

Former Executive Director, Kleptocracy Initiative
Charles Davidson is Executive Director of the Kleptocracy Initiative at Hudson Institute.
Charles Davidson is former Executive Director of the Kleptocracy Initiative at Hudson Institute. Davidson is also Publisher & CEO of The American Interest LLC. He co-founded The American Interest magazine with Francis Fukuyama in 2005, along with partners Josef Joffe and Walter Russell Mead. Davidson co-founded the think tank Global Financial Integrity in 2006 and is its former Board Chair. He also produced the documentary We’re Not Broke that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012.
Charles Davidson is a graduate of Bowdoin College and Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.
Charles Davidson, Joshua Kirschenbaum, Andris Teikmanis, Nicolas Veron, and Ilza Znotina discuss kleptocracy
Charles Davidson, Elise Bean, Mark Hays, Ben Judah, and Nate Sibley discuss kleptocracy.
Spain’s Judge José Grinda Gonzalez and U.S. experts discuss investigating and prosecuting Russian organized crime
Kleptocratic regimes use corruption and as a means of control at home and a weapon of influence abroad. Russian oligarchs and other Kremlin agents hav