Co-Chairing the Open Government Partnership—What is it Like, Really?
Blair Glencorse shares insights from his tenure as OGP Civil Society Co-Chair, highlighting a year of ambitious goals, transformative initiatives, and lessons learned.
Blair Glencorse
Accountability Lab
Blair Glencorse is Co-CEO of the Accountability Lab – which makes governance work for people around the world. Blair and his team have done everything from building large-scale socially conscious music campaigns in Nigeria; to monitoring and improving public services in Pakistan; to running a global TV show called Integrity Icon to “name and fame” honest government officials. Blair is also the Founder of Civic Strength Partners- a new platform that supports organizational transformations in the social sector. Blair an expert on anti-corruption with the World Economic Forum; and also a Steering Committee Member of the Youth Democracy Cohort. Blair speaks and writes regularly on issues of open governance, citizen participation and governance.
Blair joined the OGP Steering Committee as a civil society member in 2020.
Follow Blair on Linkedin at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/blairglencorse
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