Peter Eigen
Organization founder
1938 –
Who is Peter Eigen?
Peter Eigen founded the Advisory Council of Transparency International, a non-governmental organization promoting transparency and accountability in international development since 1993. Headquartered in Berlin, TI supports National Chapters in more than 90 countries.
A lawyer by training, Eigen has worked in economic development for 25 years, mainly as a World Bank manager of programmes in Africa and Latin America. Under Ford Foundation sponsorship, he provided legal and technical assistance to the governments of Botswana and Namibia, and taught law at the universities of Frankfurt and Georgetown.
In September 2001, Eigen joined the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace as Visiting Scholar while teaching at Johns Hopkins University/ SAIS. He also joined the Board of The Centre for International Environmental Law and since 2002, has been teaching as an Honorary Professor of Political Science of the Freie Universität, Berlin. In 2005, Eigen chaired the International Advisory Group of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative and became Chair of EITI in 2006.
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- Born
- Jun 11, 1938
Augsburg - Spouses
- Gesine Schwan
(2004 - )
- Gesine Schwan
- Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
- Lived in
- Augsburg
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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