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Dr. Peter EIGEN Chairman, Transparency International, Berlin

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1965 Ph.D. (Doctor Juris Utriusque), University Frankfurt
1966 Bar Exam (Assessor Examen), High Court, Munich
1968-1972 Attorney, Legal Department, World Bank
1977-1983 Programs Division Chief in West Africa Region, World Bank
1983-1988 Division Chief in Latin America Region, World Bank
since 1992 Founder and Chairman of the Board of Transparency International (TI)
since 2001 Visiting Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace while teaching at Johns Hopkins University/ The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)

Mitgliedschaften

Elected Member of the Crown Agents Foundation, since 1996
Member of Advisory Council of the Center for International Development, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, since 1999
Corresponding Member of Collegium Europaeum Jenense, since 2000
Member of the UN Global Public Goods Advisory Board, since 2000
Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Verdienstkreuz 1. Klasse des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland), 2000

Auszeichnungen

Readers Digest 'European of the Year 2004'
Stiftung Apfelbaum Award, 2004
Harry Leroy Jones Award of The Washington Foreign Law Society, 2004
Change the World - Best Practice Award 2004 of The Club of Budapest, 2004