Just Business Interview Series, Global Ethics Forum
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
New York
April 15, 2011

How does capital flight work and how big a problem is it? Krishen Mehta of Global Financial Integrity (GFI) explains that in total, developing countries lose close to $1 trillion every year, of which 65 percent is related to commercial tax evasion.

Krishen Mehta is a co-chair of the Advisory Board of Global Financial Integrity. He worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers for almost 30 years and retired in 2008.

United Nations Headquarters
New York
June 3, 2010

Global Financial Integrity Director Raymond Baker spoke Thursday, June 3rd at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on the topic of “Innovative Development Financing Initiatives Under Development” as part of an informal event on innovative sources of development finance.

Yesterday’s meeting will inform a Chairman’s summary of recommendations to the preparatory process of the High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals taking place in New York, September 20-22nd 2010.

Council on Foreign Relations

Washington, DC

April 16, 2010

GFI Director Raymond Baker discusses corruption and illicit financial flows from Africa with Mallam Nuhu Ribadu of the Center for Global Development and Rafael Marques de Morais.  Princeton N. Lyman of the Council on Foreign Relations presides over this roundtable discussion. 

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 Brookings Institution

 Washington, DC

 September 8, 2009

I would like to thank the Brookings Institute for inviting me to speak today.  The issues I will discuss with all of you are the blossoming relationship between what might seem unlikely bedfellows…. the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, whether we have a national security crisis looming on the horizon, and whether our national security and law enforcement communities are sufficiently focused on this threat.

Iran and Venezuela are beyond the courting phase.  We know they are creating a cozy financial, political, and military partnership, and that both countries have strong ties to Hezbollah and Hamas.  Now is the time for policies and actions in order to ensure that the partnership produces no poisonous fruit.