This report was prepared by the Public Sector Integrity Division of the OECD Directorate for Public Governance under the leadership and guidance of Janós Bertók and Julio Bacio Terracino. It was developed by Levke Jessen-Thiesen and Frédéric Boehm with contributions from Carissa Munro, Felicitas Neuhaus, Frédéric St-Martin, James Drummond, Jennifer Eddie and Laura McDonald. Preparatory work had been done by Jovana Blagotic. Invaluable inputs and comments were provided by Christopher Swartz, United States Office of Government Ethics; Johann Graf Lambsdorff, University of Passau, and Sheheryar Banuri, University of East Anglia. The report benefitted from the editorial assistance provided by Meral Gedik, Thibaut Gigou, Andrea Uhrhammer and David McDonald as well as Edwina Collins’ administrative support.
The review was approved by the OECD Working Party of Senior Public Integrity Officials (SPIO) on 15 December 2017 and declassified by the Public Governance Committee on 06 February 2018.