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| Bribery and Extortion: |
| Undermining Business, Governments, and Security |
| (Embedded by Alexandra Addison Wrage |
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| pic05303.gi Bribery lies at the core of international criminal |
| f)Chris activity. Terrorists, money-launderers and |
| West smugglers pay bribes. Those who traffic in people, |
| narcotics, and illegal arms pay immigration |
| Order a officers not to ask, customs officials not to |
| copy of the inspect, and police officers not to investigate. |
| book |
| Drawing on her travels in more than seventy |
| countries, the author has gathered these stories |
| of bribe solicitation, collusion and resistance. |
| She peels back the mystique to expose the damage |
| bribery inflicts on societies, corporations and |
| individuals. The book shows how bribes undermine |
| good corporate governance, but also how they |
| undercut security and the prospects for democracy |
| in all countries. |
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| "Bribery and Extortion should be required |
| reading?and it's lively reading?for all of those |
| concerned with maintaining the rule of law, |
| spurring economic development, and in restoring |
| trust in governments? local, national, and |
| international." |
| - Paul A. Volcker, Former |
| Chairman of the U.N. Oil for Food Programme |
| Independent Inquiry Committee |
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Thursday, May 22, 2008
12:00 - 2:00 pm
Light lunch reception to follow
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050
701 18th Street NW
Washington, DC
For non bank staff, please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org
MODERATED BY
Pascale Helene Dubois
Sanctions Evaluation and Suspension Officer, The World Bank
PRESENTED BY AUTHOR
Alexandra Wrage
President, TRACE
Alexandra Wrage is the president of TRACE, an international
non-profit membership association working with companies to raise
their anti-bribery compliance standards, while lowering the cost of
compliance. An international attorney, she has created international
due diligence programs for the retention and training of
international sales representatives, consultants, suppliers,
distributors and subcontractors and has drafted corporate
anti-bribery policies and audited compliance programs. Ms. Wrage is
Chair of the Women in International Regulatory Law ("WIRL") Steering
Committee, co-chair of the American Bar Association's
Anti-Corruption Committee, vice-chair of the Association of
Corporate Counsel?s International Legal Affairs Committee, and a
member of the Working Group for the United Nation's Global Compact
10th Principle. She speaks frequently on topics of international
law, anti-corruption initiatives and the hidden costs of corruption.
COMMENTS BY
Lisa Bhansali
Senior Public Sector Specialist, The World Bank
Lisa Bhansali is a lawyer and senior public sector management
specialist, working on justice administration and broader governance
projects in the Public Sector Reform and Capacity department in the
Africa Region of the World Bank. She works on a variety of areas,
including legal and judicial reform, decentralization,
anticorruption, and institutional strengthening. Her most recent
publication was "Measuring the Impact of Criminal Justice Reform in
Latin America" in Promoting the Rule of Law Abroad: In Search of
Knowledge (Carothers, ed., Carnegie, 2006). Ms. Bhansali has been an
Adjunct Professor of Law since 2000 and currently teaches at
Georgetown University Law School as well as the Washington College
of Law, American University in Washington, DC. She has spoken at
numerous international conferences, including annual meetings of the
International Bar Association, the American Bar Association, and the
American Society of International Law.
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