Friday, November 14, 2008

REMINDER - "Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations" Monday, November 17th at 3:00 PM in J1-050

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PRESENTING AUTHOR
Raymond Fisman
Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise and
Research Director of the Social Enterprise Program at the Columbia
Business School
Mr. Fisman worked as a consultant in the Africa Division of the
World Bank for a year before moving to Columbia in 1999. His
research focuses on corruption and more broadly on what makes people
do bad things (he also sometimes thinks about why people do good
things). His work has been published in leading economics journals,
including the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy
, and Quarterly Journal of Economics. He writes a monthly column for
Slate magazine. Economic Gangsters. is his first book.


OPENING REMARKS
Daniel Kaufmann
Director, World Bank Institute
Regarded as a leading expert, researcher, and adviser to countries
on governance and development, Mr. Kaufmann, with his team, has
pioneered new approaches to analyze country governance as well as
survey methodologies and indicators for good governance and
anti-corruption programs around the world. He heads the work on
Global Governance and Anti-Corruption, and previously held positions
at the World Bank which include managing a team on Finance,
Regulation and Governance, heading capacity building for Latin
America, and also serving as Lead Economist both in economies in
transition as well as in the Bank's research department. He is also
a member of the World Economic Forum (DAVOS) faculty.


MODERATOR
Tim Steele
Senior Governance Specialist, World Bank,
Mr. Steele is currently a senior governance specialist in the
Secretariat to the Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative. He is on
special assignment from the United Nations Office on Drugs and
Crime. He previously headed the anti-corruption work stream at the
UK Department of International Development. A Forensic Accountant by
training, Tim learnt his trade investigating the demise of the Bank
of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI).In post -apartheid South
Africa he was persuaded to work within the public sector to build
financial investigation capacity. Having expended considerable
effort on an investigation that led to the successful prosecution of
a Cabinet Minister, Tim decided he time would be better spent
working to reform the institutions that allow or even encourage
corruption. In the last 15 years, he has worked within the
governments of South Africa, Kenya, Namibia and Zambia.

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