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From Harvard Business School, through success in business, to a Washington, DC-based think tank focused on illicit financial flows, corruption, illicit trade, and money laundering (Global Financial Integrity). The extraordinary journey of Raymond Baker, who was honored with the ASAP Lifetime Achievement Award.
Raymond Baker is the Founding President of Global Financial Integrity and the author of Capitalism’s Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-Market System, published by John Wiley & Sons and cited by the Financial Times as one of the “best business books of 2005.” He has for many years been an internationally respected authority on corruption, money laundering, growth, and foreign policy issues, particularly as they concern emerging market and developing countries and impact western economic and foreign interests. He has written and spoken extensively, testified often before legislative committees in the United States, Canada, the European Union, and the United Kingdom, been quoted worldwide, and has commented frequently on television and radio in the the United States, Europe, Africa, Latin America, and Asia on legislative matters and policy questions, including appearances on ABC News’ Nightline, Al Jazeera, BBC, Bloomberg TV, the CBS Evening News, CNN, NPR, PBS, and Four Corners (ABC1 in Australia), among others. Educated at Harvard Business School and Georgia Institute of Technology, Mr. Baker is the author of “The Biggest Loophole in the Free-Market System,” “Illegal Flight Capital; Dangers for Global Stability,” “How Dirty Money Binds the Poor,” and other works published in the United States, Europe, Africa, and Latin America.
Source: gfintegrity.org
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Academics Stand Against Poverty, in partnership with the Yale Global Justice Program and Journal of ASAP, is conferring three annual awards for scholarly works on poverty.
ASAP Lifetime Achievement Award
2024: Raymond Baker
ASAP Book of the Year Award (Monograph)
2024: Nicole Hassoun for A Minimally Good Life: What We Owe to Others and What We Can Justifiably Demand (Oxford University Press).
ASAP Book of the Year Award (Edited Book)
2024: Jennifer Johns and Sarah Marie Hall for Contemporary Economic Geographies: Inspiring, Critical and Plural Perspectives (Bristol University Press).
Previous year's awards:
ASAP Lifetime Achievement Award
2023: Else Øyen
2022: Henry Shue
ASAP Book of the Year Award (Monograph)
2023: Olivier De Schutter, Hugh Frazer, Anne-Catherine Guio, Eric Marlier for The Escape from Poverty: Breaking the Vicious Cycles Perpetuating Disadvantage (Policy Press)
2022: Darrel Moellendorf for Mobilizing Hope: Climate Change and Global Poverty (Oxford University Press)
ASAP Book of the Year Award (Edited Book)
2023: Clemens Sedmak, Gottfried Schweiger for Handbook of Philosophy and Poverty (Routledge)
2022: Kayleigh Garthwaite, Ruth Patrick, Maddy Power, Anna Tarrant and Rosalie Warnock for COVID-19 Collaborations: Researching Poverty and Low-Income Family Life during the Pandemic (Policy Press)
From Harvard Business School, through success in business, to a Washington, DC-based think tank focused on illicit financial flows, corruption, illicit trade, and money laundering (Global Financial Integrity). The extraordinary journey of Raymond Baker, who was honored with the ASAP Lifetime Achievement Award.
Raymond Baker is the Founding President of Global Financial Integrity and the author of Capitalism’s Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-Market System, published by John Wiley & Sons and cited by the Financial Times as one of the “best business books of 2005.” He has for many years been an internationally respected authority on corruption, money laundering, growth, and foreign policy issues, particularly as they concern emerging market and developing countries and impact western economic and foreign interests. He has written and spoken extensively, testified often before legislative committees in the United States, Canada, the European Union, and the United Kingdom, been quoted worldwide, and has commented frequently on television and radio in the the United States, Europe, Africa, Latin America, and Asia on legislative matters and policy questions, including appearances on ABC News’ Nightline, Al Jazeera, BBC, Bloomberg TV, the CBS Evening News, CNN, NPR, PBS, and Four Corners (ABC1 in Australia), among others. Educated at Harvard Business School and Georgia Institute of Technology, Mr. Baker is the author of “The Biggest Loophole in the Free-Market System,” “Illegal Flight Capital; Dangers for Global Stability,” “How Dirty Money Binds the Poor,” and other works published in the United States, Europe, Africa, and Latin America.
Source: gfintegrity.org
Details:
Academics Stand Against Poverty, in partnership with the Yale Global Justice Program and Journal of ASAP, is conferring three annual awards for scholarly works on poverty.
ASAP Lifetime Achievement Award
2024: Raymond Baker
ASAP Book of the Year Award (Monograph)
2024: Nicole Hassoun for A Minimally Good Life: What We Owe to Others and What We Can Justifiably Demand (Oxford University Press).
ASAP Book of the Year Award (Edited Book)
2024: Jennifer Johns and Sarah Marie Hall for Contemporary Economic Geographies: Inspiring, Critical and Plural Perspectives (Bristol University Press).
Previous year's awards:
ASAP Lifetime Achievement Award
2023: Else Øyen
2022: Henry Shue
ASAP Book of the Year Award (Monograph)
2023: Olivier De Schutter, Hugh Frazer, Anne-Catherine Guio, Eric Marlier for The Escape from Poverty: Breaking the Vicious Cycles Perpetuating Disadvantage (Policy Press)
2022: Darrel Moellendorf for Mobilizing Hope: Climate Change and Global Poverty (Oxford University Press)
ASAP Book of the Year Award (Edited Book)
2023: Clemens Sedmak, Gottfried Schweiger for Handbook of Philosophy and Poverty (Routledge)
2022: Kayleigh Garthwaite, Ruth Patrick, Maddy Power, Anna Tarrant and Rosalie Warnock for COVID-19 Collaborations: Researching Poverty and Low-Income Family Life during the Pandemic (Policy Press)
