Oil Companies and Foreign Corruption
Anti-corruption researchers and advocates talked about oil and gas production companies and their role in promoting government corruption… read more
Anti-corruption researchers and advocates talked about oil and gas production companies and their role in promoting government corruption around the world. The panelists detailed many recent cases of oil production-related corruption in Nigeria, Chad, and Equatorial Guinea. They also outlined the role the U.S. and other western nations play in failing to halt regimes that engage in information theft through kleptographic methods. Panelists included Pulitizer Prize winner Steve Coll, the author of Private Empire: ExxonMobil and the American Power. close
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Sarah Chayes Senior Fellow Carnegie Endowment for International Peace->Democracy and Rule of Law Program
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