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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Beyond Harvey Weinstein: Sextortion Around the Globe

November 02, 2017 by Frank Vogl in Corruption, General, News, Violence, Transparency

Harassment is now top US news - thanks to Weinstein - but millions of victims in poor countries are ignored - time to change this and act.

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November 02, 2017 /Frank Vogl
Harrasment, sex, Weinstein
Corruption, General, News, Violence, Transparency
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NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS: CORRUPTED SYSTEMATICALLY?

June 21, 2016 by Frank Vogl in Corruption, Global Economy, Money Laundering, Politics, State Department, Transparency, Violence

In Afghanistan’s northeastern province of Badakhshan, two rival warlords – both allegedly with ties to the Taliban – are competing to control the illegal mining and smuggling of the valuable lapis lazuli mineral.

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June 21, 2016 /Frank Vogl
Civil Society, Corruption, Money Laundering, Politics, Crime, Transparency International, Impunity, Bribery
Corruption, Global Economy, Money Laundering, Politics, State Department, Transparency, Violence
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Crushing ISIL Finance

December 29, 2015 by Frank Vogl in Violence, Global Economy

United States Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew chaired an unprecedented session of the United Nations Security Council on December 17. For the first time, it was finance ministers - not diplomats or ministers of foreign affairs - using the Security Council to drive international policy. Their target was terrorism, specifically the Islamic state (sometimes called ISIL, or ISIS, or Daesh).

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December 29, 2015 /Frank Vogl
ISIL, United Nations, Finance
Violence, Global Economy
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Understanding Violence and Genocide in Africa

June 16, 2015 by Frank Vogl in Africa, Corruption, Violence, Reading List

“South Africa Ignores its Obligations to Justice,” trumpeted The Financial Times in an editorial headline on June 16, 2015.

The previous day, while South Africa’s high court was preparing a possible arrest warrant on behalf of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Sudan’s President Omar el-Bashir departed for home in his presidential plane from a South African military airport. He had attended a meeting of the African Union – a body which has long decried the ICC and which has gone to lengths to protect African leaders who have been accused of massively murdering their citizens and, as in the case of el-Bashir, of genocide.

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June 16, 2015 /Frank Vogl
Cote d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Genocide, Refugees, Scott Straus, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Africa, Rwanda, Mali
Africa, Corruption, Violence, Reading List
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