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.

The Hard Facts of Global Corruption Action

December 23, 2014 by Frank Vogl in Corruption, Global Economy

It takes two to tango to rob national treasuries and undermine global commerce: the government officials and politicians who take the bribes and, of course, the corporations who pay the bribes.

Corruption Data Must be Wake Up Call to World Bank and UN

December 23, 2014 by Frank Vogl in Corruption, Global Economy, Public Sector Governance

A new global survey of corruption published by Transparency International (TI) shows an all-too-familiar picture of deep and far-reaching abuse of government positions by politicians and officials for their personal gain. More than two-thirds of the 175 countries covered by the survey show very high levels of corruption.

Afghanistan’s Cesspool of Corruption

December 06, 2012 by Frank Vogl in Corruption, NGOs, Public Sector Governance, News

The 2012 Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), published this week, finds Afghanistan at absolute rock bottom, sharing this dismal place with North Korea and Somalia. Despite the flow to Afghanistan over the last decade of hundreds of billions of dollars of Western – mostly American – economic and military aid, this country is a rotten cesspool of corruption.