Pierre Landell-Mills will be speaking about the importance of grassroots engagement.

Date & Time: 21st November 2013, 18:15-20:15

Location: FTI Consulting, Holborn Gate, 26 Southampton Buildings, WC2A 1PB, London, United Kingdom

Pierre Landell-Mills will be speaking about the importance of grassroots engagement, and sharing stories of how groups of courageous and dedicated citizens across the globe are taking direct action to root out corruption.

Pierre Landell-Mills, author of Citizens against Corruption: Reports from the Front Line, will be speaking about the importance of grassroots engagement, and sharing stories of how groups of courageous and dedicated citizens across the globe are taking direct action to root out corruption.

Pierre Landell-Mills is a development economist with a long standing interest in political economy and governance issues. He was the founder and first president of Partnership for Transparency Fund (2000 – 10) and was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Bath (2001-2006). He worked for 10 years in Africa before joining the World Bank in 1973. He was the lead author of the 1983 World Development report on Managing Development and the 1989 World Bank report on Sub-Sahara Africa: From Crisis to Sustainable Development.

This event will follow the TI-UK AGM.