Nancy Boswell is Director of the US and International Anti-Corruption Law Certificate Program and an adjunct professor at American University Washington College of Law (WCL) in Washington DC. The Anti-Corruption Law Program is designed for prosecutors, judges, in-house and law firm counsel, non-profit and other professionals from around the world seeking to enhance their expertise on evolving anti-corruption, compliance and transparency laws and practices. This timely and pragmatic program is taught by leading government and private sector practitioners, and provides a unique peer-to-peer training and networking opportunity.
Ms. Boswell was President and CEO of Transparency International USA, providing leadership from its founding in 1994 until 2011. A former member of the TI Board of Directors and TI Individual Member, she remains actively engaged in the anticorruption movement.
Ms. Boswell is a member of the OECD Secretary General’s High Level Advisory Group on Integrity and Anti-Corruption and is a mentor to State Department IJET Program Fellows. She serves on the USAID Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid Democracy, Human Rights and Governance and on the Board of Directors of the Ethics Resource Center and the Collaboration on Government Secrecy. She travels internationally for the State Department’s U.S. Speaker Program and is a lecturer in the department’s YALI online course on Transparency and Good Governance She is also an active member of the ABA Section on International Law Anti-Corruption Committee and the IBA Anti-Corruption Committee. She was named among Ethisphere’s “100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics.”
She practiced international and trade law at Steptoe & Johnson and managed international financial matters at Citibank. She received her law degree, summa cum laude, from WCL and is the recipient of the WCL International Trade and Investment Law Society 2012 Distinguished Alumni award.