30th Annual McLean Lecture on World Law

Ambassador (ret.) Norman Eisen is a senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings
Institution and a CNN Legal Analyst. At Brookings, he chairs the institution’s signature anticorruption
program, Leveraging Transparency to Reduce Corruption, and is the founder and
lead editor of the Brookings Russia Sanctions Tracker. He represents Brookings as the civil
society co-chair of the Financial Transparency and Integrity cohort for the Biden
administration’s second Summit for Democracy and co-chairs the Transatlantic Democracy
Working Group. Eisen is the co-author of the Democracy Playbook, which situates anticorruption
in the broader pro-democracy framework. Eisen frequently publishes on topics
relating to Ukraine and its reconstruction.