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Robert Klitgaard is a University Professor at Claremont Graduate University, where he served as President from 2005-9. He has been a professor at Harvard, Yale, the National University of Singapore, the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and the University of Karachi. He served as Dean and Ford Distinguished Professor of International Development and Security at the Pardee RAND Graduate School, America’s leading Ph.D. program in policy analysis.
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Bob's hands-on workshops provide leaders with the best international data, models, and success stories. He shows how AI tools can transform problem-solving, collaboration, and teaching. His partners range from environmental nonprofits to Supreme Audit Authorities; from the International Monetary Fund to the International Anti-Corruption Academy; from Sonora, Mexico, to Mandaue City, the Philippines; from the Control and Anti-Corruption Authority in Saudi Arabia to the Royal Institute for Governance and Strategic Studies in Bhutan . He was recently awarded the Anti-Corruption Excellence Award for 2024. ScholarGPS has ranked him in the top 0.5 percent of scholars worldwide. For his lifetime production, he is ranked in the top 50 scholars in the world in research on corruption (27th), policy analysis (42nd), and exploratory data analysis (48th).
Bob's sixteen books have been translated into eighteen languages and have guided researchers and policymakers around the globe.
Choosing Elites is featured in The Harvard Guide to Influential Books,.
Tropical Gangsters was named one of the Books of the Century by The New York Times Book Review.
More recently: The Culture and Development Manifesto (Oxford University Press, 2021).
Prevail: How to Face Upheavals and Make Big Choices with the Help of Heroes (Wipf & Stock, 2022). Also available as an audio book.
Bold and Humble: How to Lead Public-Private-Citizen Collaboration, with Five Success Stories (2023) is available open access and as a free audiobook under "Books" below.
Policy Analysis for Big Issues: Confronting Corruption, Elitism, Inequality, and Despair (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2023)..
Using ChatGPT in Graduate Education: A Beginner's Guide (And We're All Beginners Here) (KDP Books, 2024).. Available in abridged form as a free audiobook under "Books" below.
Also published in August 2024: Christianity for Young Intellectuals: Warm-up Exercises for Big Thinkers. (Wipf and Stock).