negotiator between India and the Union Carbide Corporation over the Bhopal disaster. With the Indian environmentalist, advocate and writer, Dr. Rashmi Mayur, Kurtzman met with senior officials at Union Carbide, including its chairman and CEO, Warren Anderson, and with U.S. and Indian government officials, with a proposal to have settlement funds for victims of the disaster administered by an independent council made up of well-known leaders from around the world. The funds were to be administered from Switzerland. The aim of the proposal was to insure funds would be dispensed to individuals impacted by the disaster in a timely way, and to protect against losses due to corruption. The proposal had support, but was never acted upon. In 2000, he was awarded India's 16th Annual Global Indira Gandhi Prize by the Priyadarshni Academy, in Mumbai, for his work in Thought Leadership. During his tenure as Global Thought Leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Joel Kurtzman created The Opacity Index, which is now the subject of a full-length book, The Global Edge, published by Harvard Business School Press. Using established data bases and 70 different metrics, the Opacity Index measures the risk-based cost of doing business around the world by looking at 5 "CLEAR" factors: Conflict/Corruption levels, Legal practices, Economic factors, Accounting, and Regulatory practices (spelling the acronym C-L-E-A-R). The resulting index rank orders some 53 countries by their scores. A study of the Opacity Index will provide companies who have global imperatives a dashboard for assessing the risk associated with their expansion. The Opacity Index is published regularly by the Kurtzman Group, with research support from the Milken Institute. BibliographyUnless specified otherwise, the information was extracted from Amazon.com. Unleashing the Second American Century: Four Forces for Economic Dominance, Perseus/Public Affairs, 2014 Common Purpose: How Great Leaders Get Organizations to Achieve the Extraordinary, Jossey-Bass, 2010 How the Market Can Curb Climate Change September/October 2009 Foreign Affairs Global Edge: Using the Opacity Index to Manage the Risks of Cross-border Business, Harvard Business School Press, 2007 Startups That Work: Surprising Research on What Makes or Breaks a New Company, Portfolio/Putnam Business, September, 2005, New York MBA in a Box: Practical Ideas from the Best Brains in Business, 2004, Random House, New York How the Markets Really Work, May 2002, Random House, New York Radical E, May 2001, John Wiley & Sons, New York Thought Leaders: Insights on the Future of Business, Jossey-Bass/Simon & Schuster, San Francisco,