Robert Klitgaard is a University Professor at Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA. His sixteen books include "Tropical Gangsters," named one of the New York Times’ Books of the Century.. Formerly a professor at Harvard and Yale and Dean of the Pardee RAND Graduate School, he has been an adviser and researcher in more than 40 countries around the world. He and his wife Elaine van Biljon Klitgaard have four children.