John Clark specializes in the roles of civil society in development and participatory governance. Prior to 2009 he was at the World Bank (as head of its civil society program and then lead social scientist for East Asia) and in Oxfam GB (leading its campaigns and policy functions). He has advised Kofi Annan on UN-civil society relations, served on Tony Blair’s Africa Task Force, and written 5 books on civil society and other topics, including “Worlds Apart: Civil Society and the Battle for Ethical Globalization” and “Democratizing Development”. From 2000 to 2003 he was Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Civil Society at LSE.

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