Democracy That Delivers

A quartet of guests join host Ken Jaques to discuss their work at CIPE. They include Autumn Moore and Zoe Watkins from the Communications department, and  Adam Goldstein and  Mikra Krasniqi from the  Policy and Program Learning  department. This is the first episode in a series that will focus on emerging leaders at CIPE. They talk about their backgrounds, how they came to join CIPE, and their cur...

Anti-Corruption author and Transparency International Co-Founder Frank Vogl joins the CIPE  Anti-Corruption & Governance Center  podcast this week to discuss his new book, The Enablers: How the West Supports Kleptocrats and Corruption . Vogl reviews the recommendations of his book, which shines a light on the Western financial institutions, lawyers, consultants, and other professionals who enable...

Professor Sophal Ear joins guest hosts John Morrell and Jenny Anderson, CIPE's Regional Director and Senior Program Officer for Asia and the Pacific. This is part of a mini-series around President Biden's Summit for Democracy . They talk about the risks of authoritarian regimes. For example, dictators, the professor notes, often present themselves as benevolent leaders, but are almost always corru...

Professors Michael Johnston (Colgate) and Jodi Vittori (Georgetown) join guest host Frank Brown, Director of CIPE's Anti-Corruption & Governance Center . This is part of a mini-series around President Biden's Summit for Democracy . Specifically, they talk about ways to improve anti-corruption efforts around the world.

Paola Galvez , 2020-2021 Open Internet leader and advisor to the Presidency of Council Ministers of Peru in charge of digital regulation, joins Democracy that Delivers host Ken Jaques  and Anna Kompanek, Director, Global Programs, CIPE. This episode is part of a mini-series around President Biden's December 2021  Summit for Democracy . Specifically, they talk about the Open Internet Leadership pro...

Scott Carpenter , Director of Policy and International Engagement at Google's Jigsaw , joins host Ken Jaques , CIPE Executive Director Andrew Wilson and Senior Program Officer Louisa Tomar . This is the first episode of a mini-series around President Biden's December 2021 Summit for Democracy . Specifically, they talk about how creating open and resilient digital spaces is a goal that touches all...

The Democracy that Delivers "Women and Girls Empowered" (WAGE) mini-series spotlights the  WAGE core partners' women empowerment projects. In the last of four episodes, our host Ken Jaques  gets to know Search for Common Ground (SfCG) Research, Evaluation & Learning Specialist Aisalkyn Botoeva and Gender Advisor Nalini Rathnarajah . From conflict-sensitive initiatives in Sri Lanka and Myanmar, Ais...

Dr. Khin Mg Kyi , Dean of the School of Business at Pacific Adventist University , joins hosts Ken Jaques and Kim Bettcher for the Democracy that Delivers podcast Global Entrepreneurship Week mini-series final episode. They discuss ways to encourage young people to start their own businesses in Papua New Guinea, a country where CIPE is investing in a program to boost entrepreneurship. They also ta...

Steve Kimbu , Senior Lecturer at IBSUniversity in Papua New Guinea, joins the Democracy that Delivers podcast host Ken Jaques and CIPE Policy and Program Learning Director Kim Bettcher for the first of a two-part mini-series in celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week . Kimbu teaches ways to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship at the university. "We need to go beyond teaching," Kimbu says...

Hui Chen , an internationally renowned leader in ethics and compliance, discusses the "uncomfortable" position that emerging market small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) occupy with respect to global integrity and anti-corruption standards. Drawing on Chen's decades of experience driving compliance and ethics changes in the private and public sector, including her service as the first-ever Co...

The Democracy that Delivers "Women and Girls Empowered" (WAGE) mini-series spotlights the WAGE core partners' women empowerment projects . In the third of the four episodes, our host   Ken Jaques meets   Susan Marx , Project Director of WAGE Eswatini for the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI) . Launched just last year amid turbulent times in the last absolute monarchy of th...

This two-part mini-series of Democracy that Delivers celebrates the winners of CIPE Africa's  Women Economic Empowerment Contest . Our host Ken Jaques  and Africa Program Associate  Laura Maclay  hand the second episode over to the  Gambia Women's Chamber of Commerce  (GWCC) CEO  Beatrice Mboge to present the key hurdles met by women in business in the Gambia and the wide array of partnerships wit...

Tom Fox, the extraordinarily prolific and knowledgeable host of the popular FCPA Compliance Report , talks about the link between two hot topics in the corporate compliance world - anti-corruption and ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance), in the latest episode of the CIPE Anti-Corruption & Governance Center  (ACGC) podcast. Drawing on almost 20 years as an anti-corruption lawyer, Fox discus...

Democracy that Delivers picks up the "Women and Girls Empowered" (WAGE) mini-series where the opening episode left off, spotlighting the women's empowerment projects of the core   partners of   WAGE . In the second of these four episodes, our host   Ken Jaques   is joined by   Grameen Foundation   representatives Bobbi Gray , Research Director, and  Amelia Kuklewicz , Regional Director for Latin A...

This two-part mini-series of Democracy that Delivers celebrates the winners of CIPE Africa's Women Economic Empowerment Contest . The first episode features the Kenya National Chamber of Commerce and Industry 's (KNCCI) West Pokot Chapter, a shining example of the impact associations can have in support of women in business. KNCCI-West Pokot CEO I. M. Seth joins program host Ken Jaques and co-host...

To report on Poland's democracy, host Ken Jaques is joined by native Poles Anna Kompanek , Director of CIPE's Global Programs, and Marek Tatala . Marek is the the newest member of CIPE's Free Enterprise and Democracy Network (FEDN), Vice President and Economist at the  Civil Development Forum (FOR), and co-founder of both the Rule of Law  and the new Economic Freedom Foundation in Warsaw, Poland....

Democracy that Delivers "COVID and Corruption In Latin America" mini-series cohosts Ken Jaques  and  Elena Padbury wrap up this recap of our recently released report . Last but not least of its country case studies is Brasil, presented by Laís Piasentini Oliva , Advocacy Analyst at the Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance (IBGC). Laís offers recommendations to reduce pre-existing corruption...

The latest episode in the Anti-Corruption and Governance Center's Rapid Response podcast mini-series features Haykuhi Harutyunyan , the chair of Armenia's Corruption Prevention Commission (CPC), and Matthew Murray , an anti-corruption expert with decades of field experience. The CPC was founded following Armenia's 2018 Velvet Revolution, in which peaceful protests ushered in a new reformist govern...

In the latest episode of our Anti-Corruption Rapid Response podcast mini-series,  Suliman Baldo , a Senior Advisor at The Sentry and a long-time peace and democracy advocate, shares his experiences and perspectives working to advance democracy in Sudan. At the moment, Sudan is undergoing a once-in-a-generation political transition following a massive--and peaceful--grassroots movement in 2019. Bal...

In this continuation of the Democracy that Delivers mini-series on "COVID and Corruption In Latin America", we take a closer look at our recently released report 's second of three country case studies: Argentina. Cohosts Ken Jaques and Elena Padbury are joined by Demian González Chmielewski , Public Management Program Coordinator at CIPPEC , a CIPE partner organization that promotes democratic pu...

Democracy That Delivers host Ken Jaques partners with CIPE's Latin America and the Caribbean Program Officer Elena Padbury in a new mini-series behind the scenes of the recently released report on the relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and corruption risks in Latin America. Cracking open the first of its three country case studies, Viviana Patiño from the Regulation and Economic Competitio...

Democracy that Delivers kicks off a new mini-series spotlighting women's empowerment projects of the core partners of Women and Girls Empowered (WAGE), a global programming consortium to advance the status of women and girls. In this first of four episodes, our host Ken Jaques is joined by Center for International Private Enterprise colleagues Barbara Langley , Director of the Center for Women's E...

The 6th episode of CIPE's anti-corruption rapid response podcast mini-series features governance consultant Florencia Guerzovich  and Open CoLab  founder Dave Algoso . Listen now to hear Guerzovich and Algoso break down their recent groundbreaking report  on political windows of opportunity for anti-corruption reform. According to Guerzovich and Algoso, these windows of opportunity often follow th...