Laura Neuman

Laura is Senior Advisor, Office of the Vice President of Peace Programs, on the implementation of the Carter Center’s programming regarding transparency and good governance and leads the Inform Women, Transform Lives campaign. As part of the campaign, she supports cities around the world in improving service delivery, particularly for women and marginalized populations. Laura developed the innovative Implementation Assessment Tool for access-to-information legislation and the Center’s Women and the Right of Access to Information programming. She previously led Carter Center programming related to establishing and implementing access to information regimes, transparency in the security sector, and access to justice and has assured a gender focus in all programming.

Laura has written widely on the right of access to information, fostering transparency, and preventing corruption, and has presented at numerous international seminars and conferences. She has served as a consultant to the United Nations, the U.S. State Department, the World Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank, among others. Prior to joining The Carter Center in August 1999, she was a staff attorney at Legal Action of Wisconsin. She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School.