Nov. 15, 2017

Remarks Prepared for Delivery by Special Inspector General John F. Sopko at the Annual Association of Inspectors General Training Conference, Austin, TX

Oct. 26, 2017

Remarks Prepared for Delivery by Special Inspector General John F. Sopko at the National Defense University, Fort McNair, Washington, DC

Oct. 17, 2017

Remarks Prepared for Delivery by Special Inspector General John F. Sopko at the 23rd Annual Herbert Rubin and Justice Rose Luttan Rubin International Law Symposium Presented by the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics, New York, NY

Oct. 16, 2017

Remarks Prepared for Delivery by Special Inspector General John F. Sopko at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, New York, NY

Sept. 21, 2017

Remarks Prepared for Delivery by Special Inspector General John F. Sopko at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC

April 5, 2017

Remarks Prepared for Delivery by Special Inspector General John F. Sopko at the Centre for International Policy Studies & the Fragile States Network at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, CA

March 23, 2017

Remarks Prepared for Delivery by Special Inspector General John F. Sopko at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, Durham, NC

Jan. 11, 2017

Remarks Prepared for Delivery by Special Inspector General John F. Sopko at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC

Oct. 20, 2016

Remarks Prepared for Delivery by Special Inspector General John F. Sopko at Syracuse University’s Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism, Syracuse, NY

“Corruption: Sand in the Gears of Afghan Reconstruction”Thank you for the kind introduction.  I would also like to thank Dr. de Nevers and the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism for the invitation to be here today as one of the David Everett Post Conflict Reconstruction speakers. Having seen the list of the prior speakers, I only

Sept. 14, 2016

Remarks Prepared for Delivery by Special Inspector General John F. Sopko on the release of SIGAR’s first lessons learned report, “Corruption in Conflict: Lessons from the U.S. Experience in Afghanistan.”

Corruption in Conflict: Lessons from the U.S. Experience in AfghanistanGood morning, ladies and gentlemen:I am pleased to be with you today to release SIGAR’s first lessons-learned publication, a study of how the United States has understood and tried to address corruption in Afghanistan.As this audience, more than most, understands, corruption is