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Laura Neuman

Carter Centre
Senior Advisor
United States
Laura Neuman is a Senior Advisor in the Office of the Vice-President for Peace Programs at the Carter Center. She has directed and implemented Carter Center transparency, good governance, and access to justice programming, including projects in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Ms. Neuman established the women and access to information programming, including presently leading the Inform Women, Transform Lives campaign presently working in 36 major cities around the world to assure women have access to essential municipal services. She also developed the innovative access to information implementation assessment tool, which assesses the extent and quality of implementation of the law.  Ms. Neuman has written articles, book chapters, and guidebooks on the right of access to information, fostering transparency, and preventing corruption, and has presented at numerous international seminars and conferences. She has served as a consultant to the U.S. State Department, the World Bank, the United Nations, and the Inter-American Development Bank, among others. She serves as a board member to Accountability Lab and has been a member of the International School of Transparency, the Transparency Advisory Group, and the civil society lead for the Open Government Partnership’s Access to Information Working Group.Prior to joining The Carter Center in 1999, she was staff attorney at Legal Action of Wisconsin and is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School.