Uruguayan university officials in Montevideo were able to share ideas on anti-corruption training with experts in Washington DC, through a digital video conference hosted by the Public Affairs section of the U.S. Embassy on Thursday (Dec. 4).

Washington panelists included Richard Werksman, of the Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs of the U.S. Department of State, and Dr. Francisco Nieto, a corruption expert from Georgetown University. Werksman gave an overview of the State Department’s support for anti-corruption training. Dr. Nieto followed with details of the model he had developed for a training program that includes 15 university professors.

Montevideo panelists Dr. Carlos Balsa and Jorge Sambarino from the Uruguayan government’s financial council, Dr. Milton Cairoli, director of the criminal law institute at the Universidad de la Republic, Uruguay’s national university, and Dr. Daniel Podesta, dean of law at the Universidad de la Empresa, a private university.

The Uruguayan panelists aid they would like to introduce an anti-corruption curriculum to the universities in Montevideo, but added that funding such a program would be difficult. The two groups plan to meet again.

 

 

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