The Foreign Service Journal, February 2011

F E B R U A R Y 2 0 1 1 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 23 Many emerging economies, such as China, India and Russia, are not parties to the OECD Anti-Bribery Con- vention. And even if they were, the convention does not make it a prosecutable offense to engage in the bribery of foreign government officials to gain or retain business. Nonetheless, we should be encouraged by recent re- ports, that these governments are considering accession to the OECD convention and enactment of such laws. Accordingly, the international business community should lend strong support to the enforcement of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention and to the accession of China, India and Russia to that agreement. Promoting Development I am delighted with the State Department’s strong focus on development and Secretary Clinton’s initiative in conducting the first Quadrennial Diplomacy and Devel- opment Review. Development was a significant part of my own Foreign Service career, and I believe it will be a transformational component of 21st-century economic diplomacy. Before joining the State Department, I taught middle school students at a self-help school outside Kiambu, Kenya. I continue to believe that development is not only a moral imperative, but also an opportunity for American foreign policy. During Foreign Service assignments in Sierra Leone, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) and Jamaica, I learned a lot about how development works, and does not work, in practice. My academic training at the University of Iowa, where I earned a Ph.D., collided with the realities I confronted in running the ambas- sador’s self-help program, assisting investors in develop- ing countries, and using the trade incentives of the Caribbean Basin Initiative to spur economic develop- ment that might supplant drug production. As under secretary of State for economic affairs from 1999 to 2005, I worked closely with U.S. Agency for In- ternational Development Administrator Andrew Natsios F O C U S