With public anger over government corruption at a fever pitch in many countries, and official efforts to uproot cultures of corruption frustratingly stalled, governments everywhere need a new set of strategies. The Chandler Sessions on Integrity and Corruption convene a group of senior leaders of anti-corruption institutions from select countries together with a small group of academics and expert journalists in regular meetings at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government. The Sessions participants work collaboratively, share experiences, debate the effectiveness of policy responses, and develop a set of new strategies for strengthening integrity in government institutions and dislodging entrenched corruption.
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The Chandler Sessions on Integrity and Corruption are a joint undertaking between the Chandler Foundation and University College, Oxford.

The Program

The Sessions convened the government officials, scholars and journalists in-person on four occasions, in July 2022, January and July 2023, and January 2024; advancing an agenda that they debated in July 2021. Each of the government officials has co-authored a paper describing ideas and practices that could transform the field. Each paper is co-authored by two other members of the Sessions, with five draft papers discussed at each of the first three in-person meetings. In January 2024, the discussions returned to the full set of ideas and designs, most by then having been tested in practice.