CORRUPTION IN CONFLICT
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS<br />
SIGAR acknowledges the invaluable contributions to this report from scores<br />
of individuals.<br />
We thank William Byrd, Senior Expert at the U.S. Institute of Peace; Sarah<br />
Chayes, Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace;<br />
Katherine Dixon, Director of Transparency International’s Security and Defence<br />
Programme; Drago Kos, Chairman of the OECD Working Group on Bribery and<br />
former Commissioner on the Joint Independent Anticorruption Monitoring and<br />
Evaluation Committee (MEC); Kirk Meyer, former Director of the Afghan Threat<br />
Finance Cell; Jennifer Murtazashvili, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of<br />
Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh; Yama Torabi,<br />
former Director of Integrity Watch Afghanistan and current MEC chairman; and<br />
Scott Worden, former Director of SIGAR’s Lessons Learned Program and currently<br />
Director for Afghanistan and Central Asia Programs at the U.S. Institute of Peace.<br />
In addition, we thank our peer reviewers and acknowledge the more than 80<br />
individuals who gave generously of their time and allowed us to interview them<br />
at length. We are grateful for the contributions of all those at the Department<br />
of State, especially the Office of the Special Representative for Afghanistan<br />
and Pakistan; Department of Defense, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense<br />
for Policy; Department of Justice; and Department of Treasury who provided<br />
comments, both officially and informally.<br />
Report Staff<br />
Kate Bateman, Senior Analyst and Lead Writer<br />
Nikolai Condee-Padunov, Research Analyst<br />
Kim Corthell, Acting Lessons Learned Program Director<br />
Brittany Gates, Research Analyst<br />
Matthew Rubin, Research Analyst<br />
James Wasserstrom, Strategy Advisor and Team Lead<br />
Elizabeth Young, Editor<br />
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