Daniel Kaufmann (economist)

Daniel Kaufmann is the president and CEO of the Natural Resource Governance Institute. Previously, he was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. A recognized innovator and expert on governance and anticorruption around the world, he is currently a member of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative international board and serves in various international advisory boards, including the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Group on Anticorruption and Integrity and the Inter-American Development Bank President's High-Level Advisory Group on Transparency. Previously, he was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he remains a nonresident senior fellow. Prior to that, he was a director at the World Bank Institute, leading work on governance and anticorruption. He has advised leaders in government, international organizations and civil society on governance matters and has been widely published in academic and policy journals and in the media on various areas of economics and governance. He is one of the most downloaded authors in the Social Science Resource Network (SSRN).

He was born in Chile, where he grew up in the 1950s and 1960s. He later received a B.A. in economics and statistics at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics at Harvard, graduating in 1982.

While writing his Ph.D. dissertation, he started his professional career as a research assistant at the World Bank in 1980. He rose to senior positions during his long tenure there. He worked in Eastern Europe, Africa and Latin America, among other countries. He also carried out research and training on governance, anticorruption and global development topics.

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