Robert Klitgaard
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Robert Klitgaard was the president of Claremont Graduate University
in Claremont
, California
from July 2005 until his resignation on February 20, 2009. Prior to this time, he served as the dean of the Pardee RAND Graduate School, Santa Monica, California, where he was also the Ford Distinguished Professor of International Development and Security.
He previously served as Professor of Economics at the University of Natal, Durban; Lester Crown Professor of Economics at Yale School of Management
; and Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he also served half-time as Special Assistant to Harvard's President Derek Bok.
Klitgaard has been an advisor to many governments on economic strategy and institutional reform, and his consulting work and research have taken him to more than thirty countries in Latin America, Asia, and Africa. He has been called “the world’s leading expert on corruption” (The Christian Science Monitor). In the past five years he has served on the faculty of the World Economic Forum, the editorial boards of the Journal of Economic Literature and Theoria, and the Board of the International Development Evaluation Association. He has been a consultant to the Asia Foundation, the Asian Development Bank, the Development Bank of Southern Africa, the Interamerican Development Bank, the IMF, the OECD, the Organization of American States, the White House, the United Nations, USAID, the World Bank, and the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations, as well as to many governments around the world.
In 1978 (approximately), Klitgaard was selected by Boston Magazine as one of the "Ten Sexiest Professors at Harvard".
Klitgaard is married and has four children. He speaks fluent Spanish, fair French and Portuguese, and rusty Urdu.
Claremont Graduate University
Claremont Graduate University is a private, all-graduate research university located in Claremont, California, a city east of downtown Los Angeles...
in Claremont
Claremont, California
Claremont is a small affluent college town in eastern Los Angeles County, California, United States, about east of downtown Los Angeles at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains. The population as of the 2010 census is 34,926. Claremont is known for its seven higher-education institutions, its...
, California
California
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from July 2005 until his resignation on February 20, 2009. Prior to this time, he served as the dean of the Pardee RAND Graduate School, Santa Monica, California, where he was also the Ford Distinguished Professor of International Development and Security.
He previously served as Professor of Economics at the University of Natal, Durban; Lester Crown Professor of Economics at Yale School of Management
Yale School of Management
The Yale School of Management is the graduate business school of Yale University and is located on Hillhouse Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. The School offers Master of Business Administration and Ph.D. degree programs. As of January 2011, 454 students were enrolled in its MBA...
; and Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he also served half-time as Special Assistant to Harvard's President Derek Bok.
Klitgaard has been an advisor to many governments on economic strategy and institutional reform, and his consulting work and research have taken him to more than thirty countries in Latin America, Asia, and Africa. He has been called “the world’s leading expert on corruption” (The Christian Science Monitor). In the past five years he has served on the faculty of the World Economic Forum, the editorial boards of the Journal of Economic Literature and Theoria, and the Board of the International Development Evaluation Association. He has been a consultant to the Asia Foundation, the Asian Development Bank, the Development Bank of Southern Africa, the Interamerican Development Bank, the IMF, the OECD, the Organization of American States, the White House, the United Nations, USAID, the World Bank, and the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations, as well as to many governments around the world.
In 1978 (approximately), Klitgaard was selected by Boston Magazine as one of the "Ten Sexiest Professors at Harvard".
Klitgaard is married and has four children. He speaks fluent Spanish, fair French and Portuguese, and rusty Urdu.