The report was prepared by the Directorate of Public Governance under the leadership of Elsa Pilichowski, OECD Director for Public Governance (GOV), and Jesper Johnsøn, Acting Head of GOV’s Anti‑Corruption and Integrity in Government Division, jointly with the Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs under the leadership of Carmine Di Noia, OECD Director for Financial and Enterprise Affairs (DAF), and Julia Fromholz, Head of the DAF Anti‑Corruption Division. The report was co‑ordinated by Oksana Huss and Elena Koncevičiūtė from GOV and Tanya Khavanska and Erekle Urushadze from DAF. Chapters 1-6 were drafted by Oksana Huss, Mike Cressey, Cameron Hall and Aman Johal. Chapters 7-10 were drafted by Valts Kalnins, Korin Kane, Tanya Khavanska and Erekle Urushadze. The Review also benefitted from invaluable comments and contributions from the OECD Secretariat, including: János Bertók, Alice Berggrun, Pauline Bertrand, Frédéric Boehm, Lalit Golani, Fianna Jurdant, Craig Matasick, Darius Matusevicius, Tuzla Lathiff, Chloé Lelievre, Rusudan Mikhelidze, Carissa Munro, Pelagia Patsoule, Franciszek Ploch, Ivan Presniakov, Alastair Swarbrick, Marie Whelan, Santiago Wortman Jofre, Yunus Emre Yildirim, Liudas Zdanavičius and Talisa Zur Hausen. Anita Richter, Michał Faleńczyk, Kateryna Penkova and Marta Sydoryak in the OECD Ukraine Unit and OECD-Kyiv Office provided crucial support in liaising with stakeholders in Ukraine. Ludovico Campagnolo, Amanda Menona and Elena Tomesani provided precious support in conducting background research and analysing and visualising data from the OECD Public Integrity Indicators and other sources. Administrative support was provided by Michaela Faux, Neringa Gudžiūnaitė and Samantha Sánchez. Nuria Villanova provided communications support. Eleonore Morena, Genieve Crump and Valentin Py prepared the report for publication.
We thank the financial support given through the OECD-Ukraine Country Programme.
The OECD is particularly grateful to the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) for its dedicated and extensive co‑ordination of the Review, without whom this Review would not have been possible. The support and guidance in particular from Yurii Sverba, Head of the Public and Private Integrity Policy Development, Iryna Mytnyk, Chief Specialist for Ukraine-OECD co‑operation, and Olha Kakaulina, Expert in the International Cooperation Department and numerous other NACP colleagues were essential. The OECD expresses its gratitude to all actors from the public sector in Ukraine who participated, under extraordinary circumstances, in the online and in-person interviews for the fact-finding interviews and focus groups, generating key insights that informed the analysis and the recommendations, including: Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine; National Agency of Ukraine on Civil Service (NAUCS); National Anti‑Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU); Specialised Anti‑Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO); High Anti‑Corruption Court (HACC); Supreme Court of Ukraine; High Council of Justice (HCJ); High Qualification Commission of Judges (HQCJ); State Judicial Administration (SJA); Ministry of Finance of Ukraine; Accounting Chamber of Ukraine; State Audit Service of Ukraine; Office of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights (Ombudsman); Anti‑Corruption Officers (authorised persons) from the national and local level; national and local level internal auditors; Lviv City Council; and Mykolaiv City Council.
The OECD is also grateful to the civil society, private sector and academic(s) (organisations) that contributed valuable insights and perspectives for the elaboration of the report, including Transparency International Ukraine, Dejure Foundation, Institute of Legislative Ideas, Institute of Internal Auditors Ukraine and the Ukrainian Network of Integrity and Compliance. The OECD would like to express its gratitude to the “Promoting Integrity in the Public Sector Activity” (Pro-Integrity) programme for organising a stakeholder consultation workshop on the business integrity chapters of the report in Kyiv in December 2024.