Under the direction of Elsa Pilichowski, OECD Director for Public Governance, and Julio Bacio Terracino, Acting Head of the Public Sector Integrity Division, this project was led by Gavin Ugale, who also drafted Chapter 1 and edited throughout the report. Dr. Mihaly Fazekas, Assistant Professor at Central European University and Scientific Director at the Government Transparency Institute, designed the machine learning model described in Chapter 2 and drafted Chapter 3, with support from Viktoriia Poltoratskaia. Varun Banthia supported the research and drafting process. Meral Gedik, Andrea Uhrhammer, Laura Völker and Elisabeth de Vega Alavedra provided editorial assistance. Charles Victor and Aman Johal provided administrative support, and Balazs Gyimesi contributed to communications and publication design.
The OECD is grateful to colleagues in the General Comptroller of the State Administration of Spain (IGAE) for their fruitful co-operation and leadership. In particular, the OECD would like to thank Isabel Silva Urien and Ismael García Cebada, as well as their teams, including Carlos Collado Molinero, Pablo Lanza Suárez and Israel Barroso Pérez. The OECD would also like to thank Ciresica Feyer of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Structural Reform Support (DG REFORM) for her guidance throughout the project and input on the draft report.