Bruce F. Freed
Bruce F. Freed
President and Founder
Center for Political Accountability
Bruce F. Freed is President and a founder of the Center for Political Accountability. In addition to heading the Center, he is a member of the advisory board of the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and Transparency International–USA’s Policy Advisory Council.
Mr. Freed brings over 30 years of experience in politics, strategic public affairs and journalism. As the business and politics columnist from 1998 to 2003 for The Hill, a newspaper that covers Congress, he was the first to explore the implications of the absence of transparency and accountability in corporate soft money giving. Mr. Freed also commented on business and politics on Public Radio International's Marketplace.
He spent a decade on Capitol Hill as chief investigator for the Senate Banking Committee, staff director of a House subcommittee, and a senior aide to two members of the House leadership. Mr. Freed began his career as a journalist with the Baltimore Sun Papers, Congressional Quarterly and Wall Street Journal.
Publications by Bruce F. Freed
Reports
- Political Money: The Need for Director Oversight 03 April, 2008
Guide & References
- Navigating Politics: Rethink your company's political spending—before the next election cycle 16 January, 2013
- Dangerous Terrain: How to manage corporate political spending in a risky new environment 02 January, 2012
- Handbook on Corporate Political Activity: Emerging Corporate Governance Issues 01 November, 2010