About

Prof. Dr. Elizabeth (Liz) David-Barrett joined the International Anti-Corruption Academy in Vienna as Head of the Global Programme on Measuring Corruption in May 2022. She is on leave from the University of Sussex, which she joined in 2014 and where she was Director of the Centre for the Study of Corruption from 2018 to 2022.  Liz has published her research in top-tier academic journals including GovernanceWorld Development, and the Annual Review of Political Science. She engages widely with policy-makers and practitioners and chaired the first Academic Roundtable of the G20 Anti-Corruption Working Group in 2020. She has advised several governments on anti-corruption policy as well as training their anti-corruption professionals, worked with private-sector organizations on improving integrity, and authored several reports for Transparency International. Liz‘s expertise on corruption has often been reflected in the media, including the BBC, Guardian, Financial Times, and Le Monde. Liz was Spotlight’s inaugural Chair from July 2019 until stepping down in April 2022 ahead of taking up her new position at IACA.