The report was prepared by the Governance Indicators and Performance Evaluation Division in the OECD Directorate for Public Governance, under the leadership of Elsa Pilichowski, Director. Santiago González co-ordinated the report, under the direction of Monica Brezzi.
The report was drafted by Frédéric Boehm, Monica Brezzi, Santiago González and Mariana Prats, supported by the statistical assistance of Laura-Sofia Springare and Guillaume Guinard. The report greatly benefitted from useful comments provided by Miguel Amaral, Janos Bertok, Claudia Chwalisz, Emma Cantera, David Goessman, Felipe González-Zapata, Claire McEvoy, Anna Pietikainen, Arturo Rivera Perez, Piret Tonurist and Gregor Virant in the Public Governance Directorate and David Carey from the Economics Department. Editorial assistance was provided by Dacil Kurzweg.
The team in the Public Governance Department at the Finance Ministry of Finance in Finland in charge of co-ordinating and supervising this study was composed by Katju Holkeri, Johanna Nurmi, Tuomas Parkkari and Onni Pekonen under the leadership of Juha Sarkio, Director General, Public Governance Department.
The study benefitted greatly from insights provided by experts and different stakeholders during more than 40 semi-structured interviews carried in May 2020 as well as the workshop on the preliminary findings of “The Drivers of Trust in Government Institutions in Finland” organised by the Ministry of Finance of Finland and the OECD in February 2021. The OECD would like to thank all people interviewed and all workshop participants for their inputs to this study.
Finally, this study also benefited from invaluable input provided by OECD peers, in particular Hildengunn Vollset (Deputy Director General, Norwegian Agency for Public and Financial Management) and Hugo Vitalis (Manager of Strategy and Policy, New Zealand Public Commission), who took part in the virtual workshop “The Drivers of Trust in Government Institutions in Finland”.