Expert Profiles

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. 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.
 

Marianne Camerer: International Director and Co-founder
Based in Durban, South Africa

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.
 

Jonathan Werve: Director of Operations
Based in San Francisco, California

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.
 

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