Held Positions

Adjunct Professor, Department of Government, Georgetown University, USA.

(teaching a graduate course on: Corruption, Security and Conflict Resolution)

Transparency International (TI)

Co-founder and former Vice Chairman/ Individual Member/ Member of the Advisory Council

Partnership for Transparency Fund

Co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors

Viktor Kalabis & Zuzana Ruzickova Foundation

Treasurer & Director. Executive Producer of the film - Zuzana: Music Is Life

International Council Member  New Israel Fund 

Advisory Council Member United Nations Association of the Greater Washington Metropolitan Area

Biography

Born in London, lives and works in Washington, D.C.
U.S. and U.K. citizen.
B.A. University of Leeds, UK. 

1967-1970 - International reporter for Reuters in London and Brussels

1970-1974 - European Business Correspondent, The Times of London, based in Frankfurt, Germany.

1974-1981 - U.S. Economics Correspondent, The Times of London, Washington DC.
Contributor in this period to The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, Newsday, The Los Angeles Times and others. 

1981-1990 - World Bank, Director of Information.

1990 - Founded Vogl Communications, Inc.

1990 - 2017 President of Vogl Communications advising major institutions on communications in the fields of economics, finance and development.

Frank is married to Emily Vogl - partner in Vogl Communications and Chair of the Viktor Kalabis & Zuzana Ruzickova Foundation

Frank and Emily are the parents of the artist Julia Vogl, resident in London; and of the management consultant to the arts, Marc Vogl, resident in San Francisco. 

Publications

“THE ENABLERS - How the West Supports Kleptocrats and Corruption-Endangering Our Democracy” (see the book page on this website) - Roman & Littlefield, November 2021.

"Waging War On Corruption - Inside The Movement Fighting The Abuse of Power" (see the book page on this website) 

An introduction to Global Corruption by Frank Vogl, August 2017.
Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics

© Springer International Publishing AG. Part of Springer Nature. 

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“Civil Society, Business and Corruption” – The Global Corruption Report, 2009 (Transparency International).

“Global Corruption: Applying Experience and Research to Meet a Mounting Crisis” – Business & Society Review, June 2007, Blackwell Publishing.

“The U.S. Business Scandals: Perspectives on Ethics and Culture at Home and Abroad,”– Corporate Integrity & Accountability, July 2004, Sage Publications, Edited by George C. Brenkert, Georgetown University.

“BOOM: Visions And Insights For Creating Wealth In The 21st Century” by Frank Vogl and James Sinclair, published in 1996 in the US by Irwin (and also published in the UK and in Brazil).

“Germany After the Economic Miracle” (published by MacMillan in the UK in 1973 and John Wiley in the US in 1974).

Lectures

Please visit the Lecture pages on this website to read lectures over the last four years given by Frank Vogl in many countries on many topics related to corruption - from justice and politics to security, and poverty. ...an excerpt below from the annual meeting of the Le Circle des Economistes, Aix-en-Provence, summer 2012.