Staff
- Raymond
Baker, a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy,
is an internationally respected authority on corruption, money
laundering, growth and foreign policy issues, particularly as
they concern developing and transitional economies and impact
upon western economic and foreign interests. He has written
and spoken extensively, testified often before Senate and House
committees, been quoted worldwide, and has commented frequently
on television and radio in the United States, Europe and Asia
on legislative matters and policy questions, including appearances
on Nightline, CNN, BBC, NPR and Four Corners, among others.
Mr.
Baker is a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy
in Washington, D.C., researching and writing on the linkages
between corruption, money laundering and poverty. From 1996
to 1999 he was a Guest Scholar at The Brookings Institution,
undertaking a project entitled, "Flight Capital, Poverty
and Free-Market Economics," following receipt of a grant
for research and writing from the John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation. He traveled to 23 countries to interview
335 central bankers, commercial bankers, government officials,
economists, lawyers, tax collectors, security officers and
sociologists on the relationships between bribery, commercial
tax evasion, money laundering and economic growth.
From
1985 to 1996 Mr. Baker provided confidential economic advisory
services at the presidential level for developing country
governments. Activities focused principally on issues surrounding
anti-corruption strategies, international terms of trade and
developing country debt. Research was conducted with 550 business
owners and managers in eleven countries, concerning import
and export mispricing and movement of tax-evading capital.
From
1976 to 1985 Mr. Baker conducted extensive trading activities
throughout Latin America and in ten Asian countries including
the People's Republic of China. An affiliated company in London
handled transactions in Europe. From 1961 to 1976 he lived
in Nigeria and established and managed an investment company
which set up and acquired manufacturing and financing ventures,
the subject of two Harvard Business School case studies. 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," and numerous other works.
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Tom
Cardamone is the Managing Director of the Global
Financial Integrity Program and brings 18 years of experience
working for non-profit public policy organizations, primarily
in the non-proliferation field, to CIP. His career includes
a background as an analyst, Project Director and Executive
Director for, and a consultant to, non-profit groups.
For
the three years prior to joining CIP Cardamone provided consulting
services to NGOs in the areas of strategic organizational
and program planning, development and web site content. From
2000 to 2003 Cardamone was Executive Director of the Center
for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, a Washington, D.C.-based
arms control group. During his tenure Cardamone led an effort
to convene and brief 50 senior retired military officers on
the Defense Department’s plan to deploy a missile defense
system. In early 2004, those officers issued an open letter
to the president that criticized the deployment of a system
that had yet to be sufficiently tested.
As
a Project Director for the Center from 1993 – 2000,
Cardamone developed and implemented the core components of
an educational project on the economic, security and human
rights implications of excessive military equipment sales
to developing nations. During that time he conceived and promoted
a package of confidence- and security-building measures to
enhance stability and democracy in Latin America. In 1997,
twenty-seven governments endorsed the proposal after initial
support was garnered from former presidents Jimmy Carter and
Oscar Arias. The following year he initiated a meeting at
the Carter Center to address conventional arms control in
Latin America with former presidents Carter, Arias and Gonzalo
Sánchez participating.
During
his career Cardamone has advocated policy positions on television,
talk-radio and in print media including on CNN and in the
Wall Street Journal and USA Today. He has delivered remarks
on security issues at the James E. Baker, III, Foreign Policy
Institute and at the John F. Kennedy Library and was a contributing
author for the book “War or Health: A Reader”
which was published in 2001.
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