Nancy Boswell.

Anti-corruption / Rule of Law / International Cooperation / Ethical Companies / Professional Development & Training/ Civil Society/

Professor Nancy Boswell has been a leader in the international fight against corruption for almost three decades.   She is currently Adjunct Professor and Director of the Anti-Corruption Law Program at American University Washington College of Law (AUWCL) in Washington, D.C.  She provides in-person and online training to prosecutors, judges, in-house and law firm counsel and other professionals from around the world and organizes programs featuring expert practitioners from the U.S. government, international organizations, and the private and non-profit sectors.   

Prof. Boswell was President and CEO of Transparency International USA and a member of the TI Board of Directors, providing leadership from its founding in 1994 until 2011. She organized successful advocacy campaigns, in partnership with private sector, labor and non-profit organizations, for governments, development banks and private sector to adopt anti-bribery, open government and other rule of law reforms.   . 

She remains actively engaged in the anti-corruption movement, including as Vice Chair of the ABA International Law Section International Anti-Corruption Committee and as a mentor to U.S. State Department Humphrey Fellows and IJET Program Fellows.  She has served on numerous advisory boards, including the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)  Secretary General’s High Level Advisory Group on Integrity and Anti-Corruption, USAID Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid Democracy, Human Rights and Governance, USTR Trade & Environment Policy Advisory Committee, State Department Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy, and on the Board of Directors of the Ethics Resource Center.  Prof. Boswell was named among Ethisphere’s “100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics.”    
Prof. Boswell practiced international and trade law at Steptoe & Johnson LLP, Washington, DC, and managed international financial matters at Citibank, New York. She received her law degree, summa cum laude, from AUWCL and is the recipient of an AUWCL International Trade and Investment Law Society Distinguished Alumni award.  

  

Expertise:  

  • Anti-corruption   

  • Rule of Law   

  • International Cooperation  

  • Ethical Companies   

  • Professional Development 

  • Civil society   

 

Education  

  • American University Washington College of Law, J.D.   
      

Languages  
  

  • English  

  • French