On January 30, Gateway House hosted Fredrik Galtung, CEO, Integrity Action, in conversation with Shailesh Gandhi, former Information Commissioner, Central Information Commission and RTI activist, to discuss ‘Anti-corruption: Insights from both large and small countries of the last decades of reform.’
This is the 5th meeting in the Economic and Business Series hosted by Gateway House.
Fredrik Galtung is the CEO, Integrity Action. He began his international career as the founding staff member and Head of Research of Transparency International (TI), the world’s first global anti-corruption NGO and was responsible for developing the Bribe Payers Index (BPI). He started the Network for Integrity in Reconstruction, a group of NGOs and policy makers from post-war countries who address the integrity and corruption challenges of reconstruction. Over the past 20 years, he has consulted on strategic corruption control in more than forty countries, working with governments, international organizations (Council of Europe, World Bank, UN secretariat, UNDP, UNESCO, Unicef, UN Office of Drugs and Crime, etc.), several companies, universities such as Harvard and INSEAD, governments and development agencies.
Shailesh Gandhi is former Information Commissioner, Central Information Commision and RTI activist. A Distinguished Alumnus awardee of IIT Bombay, he sold his business to become a RTI activist in 2003. Shailesh was part of the National RTI movement which was involved in drafting the national RTI Act. The only RTI activist to have been chosen as a Central Information Commissioner, he disposed a record of over 20,000 cases in 3 years and 9 months. He gave many landmark decisions on RTI, apart from organizing the first digital file less Commission office.
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