ICRNETWORK - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Founding Member of the Interdisciplinary Corruption Research Network
She holds a Post-Doc position with the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, working at the intersection of law and social sciences on human rights and administrative law issues in developing countries. She currently researches rights-based approaches to social health protection in Ghana and Indonesia. In her PhD project at the Institute of Development Research and Development Policy (IEE), Annika has worked on public procurement law and anti-corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa. She has always been curious about how corruption manifests and can be defeated in different societies - a topic that is at the heart of the ICR Network.
Annika Engelbert is a founding member of the Interdisciplinary Corruption Research Network.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Advisory Board
- Quality of Government Institute, University Og Gothenburg
Dr Oksana Huss is a researcher in the BIT-ACT research project at the University of Bologna, Italy and a lecturer at the Anti-Corruption Research and Education Centre, Ukraine. Her areas of expertise cover (anti-)corruption and social movements, as well as open government and digital technologies. Oksana obtained her doctoral degree at the Institute for Development and Peace in Germany and held several research fellowships in Canada, France, the Netherlands, and Sweden. She consulted international organizations, such as the Council of Europe, EU, UNESCO, and UNODC. Oksana is a co-founder of the Interdisciplinary Corruption Research Network and author of the book "How Corruption and Anti-Corruption Policies Sustain Hybrid Regimes: Strategies of Political Domination under Ukraine's Presidents in 1994-2014."
Job Titles:
- Member of the Advisory Board
Job Titles:
- Member of the Advisory Board
Job Titles:
- Member of the Advisory Board
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- Associate Professor at the School of Human Sciences of Osaka University
Joseph Pozsgai-Alvarez is an Associate Professor at the School of Human Sciences of Osaka University, where he holds the position of Associate Director of its International Undergraduate Degree Program. He has a doctorate in political science from the University of Tsukuba.
He is the founder of the Japan Network of Anti-Corruption Researchers (JANAR) and a member of the Steering Committee on (Anti-)Corruption and Integrity of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR). He is the editor of The Politics of Anti-Corruption Agencies in Latin America, published by Routledge in 2021; and the co-creator of the ACE Digital Library, an online database of corruption literature hosted by the NGO Global Integrity. He has also served as Consultant in the Western Hemisphere Anti-Corruption Index (WHACI) project developed by John Jay College of Criminal Justice in 2021. He currently leads the project "Multidimensional measurement of corruption in Southeast Asia and Latin America", funded by the Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI) program of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
Job Titles:
- Member of the Advisory Board
Job Titles:
- Member of the Advisory Board
Job Titles:
- Founding Member of the Interdisciplinary Corruption Research Network
He is a senior research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development at the Center for Humans and Machines.
His current work focuses on how Artificial Intelligence can lead to new forms of corruption but also be used in the fight against corruption.
Previously, Nils wrote his dissertation on the Social Psychology of Corruption at the Faculty of Experimental and Applied Psychology (VU Free Unviversity Amsterdam). He is further interested in:
Nils Köbis is a founding member of the Interdisciplinary Corruption Research Network.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Advisory Board
Job Titles:
- Founding Member of the Interdisciplinary Corruption Research Network
He is a PhD candidate at Charles University researching corruption in the public procurement sector of the Czech Republic. His previous work experience includes developing anti-corruption training modules for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) with the International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA) in Austria and research analysis in the public procurement sectors of the United States and the Middle East.
Steven Gawthorpe is a founding member of the Interdisciplinary Corruption Research Network.