Daniel Kaufmann
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Daniel Kaufmann is Director at the World Bank Institute, leading the work on Governance and Anti-Corruption.
He was born in Chile where he grew up in the fifties and sixties, then he went on to undergraduate studies in Economics and Statistics at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and then on to graduate studies at Harvard, where he received his Ph.D. in Economics in 1982. For most of his professional career Daniel Kaufmann has held positions at the World Bank, working in Eastern Europe, Africa and Latin America, as well as in research and knowledge issues around the globe.
Daniel Kaufmann is regarded as a leading expert, researcher, and policy adviser on governance and development. With his team, he has pioneered new approaches to construct indicatorsand analyze country governance as well as survey methodologiesfor good governance and anti-corruption programs around the world, and to provide practical advice to countries. His research on economic development, governance, the unofficial economy, macro-economics, investment, corruption, privatization, and urban and labor economics, has been published in leading journals. His papers are close to the top in downloadsin the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).
At the World Bank Institute he heads the work on Global Governance and Anti-Corruption, and he previously held other positions at the World Bank. He was a Senior Economist for Africa, working on trade, industry and macroeconomy. He was also an author of the World Development Report which distilled the key lessons from development experience. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he became the first Chief of Mission of the World Bank to Ukraine, and thereafter he was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard. Upon resuming his career at the World Bank, he served as Lead Economist in the research department. Then he was Manager of the Finance, Regulation and Governance unit at the World Bank Institute. He is also a member of the World Economic Forum (Davos) Faculty. Mr. Kaufmann is also a frequent keynote speaker on governance and development issues in major fora; he is a guest expert in major media outlets, and his work is frequently featured in international policy and media circles.
