The White House is with Us

Anthony Richter

It was a long day of not the most scintillating stuff, board and committee legalism and the like, but it finished on a high note. At the World Bank’s EITI reception Obama adviser Michael Froman stopped by to offer remarks. Froman is, of course, deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser for international economic affairs, serving jointly at the National Security Council and the National Economic Council. He was seen hovering over the presidential shoulder at the London G20 Summit among his important roles. So his coming by to welcome EITI was a big deal…read more.

Anthony Richter is chairman of the board of the Revenue Watch Institute and also a board member of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). He blogs here