Activist/author Pisani sees a place for corruption

At TEDx Ubud earlier this month, author and activist Elizabeth Pisani highlighted how corruption fits into social and political contexts, a vexing issue for US companies doing business overseas. Pisani, who will also appear next month’s Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, also noted that corruption isn’t always about self-enrichment.

Totally globalized native New Yorker and former broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is a blogger for Forbes and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about television news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook and Twitter @MuhammadCohen.