Christopher Stone is an American

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expert and Professor of Practice of Public Integrity at the

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at the

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. He was the President of the

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from 2012–2017, the global grantmaking network founded by

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. Prior to assuming that position in July 2012, he served as the Guggenheim Professor of the Practice of Criminal Justice at the Harvard Kennedy School from 2005–2012. While at

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, Stone also served as the faculty chair of the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management and as the faculty director of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations. His work at Harvard included research on justice reform in China and Turkey, the development of performance indicators for the justice sector in developing countries, and research on the establishment of the

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. Before joining the

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faculty, Stone was president and director of the

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. There, he served as director of Vera's London office, as the founding director of the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, a nonprofit, community-based public defender in New York City, and as one of three founding directors of the New York State Capital Defender Office. He also initiated the Institute's work on justice reform in South Africa, Russia, Chile, and China. Stone received his AB from Harvard, an MPhil. in criminology from the

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, and his JD from the

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. In 2006 he was awarded an honorary OBE for contributions to criminal justice reform in the United Kingdom.

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Official Open Society Foundations biography of Christopher Stone
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