Daniel Kaufmann

Daniel Kaufmann is Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and was previously Director at the World Bank Institute, leading the work on Governance and Anti-Corruption.

Early life

He was born in Chile where he grew up in the fifties and sixties, then he went on to undergraduate studies in Economics and Statistics at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and then on to graduate studies at Harvard, where he received his Ph.D. in Economics in 1982.

Career

For most of his professional career Daniel Kaufmann has held positions at the World Bank, working in Eastern Europe, Africa and Latin America, as well as in research and knowledge issues around the globe.

Daniel Kaufmann is regarded as a leading expert, researcher, and policy adviser on governance and development.^[1][2] With his team, he has pioneered new approaches to construct indicators and analyze country governance as well as survey methodologies for good governance and anti-corruption programs around the world, and to provide practical advice to countries. 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. His papers are close to the top in downloads in the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).

The evolving concept of legal corruption ^{[3] [4] [5]} of Daniel Kaufmann and Pedro Vicente has considerable potential for describing (and potentially holding accountable those involved in) processes involving the diversion of governance benefits from all the people to only a few special interests.

At the World Bank Institute he led the work on Global Governance and Anti-Corruption, and he previously held other positions at the World Bank. He was a Senior Economist for Africa, working on trade, industry and macroeconomy. He was also an author of the World Development Report which distilled the key lessons from development experience. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he became the first Chief of Mission of the World Bank to Ukraine, and thereafter he was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard. Upon resuming his career at the World Bank, he served as Lead Economist in the research department. Then he was Manager of the Finance, Regulation and Governance unit at the World Bank Institute. He is also a member of the World Economic Forum (Davos) Faculty. Mr. Kaufmann is also a frequent keynote speaker on governance and development issues in major fora; he is a guest expert in major media outlets, and his work is frequently featured in international policy and media circles.

References

1. ^ The Harvard Law School, Corporate Governance Forum
2. ^ Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Corruption in China: How Bad is It?
3. ^ Kaufmann, Daniel and Pedro Vicente, 2005, Legal Corruption, World Bank.
4. ^ Kaufmann, Daniel and Pedro Vicente, 2005, Legal Corruption (data in spreadsheet form), World Bank.
5. ^ Kaufmann, Daniel and Pedro Vicente, 2011, Legal Corruption(revised), Economics and Politics, v23, pp. 195-219.

External links

• World Bank Profile
• Kaufmann's expert page at the Brookings Institution
• World Bank Institute Governance & Anti-Corruption website
• Worldwide Governance Indicators
• The Kaufmann Governance Post

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