Prof. Dr. Peter Eigen is a lawyer by training. He has worked in economicdevelopment for 25 years, mainly as a World Bank manager of programs in Africa andLatin America; from 1988 to 1991 he was the Director of the Regional Mission forEastern Africa of the World Bank. Under Ford Foundation sponsorship, he providedlegal and technical assistance to the governments of Botswana and Namibia.In 1993 Eigen founded Transparency International (TI), a non-governmentalorganization promoting transparency and accountability in international development.From 1993 to 2005 he was Chair of TI and is now Chair of the Advisory Council. In2005, Eigen chaired the International Advisory Group of the Extractive IndustriesTransparency Initiative (EITI) and was Chairman of EITI from 2006 to 2011. From 2004 to 2009 he was a member of the board of the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), providingenvironmental advocacy and legal Services. From 2005 to 2007 he was Founder and Chair of the Berlin Civil Society Center (now International Civil Society Center).Eigen has taught law and political science at the universities of Frankfurt (1979), theJohn F. Kennedy School of Government/ Harvard, SAIS/ Johns Hopkins and Collegeof Europe. Since 2002, he is teaching as an Honorary Professor of Political Scienceof the Freie Universität, Berlin. In 2000, he received the award of Honorary Doctor ofthe Open University, UK, in 2004, the Readers Digest Award "European of the Year2004" and in 2007 the Gustav Heinemann Award.Eigen is member of the board of the NGOs Kabissa, building the capacity of Africannon-profits, and of the Bergsträsser Institute in Freiburg. Since 2007 Eigen is a member of Kofi Annan's Africa Progress Panel (APP).Specialties: Global Governance, African Development, Natural Resources, Anti-Corruption