Interviews
The ISS oral history program encourages reformers to reflect on their experiences. Each oral history line engages leaders from six or more countries in a focused conversation about a particular challenge.The interviews highlight the contributions of people whose work often goes unrecognized and allow reformers to learn from each other directly, in their own words.
Many of the interviews can be downloaded to smartphones, MP3 players or other downloadable media devices both in audio form and as transcripts, subject to limitations noted.
Oral history is not intended to present the final, verified, or complete narrative of events. It is a spoken account. It reflects personal opinion offered by the interviewee in response to questioning. ISS provides a synopsis for each interview posted to its website and provides biographical information, including the interviewee's position and affiliation at the time of the interview, or in some cases, the interviewee's professional affiliation most germane to the topic being discussed.
Latest Interviews
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Pokharel, Bhojrajnew
Focus Area: Elections
Country: Nepal
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Hanno, Mohamed
Focus Area: City Management
Country: Egypt
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Indrawati, Sri Mulyani
Focus Area: Reconciling Economic Policy and Institution-Building Goals, Getting the News Out/Managing Expectations, Building a Reform Team and Staff, Containing Patronage Pressures, Civil Service
Country: Indonesia
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Panda, Shri Baijayant "Jay"
Focus Area: Elections
Country: India
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Piquet Carneiro, João Geraldo
Focus Area: Civil Service
Country: Brazil
Focus Areas
- Accountable Policing (83)
- Anti-Corruption (0)
- Centers of Government (0)
- City Management (11)
- Civil Service (111)
- Decentralization (21)
- Elections (63)
- Balancing the Central and Local (36)
- Building a Reform Team and Staff (18)
- Containing Patronage Pressures (12)
- Countering Criminal Economies (3)
- Eliminating Markets for Public Office (2)
- Getting the News Out/Managing Expectations (37)
- Reconciling Economic Policy and Institution-Building Goals (22)
- Reducing Divisive Effects of Competition (23)
