Corruption, Accountability, and Governance in Africa

Please mark your calendars!

The Council on African Studies at Yale University

presents

Corruption, Accountability, and Governance in Africa

Thursday, February 28, 10:00am - 4:30pm
Luce Hall, Room 203, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Bringing together experts from academia and the policy arena, this full-day conference will address the extent and impact of corruption in Africa, and generate new ideas for promoting good governance at the local, national, and international level. It will focus on three major arenas for anti-corruption efforts:

10:00 - 12:00 Panel One: Assessing the Quality of Recent African Elections

1:00 - 2:30 Panel Two:  Promoting Accountability in Local Development

3:00 - 4:30 Panel Three:  Transparency in the Natural Resource Sector

Panelists include:
Michael Bratton, Michigan State University
Angelo Izama, The Daily Monitor (Uganda) and the Open Society Initiative
Jean Ensminger, California Institute of Technology
Richard Klein, National Democratic Institute
Juan Carlos Quiroz, Revenue Watch
Guy Grossman, University of Pennsylvania
Andrew Zeitlin, Georgetown University
Carl LeVan, American University
Daniel Smith, University of Florida
Eric Mvukiyehe, USAID
Kennedy Opalo, Yale '09

Sponsored by the MacMillan Center's Council on African Studies, this conference is made possible thanks to generous support from the Hendel Fund for Innovation in Africa.

Free and open to the public.

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