Charmian gooch biography books

  • Charmian Gooch co-founded the watchdog NGO Global Witness with colleagues Simon Taylor and Patrick Alley, in response to growing concerns over covert warfare.
  • A dramatic non-fiction journey into some of our most challenging and intriguing investigations: a catalogue of super crimes.
  • When the son of the president of a desperately poor country starts buying mansions and sportscars on an official monthly salary of $

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    Further reading and citations on global corruption&#;s hidden leaders

    Global IssuesTED Talks

    At TEDGlobal , Chris Anderson asks Charmian Gooch about her work exposing corruption. Below, find her talk footnoted, so that you can read more on each case she references. Photo: James Duncan Davidson

    Charmian Gooch, co-founder of anti-corruption NGO Global Witness, tracks money to expose deep-rooted global corruption. In yesterday&#;s talk, Gooch demonstrates that dirty money goes all the way to the top, and more sinister is that these cases of corruption are well-known to leaders and corporate elites. Nobody &#; banks, big oil, government leaders &#; is spared.

    Charmian Gooch: Meet global corruption's hidden players

    As Gooch told TED, “So many of these scandals are hidden in plain sight &#; they’re down the road in the City of London. They’re in our company boardrooms. They’re in the corridors of power we walk past every day. What we need to do is piece these things t

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    Blood on the Stone

    &#;The book&#;s strengths are threefold. The first is that it explains the murky trade in rough diamonds in crisp, compelling prose. [&#;] The second strength is that Smillie&#;s writing on Sierra Leone is excellent. It is one of the best summaries of that country&#;s civil war and how diamonds bankrolled the RUF. [&#;] Third is that he offers memorable observations on the difficulties in launching the Kimberley Process.&#; &#;&#;No One&#;s Best Friend: A Canadian expert examines the devastation diamonds have wrought in four African countries&#;, book review by Blake Lambert in the &#;Literary Review of Canada&#;

    'Timely and of interest.' &#;&#;International Affairs&#; January Book Reviews

    'Smillie&#;s skill is the ability to write a scholarly record of the circumstances that created conflict diamonds while also providing an entertaining, fast-paced read full of intrigue. &#;Blood on the Stone&#; will be welcomed by anyone interested in Africa, corporate social

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    Why you should listen

    Charmian Gooch co-founded the watchdog NGO Global Witness with colleagues Simon Taylor and Patrick Alley, in response to growing concerns over covert warfare funded bygd illicit trade in  Since then, Global Witness has captured headlines for their exposé of "blood diamonds" in Uganda, of mineral exploitation in the Congo, of olagligt timber trade between Cambodia and Thailand, and more. With unique expertise on the shadowy threads connecting corrupt businesses and governments, Global Witness continues its quest to uncover and root out the sources of exploitation.

    In , Gooch and Global Witness were awarded the $1 million TED Prize, along with the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, for their campaign to end anonymous companies. Gooch's TED Prize wish: for us to know who ultimately