The report was prepared by the OECD Directorate for Public Governance (GOV) under the leadership of Elsa Pilichowski, Director for Public Governance, and Carlos Santiso, Head of the Open and Innovative Government Division, and under the direction of Marco Daglio, Head of the OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation (OPSI). The report was developed by Heather Buisman with direct contributions from Toby Baker, Simone Parazzoli and Jamie Berryhill and a review by Piret Tõnurist. The drafting and research of the regional dimensions of this report, including Chapter 3: Detailed findings – municipal level, was led by Piotr Swiatek with the support of Anna Whicher, Olivia Goonatillake, Oliver Sutcliffe and Lilita Sparane.
This project would not be possible without the co-ordination and support of the project team of the Latvian State Chancellery including Inese Malašenoka, Elīna Mīļā, Evija Taurene, Jānis Ķīnasts, Anna Deksne and Inese Kušķe, in addition to the strategic guidance of Jānis Citskovskis, Director of the Latvia State Chancellery. The OPSI would also like to thank the following colleagues from the OECD, Latvian Government and beyond for their review of this assessment report: Conor Das-Doyle, Laura Dimitrijeva, Nuriyah Haque, Seong Ju Park, Kaspars Ņesterovs, Silvia Picalarga, Claire Salama, Benedict Stefani, Andrea Uhrhammer and Marie Whelan.
The OECD would like to thank Sebastien Renaud, Florian Hauser, Johannes Boermann and Paola Gaffurini of the Directorate-General for Structural Reform Support of the European Commission for guiding the implementation of this project.