Under the direction and oversight of Marcos Bonturi, OECD Director for Public Governance, and János Bertók, Head of the Public Sector Integrity Division, this review was co-ordinated by Jacobo Pastor García Villarreal, Senior Policy Analyst, with the support of Julio Bacio Terracino, Deputy Head of the Public Sector Integrity Division. The authors of the chapters were Felicitas Neuhaus, Jennifer Eddie, Kenza Khachani, and Natalia Sandoval Peña.
Valuable comments were received from Frédéric Boehm, Juan Pablo Bolaños, Giulio Nessi, Levke Jessen-Thiesen, Frederic St. Martin and Fabiola Perales, who also supported the fact-checking process. Editorial assistance was provided by Thibaut Gigou and Meral Gedik. Alpha Zambou, Rania Haidar, Edwina Collins, and Pauline Alexandrov provided administrative assistance.
The OECD expresses its gratitude to the Government of Mexico City for its fruitful co-operation and leadership. In particular, the OECD would like to thank Mayor José Ramón Amieva Gálvez, former Mayor Miguel Ángel Mancera, Comptroller-General Eduardo Rovelo Pico, as well as the entire team and all the departments of the government of Mexico City involved in this process, namely the Office of the Comptroller General of Mexico City, the Chief Administrator Office (Oficialía Mayor), the Attorney’s Office (Procuraduría General de Justicia de la Ciudad de México), and the ministries of Finance, Education, Health, Social Development, and Public Works and Services of Mexico City. Likewise, the OECD would like to thank other institutions whose representatives were interviewed during the fact-finding missions, namely the Legislative Assembly, the Superior Audit Office of Mexico City, Delegations, and the Institute for Transparency, Freedom of Information, Personal Data Protection and Accountability of Mexico City (InfoDF). Luis Antonio García Calderón, General Director for Internal Control in Public Entities, served as the contact point of the Office of the Comptroller General to follow up the co-operation. Ambassador Mónica Aspe and Maya Alejandra Camacho Dávalos, from the Permanent Delegation of Mexico to the OECD, were instrumental in supporting the OECD in this project.
This review is part of a series of governance reviews in OECD and G20 countries. It is also part of a series of sub-national reviews in Mexico to advance good governance and public integrity. The review benefited from inputs provided by senior officials from Mexico City´s Office of the Comptroller-General, state legislators, business chambers, civil society organisations, and ministries of the government of Mexico City.
This report incorporates information shared during two OECD workshops on public ethics and management of conflicts of interest and on developing an integrity strategy. Special thanks to the Office of the Comptroller General and its officials for their support in organising and carrying out these workshops.
The OECD is also grateful to the lead reviewers who participated in the domestic debate: Christian Buske, Head of Unit, Ministry of Economic Affairs of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany and Karen Hussman, Project Director, Actue Colombia.
The OECD Mexico Centre, under the leadership of Roberto Martínez, and the staff in charge of publications, notably Alejandro Camacho, were instrumental in co-ordinating the editorial process for the Spanish publication.
This document was approved by the OECD Working Party of the Senior Public Integrity Officials (SPIO) on 30 April 2018 and declassified by the Public Governance Committee on 12 June 2018. It was prepared for publication by the OECD Secretariat.