Dr. Daniel Kaufmann is an international leader in governance, anti-corruption, natural resources and development economics. He is currently a senior fellow at Results for Development (R4D) and the Governance Action Hub, and also affiliated with the Brookings Institution, and in the faculty of economics at the University of Philippines.
His writings have been published in leading academic journals and featured in the international media and in policy journals. He also co-created global indicators, such as the Worldwide Governance Indicators, the Resource Governance Index, and recently a State Capture Index. One of the most downloaded social scientists in the SSRN portal, he has been credited on innovations in governance and development, including on state capture and legal corruption.
Dr. Kaufmann was a director at the World Bank, where he was a pioneer on the work on governance. Following his work as an economist, he was convinced that governance and anti-corruption could be subject to the rigor and measurement of economics and that the quest for improving governance should be critical for sustainable and equitable development around the world.
He is also the co-founder and president emeritus of the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), an international non-governmental policy organization, where he also served as CEO. Dr. Kaufmann received his PhD in economics at Harvard. He is a Chilean national, biker, diver, footballer, and occasionally lectures about opera.
Links
- Project Page: Leveraging Transparency to Reduce Corruption in the Natural Resource Industries
- Foundational Paper: The TAP-Plus Approach to Anti-Corruption in the Natural Resource Value Chain
- Report: The Audacity Deficit in Natural Resource Governance: Insights from a Survey and Implications Ahead
- State Capture Index
