Daniel Kaufmann is the president emeritus of the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), which resulted from the merger of the Revenue Watch Institute[1] – Natural Resource Charter.[2] He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he was previously a senior fellow,[3] and until July 2019 served in the international board of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative[4] and in a number of advisory boards on governance, anti-corruption and natural resources and has also been in high-level expert commissions such as at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,[5][6] the Inter-American Development Bank[7][8] and the Mo Ibrahim Foundation.[9] Prior to that, he was a director at the World Bank Institute, leading work on governance and anti-corruption.[10] He was also a senior manager and lead economist at the World Bank, writing and working on many countries around the world, and was a visiting scholar at Harvard University. He has also served in other boards and councils in the past, including at the World Economic Forum.[11]