Manager, Projects, Global Integrity. Abhinav Bahl plays a key role in managing and supporting all of Global Integrity's fieldwork; helps to research and design new fieldwork methodologies and indicators; performs analysis and quality control over data and reporting; designs and leads outreach and dissemination activities, including public workshops and capacity building programs. Joined Global Integrity: March 2011 Education: Master of International Affairs (Policy concentration: Economic and Political Development), Columbia University Languages: English, Hindi Works from: Washington, DC Hometown: Mumbai, India Passport: India Prior to joining Global Integrity, Abhinav worked for the Commonwealth Secretariat's Governance and Institutional Development Division on capacity development programmes across its 54 member states. He was also an analyst for the Economist Intelligence Unit having conducted bespoke policy research and indexing/ benchmarking assignments for intergovernmental and private sector clients. He brings extensive consulting experience in managing strategic and operational risk consulting projects for leading consulting organizations. Expertise: International relations and development, governance and anti-corruption, economic growth and value chain development, capacity building, transitional and developing economies, ICTs for development, South Asian politics, indexing/ benchmarking research, strategic and operational risk analysis. Recommended reading: James Ferguson. Anti-politics Machine: Development, Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho. John Kenneth Galbraith. The Great Crash 1929. V.S. Naipaul. A House for Mr. Biswas.
Originally posted on globalintegrity.org Over the last few weeks, Global Integrity has been busy poring over National Action Plans submitted by Open Government Partnership participant countries to make sense of the heaps of commitments contained therein. Last month we presented our analysis of the plans using SMART criteria on this blog. Our assessment gave us