Ben Leo

ONE’s Global Policy Director Ben Leo wrote this article for the Global Public Square on CNN World. Read the original piece here. GPS recently published a thoughtful piece on how global poverty rates are falling fast. It argued that one country in particular is almost solely responsible for this dramatic trend: China. Meanwhile, it said

Ben Leo, ONE’s global policy director, has written the article below with Lauren Pfeifer, ONE’s policy associate on the Transparency and Accountability Team. On President Obama’s first day in office, he signed an executive order that called for open, transparent government. Photo credit: The White House The order is based on the principles that openness

This piece was originally posted in TrustLaw Later this week, a group of 26 people will meet in Liberia to discuss how the world should tackle global development challenges over the next decade or two. It’s essential they thrust transparency, accountability and better open data into the heart of the debate and act on it. 

This blog post was originally published on Huffington Post Impact. It highlights our new report on the Millennium Development Goals, “What the World Wants.” The UN-led process for determining the next round of global development goals is officially underway. Politicians, technocrats, and bureaucrats have been effectively deputized to determine what should build upon and replace

Last week, the lights went out for roughly 2.7 million people thanks to a freak storm that swept the mid-Atlantic region. No power, no refrigerator, no air conditioning. With temperatures rocketing to 100 degrees, people resorted to sleeping in their basements to avoid the heat, and freezers full of food have spoiled. Roughly a quarter

ONE Global Policy Director Ben Leo offers his analysis on this year’s G8 Summit in Camp David. The G8 Summit in Camp David last weekend marked the three year anniversary of the 2009 L’Aquila Food Security Initiative (AFSI). It also previewed the expiration of most of the financial pledges by the end of 2012. With

This piece is part of a series of blogs by leading NGOs to call attention to a range of issues that should be raised at the G8 summit at Camp David in rural Maryland from May 18 to 19. This was originally published on Huffington Post Impact. If you took the current population of the

This blog originally appeared on DevEx With less than 1,400 days until the Millennium Development Goals deadline, global development experts, bureaucrats and talking heads have already begun clamoring for what’s next. It seems that halving extreme poverty and slashing child deaths by two-thirds is yesterday’s news. As if these highly ambitious goals are rapidly becoming