Two guests from CIPE’s Europe and Eurasia department join host Ken Jaques to discuss their work. They are Calvin Chang, a program associate who focuses on the western Balkans, and Anna Goltermann, a program associate who focuses on advancing women’s economic empowerment. This is the second episode in a series focusing on emerging leaders at CIPE. Anna and Calvin discuss how they came to be at CIPE, the programs they are involved in, and why they are optimistic about the future.

Recommended resource: CIPE's Work in the South Caucasus

A quartet of guests join host Ken Jaques to discuss their work at CIPE. They include Autumn Moore and Zoe Watkins from the Communications department, and Adam Goldstein and Mikra Krasniqi from the Policy and Program Learning department. This is the first episode in a series that will focus on emerging leaders at CIPE. They talk about their backgrounds, how they came to join CIPE, and their current work promoting democracy and economic opportunity around the world.

Recommended resources:

• The Informal Sector: Facing Crisis on the Outside of the System
• Investigating Intersections: Spatial-Inequality, Incentives, and Informality
• Steps To Help the Underground Economy Survive a Pandemic
• Public Perception of Economic and Social Reforms in Bolivia
• Corporate Governance for Emerging Markets

Anti-Corruption author and Transparency International Co-Founder Frank Vogl joins the CIPE Anti-Corruption & Governance Center podcast this week to discuss his new book, The Enablers: How the West Supports Kleptocrats and Corruption. Vogl reviews the recommendations of his book, which shines a light on the Western financial institutions, lawyers, consultants, and other professionals who enable looting kleptocrats and other corrupt actors around the world. Vogl’s timely book release accompanies a host of major global anti-corruption announcements by the US government in December 2021, including the publication of the U.S. Strategy on Countering Corruption. Listen now to hear Vogl's analysis of these new announcements, what has inspired him to spend his career asking bold and difficult questions about corruption to global decision-makers, why citizens and citizen-led organizations are the most important global bulwark against corruption, and how to discern the wheat from the chaff after the lofty rhetoric of the Summit for Democracy.