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 an expert on anti-corruption with the World Economic Forum; a member of the World Bank’s Expert Advisory Council on Citizen Engagement; and is the Co-Chair of the C20 Anti-Corruption Working Group, advising the G20 on issues of anti-corruption on behalf of global civil society. 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 Twitter @blairglencorse and the Accountability Lab @accountlab.

Authored Content

Five Ideas We Heard from 1,000+ Young Open Government Reformers

Read reflections from the Open Gov Digital Youth Summit and how young people are playing a critical role in pushing for a more transparent, fair and equitable response and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

2nd December 2020

Walking the Talk – The OGP Steering Commitee

This post originally appeared on Accountability Lab's blog. Last month, I was privileged to be considered as a candidate for the Civil Society Steering Committee of the Open Government Partnership (OGP)- the international governance body for the initiative. Civil society…

21st May 2016

What does Open Government have to do with the Fourth Industrial Revolution?

The world’s business VIPs are meeting in Davos this week for the annual World Economic Forum (WEF), where the theme is the fourth industrial revolution- think 3D printing, bio-technology and mind-reading machines. Klaus Schwab, the head of the WEF, argues…

20th January 2016