Kaufmann

Regarded as a leading expert, researcher, and adviser to countries on governance and development, Dani Kaufmann, along with his former colleagues, pioneered survey methodologies and capacity building approaches for good governance and anti-corruption programs around the world. Currently, he is Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and previously headed groups on Global Governance and Knowledge for Development at the World Bank Institute. He also 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. In the early nineties, he was the first Chief of Mission of the World Bank to Ukraine, and then he was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University prior to resuming his career at the World Bank. He is also a member of the World Economic Forum (Davos) Faculty. His research on economic development, governance, the unofficial economy, macro-economics, investment, corruption, privatization, and urban and labor economics has been published in leading journals. Dani Kaufmann is a frequent speaker on governance issues in major fora, such as the recent keynote presentation at the First Global Forum on Media Development, as well as the Annual Goodman Lecture at the University of Toronto in 2005, and his work on governance and development is often reported in media and policy circles. A Chilean national, he 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. Asides from being a guest bloggers at this blog, he has his personal blog The Kaufmann Governance Post - http://thekaufmannpost.net/