This report was prepared by the OECD Public Governance Directorate (GOV), under the leadership of Elsa Pilichowski, Public Governance Director, and Martin Forst, Head of GOV’s Governance Reviews and Partnerships division. It was carried out under the auspices of the Task Force on Countering Illicit Trade (TF-CIT). The study was shared with other OECD committees with relevant expertise in the area of trade, regulatory policy, public sector integrity and digital economy policy.
The report was prepared by Piotr Stryszowski, Senior Economist and Morgane Gaudiau, Economist at the OECD Directorate for Public Governance. Peter Avery and Jean-Paul Rebillard provided significant inputs. The authors wish to thank the OECD experts who provided valuable knowledge and insights: Julio Bacio Terracino, Alessandro Bellantoni and Nick Malyshev from the OECD Public Governance Directorate, and Silvia Sorescu from the OECD Trade Directorate.
The authors would also like to thank experts from the OECD member countries and participants of several seminars and workshops for their valuable assistance. Special expressions of appreciation are given to Henry Bolton from Australian Border Force, Kasie Brill from the US Chamber of Commerce, Juan Cichero from Mercado Libre, Sara Decker from Walmart, Rodney Jeffs from Australian Border Force, prof. Jay Kennedy from Michigan State University, Phil Lewis from the UK Anti-Counterfeiting Group, Robert McNeill from IP Australia, Roland De Meersman from the Belgian Anti-Counterfeiting Association ABAC-BAAN, Angélique Monneraye from DG Grow of the European Commission, Michael Rose from the US National IPR Center, Ashley Shillingsburg from eBay and Mary Beth Westmoreland from Amazon.
Andrea Uhrhammer and Ciara Muller provided editorial and production support.