Under the leadership of the OECD Working Party of Senior Public Integrity Officials and the guidance of Elsa Pilichowski, Director for Public Governance, and Janos Bertok, Deputy Director for Public Governance, this report was coordinated and drafted by Julio Bacio Terracino, Acting Head of the Public Sector Integrity Division and Pauline Bertrand, Policy Analyst. Mariana Prats, Emilie Cazenave and Carissa Munro contributed to the analytical foundations of the report and authored early sections. The report was prepared for publication by Meral Gedik and edited by Victoria Elliott. Figures and tables were designed by Marie Mantopoulos. Editorial and administrative assistance was also provided by Aman Johal, Andrea Uhrhammer, Balazs Gyimesi, and Laura Völker.
Special thanks go to the delegates and senior public officials participating in the OECD Working Party of Senior Public Integrity Officials for sharing information and co-ordinating responses to the 2020 OECD Survey on Lobbying for public officials. Respondents to the 2020 OECD Survey on Lobbying for public officials in the executive branch were country delegates responsible for integrity policies and/or lobbying-related rules and their implementation in central governments.
This report also benefited from invaluable input provided by Frédéric Boehm, Giulio Nessi, Jacobo Garcia Villarreal, Jeroen Michels, and Santiago Wortman Jofre (Public Sector Integrity Division). Contributions were also received from Alessandro Bellantoni, Alexis Bernigaud, Benedict Stefani, Claire McEvoy, Claudia Chwalisz, Jae Kyung Lee, Karine Badr, Stéphane Jacobzone (Directorate for Public Governance); Greg Medcraft, Cristina Tebar Less, Barbara Bijelic, Louis Marechal, Benjamin Rutledge, Alejandra Tadeu, Caio De Oliveria, Despinia Pachnou, Miles Larbey, Winfrid Blaschke (Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs); Rodolfo Lacy and Eija Kiiskinen (Environment Directorate); Andrew Wyckoff (Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation); Pascal Saint-Amans (Centre for Tax Policy and Administration); Koen Deconninck and Ellie Avery (Trade and Agriculture Directorate); Stefano Scarpetta, Angelica Salvi Del Pero, Francesca Colombo, and Michele Cechini (Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs); Carol Guthrie and Sandra Wilson (Public Affairs and Communications Directorate); Cristiana Vitale and Tomasz Kozluk (Economics Department); Céline Folsché and Claire Marguerettaz (Directorate for Legal Affairs); Sarah Finke and Céline Dupeuble (Council and Executive Committee Secretariat); and Hanni Rosenbaum and Frederick Lange (Business at OECD).
The report also benefited from expert input from Vaishnavi Ravishankar and Athanasia Karananou (Principles for Responsible Investment); Jean-François Routhier et Isabelle Bélanger (Commissaire au Lobbyisme du Québec); Matti Van Hecke and Isabelle de Vinck (European Public Affairs Consultancies' Association); Jerome Tagger and Hammish Stewart (Preventable Surprises); Dylan Tanner, Edward Collins, William Aitchison (Influence Map); Facundo Etchebehere (Danone); Alison Taylor (Ethical Systems); Alberto Alemano (The Good Lobby).
Particular appreciation goes to the respondents of the 2020 OECD Survey on Lobbying for Lobbyists, who were made up of representatives from 157 lobbying associations and other interest groups and responded in their personal capacity.
Finally special thanks are extended to the 116 individual Members of Parliament from a wide range of countries who responded to the 2020 OECD Survey on Lobbying for legislators.