Held Positions

see below.

Biography

Frank Vogl is a co-founder of Transparency International (TI), and served as Vice Chairman from the establishment of the organization through 2002 and as an Advisory Council Member from 2003-2005. Frank was elected to the Board of Directors again in 2005 for a three-year term. In 2008, he was appointed once again to the Advisory Council. He is presently an “Individual Member” of TI. He is a co-founder and former Chairman and Board Director of the Partnership for Transparency Fund and currently serves on the President’s Council. Frank is a former Board Director of the Ethics Resource Centre; a former Trustee of the Committee for Economic Development; and he is a member of both the International Council of the New Israel Fund, and the Advisory Council of the United Nations Association of the greater Washington (DC) metropolitan area (UNA-NCA).  He is a co-founder, Treasurer and Secretary of the Viktor Kalabis and Zuzana Ruzickova (music) Foundation. Frank was formerly the World Bank’s Information and Public Affairs Director and has worked as an international journalist. He is an author and lecturer and an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University.

Born in London, lives and works in Washington, D.C.
U.S. and U.K. citizen.
B.A. University of Leeds, UK. 

1967-1970 - International reporter for Reuters in London and Brussels

1970-1974 - European Business Correspondent, The Times of London, based in Frankfurt, Germany.

1974-1981 - U.S. Economics Correspondent, The Times of London, Washington DC.
Contributor in this period to The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, Newsday, The Los Angeles Times and others. 

1981-1990 - World Bank, Director of Information.

1990 - Founded Vogl Communications, Inc.

1990 - 2017 President of Vogl Communications advising major institutions on communications in the fields of economics, finance and development.

Frank is married to Emily Vogl. the Chair of the Viktor Kalabis & Zuzana Ruzickova Foundation

Frank and Emily are the parents of the artist Julia Vogl, resident in London; and of Marc Vogl, Chief of Strategy and Planning at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. 

Publications

“THE ENABLERS - How the West Supports Kleptocrats and Corruption-Endangering Our Democracy” (see the book page on this website) - Roman & Littlefield, November 2021.

"Waging War On Corruption - Inside The Movement Fighting The Abuse of Power" (see the book page on this website) 

An introduction to Global Corruption by Frank Vogl, August 2017.
Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics

© Springer International Publishing AG. Part of Springer Nature. 

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“Civil Society, Business and Corruption” – The Global Corruption Report, 2009 (Transparency International).

“Global Corruption: Applying Experience and Research to Meet a Mounting Crisis” – Business & Society Review, June 2007, Blackwell Publishing.

“The U.S. Business Scandals: Perspectives on Ethics and Culture at Home and Abroad,”– Corporate Integrity & Accountability, July 2004, Sage Publications, Edited by George C. Brenkert, Georgetown University.

“BOOM: Visions And Insights For Creating Wealth In The 21st Century” by Frank Vogl and James Sinclair, published in 1996 in the US by Irwin (and also published in the UK and in Brazil).

“Germany After the Economic Miracle” (published by MacMillan in the UK in 1973 and John Wiley in the US in 1974).

Lectures

Please visit the Lecture pages on this website to read lectures over the last four years given by Frank Vogl in many countries on many topics related to corruption - from justice and politics to security, and poverty. ...an excerpt below from the annual meeting of the Le Circle des Economistes, Aix-en-Provence, summer 2012.