ACCOUNTABLE AND TRANSPARENT GOVERNMENT
Workshop at the 5th Global Forum on Re-inventing Government:
Innovation and Quality in the Government of the 21st Century
Mexico City, 5-6 November 2003
Session 1: Wednesday, November 5th at 9:15 -11:30:
Bureaucratic corruption, state capture and good governance
Panelists:
Ritva Reinikka
(World Bank)
Ritva Reinikka is a Research Manager in the Development Research Group (Public Services Team). Ms. Reinikka, a Finnish national, joined the World Bank in 1993 as a Country Economist in the Eastern Africa Department. Since then she has held various positions in the Africa Region and the Development Research Group. Ms. Reinikka's professional interests have included macroeconomic policy, trade, and public service delivery. She has brought analytical rigor to operational work and focused research efforts on operationally relevant problems. Through her work on Uganda she has contributed to a deeper understanding of accountability in service delivery. Before joining the Bank, Ms. Reinikka was a researcher at Oxford University and the Helsinki School of Economics. She also held operational positions at UNICEF and with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Finland. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Oxford.
Miklos Marschall
(Transparency International)
Mr. Marschall (1953) is the executive director of Transparency International, a global NGO fighting against corruption. Between 1994 and 1998, he was the executive director of CIVICUS: a global network of NGOs and foundations to promote civil society. In 1991- 1994, he served as deputy mayor of Budapest. He was one of the architects of the Hungarian Cultural Fund, the first Arts Council type funding agency in CEE. Mr. Marschall is also chair of the Budapest Festival Orchestra.
Hon. Winnie Byanyima
(Member of Parliament, Uganda)
Ms. Byanyima is in her third term as a parliamentarian. She has served as vice-chair of the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee and is now a member of the Budget Committee and the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee. Ms. Byanyima was a founder member and first chair of the Forum for Women in Democracy (FOWODE), a national NGO where she developed various effectiveness training and advocacy programs for women political leaders and for gender mainstreaming including gender budgeting. She has trained politicians, civil society activists and government officials in African and Asian countries and participated in parliamentary strengthening studies, project appraisals, and conferences on issues of gender, democracy and good governance. Ms. Byanyima has served on several expert and advisory panels of the UNDP, UNIFEM and other UN agencies. Currently, she is a member of the UN Millennium Development Goals Task Force on Education and Gender Equality. She is a member of the Executive Boards of the African Capacity Building Foundation (Harare) and the International Centre for Research on Women (Washington DC). She recently co-authored a handbook for the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) on “Parliaments and the Budget Process and Gender”. Ms. Byanyima holds an M.Sc. in Mechanical engineering from Cranfield Institute of Technology (UK) and a B.Sc in Aeronautical Engineering from Manchester University (UK).
Victor M. Vergara
(World Bank)
Victor Vergara is subnational finance and administration specialist for the World Bank Institute Economic Policy and Poverty Reduction division (WBIEP) of the World Bank. Prior to joining the World Bank, Mr. Vergara was manager of assistance to disadvantaged coastal municipalities where he managed a multi-disciplinary team in designing, implementing and supervising infrastructure investment programs in the poorest regions of Mexico. In the World Bank, he has worked with the Policy and Research Department where he assisted in the preparation of the Bank's Municipal Development Policy Paper. He was recruited by the operational branch of the World Bank where he was responsible for the design and supervision of technical assistance programs on financial management and governance for subnational governments in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Venezuela. He was the author of World Bank Policy Options Paper on sub-national reform for Mexico (1994-2000) and a World Bank sector study Venezuela Better Urban Services: Finding the Right Incentives. Mr. Vergara is a Mexican national and holds Master of Agriculture degree from Texas A&M University and a Master of City Planning (Regional Economics) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
ACCOUNTABLE AND TRANSPARENT GOVERNMENT
Workshop at the 5th Global Forum on Re-inventing Government:
Innovation and Quality in the Government of the 21st Century
Mexico City, 5-6 November 2003
Session 2: Wednesday, November 5th at 12:00-13:30
Transparency and internal accountability in the executive
Panelists:
Graham Scott
(LECG Ltd.)
Graham Scott was Secretary to the Treasury in New Zealand from 1986 to 1993. During the previous 10 years he was an Assistant Secretary responsible for economic policy and a Senior Adviser to the Prime Minister of New Zealand. During that time, New Zealand undertook far-reaching reforms to its economic policy and public management systems, introducing innovations that have attracted attention internationally. Dr Scott provides strategic, economic, financial and management advice for government and corporate clients. For government clients he specializes in structural, financial and management reform of commercial and administrative functions. This includes corporatisation, privatization, state enterprise reform, performance management in core administrative functions and autonomous organizations, civil service reform, budgeting and financial management. He also advises governments on economic and fiscal strategy and policy, and on regulatory policies. He has worked in many countries including Russia, USA, China, Indonesia, Thailand, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. He has worked throughout Asia and in countries in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa. His clients include the World Bank and international aid organizations of the USA, Australia, the UK and New Zealand. For his private-sector clients he has worked on regulatory issues in the oil, gas, telecommunications and rail industries. Dr Scott earned a PhD in Economics from Duke University and a Master of Commerce from Canterbury University, and has completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. In 1994 he was a Visiting Scholar at the International Monetary Fund. Dr Scott has been Chairman of the New Zealand Health Funding Authority and the New Zealand Electricity Market. He was awarded the Order of the Companion of the Bath by the Queen in recognition of his contribution to government reform in New Zealand.
Geoffrey Shepherd
(World Bank)
Geoffrey Shepherd is an independent consultant in the area of institutional economics and public-sector reform. Until September of 2001 he worked in the Latin American and Caribbean Region of the World Bank, where he was responsible for the Bank’s program of support (projects, studies, and policy advice) on public-sector reform in the region. He worked for the Bank from 1986 to the mid-1990s on policy and institutional issues with respect to the private sector. He received his D.Phil. in 1974 from the University of Sussex, in England. At the same university he was also Deputy Director of the Sussex European Research Centre (1978-82) and Senior Fellow at the Science Policy Research Unit (1982-86). Prior to this he also worked in the World Bank (1971-78). He was a contributor to the World Bank’s 1998 publication, Beyond the Washington Consensus: Institutions Matter.
Ed Campos
(World Bank)
Ed Campos recently rejoined the Bank as senior public sector management specialist after a four year leave of absence. While on leave, he worked at the Asian Development Bank as a senior economist with the Programs East Department in Operations and then with the Strategy and Policy Department, providing advice and guidance on governance related activities and programs. He also spent two years with a USAID program as senior strategy adviser for public sector reforms at the Department of Budget and Management (DBM), Government of the Philippines. While at the DBM, he provided training, advice, and guidance on the development and mainstreaming of the Filipino Medium Term Expenditure Framework and an organizational performance indicator framework for budgeting. He helped spearhead the Government’s program on reforming the public procurement system, in the process creating Procurement Watch, a civil society organization dedicated to combating corruption in government procurement, and successfully pushing for the passage of a landmark Procurement Reform Bill. He also contributed to the development of a blue print and the corresponding legislation creating an autonomous Internal Revenue Management Authority. Before going on leave, Mr. Campos was with World Bank Institute and before that with the Research Department of the Bank working on institutional reform and governance issues. Prior to joining the Bank, he was an assistant professor of public policy and management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Campos has a Ph.D. in the Social Sciences from the California Institute of Technology and an M.S. in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Minnesota. He has co-authored three books and numerous papers on issues pertaining to political economy, governance, and corruption. In 1997, the International Political Science Association awarded him and his co-author the Charles Levine Prize for best the book on comparative politics.
ACCOUNTABLE AND TRANSPARENT GOVERNMENT
Workshop at the 5th Global Forum on Re-inventing Government:
Innovation and Quality in the Government of the 21st Century
Mexico City, 5-6 November 2003
Session 3: Wednesday, November 5th at 15:30-17:00
Transparency and external accountability
Panelists:
Juan Pablo Guerrero Amparan
(Federal Institute for Access to Public Information, Mexico)
Juan Pablo Guerrero Amparan is one of the five Commissioners of the Federal Institute for Access to Public Information (IFAI in Spanish), appointed by the President and ratified by the Senate for the period 2002-2009; IFAI is an autonomous federal body in charge of regulating the Transparency and Freedom of Information Law and acting as an administrative court which decisions regarding access to government information are mandatory for the federal public administration. IFAI is also responsible for protecting personal data, defining guidelines for providing government information to the public, defining the framework for classification of government information and ultimately deciding whether information is public, reserved (secret) or confidential. Guerrero was full-time professor and researcher at CIDE (Center for Research and Teaching in Economics) from 1994 to January 2003. Director of the Development Office since March, 2001; Program Director, Program on Budget (1998-2002); Program Director, Budget Transparency Index in Five Latin American Countries (2001-2002), Program Director, Agenda of Municipal Reforms (1998-2002); Director of the Public Administration Division (1997-1998). He has completed his Ph. D. coursework in Political Science and Public Policy, at the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (IEP-Paris); he earns a M.A. Degree in Public Policy (IEP-Paris), and a M..A. in Economics and International Politics, at the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University. His main topics of research are: 1) Budget and Public Finance (Mexico), 2) Public Administration Reform (transparency, accountability, civil service and professionalization), and 3) Fiscal Decentralization and Local Government Finances in Mexico.
Juanita Olaya
(Transparency International)
Juanita Olaya is Transparency International's Integrity Pact and Public Procurement Programme. Juanita is a lawyer with a Masters degree in Economics and a Masters degree in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government. Before going to Germany, where she started with her doctoral studies, she worked for the Government of Colombia holding different executive and advisory positions within the National Planning Department, the Ministries of Transportation, of Economic Development and of Finance. She has also undertaken various research and academic activities with the University of los Andes in Colombia and with Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. During her almost 10 years of experience, she has alternated her work with private consulting in the areas of government reform, capital markets and anti-corruption.
Eduardo Bohórquez
(Transparencia Mexicana)
Eduardo Bohórquez is the National Chapter Director of Tranparancia Mexicana, the TI Chapter in Mexico. He has been attached to TI since 1998. He also serves as Executive Director of Fundacion Este Pais (This Country Foundation), a Mexico City based think-tank. As an independent consultant, he has worked for the UNDP. His formal education includes a degree in Political Science and Public Administration from Mexico’s National University, and an M. Phil in Development Studies from Cambridge University, in the UK.
Richard Allen
(World Bank)
Richard Allen is a senior staff member of the World Bank and Head of the Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA)Program. He was previously a senior official at HM Treasury (the British Ministry of Finance), the OECD and the Asian Development Bank,a UK government diplomat in Washington, D.C., and a board member of the European Investment Bank. He holds degrees in economics from the Universities of Edinburgh and York.
ACCOUNTABLE AND TRANSPARENT GOVERNMENT
Workshop at the 5th Global Forum on Re-inventing Government:
Innovation and Quality in the Government of the 21st Century
Mexico City, 5-6 November 2003
Session 4: Thursday, November 6th at 9:00-11:30
Accountability and politics
Panelists:
Kwesi Botchwey
(African Development Policy Ownership Initiative)
Kwesi Botchwey is Executive Chairman of the African Development Policy Ownership Initiative, (ADPOI). Dr. Kwesi Botchwey holds a Bachelors of Law degree (LLB) from the University of Ghana, a Masters degree in Law (LLM) from Yale Law School, and a Doctorate degree from the University of Michigan Law School. He taught at the University of Zambia, the University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) and the University of Ghana. He was Minister of Finance in Ghana from 1982 to 1995. Dr. Botchwey is a member of a Panel of High Level Personalities on African Development set up by the UN Secretary-General and has served as the chairman of the Economic Committee of the Global Coalition for Africa since its inception. He also serves on a member of other important boards, including those of the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) and the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC). He has consulted widely for a number of international institutions, including the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the UNDP, UNCTAD and the Commonwealth Secretariat.
Silke Pfeiffer
(Transparency International)
Silke Pfeiffer heads the Americas Department of the TI Secretariat. In this capacity she manages different TI programmes in the Americas region, among others in the area of political finance. Her responsibilities also include the co-ordination of the Transparency International Latin American Chapter network TILAC. Silke joined TI in July 1999. She holds a degree in Latin American Studies (political science, economics, history and languages) from the University of Cologne (Germany) and Tucumán (Argentina) and completed a postgraduate programme in development studies at the German Development Institute in Berlin. Previous to joining TI, Silke lived in different parts of South America working with human rights organisations and on social projects.