Nathaniel Heller

Nathaniel Heller

Director, Global Integrity

Nathaniel Heller is Managing Director of Global Integrity, an independent, non-profit organization tracking governance and corruption trends around the world. Nathaniel 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. His reporting on the human rights impact of post-9/11 U.S. military training abroad won awards from both Investigative Reporters and Editors and the Society for Professional Journalists. 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. A US national, Nathaniel holds a Masters of Science in Foreign Service, Georgetown University and Bachelors of International Relations and Spanish Literature, University of Delaware. He is a frequent blogger and moderator of the Global Integrity Commons blog - http://commons.globalintegrity.org/