Events

Annual Anti-Corruption Lecture To mark the UN's International Anti-Corruption Day

Speaker: The Rt Hon Clare Short
Agenda:  18.00 Registration
              18.30 Lecture
              19.45 Drinks reception
              20.30 Close

This event was kindly supported by Clifford Chance LLP. You can download a transcript of Ms Short's speech here

Clare Short entered the House of Commons in 1983 as the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Ladywood, the area where she was born and grew up. She held a number of shadow ministerial posts from 1993 and from 1996 until the General Election in 1997 she was Opposition spokesperson on Overseas Development. Following the General Election she was appointed Secretary of State for International Development, a post she held until May 2003 when she resigned from the Government over the Iraq war. In 2006 she resigned the Labour whip. Clare Short stood down from Parliament in 2010, and is now active in various organisations working in the UK and in the developing world. She is a member of the Advisory Committee of International Lawyers for Africa and chairs the International Advisory Board of the Cranfield Masters in Security Sector Management Programme. In March 2011 she was elected Chair of the International Board of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). Clare Short has received many awards during her career including in 2008, the Order of the Volta Companion by the President of the Republic of Ghana, in 2004, the Wilberforce Medal and in 2002, the Channel 4 Political Award.