The World Fellows

For the past decade, Marianne Camerer has promoted governmental accountability in her native South Africa and throughout the world. As co-founder of the Open Democracy Advice Center in Cape Town, Camerer has worked to promote access to information and whistleblower protection laws that support anti-corruption efforts in the region. Her work to promote responsive government began at the Institute for Security Studies in South Africa, where she lobbied to create a Victim’s Charter, anti-corruption legislation, and other nationwide policies. At the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Public Integrity, Camerer went on to direct the Global Integrity project – managing a virtual network of 150 social scientists and investigative journalists on five continents – that in 2004 generated the 25 country “Public Integrity Index,” an innovative measure of anti-corruption reforms. As co-founder of a new international NGO that will broaden Global Integrity’s mission to produce original research and report on key governance and corruption indicators, Camerer’s goal is to update and expand the Public Integrity Index to cover 100 countries. A strong proponent of the link between practice and theory, Camerer is also responsible for developing and teaching a graduate program in business ethics and public integrity at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa.

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Camerer prepared the 2006 Global Integrity Index and Reports for 43 countries. She continues her work as international director of Global Integrity, working with locally based social scientists and investigative journalists to conduct independent corruption and governance assessments. Camerer has consulted for a number of international organizations such as the United Nations and World Bank. She led a research project on “How to prevent corruption and promote integrity in the procurement of professional consulting services” for the Bank. As a Fellow of the Center for Applied Ethics she teaches a course in business ethics at the University of Stellenbosch. She now lectures, consults, and conducts research in Durban, South Africa.