Conference on Public Integrity

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The Office of the Comptroller General (CGU) is holding the International Conference on Public Integrity on December 5 and 6 at the Poupex Theater in Brasília. The event will feature panels composed by national and international experts.

Among the topics covered are: the formation of strategies for the effective promotion of public integrity; the contemporary debate on the fight against corruption and how integrity actions relate to this debate; the intersections of the theme of integrity with the agenda of guarantees of rights; innovations in the theme of integrity; the sharing of good practices in public integrity; among others.

Anna Petherick 

Dr Anna Petherick is Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, where she directs the Lemann Foundation Programme, is co-Principal Investigator of the OxCGRT project, and lectures on the core graduate course, the Politics of Policymaking, as well as teaching several executive courses. Anna’s research looks at relationships between gender, identity, political polarisation, corruption, trust and integrity. The Lemann Foundation Programme has a broad remit to generate knowledge and conduct engagement to improve the public sector, working mostly in Brazil but also in other developing countries. OxCGRT was the world’s main data source on government policies during the COVID-19 pandemic. Before becoming an academic, she was a journalist at The Economist and a section editor at the journal Nature.

Ana Luiza Melo Aranha

Ana holds a PhD and a Master's degree in Political Science from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), where her dissertation was awarded the best doctoral thesis in the field in 2015. She currently serves as the Senior Manager of the Collective Action Against Corruption Program of the United Nations Global Pact (United States). Ana has previously worked as a researcher at the Center for Public Sector Economy and Policy and as a professor at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV-SP) and Insper. She was also a researcher at Transparency International - Brazil, contributing to the development of its Anti-Corruption Knowledge Center. Her international experiences include a position as visiting researcher at the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions at the University of British Columbia (UBC, Canada), an internship at the International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA, Austria), and volunteer work with the Canadian Red Cross. Ana is a recipient of the national award “Construindo a Igualdade de Gênero” (2010), promoted by the Presidency of the Republic and UN Women, and the international Youth Research Edge Competition (2018) by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). She holds a Bachelor's and a teaching degree in Social Sciences from UFMG and is certified in Project Management by UBC.

Bolaji Owasanoye

Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Nigeria.

Owasanoye started his career as assistant lecturer at the Lagos State University. He moved to the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (NIALS) in 1991 and became a Professor of law 10 years later. In August 2015, he was appointed as Executive Secretary of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) before being appointed to the ICPC in 2019.

He coordinated the draft of the asset recovery policy for Nigeria in 2015 and drafted the Whistleblower Policy in 2016. He was also involved in advocacy for passage of major anti-corruption bills in Nigeria including Nigeria Financial Intelligence Agency Act 2018, Proceeds of Crime Act 2022, and reenactment of the Money Laundering Prevention and Prohibition Act 2022 and the Terrorism Prevention Act 2022, amongst others.

At the continental level he was chairman of the Committee that drafted the ECOWAS Common Investment Code and the ECOWAS Common Investment Policy in 2011-2014. He was also member of the committee that drafted the AU Pan African Investment Code 2013-2015. Between 2018 and 2020 he participated in drafting and advocating adoption of the Common African Position on Asset Recovery (CAPAR) by the African Union in 2020 and is a member of the CAPAR Working Group. He served as member of the UN General Assembly/ECOSOC Financial Accountability, Transparency & Integrity (FACTI) Panel in 2020-2021. He is also a member of the Chandler Sessions on Public Integrity at the Oxford University Blavatnik School of Government.

His portfolio of consultancies include Nigerian federal and state agencies, as well as international development agencies such as the World Bank and USAID, DFID and UNITAR. In 1997, he co-founded the Human Development Initiative (HDI), a non-profit organisation. In 2020, He was awarded the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) in 2020, national honour of Officer of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (OFR) in 2022 and the National Productivity Order of Merit (NPOM) in 2022.

He is married with children.

Camila de Castro Barbosa Medeiros

Camila is a designer and has been a public servant since 2008. She holds a degree in Communication from the University of Brasília (UnB) and specialized in public management at UnB, as well as in design and communication at the Coco International School in Spain. As staff member of the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa), she co-founded the Innovation Laboratory LABiVISA. Currently, she is the Director of Innovation at GNova/Enap, where she was responsible for developing gov.br/desafios and the Open Innovation Strategy. She is also a faculty member in the Public Administration program at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation. Camila is one of the founders of the iGOVnights movement, a collective of public servants dedicated to promoting innovation in government. 

Carla de Paiva Bezerra

Carla Bezerra is the Director of Digital Participation and Network Communication at the National Secretariat for Social Participation, which is part of the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic. She holds a Ph.D. and a Master's degree in Political Science from the University of São Paulo and a Bachelor's degree in Law from the University of Brasília. She is also a member of the Specialist in Public Policy and Government Management career, with over 12 years of experience in the public sector, in a career that combines roles as a researcher and a manager.

Carolina Cornejo

Carolina Cornejo works as Americas Country Support Consultant at the Open Government Partnership, where she engages with government and civil society in South America to help them advance ambitious open government reforms. She has been working around institutional strengthening, transparency and citizen engagement for the past decade, both in government and civil society in Argentina. She holds a degree in Political Science (University of Buenos Aires) and an MA in Development Management and Policy (Georgetown University & Universidad Nacional de San Martín).  

Cátia Veloso

Cátia Veloso is an attorney, specialized in Business Law from FECAP/Juspodium and in Corporate Law from Insper. She is certified in Compliance by FGV/LEC and also by KPMG. She is a founding partner of MariaQuitéria, a compliance boutique that focuses on the development of people and processes from the perspective of integrity, sustainability, and diversity.

Évisson de Lucena

Évisson has been a Ministerial Analyst - IT at MPPE since 2006. Currently he serves as the General Manager of CTI Policies in the City of Recife. He was one of the creators and founders of E.I.T.A! Recife and MPLabs. He has held the positions of Executive Coordinator of MPLabs and Coordinator of Design and Innovation at STI/MPPE. He was the CIO of MPPE from 2013 to 2019. He worked as Production Manager at MPPE for 5 years. He coordinated the IT Policy Committee (CPTI) of FNG/CNMP. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the Pernambuco Federal University and has specialized in Software Engineering in partnership with Motorola/UFPE. He also has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Federal University of Paraíba. 

Fábio Costa Morais de Sa e Silva

Fabio de Sa e Silva is Assistant Professor of International Studies and Wick Cary Professor of Brazilian Studies at the University of Oklahoma and an affiliated fellow of Harvard Law School’s Center on the Legal Profession. He studies the social organization and the political impact of law and justice in Brazil and comparatively. An institution builder, Fabio co-directs the OU Center for Brazil Studies, is a member of the Executive Committee of the Brazilian Studies Association, and a Trustee of the Law and Society Association (LSA), Class of 2023. 
Fabio has a multidisciplinary background with training in law, social sciences, and public policy. He holds a BA in legal studies from the University of Sao Paulo, where he received a prestigious CAPES fellowship for studies in law and society. He also attained a Master of Laws at the University of Brasilia Law School and a PhD in Law, Policy, and Society at Northeastern University as a CAPES-Fulbright fellow.

Felipe Saboya Braga

An Industrial Engineer with a Master's degree in "Labor Policies and Globalization" from the University of Kassel, Germany. He has been involved in civil society organizations for over 15 years, working on topics such as corporate social responsibility, human rights, ethics, and integrity. He served as the Technical Coordinator of the Observatório Social Institute and has been working at the Ethos Institute since 2011, where he nationally coordinated the "Fair Play Inside and Outside the Stadiums" Project and served as the Executive Manager of Institutional Relations. Currently, he is the Deputy Director of the Ethos Institute.

Gabriela Spanghero Lotta 

Professor and researcher in Public Administration and Government at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV). She was a visiting professor at Oxford in 2021. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from USP, a master's degree, and a bachelor's degree in public administration from FGV. She is the coordinator of the Bureaucracy Studies Center (NEB). She teaches at the National School of Public Administration, ENAP. She is a researcher at the Center for Metropolitan Studies (CEM) and an affiliated researcher at Princeton's Brazil.Lab. In 2021, she was named one of the 100 most influential academics in the world in the field of government by the Apolitical organization.

Helena Wajnman

Executive Director of República.org, a Brazilian nonprofit organization dedicated to transforming human resource management in the public sector. She holds a master's degree in Applied Data, Economics, and Development Policies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a bachelor's degree in economics from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG).

Jaco du Toit

Chief of the Universal Access to Information and Digital Inclusion Section at the Communication and Information Sector of UNESCO. He previously held the position of Programme Specialist, providing support to the UNESCO Information for All Programme and serving as regional adviser for UNESCO’s Communication and Information Sector in Eastern Africa, Southern Africa and North Africa. He has an academic background in information sciences, political sciences, information for development, communication and telecommunication and media and international relations. He has worked on projects related to knowledge society development, Right to Information laws and the monitoring of Sustainable Development Goals, disabilities and Information and Communication Technologies and Information and Gender mainstreaming in Access to Information.

João Brant

João Brant currently serves as the Secretary of Digital Policies at the Secretariat of Social Communication of the Presidency of the Republic. He holds a PhD in Political Science (USP), a Master's degree in Regulation and Communication Policies (LSE-United Kingdom), and a bachelor's degree in Social Communication (USP). He was the Executive Secretary of the Ministry of Culture (2015 to 2016) and a special advisor at the Municipal Secretariat of Culture in São Paulo (2013 and 2014). Brant has worked for fifteen years in civil society organizations and as a consultant for international organizations, such as UNESCO. 

Jovita Matos Fazenda

Holds a Master's in Anti-Corruption Studies from the IACA (International Anti-Corruption Academy). A jurist graduated from UNISA, she pursued a Master's in Human Rights at the University of Pretoria. Member of the Board of the Administration Body of BEN-AFRICA. Associate of the Ethics Institute. Supporter and associate of the Coalition for Organizational Integrity in Mozambique. Over 15 years of experience in various roles related to law, Compliance, and Ethics.

Certified in Ethics and Compliance, a member of the Ethics Institute and the Compliance Institute of South Africa; an instructor and speaker on the subject with experience in designing, evaluating, implementing, and monitoring corporate Ethics programs. Practical experience in Risk Management, specifically in managing Ethics and Compliance risks, as well as in implementing Ethics and Corporate Governance programs.

Marcelo Zenkner

Partner in the areas of Administrative Law & Government Projects and Compliance & Investigation at TozziniFreire Law Firm and Professor of Corporate Integrity at Link School of Business. Holds a Ph.D. in Public Law from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. Former Prosecutor and former Secretary of State for Control and Transparency of Espírito Santo, a pioneering state in the implementation of the Corporate Anti-Corruption Law in Brazil. Former Executive Director of Governance and Compliance at Petrobras, a position he held from 2019 to 2021.

Mário Vinicius Claussen Spinelli

Executive Director of Governance and Compliance at Petrobras. Professor at the School of Business Administration of São Paulo from the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (EAESP/FGV). PhD in Public Administration and Government from FGV-SP and Master's in Public Administration from FJP-MG. Professor of the Postgraduate Course in Control, Detection, and Repression of Misappropriation of Public Funds, from UFLA-ESAF. Guest Professor of the Postgraduate in Economic and Regulatory Law and of the Extension in Compliance and in LGPD, all from PUC-RJ. He was the Executive Director of Regulatory Compliance at Protiviti, Ombudsman-General of Petrobras, the first General Controller of the Municipality of São Paulo, General Controller of the State of Minas Gerais, Secretary of Corruption Prevention and Strategic Information of the CGU, and Councilor of COAF. He is a Federal Auditor of Finance and Control of the CGU.

Marizaura Camões

Psychologist, with a master's degree in people and organizations management and a Ph.D. in public administration. As a member of the public policy and government management specialist career since 2004, she has been dedicated to the topics of human resources management, behavioral insights, and innovation in the public sector as subjects of work, research, and knowledge production. She is currently the coordinator of CINCO - Behavioral Sciences Unit in Government at the Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services.

Michael W. Bauer

Holds the Chair of Public Administration at the Florence School of Transnational Governance within the European University Institute, located in Florence, Italy. Previously, he served as the chair for comparative public administration and policy analysis at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer from 2012 to 2020, following positions as a professor at Humboldt-Universität Berlin from 2009 to 2012 and the University of Konstanz from 2004 to 2009. Dr. Bauer earned his Ph.D. from the European University Institute in 2000, and since then, his scholarly pursuits have focused on comparative public policy and administration. More recently, he has concentrated on European and international public administration, democratic bureaucracy, and the ethical responsibilities of civil servants in the context of populist backsliding. Michael W. Bauer received the 2023 Christopher Pollitt Award for the best IRAS article in 2021, titled "How do international bureaucrats affect policy outputs? Studying administrative influence strategies in international organizations." Notable works include "The European Commission of the Twenty-First Century" and "Dismantling Public Policies: Strategies, Constraints, and Outcomes," both published by Oxford University Press, as well as "Democratic Backsliding and Public Administration: How Populists in Government Transform State Bureaucracies," published by Cambridge University Press. His contributions span various top international journals, including Public Administration Review, Governance, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Journal of European Public Policy, West

European Politics, Public Administration, and International Studies Review. Michael W. Bauer's body of work reflects a profound commitment to advancing our understanding of public administration in a global contexto.

Mike Cressey

Mike is a Policy Analyst in the Public Governance Directorate at the OECD. His work focuses on how to uphold integrity and fight corruption more effectively in public institutions, especially at a central government level, and he is currently leading the development of the OECD’s forthcoming Anti-Corruption and Integrity Outlook. Prior to working at the OECD he worked in the UK civil service, where he had responsibility for a range of integrity and anti-corruption related policy.

Monica Brezzi

Monica Brezzi is Head of the Governance Indicators and Performance Division in the OECD Directorate for Public Governance. She works to enhancing the evidence base for effective policy making on issues related to trust in public institutions and design and delivery of public services. She has spearheaded the OECD Survey on Drivers of Trust in Public Institutions, a cross-country benchmark to assess people’s expectations and experiences with the public sector.

Previously she was Director at the Council of Europe Development Bank (2017-2019), Head of Territorial Statistics at the OECD (2008-2017) and Senior Advisor on Regional Development Policy at the Ministry of Economy in Italy (1998-2007). Monica is an Italian national and holds a PhD in Statistics from the University of Padua (Italy).

Pallavi Roy

Pallavi Roy is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Political Economy at SOAS University of London. Her research is on the application of institutional economics and in particular the

political settlements framework to governance and anti-corruption, and the political economy of late development. She is Co-Director of the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office’s (FCDO) £6 million Anti-Corruption Evidence (ACE) research partnership consortium working primarily in Bangladesh and Nigeria, in sectors like electricity, renewables, extractives, primary healthcare, and digital governance. She is also the Co-Principal Investigator on an FCDO-funded programme on generating evidence for fostering inclusive growth in Nepal. She has worked across developing countries and has extensive experience of working with funders and research organizations like the UK’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, World Bank, UNESCAP, Agence Francaise de Developpement, BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (Bangladesh) and is a visiting faculty member at the International Anti-Corruption Academy in Laxenberg, Austria.

She is co-Chair of the Scaling-Up in Fragile States Working Group in the Scaling Up Community of Practice and has contributed to national media in the UK and internationally.

Paul Heywood 

Professor Paul Heywood is a distinguished scholar specializing in political corruption, integrity management, and institutional design. He has authored or contributed to eighteen books and over eighty academic publications. Currently, he leads the $12m FCDO-funded Anti-Corruption Evidence programme (GI-ACE) with Global Integrity in Washington DC, aiming to combat corruption's adverse effects in developing nations. This follows his leadership in a £3.6m British Academy/DFID initiative from 2015-18. Heywood's other notable projects include research on integrity management across the UK, Hong Kong, and China, the EU's ANTICORRP and TACOD projects, and his co-founding of CurbingCorruption.com. He has held significant academic roles at the University of Nottingham, including Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Director of the ESRC Doctoral Training Centre. He also served as co-editor of the journal Government and Opposition and has been affiliated with institutions like the University of Hunan in China and Transparency International UK. Educated at the University of Edinburgh, LSE, and Madrid, Professor Heywood's illustrious career spans teaching, research, and advisory roles across the globe, earning him fellowships at esteemed institutions like the Royal Society of Arts and the Academy of Social Sciences.

Pedro Vieira Abramovay

Pedro Vieira Abramovay is a lawyer. He holds a law degree from the University of São Paulo, with a Master's degree from the University of Brasília, and a PhD in political science from IESP - UERJ. He served as Legal Advisor to the government leadership in the Federal Senate (2003-2004), Special Advisor to the Minister of Justice (2004-2006), Secretary of Legislative Affairs (2007-2010), National Secretary of Justice (2010), Law Professor at FGV RJ (2011-2013), and Campaigns Director at Avaaz (2012-2013). He is currently the Vice President of Programs at the Open Society Foundations.

Raquel Pimenta

Raquel Pimenta is a full-time professor at the São Paulo Law School of the Getúlio Vargas Foundation, where she co-directs the Center for Law and Political Economy (NUDEP). She holds a PhD and a Master's degree in Economic Law from the Faculty of Law at the University of São Paulo (USP), with a research period at Yale Law School funded by the Fulbright Commission.

Thayná Yaredy

Lawyer and holder of a Master's degree in Human and Social Sciences from UFABC. Postgraduate in Fundamental Rights from the University of Coimbra and a researcher at the Center for Afro-Brazilian Studies (NEAB). She is an advisor for the program addressing institutional violence at Conectas Human Rights and the chairwoman of the organization Me Representa. A woman of axé and mother to Marthin.