Hope, Sr., Kempe Ronald

Kempe Ronald Hope, Sr. is a Director at Development Practice International (DPI), Ontario, Canada. He was formerly a senior official with the United Nations; a Program Manager at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID); and variously a Professor of Economics, Development Management, and African Studies at the University of North Carolina (Charlotte); the Atlanta University Center; the University of Botswana (where he was also the Founding Director of the Center of Specialization in Public Administration and Management [CESPAM]); and a Fulbright Professor of Economics at the University of the West Indies (Jamaica campus). He has also advised several governments on anti-corruption and development policy and management reforms. The views he expresses here are private and do not necessarily represent the views of DPI or any other organization to which he is currently or was formerly affiliated. His most recent books are Corruption and Governance in Africa: Swaziland (now Eswatini), Kenya, Nigeria (Palgrave Macmillan/Springer, 2017); Police Corruption and Police Reforms in Developing Societies (CRC Press/Taylor and Francis, 2016); and The Political Economy of Development in Kenya (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013).