DC Forum Conference (February, 2023)
Channel: Global Financial Integrity
Date: 2023-02-23

Video Timecode:

0:00 - 1:02 Introduction: Charles Davidson 
     
1:02 – 6:16  Introduction: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (video)
  
6:16 – 20:12  Purpose of DC Forum, Raymond Baker, Founding President, Global Financial Integrity, author of Invisible Trillions

20:12 – 21:11 Gerard Ryle (Video), Director, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

21:11 – 26:13 Financial-Secrecy System Mapping Project - Tom Cardamone
President, Global Financial Integrity

26:13 – 55:32 James S. Henry, Global Justice Fellow, Lecturer, Yale University

55:32 – 1:22:00 Financial-Secrecy System: Threat to Civilization - Jack Blum, Attorney-at-Law, Expert on Offshore Finance.

1:22:01 – 2:08:06  Russia/Ukraine: Charles Davidson, Co-Chair, DC-Forum; Nino Evgenidze
Executive Director, Economic Policy Research Center (Tbilisi, Georgia); Jennifer Gould
New York Post columnist; David Kramer, Executive Director, George W. Bush Institute; 
Paul Massaro, Senior Policy Advisor for counter-corruption and sanctions, Helsinki Commission.
 
2:08:06 – 2:44:49  View from the Fourth Estate: Dana Priest, Washington Post, Professor of Journalism University of Maryland; Diane Francis, Editor-at-Large, National Post in Canada
Non-resident senior fellow, Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council; Jennifer Gould, New York Post columnist; Fergus Shiel, Managing Director, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

2:44:48 – 3:04:03   “Fireside Chat”: Tom Tugendhat, Minister of State for Security, United Kingdom and Rachel Rizzo, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Europe Center, Atlantic Council.
  
3:04:03 – 3:10:51  Drew Sullivan (video), Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project.

3:10:51 – 3:54:08  Capitalism: Adam Smith Turns Over in his Grave - Charles Davidson, Co-Chair, DC-Forum; Diane Francis, Editor-at-Large, National Post in Canada, Non-resident senior fellow, Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council; Nils Gilman, Senior Vice President of Programs, Berggruen Institute; Don Griswold, Senior Fellow, The Digital Economist Tax Lawyer (Trusts & Estates).

3:54:08 – 4:36:51  Inequality: Pascale Dubois, Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center; Raymond Baker, Founding President, Global Financial Integrity, author of Invisible Trillions; James S. Henry, Global Justice Fellow, Lecturer, Yale University; Damon Silvers, Policy Director and Special Counsel, AFL-CIO.

4:36:51 – 4:48:59  The Financial Secrecy Curse: Ben Judah, Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council

4:48:59 – 5:28:34  Policy Implications: Mike Abramowitz, President, Freedom Hous; Elise Bean, 
Former Staff Director & Chief Counsel, U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.  Former Aide to Senator Carl Levin; Ian Gary, Executive Director, The FACT Coalition; Gary Kalman, 
Executive Director, Transparency International U.S.; Jodi Vittori, Professor of Practice, Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, Non-resident Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.  

5:28:33– 5:34:07  Invisible Trillions (video) Larry Diamond, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution and the Mosbacher, Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University.

5:34:07 – 6:23:46  Democracy at Risk: Jack Blum, Attorney-at-Law, Expert on Offshore Finance; Annie Boyajian, Vice President for Policy and Advocacy, Freedom House; David Kramer, Executive Director, George W. Bush Institute; Damon Wilson, President & CEO, The National Endowment for Democracy.

6:23:47 – 6:24:55  Closing Remarks