Jorge Hage Sobrinho, Minister of State, head of the Office of the Comptroller General of Brazil since June 2006, was born in Bahia in 1938. He received a Bachelor of Law degree from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) in 1960 and has a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of Southern California – Los Angeles (1963) and of Public Law from the University of Brasilia – UnB (1998).
The following post is one of nine articles published for a special supplement, Innovating Government on a Global Stage, produced for the Open Government Partnership in the Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR). To view the original post, please visit the SSIR website. On April 17, 2012, Brazil hosted the first High-Level Conference of the Open Government Partnership (OGP)—a partnership that grew in a mere
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