Alina Mungiu-Pippidi

European Research Centre for Anticorruption and State-Building (ERCAS)

Alina Mungiu-Pippidi is a policy scientist who chairs the European Research Centre for Anticorruption and State-Building (ERCAS), in Berlin.

Her major monographs are Europe’s Burden, promoting Good Governance across borders (Cambridge University Press 2020), A Quest for Good Governance (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and  A Tale of Two Villages (CEU Press, 2010).  She published in Nature and Nature Behaviour alongside other social science journals. Alina Mungiu-Pippidi has also consulted for various governments and international organizations and contributed work for UNODC, the World Bank Development Report, the International Monetary Fund, the European Parliament as principal investigator on ‘clean trade’, for the Swedish Government on the effectiveness of good governance assistance programs, for the EU Dutch Presidency on trust and public integrity in EU-28, for the European Commission DG Research on governance innovation.

Alina was also the designer and co-principal investigator of the 10 million euro ANTICORRP (2012-2017), an FP7 research project on the effectiveness of good governance policies, and a contributor to DIGIWHIST, a Horizon 20-20 project (2015-2018) which resulted in the creation of EU’s public procurement scoreboard, the open public contracts’ repository Opentender.eu and the public accountability tools repository Europam.eu. She designs fact-based governance indexes for public integrity and transparency for over 120 countries, posted on Corruptionrisk.org and animates a UNODC task force group dedicated to researching objective corruption indicators.