Alina Mungiu-Pippidi is Professor of Democracy Studies at the Hertie School in Berlin and Director of the European Research Centre for Anti-Corruption and State-Building - ERCAS (againstcorruption.eu). She is the author of A Quest for Good Governance. How Societies Build Control of Corruption (2015) and of Europe’s Burden. Promoting Good Governance across Borders (2019), both with Cambridge University Press. Mungiu-Pippidi has consulted for the World Bank, UNDP, the International Monetary Fund, the European Parliament, the Swedish Government, and others. Her research projects have resulted in commons like integrity-index.org, europam.eu, and opentender.eu. She is also the President of the Romanian Academic Society - SAR and founder of the social media watchdog platform Clean Romania! (romaniacurata.ro).

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