Transparency: no tall order for Clare Short and the EITI
By embracing and enhancing the EITI, resource companies will level the playing field, says Clare Short
CLARE Short isn’t a woman who shies away from a challenge – or from controversy. A former member of the UK parliament and Secretary of State for International Development in Tony Blair’s New Labour government, she cut a swathe through Westminster during her 27-year parliamentary career. After deciding not to stand for office again at the UK’s general election last year, Short is no longer a fixture in Whitehall, the spiritual home of the UK government. But she has not left public life behind. In March, Short formally took over as chair of the board of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), picking up the reins left by Transparency International founder Peter Eigen. Short’s
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