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center, formed in 2000. He is also head of the Right to Know program at the democracy think tank Idasa. Prior to joining Idasa in 1995, he practiced law at the London Bar for seven years, specializing in human rights law. He holds postgraduate degrees in world politics and comparative constitutional law (LLM) from the London School of Economics and the University of Cape Town respectively. He has published extensively on the politics of the South African transition and is a political columnist for the Mail & Guardian newspaper. His most recent book, Anatomy of South Africa: Who Holds the Power? was published in October 2006. jamie p. horsley is Deputy Director of The China Law Center and lec- turer in law at Yale Law School. She has been the managing partner of the China offices of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison; commer- cial attaché in the U.S. embassies in Beijing and Manila; Vice President of Motorola International, Inc. and Director of Government Relations for China for Motorola, Inc.; and a consultant to The Carter Center on village elections in China. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School and has an M.A. in Chinese studies from the University of Michigan and a B.A. from Stanford University. laura neuman is Assistant Director for the Americas Program at the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia. She is the Access to Information Project Manager and directs and implements Carter Center transparency projects in countries ranging from Mali to Bolivia. Her publications include: Access to Information, A Key to Democracy; Using Freedom of Information Laws to Enforce Welfare Benefits Rights in the United States; and editor and author of Access to Information: Building a Culture of Transparency, The Promotion of De- mocracy Through Access to Information, and The Path to the Right to Access to Information. She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School. elena petkova was formerly with the World Resources Institute. She has led a global effort in developing and applying an indicator-based methodol- ogy to assess national-level law and practice of access to information, par- ticipation, and justice in environmental decision making. Her publications of the last ten years focus on issues of transparency and participation in the environment and climate change. She has also convened and led various international multistakeholder dialogues around these issues. ayo obe is a legal practitioner and former president of the Civil Liber- ties Organisation, the pioneer human rights organization in Nigeria. From 2001 to 2006 she was a member of the Police Service Commission, the 350 contributors

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