About Daniel Kaufmann
I am a researcher and practitioner on governance and development, with experience in practical and analytical challenges of development. With colleagues, developed new survey methodologies and indicators to measure governance and corruption around the globe. Published empirical writings and analysis on many development topics. Led the work on governance at the World Bank Institute until November 2008. Now taking up a position as a Senior Scholar at the Brookings Institution.
As a Chilean with research and hands-on experience in emerging economies, I am passionate about development, and also about music, art and sports. Advocate of freedom of expression, protection of human rights, transparency and right to information. Early believer in the IT revolution as tool to combat censorship and information control, empowering all to share knowledge and debate on sensitive and frontier topics. These include corruption, press freedom, human rights, elite capture, and civil society voice. These are now subject to measurement and empirical analysis, and therefore conducive to evidence-based policies.