On October 30th and 31st, 2017, the Inter-American Dialogue, the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center, and Transparency International will host a group of 28 anticorruption experts to discuss and draft recommendations for the VIII Summit of the Americas to be hosted in Peru in April, 2018.
The Summit of the Americas is the primary leaders’ forum for the Western Hemisphere and one of the most important instruments of Inter-American multilateral diplomacy, bringing together all 35 heads of state to discuss pressing challenges at the highest level. For the first time, the 2018 Summit will specifically focus on corruption as a regional and shared challenge. The Government of Peru has announced the Summit theme as “Democratic Governance against Corruption.”
