The report was prepared by the OECD Directorate for Public Governance (GOV), under the leadership of Elsa Pilichowski, Director of GOV, and Janos Bertok, Deputy Director of GOV. Valerie Frey co-ordinated the report under the direction of Monica Brezzi, Head of the Governance Indicators and Performance Division in GOV.
The report was written by Valerie Frey (Chapters 1, 2, 4, 6), David Nguyen (Chapter 3), and Sarah Hermanutz (Chapter 5). Statistical support was provided by David Nguyen, Injeong Hwang, Sina Smid and Alessandro Lupi. The report greatly benefitted from comments provided by Monica Brezzi, Santiago Gonzalez, Mariana Prats, and Barbara Baredes. Meral Gedik and Thibaut Gigou prepared the report for publication and dissemination, and Vanessa Berry-Chatelain, Gillian Dorner, Justin Kavanagh, Camila Saffirio and Andrea Uhrhammer supported communication.
The report benefitted from extensive feedback provided by Delegates to the OECD Public Governance Committee and members of the Advisory Group for the Trust Survey. The Advisory Group for the Trust Survey, comprised of public officials, national statistical offices, and academic researchers, also provided guidance and constructive feedback on questionnaire content, design and translation in local languages and on survey methodology. Delegates to the Committee of Statistics and Statistical Policy also provided useful comments on survey method.