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Program Information
Keynote Address
The advisory committee for the 1st Global Conference on Transparency Research is pleased to announce Professor Christopher Hood as the keynote speaker. Dr. Hood is the Gladstone Professor of Government and Fellow of All Souls College Oxford. He has written extensively on the topics of transparency and accountability, and co-edited Transparency: The Key to Better Governance (Oxford University Press, 2006). The keynote speech is sponsored by Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions. 
Conference Schedule
Unless otherwise noted, all events take place at the Center for Law and Justice (CLJ) on the Rutgers University-Newark campus.

Wednesday, May 18

5 – 7 pm

  • Opening Reception
    New Jersey Performing Arts Center
    (www.njpac.org)

 

Thursday, May 19

8:30 – 9:30 am

  • Breakfast – Atrium, CLJ
  • Advisory Committee Breakfast Meeting – Room 020, CLJ

9:30 – 11 am

  • Panel Session 1

11 – 11:30 am

  • Coffee Break – Atrium, CLJ

11:30 am – 1 pm

  • Panel Session 2

1:15 – 2:45 pm

  • Lunch with Keynote Address by Professor Christopher Hood

3 – 4:30 pm

  • Panel Session 3
  • Featured Session: Current open government initiatives
    Marco Daglio, Head of the Public Service Delivery Unit, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

6 – 10 pm

 

Friday, May 20

8:30 – 9:30 am

  • Breakfast – Atrium, CLJ

9:30 – 11 am

  • Panel Session 4
  • Featured Session: Impact research on transparency and accountability: Funders and activists' perspectives
    Martin Tisné, Program Manager of the Transparency and Accountability Initiative

11 – 11:30 am

  • Coffee Break – Atrium, CLJ

11:30 am – 1 pm

  • Panel Session 5

1:15 – 2:30 pm

  • Lunch – Atrium, CLJ

2:45 – 4 pm

  • Final Plenary: Next steps in transparency research – Room 070, CLJ

Program 

DOWNLOAD: 1stGCTR Program (pdf)