PIERRE LAnDELL MILLS
“After years in one place it was another fantastic opportunity,” he said. “I started as the economist responsible for Madagascar, the Comore Islands, Seychelles, and Mauritius: I had to spend a month visiting them, three times a year. I couldn’t believe my luck!” Pierre’s role was to help countries
funded by the World Bank to develop their economies for the betterment of their people. He later was made responsible
for the French speaking countries of West Africa – and had to face some daunting moments. “Often you had to take part in some difficult negotiations,” he said. “I once had a president of an African country – one renowned for his brutality – burst into tears when I told him the bank would not be extending loans to his Government. Soon after I left, he was overthrown. “On another occasion I was taken
to a rally by Sekou Touré, the brutal Guinean dictator who addressed a massive crowd about the iniquities of the World Bank. He pointed to me and told the crowd I was a representative of ‘colonial powers’ bent on ruining the country.” After a quarter of a century at the
World Bank, which included a five- year stint in Bangladesh, Pierre retired. But not to relax. He helped found an organisation to help citizens fight corruption around the world: The Partnership for Transparency Fund. Becoming the organisation’s first president, he worked to promote its mission for a decade and has now produced a book just published, ‘Citizens Against Corruption’ - to report on their remarkable achievements in the struggle to make public officials more honest and accountable.
“In the roles I have occupied in my life, I often saw examples
where corruption undermined the effectiveness of aid programmes,” he said. “I became obsessed by it, seeing the damage it did to people’s lives, especially poor families. It is a sad fact that corruption exists everywhere: where there is a lack of accountability as officials realise they can get away with criminal behaviour.” The organisation funds groups around the world which promote transparency or fight corruption – and Pierre’s book draws on 200 case studies of ordinary citizens risking everything to root out corruption. “I think the book has a very
important message,” he said. “It shows that that in the many countries where the political leaders have failed their people, citizens are campaigning successfully to hold the officials to account and stop the theft of public money. Aid should go to these groups and not to corrupt governments.”•
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