Andrew Feinstein
Executive Director, Corruption Watch (website)
twitter: @andrewfeinstein web: shadowworldbook.com
email: andrewfeinstein [at] me [dot] com
phone: +44 (0) 7809 728164
Executive Director, Corruption Watch (website)
twitter: @andrewfeinstein web: shadowworldbook.com
email: andrewfeinstein [at] me [dot] com
phone: +44 (0) 7809 728164
corruption | arms sales | Africa
Andrew Feinstein is Founding Director of Corruption Watch, an NGO that uses case studies of large-scale corruption to create policy proposals for the purpose of combating corrupt behavior by governments and corporations. He also chairs the Friends of the Treatment Action Campaign (FoTAC), a UK-based organization campaigning for access to treatment of people living with HIV/Aids in South Africa. Andrew was a former African National Congress (ANC) Member of Parliament in South Africa for 7 years before resigning in protest at the ANC's refusal to allow an independent and comprehensive inquiry into a multi-million dollar arms deal. Feinstein has written two books on the illicit global arms trade, The Shadow World and After the Party, which is a detailed account of his time spent within the ANC and the cover up involving the arms deal scandal. Feinstein was educated at King's College Cambridge, the University of California at Berkley, and the University of Cape Town and also participated in the London School of Economics Distinguished Visitors Programme. He regularly appears on a variety of broadcast media including BBC and Al Jazeera and authored the lead article in the SIPRI Yearbook 2011.
Based on Feinstein's book The Shadow World, Johan Grimonprez directed documentary film Shadow World.
Andrew Feinstein is Founding Director of Corruption Watch, an NGO that uses case studies of large-scale corruption to create policy proposals for the purpose of combating corrupt behavior by governments and corporations. He also chairs the Friends of the Treatment Action Campaign (FoTAC), a UK-based organization campaigning for access to treatment of people living with HIV/Aids in South Africa. Andrew was a former African National Congress (ANC) Member of Parliament in South Africa for 7 years before resigning in protest at the ANC's refusal to allow an independent and comprehensive inquiry into a multi-million dollar arms deal. Feinstein has written two books on the illicit global arms trade, The Shadow World and After the Party, which is a detailed account of his time spent within the ANC and the cover up involving the arms deal scandal. Feinstein was educated at King's College Cambridge, the University of California at Berkley, and the University of Cape Town and also participated in the London School of Economics Distinguished Visitors Programme. He regularly appears on a variety of broadcast media including BBC and Al Jazeera and authored the lead article in the SIPRI Yearbook 2011.
Based on Feinstein's book The Shadow World, Johan Grimonprez directed documentary film Shadow World.
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The documentary Shadow World aims to critically discuss the global arms trade by looking at complicity of governments, intelligence agencies and other invested actors. It premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2016. It has won Best Documentary Film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2016, which took place in June and July, as well as the Seminci Film Festival in October.
Upcoming screenings include . • 5 November, Right Now Film Festival 2016 in Exeter Phoenix, England (Post-screening Q&A with researcher, writer and activist Paul Holden) • 7 November, Amnesty International Film Festival | Festival Cinéma & droits humains 2016, in Paris, France • 9 November, Transparency International Danmark in Solbjerg Plads, SPs14 (Coloplast auditorium), Fredriksberg, Denmark • 17 - 20 November IDFA 2016 in Amsterdam, Netherlands • 18 - 20 November TakeOneAction film festival in Inverness, Scotland, UK • 19 November in De Balie, Amsterdam, Netherlands • 23 November, Belgium cinema premier, Details TBA • 1 - 4 December, International Anti-Corruption Conference, Panama City, Panama |
Recent Publications:
- "The Anglo-Italian Job: Leonardo, AgustaWestland and Corruption Around the World," Corruption Watch UK, June 2018.*