Past Events

November 6, 2007:

The Role of Civil Society in Fighting Corruption (Nancy Boswell)

11:30 am –1:00 pm

Room A-30, Watson Center, 60 Sachem Street

Nancy Boswell has been the Managing Director of the US chapter of Transparency International (TI), since its inception in 1994. In addition, she serves on the Board of Directors of TI, the global non-profit coalition to curb corruption in international development and business transactions. Boswell works with government officials and representatives from the corporate, legal, accounting, and other sectors to promote transparency, accountability, and good governance.

Previously, she practiced law at Steptoe & Johnson in Washington, DC, focusing on international legal and regulatory matters, including extraterritorial jurisdiction, export controls, and customs and trade disputes. Boswell has also acted as director for congressional liaison at the American Association of University Women and was in the International Division at Citibank.

She serves on the US State Department Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy and is a cleared advisor on the USTR Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee. A member of the Executive Council of the Securities Law Committee of the Federal Bar Association and a member of the board of directors of PACT, she is also a director on the board of the International Senior Lawyers Project. Boswell is a graduate of American University’s Washington College of Law.

Transparency International is a non-profit, non-partisan organization founded in 1993 to curb corruption in international transactions. Through its network of chapters in over 80 countries, TI encourages governments to implement effective anti-corruption laws and policies, promotes reform through international organizations, and raises public awareness.

Open to the public. Lunch will be served. To attend this event please register at: http://ponpo.som.yale.edu by November 5. For more information e-mail juliana.koo@yale.edu.

Presented in association with the Millstein Center Lunch Forum on Corporate Governance Series. For more information on the Millstein Center, visit http://millstein.som.yale.edu.PONPO is a collaboration between the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale and the Yale School of Management. The workshop series is sponsored by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Institution for Social and Policy Studies. For more information see http://ponpo.som.yale.edu.

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