24/03/2011
Speaker: DANIEL KAUFMANN.
Senior Fellow, Brookings Institute
Former Director at the World Bank Institute
Title: "New frontiers in Worldwide Governance — How the Data Challenges Orthodoxy about Governance & Corruption in the Industrialized and Emerging Worlds”
April 4th, 2011 at 16:00-17:30
Cinema Hall - UC G030
BIO
Daniel Kaufmann is a Senior Fellow in the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution. He carries out policy analysis and applied research on economic development, governance, regulation and corruption around the world. Previously he served as a director at the World Bank Institute, where he pioneered new approaches to measure and analyze governance and corruption, helping countries formulate action programs. At the World Bank, Kaufmann also held senior positions focused on finance, regulation and anti-corruption, as well as on capacity building for Latin America. He also served as lead economist both in economies in transition as well as in the World Bank's research department, and earlier in his career was a senior economist in Africa. In the early nineties, Kaufmann was the first Chief of Mission of the World Bank to Ukraine, and then he held a visiting position at Harvard University.
Kaufmann is a Chilean national who received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard, and a B.A. in Economics and Statistics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His blog on Governance is at www.thekaufmannpost.net
