Sarah Chayes, senior fellow in the Democracy and Rule of Law Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and author of Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security is internationally recognized for her innovative thinking on corruption and its implications. She visited the UW in October as the keynote speaker for the Central Eurasia Studies Society’s annual international conference that was hosted at the University of Washington by the Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asia Studies. Her keynote address for the conference was entitled “Transnational Kleptocratic Networks: the Central Asian Connections.” While at UW, she also gave a public lecture at the Jackson School of International Studies with the title: “The 21st century Gilded Age – A Global Trend.”
Listen to Sarah Chayes’s public lecture below.