Fighting Corruption: Learning from Success - Robert Klitgaard

Date & Time: November 05, 2015 | 06:00 PM – 07:00 PM

Location: 236 Lewis Katz Building

Robert Klitgaard, Claremont Graduate University professor will speak on Fighting Corruption: Learning from Success on Thursday, Nov. 5 from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. in room 236 Lewis Katz Building.

Klitgaard served as President of Claremont Graduate University from 2005 to 2009.

He previously served as Dean of the Pardee RAND Graduate School, where he was also the Ford Distinguished Professor of International Development and Security. He has twice been the Li Ka-shing Distinguished Chair Visiting Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. He was a Professor of Economics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban; Lester Crown Professor of Economics at Yale’s School of Management; and an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he also served half-time as Special Assistant to Harvard President Derek Bok.

Klitgaard advises governments on economic strategy and institutional reform, and his consulting work and research have taken him to more than 30 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. He has been called “the world’s leading expert on corruption” (The Christian Science Monitor). He has served on the faculty of the World Economic Forum, the editorial boards of Theoria and the Journal of Economic Literature, and the Board of the International Development Evaluation Association.

In addition to many articles, he has written ten books.