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Jacquie Williams-Bridgers is a leader of public sector anticorruption reforms and good governance initiatives with over 25 years of experience in oversight of U.S. foreign affairs, intelligence, international security and development assistance. She has advised leaders of government around the globe, including Sierra Leone, Namibia, Chile, Argentina, Indonesia and China, on anticorruption strategies from platforms in the public and private sectors.
Jacquie was appointed by President Bill Clinton and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 1995 as Inspector General of the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and later the U.S. Information Agency and the Broadcasting Board of Governors. As Inspector General, Jacquie led the program evaluations, audits, inspections, and criminal investigations of U.S. foreign policy implementation, U.S. embassy operations and security, U.S. intelligence overseas, and international broadcasting including Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and the Voice of America. Jacquie was appointed by the Comptroller General of the United States to be the Managing Director of the International Affairs and Trade team for the U.S. Government Accountability Office in 2004, where she supported the U.S. Congress in its oversight of U.S. foreign policy, including international counterterrorism, development assistance, public diplomacy, U.S. trade policy, and the US role in the World Bank and the United Nations. She has testified before Congress on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, global terrorism and operational matters of the US foreign affairs apparatus. During her tenure in the State Department and at U.S. GAO, Jacquie served on the Boards of Audit of the UN Organization of American States and NATO. Jacquie currently leads the U.S. Agency for International Development’s anticorruption project in the Philippines as Deloitte Consulting LLP’s Chief of Party of the Integrity for Investments Initiative (i3). The i3 Project supports the Office of the Ombudsman, the Commission on Audits, the Security and Exchange Commission, the Bureau of Internal Revenue, among others, to advance anticorruption reforms by improving the capacity of government to combat corruption and improve the investment climate in the Philippines. |
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