The report was prepared by the OECD Public Sector Integrity Division of the Directorate for Public Governance (GOV) under the leadership of Elsa Pilichowski, OECD Director for Public Governance, and Julio Bacio Terracino, Head of the Public Sector Integrity Division. It was co-ordinated and drafted by Frédéric Boehm and Laura Córdoba Reyes. María Camila Porras provided invaluable support throughout the project, in particular in the design, implementation and analysis of the survey.
The report also benefitted from comments and the broader work on leadership in Brazil carried out by Daniel Gerson and Felicitas Neuhaus from the Public Management and Budgeting Division in GOV. Chiara Varazzani and Henrietta Tuomaila from GOV’s Open and Innovative Government Division also provided comments from the behavioural insights’ perspective. The OECD also thanks Daniella Carrizo from Servicio Civil Chile for peer reviewing the draft report. Meral Gedik provided editorial and administrative assistance.
The OECD thanks the team of the Office of the Comptroller General of the Union (Controladoria-Geral da União, CGU). Izabela Moreira Correa (Secretary of Public Integrity, Secretária de Integridade Pública) and her team provided feedback and comments on the draft: Renata Alves de Figueiredo, Tatiana Petry, Flavia Lemos Sampaio Xavier, Monique Cerqueira Zuidema, Pepe Tonin and Walter Godoy Neto. The OECD also thanks former minister Wagner de Campos Rosário for his leadership and involvement in this project. Carolina Souto Carballido provided invaluable ideas, comments and several fruitful discussions around preliminary findings and recommendations as well as support in organising interviews and focus groups.
The OECD would also like to thank all the public officials and entities who took part in the process, either by responding to the OECD-CGU Survey on integrity and leadership in the Brazilian Executive Branch or by participating in interviews or focus groups. Finally, the OECD thanks the 30 Integrity Management Units that answered the OECD questionnaire sent out in 2020. All this information contributed to the preparation of the report.