LUCAS Seminar: Andrew Feinstein: 'The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade'

Location: SSB Room 11.13

Andrew Feinstein is a former ANC Member of Parliament in South Africa, a writer, campaigner and broadcaster. He is the author of “The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade” which reveals the corruption and malfeasance at the heart of the global arms business, both formal and illicit. A film of the book is currently being made by a New York production company. ‘The Shadow World’ was short-listed for the Alan Paton Prize for Non-fiction. [For further information on the book and film see http://theshadowworld.com/]. His previous book was the best-selling political memoir “After the Party: A Personal and Political Journey Inside the ANC”.

After involvement with the ANC while it was a banned organisation fighting apartheid, Andrew served as an ANC Member of Parliament for over seven years. He resigned in 2001 in protest at the ANC’s refusal to countenance an independent and comprehensive enquiry into a multi-billion dollar arms deal which was tainted by allegations of high level corruption. He was an Open Society Institute Fellow in 2010 and 2011, chairs the Friends of the Treatment Action Campaign, FoTAC, a UK based organisation campaigning for access to treatment for people living with HIV/Aids in South Africa and is a founding Director of Corruption Watch, an NGO using case studies of grand corruption to develop policy proposals to combat corrupt behaviour by corporations and governments.

Andrew works extensively with investigators, prosecutors and investigative journalists around the world, including currently in the US, Sweden, Austria, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland and Bosnia. He appears regularly in a range of print and broadcast media. These include, most often, the BBC, Al Jazeera, CNN, Sky, NPR, the Guardian, the New York Times, Die Zeit and the New Statesman. He recently co-authored the lead article in the Sipri Yearbook 2011 and a chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Organised Crime.

Andrew was educated at King’s College Cambridge, the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Cape Town. He has also spent time at the London School of Economics as a participant in that university’s Distinguished Visitors Programme and at the London Business School. He currently lives in London with his wife and two children.

Andrew will have copies of “The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade" for sale at the seminar.