Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair told a Stanford audience that much-needed economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa cannot go forward without improvements in governance. Blair is now the founder and patron of the African Governance Initiative, which works in Liberia, Guinea, Rwanda and Sierra Leone.


The speech was sponsored by the Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies (SEED) at the Stanford Graduate School of Business; Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law; Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; Center for African Studies; Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society; Stanford Association for International Development; Associated Students of Stanford University; and Stanford Speakers Bureau.

He spoke at the Stanford Business School on May 17, 2012.