Michael Jarvis

Biography

Michael is an expert in good governance and multi-stakeholder approaches and a champion of impactful funding for these issues. He leads the Trust, Accountability and Inclusion Collaborative – Funders for Participatory Governance (formerly the Transparency and Accountability Initiative), which is a platform for funder learning and collective action, leveraging over $500 in active grants, at the intersection of climate, democratic and fiscal accountability and justice. Michael advises philanthropic and government donors on programming and practices.

In past roles, notably at the World Bank, Michael incubated new initiatives ranging from collective action against corruption to a business alliance against malnutrition to the Open Contracting Partnership that promotes better outcomes from the estimated $9.5 trillion in public-private contracts globally. With deep expertise on natural resource governance issues, Michael was the World Bank’s Global Lead for Extractives Governance.