The report was prepared by the OECD Directorate for Public Governance (GOV) under the leadership of Elsa Pilichowski, Director for Public Governance, and the direction of Julio Bacio Terracino, Head of GOV’s Public Sector Integrity Division. Under the guidance of Frédéric Boehm, this report was co-ordinated by Alice Berggrun with support from Viktoriya Minovska, Hans Christensen and Emeline Denis. A first draft of Chapter 2 was written by Karen Hussmann and Stephen Heyneman. Meral Gedik prepared the report for publication. Administrative assistance was provided by Aman Johal and Samantha Sanchez.
The OECD expresses its gratitude to the Romanian Government, in particular to representatives of the Directorate for Crime Prevention, Ministry of Justice. The OECD thanks public officials from the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Finance. Other stakeholders that contributed to the report were the National Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA), National Integrity Agency (ANI), National Agency of Civil Service (NACS), the General Anti-Corruption Directorate (GAD) and the National Agency for the Management of Seized Assets (ANABI). Private sector representatives included, AMCHAM Romania, the Romanian Association of Banks, and the Romanian Chamber of Commerce. Furthermore, the OECD would like to thank the anti-corruption non-governmental organizations (NGO) as well as local public administration for their availability.
The OECD thanks the EEA and Norway Grants Initiative for its financial support.