Nathaniel Heller, Managing Director
Renato Busquets, Research Associate
Board of Directors
Staff:
Renato Busquets
Title: Research Associate
Education: Master of Public Policy, Georgetown University; Bachelor of Arts in Economics, ITAM (Mexico) Before joining Global Integrity, Renato worked at the Mexico City-based Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), a research organization. At CIDE he worked on research projects focused on corruption and accountability issues. He was a research assistant to the lead social scientist for the Global Integrity Report: Mexico 2004. That same year he won third place in an annual Research Contest for Corruption in Mexico, he also served as a peer reviewer for the Global Integrity Report: Mexico 2006. Recommended Reading:
Marianne Camerer
Title: International Director
Education: Ph.D. in Political Studies, 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, whose board she currently chairs. 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. She is also a fellow of the Center for Applied 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:
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:
Hazel Feigenblatt
Title: Research Associate Joined Global Integrity: February 2009
Education: Masters in Political Science, University of Costa Rica; Masters in Public Affairs Reporting, University of Maryland; Bachelor in Communications with expertise in journalism Hazel is an investigative journalist who worked for 10 years for Costa Rica's leading newspaper, La Nacion. In addition to conducting investigations into government procurement and transparency in the public administration, she worked as a Washington correspondent; beat reporter on political, national and economic issues; and was a columnist in the business section. She has won three national journalism awards, has published stories in several U.S. newspapers, and was a Fulbright Humphrey Fellow in 2002-2003, with focus on transparency and investigative journalism. She also published an award-winning blog on consumer advocacy. Expertise: government procurement, transparency, investigative journalism, Latin America 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. Before joining Global Integrity, he was Faculty Fellow at American University’s Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center. Expertise: governance, corruption control, decentralization, NGOs and civil society, knowledge production, East Central Europe, Balkans, and Former Soviet Union. Recommended reading:
Jessica Mahoney
Title: Research Associate
Education: Currently working towards a BA in both Political Science and Chinese from Williams College (expected June 2010) Jessica is majoring in both Political Science and Chinese Language at Williams College, and has been able to synthesize those interests through opportunities studying abroad. She spent the past two summers in China studying not only Mandarin but also contemporary Chinese social and political issues. This past fall, she spent the semester in Kenya and carried out a month long research project focusing on Sino-Kenyan relations. She has decided to expand this study for her senior thesis at Williams College. Recommended Reading:
Norah Mallaney
Title: Researcher Education: Bachelors of International Studies and Leadership Studies, University of Richmond
Languages: English, French Norah first became interested in governance and international development at the University of Richmond, where she focused on African Studies and Leadership Studies. While an undergraduate, she chose to study abroad in South Africa. At the University of Cape Town, Norah took classes with the African Studies department and volunteer taught at a local township school. This experience led her to write her senior thesis on post-apartheid education policy in South Africa. Norah has also worked with the Uganda Rural Fund, a Richmond-based non-profit focused on building sustainable communities in the Masaka district of Uganda. Recommended Reading:
Title: Director of Operations
Education: Bachelors of Political Science, Colorado College Originally educated in political theory, Eyler-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:
Global Integrity's Board of DirectorsNathaniel HellerSusan Albrecht is the Executive Director of the Alfred Friendly Press Fellowships (AFPF)—a cultural and professional exchange program that trains professional print journalists from developing countries by placing them in American newsrooms as reporters for six months. Fellows not only return home with new journalistic skills and knowledge, and a desire to advance a free, responsible press in their own countries but also a greater understanding of America and Americans. Before becoming director in 2000, Albrecht was the AFPF program manager from 1996-1999. 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.
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. 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.
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. 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 distinguished journalist in residence and the founding executive editor of the new Investigative Reporting Workshop at the American University School of Communication, in Washington, D.C. In March 2009, the Workshop issued its first investigative report, BankTracker, enabling every American to access online the precise financial condition of every chartered bank in the United States, based upon Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation records (FDIC). A national investigative journalist for nearly 30 years, Lewis is a bestselling author who has founded or co-founded four nonprofit enterprises in Washington, including the Center for Public Integrity. He left a successful career as an investigative producer for ABC News and the CBS News program 60 Minutes and began the Center, which under his leadership published roughly 300 investigative reports, including 14 books, from 1989 through 2004, honored more than 30 times by national journalism organizations. In late 1997, he began the Center's International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, the world’s first working network of 100 premier reporters in 50 countries producing content across borders. In 1996, Lewis and the Center issued a report, Fat Cat Hotel, which first revealed that the Clinton administration had been rewarding major donors with White House overnight stays in the "Lincoln Bedroom." In 2003, in February the Center posted secret draft "Patriot II" legislation and in October the Center posted all of the known U.S. war contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Windfalls of War first identified that Halliburton had received the most money from those contracts, and it won the first George Polk Award for Internet Reporting. The principal author of five Center books, including national bestseller The Buying of the President 2004, Lewis was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1998 and received the PEN USA First Amendment award in 2004. Since 2005, besides co-founding Global Integrity, he has served as founding president of the Fund for Independence in Journalism in Washington, an endowment and legal defense support organization for the Center for Public Integrity. He has been a consultant to the Carter Center in Atlanta, a Ferris Professor at Princeton University, and a Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard University.
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.
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