Daniel Kaufmann
Dr. Daniel Kaufmann is an international leader in governance, anti-corruption and natural resource management. He is a senior fellow at Results for Development (R4D) and the Governance Action Hub program. He is also affiliated with the Brookings Institution and the faculty of economics of the University of Philippines. Occasionally he also lectures on opera, politics, and the interface between the two.
Dr. Kaufmann’s research on economic development, governance and corruption, and natural resources has been published in leading academic journals. He has also co-authored a set of widely used global indicators, such as the Worldwide Governance Indicators, as well as the Resource Governance Index, and the recently published State Capture Index. He is also one of the most downloaded social scientists in the SSRN portal.
Dr. Kaufmann, a native Spanish speaker from Chile, received his MA and PhD in economics at Harvard and a BA in economics and statistics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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