Under the direction and oversight of Elsa Pilichowski, OECD Director for Public Governance, and Julio Bacio Terracino, Acting Head of the Public Sector Integrity Division, this review was co-ordinated by Jacobo Pastor García Villarreal, Senior Policy Analyst.
Chapters 1 and 2 were written by Felicitas Neuhaus; Frederic Boehm wrote Chapter 3 and Giulio Nessi wrote Chapter 5. Chapter 4 was drafted by Miguel Peñailillo, external consultant for the OECD. Valuable comments on Chapter 4 were received from Gavin Ugale and Lisa Kilduff. Editorial assistance was provided by Meral Gedik. Charles Victor and Johal Aman provided administrative assistance and Balazs Gyimesi supported communications efforts.
The OECD expresses its gratitude to the Government of the State of Mexico for its fruitful co-operation and leadership. In particular, the OECD would like to thank Governor Alfredo del Mazo Maza; Javier Vargas Zempoaltecatl, Head of the Office of the Comptroller-General (SECOGEM); and their respective teams, particularly the Corruption Prevention Unit. Marco Becerril, Head of the Corruption Prevention Unit in SECOGEM, served as the contact point for the project during the second half of it, while Jorge Bernaldez, General Director for Administrative Responsibilities, was the main contact point during the first half of the project.
Likewise, the OECD would like to thank other institutions whose representatives were interviewed during the fact-finding missions, namely the Citizen Participation Committee and the Technical Secretariat of the Anti-corruption System of the State of Mexico and Municipalities; the Office of the Comptroller of the Legislative Branch; the Superior Audit Institution of the State of Mexico (OSFEM); the Electoral Institute of the State of Mexico (IEEM); the Specialised Anti-corruption Prosecutor; the Administrative Justice Tribunal of the State of Mexico; the ministries of Finance, Public Works, Security, and Health; the Institute of Professionalisation of Public Servants of the State of Mexico; auxiliary bodies such as JCEM, ISEM, and ISSEMyM; internal control bodies and ethics committees from different government institutions and municipalities; as well as business chambers and civil society representatives.
Ambassador Sybel Galván, Permanent Representative of Mexico to the OECD, was instrumental in supporting this project.
This report is part of a series of governance reviews in OECD and G20 countries. It incorporates information shared during an OECD workshop on public ethics and management of conflicts of interest (24-27 February 2020) and a workshop on building the pride of being a public servant (2-5 February 2021). Special thanks to SECOGEM, the Human Rights Commission of the State of Mexico, and their officials for their support in organising and carrying out these workshops. The OECD is also grateful to the peer experts who participated in the workshops: Ethan A. Carrier, General Counsel, New York City Conflicts of Interest Board (United States); Liliana Caballero, former Head of the Administrative Department of the Public Function (DAFP), Colombia; and Carolina Carballido, Director for Integrity, Secretariat for Transparency and Corruption Prevention, Office of the Comptroller-General of the Union (CGU), Brazil.
The OECD Mexico Centre, under the leadership of Roberto Martínez, and the staff in charge of publications, notably Alejandro Camacho, were instrumental in co-ordinating the editorial process for the Spanish publication.