Frank Vogl

Anti-Corruption • Ethics & Integrity

Frank has been engaged with global economics, banking, governance and anti-corruption for more than 40 years, as a journalist, as a World Bank senior official, as an anti-corruption civil society leader, and as a top level advisor to financial institutions.  Frank is President of Vogl Communications, Inc., which has provided advice to leaders of international finance for more than two decades.

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The Fight Against Corruption: On the Home Stretch?

September 07, 2015 by Frank Vogl in Accountability, Corruption, NGOs, Public Sector Governance

Representatives from more than 110 countries met in Malaysia at the Transparency International annual meeting and then joined hundreds of other activists from across the world at the 2015 International Anti-Corruption Conference at the start of September. The timing was perfect, because later this month a landmark decision will be taken in the fight against impunity and corruption at the General Assembly of the United Nations.

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September 07, 2015 /Frank Vogl
China, Iraq, SDGs, United Nations, Corruption, Brazil, Transparency International
Accountability, Corruption, NGOs, Public Sector Governance
Comment

Corruption Complacency Must Be Challenged

May 25, 2015 by Frank Vogl in Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, NGOs, Public Sector Governance, Transparency, Employment

From the comparatively modest malfeasance in the New York State legislature (both the State assembly Speaker as well as the Senate majority leader have been indicted for corruption) to the mega-million dollar graft engulfing Brazilian businessmen and politicians today, on to the all-consuming kleptocracy in the Kremlin, the abuse of public office for private gain is rampant.

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May 25, 2015 /Frank Vogl
EU Commission, Federal Election Commission, Kremlin, Nemtsov, New York State, Corruption, Brazil, Transparency International, Kleptocracy
Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, NGOs, Public Sector Governance, Transparency, Employment
1 Comment

Promoting Press Freedom -- New Report Reviews U.S. Government Approaches

December 31, 2014 by Frank Vogl in Accountability, Corruption, Media, Public Sector Governance, State Department, Transparency, US AID

The First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States guarantees freedom of expression by prohibiting Congress from restricting the press or the rights of individuals to speak freely. Today, the U.S. Government spends more than $100 million each year to promote the values of the First Amendment across the world.

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December 31, 2014 /Frank Vogl
Accountability, Corruption, Media, Public Sector Governance, State Department, Transparency, US AID
Comment

Corruption Data Must be Wake Up Call to World Bank and UN

December 23, 2014 by Frank Vogl in Corruption, Global Economy, Public Sector Governance

A new global survey of corruption published by Transparency International (TI) shows an all-too-familiar picture of deep and far-reaching abuse of government positions by politicians and officials for their personal gain. More than two-thirds of the 175 countries covered by the survey show very high levels of corruption.

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December 23, 2014 /Frank Vogl /Source
OECD, United Nations, World Bank, CPI, Transparency International
Corruption, Global Economy, Public Sector Governance
1 Comment

KIEV: US Vice President Biden Talks Bluntly About Corruption

May 07, 2014 by Frank Vogl in Corruption, Global Economy, Public Sector Governance

When countries are in acute difficulties and turn to the United States for support, then they do not expect to be publicly rebuked for corruption. Now, Vice President Joe Biden on a visit to Ukraine has done just this and it may signify a change in U.S. foreign policy approaches to dealing with kleptocratic regimes.

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May 07, 2014 /Frank Vogl
Politics, President Obama, Ukraine, Vice President Biden
Corruption, Global Economy, Public Sector Governance
Comment

Who Cares About the Law -- We Just Want to Make Money, Says Chase

January 25, 2014 by Frank Vogl in Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, Global Economy, NGOs, Public Sector Governance, News, Employment

Wall Street's trumpets blasted in full force from the top of America's largest bank today to declare: all we care about is making money, even if that means breaking the law at times.

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January 25, 2014 /Frank Vogl /Source
Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, Global Economy, NGOs, Public Sector Governance, News, Employment
1 Comment

Stop Corruption - Anger to Rise in 2014

December 25, 2013 by Frank Vogl in Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, NGOs, Public Sector Governance, US Politics, News, Employment

Across the world people are angry with politicians and public officials, and with bankers too.

* Trust is broken. A host of opinion polls tell a blunt story. Public approval of the United States Congress has recently slumped to a single figure -- 9 percent, says Gallup.

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December 25, 2013 /Frank Vogl /Source
Congress, India, Politics, Turkey, Corruption, Transparency International
Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, NGOs, Public Sector Governance, US Politics, News, Employment
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The Rising Power of the Age of Transparency

May 30, 2013 by Frank Vogl in Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, Global Economy, NGOs, Public Sector Governance, Employment

China’s President Xi Jinping has announced a full-scale attack on corruption, stressing that he will crack down on both "tigers" and "flies"–powerful leaders and lowly bureaucrats in the government. He is the first leader of China to so publicly condemn corruption and to acknowledge that it is a rising threat to governmental cohesion and economic prosperity.

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May 30, 2013 /Frank Vogl /Source
Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, Global Economy, NGOs, Public Sector Governance, Employment
Comment

Rules of Law is Key to Bangladesh Tragedy

May 02, 2013 by Frank Vogl in Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, NGOs, Public Sector Governance, News, Employment

....the breakdown of the rule of law in a country where corruption is widespread has led to the deaths of hundreds of people: civil society needs to lead actions to force changes by government and business alike...

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May 02, 2013 /Frank Vogl
Bangladesh, GAP, Metzger Initiative, Primark, PTF, Wal-Mart, Justice, Transparency International, Impunity, Rule Of Law
Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, NGOs, Public Sector Governance, News, Employment
1 Comment

A Blow Against Corruption as Oil, Gas and Mining Global Transparency Advances

April 22, 2013 by Frank Vogl in Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, Global Economy, NGOs, Public Sector Governance, News

Shining a bright light on the global operations of major multinational corporations, including details of the cash they pay to foreign governments, will not end corruption. But, it is a very good start on a long and vital journey.

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April 22, 2013 /Frank Vogl
oil, Global, Transparency International, Gas, Gazprom, Logging, Exxon, Bribery, Mining
Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, Global Economy, NGOs, Public Sector Governance, News
Comment

Rising Political Storms Take The Euro Crisis into More Dangerous Waters

April 05, 2013 by Frank Vogl in Corruption, Global Economy, Public Sector Governance, News

Historians will look back to chaotic financial events in late March/early April 2013 on the tiny island of Cyprus as the start of a new and more dangerous phase in Europe’s crisis. Now, after years of mounting debt and economic problems from Portugal and Spain to Greece and Italy, Europe is entering what may be an era of rising challenges to its democratic institutions.

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April 05, 2013 /Frank Vogl
Corruption, Global Economy, Public Sector Governance, News
Comment

Hillary's Fight for Freedom -- Her Crucial Legacy

March 01, 2013 by Frank Vogl in Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, NGOs, Public Sector Governance

No U.S. secretary of state devoted as much energy, time and determination to encourage non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in many difficult and dangerous parts of the world to speak truth to power. Her actions in support of human rights, the building of democracy, the strengthening of the rule of law, and opposition to government-driven corruption, were remarkable.

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March 01, 2013 /Frank Vogl /Source
Foreign Policy
Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, NGOs, Public Sector Governance
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Transparency International Celebrates 20th Anniversary in 2013 - Looking back makes the outlook for corruption fighting bright

January 02, 2013 by Frank Vogl in Corruption, NGOs, Public Sector Governance, General

It was late 1992 and Peter Eigen was putting the finishing touches to plans that would see the launch of Transparency International in 1993. For several years Eigen, then a veteran World Bank senior official, had been waging a campaign inside the Bank and across the development aid community to build understanding of how corruption – the abuse of power for personal gain – was wrecking anti-poverty projects in many of the world’s poorest countries.

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January 02, 2013 /Frank Vogl
Corruption, NGOs, Public Sector Governance, General
Comment

Afghanistan’s Cesspool of Corruption

December 06, 2012 by Frank Vogl in Corruption, NGOs, Public Sector Governance, News

The 2012 Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), published this week, finds Afghanistan at absolute rock bottom, sharing this dismal place with North Korea and Somalia. Despite the flow to Afghanistan over the last decade of hundreds of billions of dollars of Western – mostly American – economic and military aid, this country is a rotten cesspool of corruption.

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December 06, 2012 /Frank Vogl
Afghanistan, Karzai, Corruption, CPI, Transparency International, Foreign Aid
Corruption, NGOs, Public Sector Governance, News
Comment

Rising Threats to Civil Society - Egypt, Russia.....

November 25, 2012 by Frank Vogl in Corruption, NGOs, Public Sector Governance, News

Many of my friends leading human rights and anti-corruption organizations from Bahrain to Zimbabwe face rising threats from national governments and their security forces. The vice is tightening in one country after another on activists for human rights, political reform, freedom of speech, and anti-corruption.

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November 25, 2012 /Frank Vogl
Civil Society
Corruption, NGOs, Public Sector Governance, News
1 Comment

The Arab Spring Will Not Become an Arab Winter!

October 11, 2012 by Frank Vogl in Corporate Governance, Corruption, Global Economy, NGOs, Public Sector Governance, News

Has the brilliance of the Arab Spring been quashed by the horrors of an Arab Winter, as evidenced by the murder of US Ambassador Chris Stevens in Benghazi, Libya, the coming to power of the Moslem Brotherhood in Egypt, the rising prominence in Tunisia and beyond of the radical Salafis, and the brutality of the Syrian regime? 

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October 11, 2012 /Frank Vogl
Corporate Governance, Corruption, Global Economy, NGOs, Public Sector Governance, News
Comment

President Obama's UN Speech Highlights Priority of Supporting Civil Society Globally

September 29, 2012 by Frank Vogl in Corruption, Global Economy, NGOs, Public Sector Governance

resident Obama's major speech to the United Nations General Assembly on September 25, 2012, will be a powerful inspiration to civil society activists across the world who are fighting for democracy, an end to human rights abuse, for press freedom, for justice, and against corruption.

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September 29, 2012 /Frank Vogl
Corruption, Global Economy, NGOs, Public Sector Governance
Comment

Sunshine On The Horizon For The Oil, Gas and Mining Cash

August 24, 2012 by Frank Vogl in Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, Global Economy, NGOs, Public Sector Governance, Employment

Despite heavy lobbying by some of the United States’ most powerful corporations, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has taken a bold decision in support of transparency. The US Chamber of Commerce claimed that to force US oil, gas and mining companies to reveal details of their foreign payments to natural resources’ host governments would cost a whopping US$16 billion. 

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August 24, 2012 /Frank Vogl
Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, Global Economy, NGOs, Public Sector Governance, Employment
Comment

Corruption Dare No Longer Be a Taboo Topic in this Presidential Election

August 21, 2012 by Frank Vogl in Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, NGOs, Public Sector Governance, Employment

Reducing corruption is a top priority for Americans as they look at the upcoming elections. Yet the candidates are not discussing the issue.  Will the reporters posing questions in the presidential debates raise the topic? I doubt it.

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August 21, 2012 /Frank Vogl
Election
Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, NGOs, Public Sector Governance, Employment
Comment

G20 must address financial integrity as corruption surges through major banking

August 01, 2012 by Frank Vogl in Corporate Governance, Corruption, Global Economy, NGOs, Public Sector Governance

Allegations of insider trading at Nomura, money laundering at HSBC, interest rate manipulation at Barclays – it’s one scandal after another! Some say mega-banks are too complex to manage and control, others blame bad management, still others say the culture is rotten. Corruption abounds. Greed, secrecy, arrogance, lack of a moral compass, and opportunity all combine in too many financial institutions. 

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August 01, 2012 /Frank Vogl
Corporate Governance, Corruption, Global Economy, NGOs, Public Sector Governance
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