The report was prepared by the Directorate of Public Governance under the leadership of Elsa Pilichowski, OECD Director for Public Governance (GOV) and Julio Bacio Terracino, Head of GOV’s Public Sector Integrity division. The report was co-ordinated by Carissa Munro and Pauline Bertrand. Chapters were drafted by Alice Berggrun, Pauline Bertrand, Matej Blazek, Laura Córdoba Reyes and Carissa Munro. Editorial and administrative assistance was provided by Meral Gedik.
The OECD wishes to thank the European Commission for the financial support through the Technical Support Instrument (21MT01).
The project, including this report, benefitted from the invaluable expertise of both the former and current Commissioner for Standards in Public Life and their staff: Dr. George Hyzler and Chief Justice Emeritus Joseph Azzopardi, Mr. Charles Polidano, Dr. Nikola Soukmandjiev, Dr. Sarah Pace Warrington, Dr. Anthony Borg Barthet, Mr. Stephen Paris, Dr. David Fabri, Ms. Rachel Attard, Chev. Donatienne Zammit and Ms. Mona Scerri.
The OECD is also thankful to the number of government officials who gave their insights to the project, including the Speaker of the House of Representatives and members of the Committee for Standards in Public Life, the Honourable Members of the House of Representatives, as well as officials from the Office of the Prime Minister, the Office of the Ombudsman, the State Advocate, the National Audit Office, the Ministry for Justice and Governance, the Commissioner for Revenue, the Commissioner of Police, and the Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit.
The project also benefitted from insights from the Chamber of Commerce, the Chamber of SMEs, the Malta Employer Association, the University of Malta, the civil society movement Repubblika, the Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation, Moviment Graffiti, the Institute of Maltese Journalists (IGM) and the Times of Malta.
Finally, the OECD would like to thank the peers who gave of their time and expertise to this project, including Ms. Kathryn Stone (former Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, United Kingdom), Mr. Jean-François Routhier and Ms. Isabelle Belanger (Lobbyisme Québec, Canada), Ms. Sarah Duturc (Haute Autorité pour la transparence de la vie publique (HATVP), France), Ms. Evelina Matulaitienė (Chief Official Ethics Commission, Lithuania), and Mr. Silviu Popa (National Integrity Agency, Romania).