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Presentations and training delivered

Corruption Prevention for Community Development Projects: Community Development & Investment Agency, Kyrgyzstan, March 2016.

Skills in Preventing Corruption in Public Sector Procurement, East Timor Auditor-General’s Office, Dili, 2013.

Investing in Africa: politics, conflict minerals and China, AusIMM: The Minerals Institute, Sydney (March 2013).

World Bank Praxis Session: Roundtable discussion on Extractive Industries: Governance, conflict and the ‘resource curse’, Sydney, February 2013.  Click here for link to presentation on Youtube.

Mining and Development in Africa: Case study: A certification mechanism for ‘conflict minerals’.  Mining and International Aid: Working together for development conference, Canberra, December 2013. Click here for link to presentation.

Fraud cases from the Independent Commission Against Corruption: CPA Australia International Convention, Melbourne, 2011

Building corruption resistance: Strengthening the operating environment – Masterclass for the Institute of Public Affairs Australia (NSW), May 2011.

The rise of African consumer power: How activists wanting to change the world need to persuade the consumers who matter: African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific, Melbourne, 2010

Corruption risks in public sector procurement: investigations, research and supplier attitudes:  Misconduct in Contracting and Procurement Forum, Perth, 2010

Roles and Responsibilities of the ICAC: Delegation from Ministry of Finance, Government of Iraq, Sydney, 2010

Corruption and Anti-Corruption Executive Program: I co-designed and co-present this six day intensive executive program, jointly organised by the Australian National University and the Independent Commission Against Corruption, Canberra, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010

Corruption in procurement: recent ICAC investigations: Australian Institute of Project Management, Sydney, 2009

Corruption prevention lessons from ICAC’s Operation Monto investigation into RailCorp: Australian Public Sector Anti-Corruption Conference, Brisbane, 2009

Corruption prevention for managers, Rail Infrastructure Corporation: Newcastle, 2009

Lectures on ‘War and Natural Resources’, ‘Aid and Development’, ‘Democracy in Africa’, ‘The State in Africa’, and ‘Economic Dimensions of the Congo War’ at the Université Protestante du Congo, Kinshasa, 2008

Governance and corruption prevention training for Aboriginal Land Councils: 11 workshops around New South Wales in 2007 and 2008

The Democratic Republic of Congo: Economic Dimensions of War and Peace: African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific, Armidale, 2005

The Evolution of the State and State-Society Relations in the Dem. Rep. of Congo: American Political Science Association, Boston, 2002

State-Society Relations in a Fragmented State: African Studies Association, Nashville, 2000

Media

Interview with Bertrand Tungundame, SBS Radio’s Africa Programme, 13 March 2015.

Late Night Live with Phillip Adams, ABC Radio National.  Interview with Isaac Bacirongo about Coltan, 9 March 2015.

Bistands Aktuelt, Oslo: ‘Mobile mobilization against Congo violence’ by Even Tømte, 4 April 2012

iWatch News, Center for Public Integrity, Washington D.C.: ‘Venezuela emerges as new source of conflict minerals’ by Ricardo Sandoval Palos, 12 March 2012

Business Daily, BBC World Radio, 6 December 2011

The Evening Show with Gretel Killeen, ABC Radio Sydney, 28 July 2011

Late Night Live with Mark Colvin, ABC Radio National, 2 June 2011

AidWorks with Catherine Coorey, 2SER Radio Sydney, 27 October 2010

VibeWire online magazine, Eduardo Quiroga: ‘Mineral conflict in Congo’, published 27 October 2010

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