Last week, Bain & Company announced it would shut its consultancy business in South Africa, after struggling for years to overcome the consequences of its involvement in state capture during…
This blog was written by Tihomira Kostova, Martin Vladimirov, and Ruslan Stefanov from the Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD). The authors explore how the grey zone between illegal…
This blog was written by Rebecca Dobson Phillips, Assistant Professor in Politics at the University of Sussex and Director of Fellowships for the GI ACE Programme. What does the…
Tom Shipley is a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Corruption, embedded within the GI ACE programme. His work focuses on state capture in Sub-Saharan Africa and…
This blog was developed by Caryn Peiffer, Nic Cheeseman, and Zenobia Ismail as part of the GI ACE research project Resisting State Capture from the Grassroots. Peiffer is Associate Professor of International Public Policy…
The South African Commission of Inquiry into State Capture (called the “Zondo Commission” after its chairperson) was a remarkable institution. From 2018 to 2022, it investigated corruption and state capture…
February 2025 saw the publication by Oxford University Press of Indulging Kleptocracy, a groundbreaking new book by John Heathershaw, Tena Prelec and Tom Mayne. The book examines how lawyers, real…
Voluntary carbon markets (VCMs) are exchanges which allow actors to trade in credits generated from emissions reductions or removals in order to offset their own carbon emissions. In this blog,…
This publication focuses on groundbreaking research revealing significant shifts in the pattern of global illicit financial flows (IFFs). The study, led by Dr. Daniel Haberly, reveals how and where different types of illicit money flows around the world.