Fed Event: Tuesday Policy Forum Hosts Richard Messick | “Corruption in Developing States: What Has Been Done? What Can Be Done Better?” | April 19

The Forum will be held in 1203 Van Munching Hall, 12:15-1:30 p.m.

Please join us for the Tuesday Policy Forum on April 19, featuring Richard Messick from The World Bank. He will be speaking on the topic, “Corruption in Developing States: What Has Been Done? What Can Be Done Better?”


Richard E. Messick joined the World Bank in April 1997 as a Senior Public Sector Specialist in the Public Sector and Governance Group to advise Bank staff on judicial reform. He now advises on a broad range of governance and anticorruption issues including right to information, conflict of interest, legislative and regulatory reform and was recently named to advise Bank clients on the Bank’s Stolen Asset Recovery or StAR initiative.

He wrote the chapter on contract and property rights for the ’05 World Development Report, was a member of the task force that developed the Bank’s recent initiative on asset recovery, represents the Bank on a working group of the United Nation’s Commission on Legal Legal Empowerment, and is a regular reviewer of the Bank’s annual report Doing Business. Mr. Messick is the task team leader for a forthcoming governance project in PNG and is or has been a member or advisor to the teams overseeing governance, anticorruption, or private sector reform projects in Mongolia, the Philippines, Venezuela, Kenya, Peru, Guatemala, Colombia, Croatia, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Bosnia, Vietnam, Morocco, Jordan, Bulgaria, Indonesia, West Bank/Gaza, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India, East Timor, Thailand, Sudan, and Argentina. He has written a number of policy notes for the Bank’s PREM Notes series and his article on the economic impact of judicial reform appears in the Bank’s Research Observer.