsequently founded Shramik Elgar (The Marching Army of Working People), a 6000-member union of rural workers. Trained as a lawyer, Goswami has brought legal challenges on behalf of these members to India's Supreme Court. Lastly, she founded the Elgar Women's Credit Co-operative Society, a credit union catering to families and individuals in need of economic assistance. She is regarded as one of the top union organizers in the region.
Charles Lewis is a bestselling author and founder and for 15 years the first executive director of the largest nonprofit investigative reporting organization in the world. In late 1988, he quit a successful career as a producer for the CBS News program 60 Minutes and began the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit, nonpartisan watchdog organization in Washington that investigates political influence, corruption and other ethics-related issues. In late 1997, he began the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), an unprecedented network of the world's premier investigative reporters collaborating to produce across-border, public service journalism on such subjects as cigarette smuggling by the major manufacturers, the human rights impact of U.S. military aid, private military companies, the privatization of water, and the politics of oil. In 2001, he co-created a groundbreaking Center project to monitor and report on corruption, government accountability and openness around the world (now Global Integrity). For eleven years, from 1977 through 1988, Lewis did investigative reporting at ABC News and at CBS News as a producer for senior correspondent Mike Wallace at 60 Minutes. His stories twice received Emmy nominations in the "Outstanding Investigative Reporting" category by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He is president and CEO of the Fund for Independence in Journalism in Washington and also serves on the board of the Fund for Investigative Journalism. A native of Newark, Delaware, Lewis holds a master's degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington and a B.A. in political science with honors and distinction from the University of Delaware.
Vincent Mai joined AEA Investors in 1989 as chief executive officer and in 1998 became chairman. Before joining AEA, Vincent was a partner at Lehman Brothers for 14 years. He was head of their international investment banking activities and co-head of all of their investment banking activities for three years. Before assuming management responsibilities at Lehman, Vincent worked with a broad range of European and U.S. businesses on their strategic and capital-raising needs. He began his career at S.G. Warburg & Co. in London, where he became an executive director. Vincent is involved in several not-for-profit activities. He is chairman of the board of Sesame Workshop, producers of Sesame Street. He also serves on boards of the International Center for Transitional Justice and the Juilliard School. Vincent was a director of the Council on Foreign Relations, of which he remains a member, and of the Carnegie Corporation. He served on the board of Fannie Mae for more than 10 years. Vincent grew up in South Africa and was educated at the University of Cape Town, where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant.
Eugene Rotberg has been an independent advisor to international development and financial institutions since 1990. From 1987 to 1990, Mr. Rotberg was Executive Vice President and a member of the Executive Committee at Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. From 1969 to 1987, Mr. Rotberg was Vice President and Treasurer of the World Bank.
The 2007 Field TeamGlobal Integrity relies on hundreds of local experts on governance and corruption issues to generate the Global Integrity Report each year. Without their insight and dedication, we would not be able to carry out this important work.For the Global Integrity Report: 2007, our team members were: Lead Researchers
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David Cohen is Co-Founder of the Advocacy Institute. David pioneered the Institute's work in its international capacity building programs where he facilitates workshop and strategy sessions. His expertise is used to counsel social justice movement groups in the U.S. and abroad to gain support for their public agenda. His work extends to countries in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Southern Africa, The Middle East, Central Europe and Eastern Europe. 
Mark Davies previously served as Executive Director of the New York State Temporary State Commission on Local Government Ethics and as a Deputy Counsel to the New York State Commission on Government Integrity and prior to that as a full-time law professor and in private practice, specializing in municipal law and litigation. A graduate of Columbia College and Columbia Law School, he is the chair of the Government Ethics and Professional Responsibility Committee of the New York State Bar Association's Municipal Law Section. He has also served on the steering committee of the international Council on Governmental Ethics Laws. He has lectured extensively on ethics and has authored numerous publications, including contributions to Ethics, Lawyers and the Public Sector (ABA 1999), Ethics and Law Enforcement: Toward Global Guidelines (Praeger 2000), and Ethics in Government - The Public Trust: A Two-Way Street (NYSBA 2002).
Barry Herman is Visiting Senior Fellow at the Graduate Program in International Affairs of The New School in New York, where he coordinates a project on "Ethics and Debt" with Christian Barry of the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs. He completed a career of almost 30 years in the United Nations Secretariat at the end of December 2005, most recently as Senior Advisor in the Financing for Development Office in the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA). Over the past two years he has been the team leader on behalf of DESA in organizing two sets of multi-stakeholder consultations (encompassing governments of the North and South, international organizations, private sector and civil society), one on "Building Inclusive Financial Sectors for Development" (jointly with the UN Capital Development Fund) and the other on "Sovereign Debt for Sustained Development" (jointly with UNCTAD). He was part of the Secretariat team that prepared the Monterrey Summit on Financing for Development in 2002. Earlier, he led the team that produced the UN’s annual World Economic and Social Survey. Before joining the UN Secretariat in 1976, he taught development and international economics. He holds a PhD from the University of Michigan and an MBA from the University of Chicago. He has edited three books and published articles and chapters in books on North-South financial issues. His most recent publications include a chapter called "The Politics of Inclusion in the Monterrey Process," which is to appear in Promoting Enfranchisement: Toward Inclusion and Influence in Sustainable Development Governance (Jessica Green, ed., Tokyo: UNU Press, 2006) and "How Well do Measurements of an Enabling Environment Stand Up?" in The IMF and the World Bank at Sixty (Ariel Buira, ed., London: Anthem Press, 2005).
Dale Murphy specializes in international relations, international political economy, business-government relations, "corporate social responsibility" (CSR), democratization and international security. As a member of the International Business Diplomacy core faculty (at Georgetown University) he studies global issues at the juncture of the public and private sectors. His current research focuses on large firms' use of regulations as a source of competitive advantage, and the impact of international trade and investment on domestic regulations. His first book The Structure of Regulatory Competition: corporations and public policies in a global economy (Oxford University Press, March 2004) draws on transaction cost economics and theories of political economy to differentiate large firms' preferences and their influences on public policy, and highlights the implications for CSR. His second book project, Public Interests, Private Leaders, and Mass Media (in progress), analyzes various conceptions of the 'public interest' and explores how media technologies have changed the ability of individuals to identify, define, and shape these conceptions.
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