When Corruption Affects You Personally(Tinatin Ninua & Leslie Baesens)

In this episode of Open Gov Stories, Tinatin discusses growing up the war and economic collapse that followed Georgia's independence from the Soviet Union. She won a scholarship to study in the US and was personally impacted by corruption in the process. She also talks about the culture shock she faced as an exchange student in rural Minnesota at age 15, and what she finds most fulfilling in her current work. Tinatin is the IRM research manager at the Open Government Partnership, in charge of the quality control processes for international reports in a number of OGP countries. She has more than 10 years experience in anti-corruption and good governance field. Prior to joining OGP, she was a programme coordinator at Transparency International Secretariat focusing on transparency of political party financing in various regions of the world. Leslie is a senior program officer at Open Government Partnership.