In this second of a two-part series with anticorruption leader and Ukraine expert Matthew Murray about the status of, and risks to, Ukraine’s anticorruption agenda, I explore where he thinks there are opportunities and resources to move that agenda forward. 

Among the thousands of professionals displaced when USAID was dismantled were numerous lawyers whose work had undergirded the agency’s programs worldwide. Understanding that those skills could be transferred to serving other organizations in the international development and humanitarian assistance space – such as foundations, impact investors, multilaterals and non-profits, as well as corporations – a team of attorneys recently launched Mission Driven Counsel LLP. 

Corruption is a key driver of extreme poverty and inequality throughout the world. While an exact figure remains elusive, the UN estimates that corruption costs $2.6 trillion annually, or 5% of the world's GDP. Corruption is also a destabilizing force that is frequently at the heart of global events.

In the Financial Times, “Impact investors look to soften Trump aid blow,” Simon Mundy writes that while impact investment “cannot plug all the holes left by the slashing of international aid, it may at least be able to offset some of the effect”.

I continue here my discussion with Transparency International-US Executive Director Gary Kalman. In the first of this two-part series, I cov

On January 20, 2025, the Trump Administration issued an Executive Order on “Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid” ....