Peter Eigen

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Founder and Chair of the Advisory Council, Transparency International

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Peter Eigen is the Chair of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). EITI is a coalition of governments, private enterprise and civil society organisations creating more transparency and accountability into the oil, gas and mining sectors world wide. Its secretariat is in Oslo, supporting more than 30 resource rich countries implementing the transparency standards of EITI.

Eigen is the Founder and Chair of the Advisory Council of Transparency International (TI). TI is a civil society organization promoting transparency and accountability in international development. Headquartered in Berlin, it supports National Chapters in more than 90 countries.

A lawyer by training, Eigen has worked in economic development for 25 years, mainly as a World Bank manager of programmes in Africa and Latin America. Under Ford Foundation sponsorship, he provided legal and technical assistance to the governments of Botswana and Namibia; from 1988 to 1991 he was the Director of the Regional Mission for Eastern Africa of the World Bank.

Eigen taught law at the universities of Frankfurt and Geeorgetown. From 1999 to 2001, he was a faculty member of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. In September 2001, Eigen joined the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace as Visiting Scholar while teaching at Johns Hopkins University/ SAIS.

He also joined the Board of The Centre for International Environmental Law (CIEL) and since 2002, has been teaching as an Honorary Professor of Political Science of the Freie Universitaet, Berlin. In 2005, Eigen chaired the International Advisory Group of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and became Chair of EITI in 2006 (s.a).

In 2000, he received the award of Honorary Doctor of the Open University, UK and in 2004, received the Readers Digest Award 'European of the Year 2004'.

Peter Eigen serves on the Kabissa Board of directors.

In 2006, he founded the Berlin Civil Society Ceneter (BCSC) and serves as its chair. He is a member of the Africa Progress Panel (APP), which is chaired by Kofi Annan.