The report was prepared by the OECD Directorate for Public Governance (GOV) under the leadership of Elsa Pilichowski, as part of the work programme of the Governance Reviews and Partnerships Division, headed by Martin Forst.
The report was drafted by Daniel Acquah, policy analyst at the OECD at the time of drafting, under the strategic direction of Stephane Jacobzone, Head of Unit for evidence, monitoring and policy evaluation. Lizeth Fúquene also contributed significantly to the report drafting. Danielle Mulima and Katarzina Lisek contributed in the data collection and provided highly valuable research assistance. The report was prepared for publication by Ciara Muller and Amelia Godber helped with the cover. Roxana Glavanov and Meghan Hennessy provided secretarial assistance. Andrea Uhrhammer provided editorial guidance.
This report benefitted from insightful comments and feedback from many experts in government and academia. In particular, the authors would like to thank to all the panel of invited experts who participated in the expert meetings that took place in October 2018 at the inception of the project: Jonathan Breckon (UK, The Alliance for Useful Evidence), Diana Epstein (US, Office for Management and Budget); Peter Gluckman (President Elect, International Science Council and Chair International Network for Government Science Advice), Justin O. Parkhurst, (UK, and London School of Economics), Paolo Paruolo (Head of the Competence Centre on Microeconomic Evaluation, European Commission), Ulla Rosenström (Prime Minister’s office, Finland) Knut Sundell (Sweden, Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services), Howard White (CEO of Campbell Collaboration). The authors would also like to thank the participants in an expert meeting in June 2019 to discuss a first version of the report and in subsequent exchanges. The report received detailed and comprehensive feedback from government officials. The authors are grateful in particular for the feedback and materials received from the following experts: Gabor Arany SGG, France; Adam Baiz and Marine de Montaignac (France Stratégie); Francis P. Crawley (Good Clinical Practice Alliance - Europe & EWG European Academy of Paediatrics); Charlotta Eriksson and Helen Forslind (Sweden); Marica Ferri (European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction - EMCDDA); Takeshi Fukaya (Advisor, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications - MIC), Japan; David Gough (UCL London); Daniel Gruss (Digitization of Public Administration Office, Germany); Marta Hugas (European Food Safety Authority), Julianna Kisné (Prime Minister’s Office, Hungary); Marie Lintzer (HAVP France); Susannah Luck (Australian Public Service Commission), Majella McCloskey Nuala Doherty (Centre for Effective Services, Ireland); David Mair (EC Joint Research Centre); Robyn Mildon, (Centre for Evidence and Implementation, Melbourne); Aline Pennisi and Alessandra de Lellis (Ministry of Finance Italy); Barbara Schmidt (Eurofound); Kasey Treadwell (Department of Children and Youth Affairs, Ireland); Ruth Puttick (NESTA, UK); Nynke De Witte (Ministry of Finance, the Netherlands).
The authors are grateful for the feedback received from Monica Brezzi, Barbara Ubaldi, Benjamin Welby, Arturo Rivera Perez and Cecilia Emilsson, of the OECD Public Governance Directorate, as well as from Andrew Wyckoff, Dirk Pilat and Suguru Iwaya of the OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation.
This document was approved by the OECD Public Governance Committee on 8 December 2020 and declassified on 8 December 2020.