Speaker Biographies

Nancy Zucker Boswell is the President & CEO of Transparency International-USA; the U.S. chapter of the global non-profit organization dedicated to combating corruption.   She works with government officials, multilateral institutions, and the private sector to promote the international agenda.  She is also a member of the Transparency International board of directors. Ms. Boswell has practiced international law at Steptoe & Johnson in Washington, D.C., focusing on extraterritorial jurisdiction, export controls, and customs and trade disputes. Previously, she was responsible for congressional liaison at the American Association of University Women and international financial matters at Citibank. Among her affiliations are the USAID Advisory Committee for Voluntary Foreign Aid, the U.S. State Department Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy and the US Trade Representative’s Trade & Environmental Policy Advisory Committee.   Her board service includes PACT, which focuses on civil society, and the International Senior Lawyers Project, which provides pro bono legal advice to NGOs around the world.   Ms. Boswell is a member of the Conference Board Working Group on Global Business Ethics Principles and the Carnegie Endowment study group on Managing Global Issues.  Ms. Boswell is a summa cum laude graduate of American University’s Washington College of Law.

Bashcerhamad Shadrach has worked since 1986 for a variety of organizations in South Asia and Europe prior to joining IDRC as the Asia Senior Program Officer for telecentre.org. His pioneering efforts in the field of information and communication for development include the creation of an on-line news indexing system for the Indian Express group; developing the first ever Indian on-line development community, indev; organizing the first ever South Asian ICT conference, Tasknet; and, the launch of the first ever global anti-corruption Portal, CORIS.  He has held several senior positions such as the member of Transparency International's Senior Management team, member of the Management Committee of OneWorld International Network and the Secretary of Mission 2007, a national coalition that aspires to provide each and every village in India with access to knowledge centers.

Enrique Fanta Ivanovic,   Senior Public Sector at the WB, Civil Industrial Engineer from Universidad de Chile, was Deputy Director of Chilean IRS before becoming Head of Chilean Customs Service. After That, Enrique was deputy Director of the State modernization Project , in charge of e- government. At the same time, during his period as Head of Customs and the state modernization, he was member of the Council of Internal   Auditing for the Chilean government.

Daniel Kaufmann is regarded as a leading expert, researcher, and adviser to countries on governance and development, Mr. Kaufmann, along with colleagues, has pioneered survey methodologies and work on indicators and on capacity building approaches for good governance and anti-corruption programs around the world. He currently heads the work on Global Governance and Anti-Corruption, and previously 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 carreer 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. Mr. Kaufmann is a frequent speaker on governance issues in major fora, such as keynote presentations at international Governance and Anti-Corruption Conferences, and at the First Global Forum on Media Development, as well as delivering the Annual Goodman Lecture at the University of Toronto, and he is a guest expert at major programs such as the BBC, CNBC, Bloomberg and VOA, and his work on governance and development is frequently featured in printed international media and policy circles. A Chilean national, Daniel Kaufmann 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.

Knut Leipold works as Senior Procurement Specialist and e-GP (electronic government procurement) expert in the Bank's procurement anchor unit OPCPR. He has led the Bank's efforts of providing support and advice in designing and implementing e-GP programs and of developing e-GP guidance in line with the Bank's procurement policy, and of assessing e-GP country systems for their use under Bank-funded operations. He chairs the e-GP working group of the Mulitlateral Banks' Heads of Procurement initiative and has contributed to fully harmonizing the e-GP agenda. In addition, he is a member of the e-Procurement Working Group of the European Commission and of the e-GP Expert Working Group of UNCITRAL. Prior to his assignment at the Bank, he had worked in the private sector with focus on e-Government solutions for more than 10 years.

Philippe Dongier is Sector Manager at the Global ICT Department, Bank's sector unit for Information and Communication Technologies. Earlier was Manager for Afghanistan Reconstruction in South Asia Region Energy and Infrastructure Unit, led the CDD anchor, and was manager of the Water and Sanitation Program in INF. Before joining the Bank, was Engagement Manager with McKinsey & Company, working on a range of strategy and organization change projects in various industries. Before that, he was Regional Manager of a Canadian NGO working on rural infrastructure and micro-finance in Nepal and Vietnam.