The World Fellows

International Director, Global Integrity

Marianne Camerer is the co-founder and International Director of Global Integrity, an international NGO that conducts anti-corruption and governance assessments in more than 90 countries. For over a decade she has worked for non-profit organizations both in South Africa and the United States and is passionate about the importance of civil society’s role in promoting public accountability. From 2003-2007 Camerer worked in Washington DC to develop the Global Integrity Index. From 1995 to 2002 she headed anti-corruption research at the Institute for Security Studies, a leading think tank in South Africa. In 2000 she was a founding director of the Open Democracy Advice Center (ODAC), a Cape Town-based NGO monitoring access to information and whistleblower protection laws. Camerer currently chairs the ODAC board and consults for international organizations such as the United Nations.