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New Podcast Episode, Featuring Gretta Fenner and Daniel Eriksson
A new episode of KickBack: The Global Anticorruption Podcast is now available. In this episode, host Liz Dávid-Barrett speaks with Gretta Fenner, the Managing Director of the Basel Institute on Governance, and Daniel Eriksson, the CEO of of Transparency International. The episode was recorded shortly after Gretta and Daniel attended the Munich Security Conference, where they raised the issue of corruption as a key national security concern, and the podcast conversation focuses on that issue as well. The discussion touches on the new global context of heightened insecurity and the implications this has for those working to counter corruption. They also discuss the phenomenon of “strategic corruption,” defined in the U.S. Strategy on Countering Corruption as “when a government weaponizes corrupt practices as a tenet of its foreign policy,” and how addressing this sort of corruption, though essential, may raise challenging questions for anticorruption campaigners about the problem of “picking sides” in global political conflicts.
You can also find both this episode and an archive of prior episodes at the following locations:
GAB | The Global Anticorruption Blog 
It’s great to hear that corruption is being discussed more at the MSC, and it’s a bit surprising to me to hear that Ukraine was essentially the catalyst for that – as was said in the podcast, strategic corruption has been going on forever. I also really appreciated the guests pointing out that this extends well beyond Russia-Ukraine, and perpetrators include non-state actors like drug cartels. The murder of Villavicencio in Ecuador was such a good example of this. Hopefully, as the U.S. begins implementing its Strategy to Counter Corruption, it gives due attention to these non-state actors!