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 Giulio Nessi, Carissa Munro, Jennifer Eddie, and Natalia Sandoval Peña.
Valuable comments were received from Frédéric Boehm, Juan Pablo Bolaños, Levke Jessen-Thiesen, Felicitas Neuhaus, Frederic St. Martin, and Fabiola Perales, who also supported the fact-checking process. Editorial assistance was provided by Andrea Uhrhammer and Victoria Elliott. The report was prepared for publication by Meral Gedik, Thibaut Gigou and Laura McDonald. Alpha Zambou, Rania Haidar, Stephen Flynn, and Laura Roberts provided administrative assistance.
The OECD expresses its gratitude to the Government of the State of Nuevo León for its fruitful co-operation and leadership. In particular, the OECD would like to thank Governor Jaime Heliodoro Rodríguez Calderón; Acting Head of the Office of the Comptroller for Government Transparency, Jesús Hernández Martínez; Acting Head of the Executive Agency for Co-ordination of the State’s Public Administration, Gerardo Guajardo Cantú; Co-ordinator for Strategic Priorities and Compliance of the Executive Agency for Co-ordination of the State’s Public Administration, Adriana Quiroz Quiroz; former Co-ordinator for Citizen Engagement of the Executive Agency for Co-ordination of the State’s Public Administration, José Dávalos Siller; Co-ordinator for Engagement and Strategic Reviews of the Office of the Comptroller for Government Transparency, César Davis Moncada; former Head of the Office of the Comptroller for Government Transparency, Nora Elia Cantú Suárez; and former Head of the Anti-corruption Unit, Mariana Téllez Yañez; as well as the entire team and all the departments of the government of Nuevo León involved in this process, namely the Office of the Comptroller for Government Transparency and its Anti-corruption Unit, the Executive Agency for Co-ordination of the State’s Public Administration, the Ministry for Administration, the Ministry of Finance and Treasury, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Social Development, the State Institute for Youth, the General Attorney’s Office through the Deputy Attorney Specialised on Anticorruption, the State Legislature, the Superior Audit office of the State of Nuevo León, the Tribunal of Administrative Justice of the State of Nuevo León, the Commission for Transparency and Freedom of Information of the State of Nuevo León, the Nuevo León Strategic Planning Council, and the municipalities of Monterrey, San Nicolás de los Garza, and San Pedro Garza García.
Likewise, the OECD would like to thank civil society organisations and business chambers whose representatives were interviewed during the fact-finding missions, namely the Citizen Council’s Anticorruption Coalition, Cómo Vamos Nuevo León, COPARMEX Nuevo León, CANACO Monterrey, CAINTRA Nuevo León, CANIRAC Nuevo León, Chamber of Real state Owners of Nuevo León, CMIC Nuevo León, and Autonomous University of Nuevo León.
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 Nuevo Leon´s Office of the Comptroller for Government Transparency, business chambers, civil society organisations, and different ministries of the government of Nuevo León.
This report incorporates information shared during an OECD workshop on public ethics and management of conflicts of interest, which took place on 8-9 February 2018. Special thanks to the Office of the Comptroller for Government Transparency, the Executive Agency for Co-ordination of the State’s Public Administration, and their officials for their support in organising and carrying out this workshop.
The OECD is also grateful to the lead reviewers who participated in the domestic debate: Katarzyna Dudzik, Head of the International Cooperation Team, Civil Service Department, Chancellery of the Prime Minister (Poland); Victoria Parrilla Reino, Technical Advisor, Conflict of Interest Office, Ministry of Finance and Public Function (Spain); and Juan Carlos Sánchez Lara, Director of Resolutions, Unit for Ethics, Public Integrity and Prevention of Conflicts of Interests, Ministry of Public Administration (Federal Government of Mexico).
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 31 August 2018 and declassified by the Public Governance Committee on 24 September 2018. It was prepared for publication by the OECD Secretariat.