Webinar video: Public Financial Management

November 2015

Dr Paolo de Renzio (International Budget Partnership) and Prof Dominik Zaum (University of Reading) gave short presentations on transparency, participation and corruption in Public Financial Management. Discussant Dr Simon De Lay (University of Birmingham) drew on his experience and recent research to reflect on issues raised, and participating development practitioners from around the world contributed questions and comments.

The webinar was held on 24 November 2015.

An audio-only version of this webinar is available

About the author: Paolo de Renzio and Dominik Zaum

Dr Paolo de Renzio is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Budget Partnership (IBP) in Washington, DC, and Adjunct Professor at the Institute for International Relations at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica of Rio de Janeiro. At IBP, he coordinates a research programme on governance, fiscal transparency and development, and is part of the team that produces the Open Budget Index. Before joining IBP, Paolo worked in the Ministry of Finance of Papua New Guinea, with UNDP in Mozambique and as a Research Fellow at ODI. He co-edited the book “Open Budgets: The Political Economy of Transparency, Participation and Accountability” (Brookings Press, 2013). Paolo holds a doctorate in International Relations from the University of Oxford (2011).

Dominik Zaum is Professor of Governance, Conflict, and Security, and Head of the School of Politics, Economics and International Relations, at the University of Reading. He has written and edited six books, most recently ‘Legitimating International Organizations’ (OUP 2013). He has worked with the UK Stabilisation Unit, the UN in Kosovo, and the Office of the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is a Board Member of the Kosovar Stability Initiative (IKS), and a member of the Steering Committee for the NWO/DFID-supported Conflict and Cooperation in the Management of Climate Change programme.