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LAURA NEUMAN
Manager, Access to Information Project
Associate Director,
Americas Program
The
Carter
Center
Laura Neuman is Associate Director for the Americas Program and the Access to Information Project Manager for the
Carter
Center. She directs, develops and implements the Center’s transparency projects, including projects in
Jamaica,
Bolivia,
Nicaragua,
Mali,
Liberia, and
China and at the hemispheric level in the
Americas. She most recently organized and managed the International Conference on the Right to Public Information for more than 125 participants from 40 countries and the follow-on Americas Conference on the Right of Access to Information. Ms. Neuman edited six widely distributed guidebooks on fostering transparency and preventing corruption, has been published in a number of books and paper series, and has presented at numerous international seminars relating to access to information legislation, implementation and enforcement. Ms. Neuman is a member of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue task force on transparency an International Associate to the Open Democracy Advice Center, South Africa, and has served as a consultant to the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, and a number of governments. Ms. Neuman also has led and participated in international election monitoring missions throughout the Western hemisphere. Prior to joining The Carter Center in August 1999, she was senior staff attorney for Senior Law at Legal Action of Wisconsin.
She is a 1993 graduate of the
University of
Wisconsin law school.
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