Schedule

Inauguration and Opening remarks

Mauricio Salazar, Director Observatorio Fiscal, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana 

Giovanna Rodríguez-García, Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga

Keynote address: 

A Decade of Corruption and Anti-Corruption in the Americas

Bonnie J. Palifka

Director and founder of ACA, Associate Research Professor at Tecnologico de Monterrey

Anti-corruption in Practice

Moderator: TBD

• Byron Antonio Villacis, University of Oregon (USA), “Beyond Corruption: Unveiling the Wider Impact of Anti- Corruption Programs in Latin America” (Spanish, in person).

• Nicolás Lagos, Rutgers University (USA), “Transparent Algorithms to Improve Anti-Corruption Strategies: Evidence from Public Auditors” (English, online).

• Manoel Gehrke, University of Pisa (Italy), “How Anti-Corruption Enforcement Impacts Political Continuity: Evidence from Brazil's Clean Slate Law” (English, online).

• Francesco Merenda, University of Perugia (Italy), “Anticorruption laws in South America: An Analysis from the Perspective of Promoting Public Integrity” (English, online).

• Eduardo Carvalho Nepomuceno Alencar, University of California, Irvine (USA), “Assessing the Impact of Anti-Corruption Reforms on Governance in Latin America: A Synthetic Control Analysis Including the United States, Mexico, Brazil, and Understudied Countries” (English, online).

Technology & Innovation in Anti-Corruption

Moderator: TBD

• Fernanda Odilla, University of Bologna (Italy), “Feeling the Pinch: Financial Strategies, Resources, and Costs of Bottom-Up Anti-Corruption Technologies” (English, online).

• Ernesto Gómez, Universidad Nacional de Chimborazo (Ecuador), “Pertinencia de la aplicación de la Inteligencia Artificial en los procedimientos de Régimen Común de Obra en el Sistema Nacional de Contratación Pública” (Spanish, in person).

• Dale Mineshima-Lowe, Parami University (Myanmar), “Why this digital app and tech? Connecting the tech choice to objective(s) to measurement, in the fight against corruption” (English, online).

• Marco Letizi, ESG Compliance (Italy), “Environmental and financial intelligence as a terrific investigative tool to dismantle environmental crimes and green corruption” (English, in person).

• Irene Tello Arista, Central European University (Austria), “Using beneficial ownership data for systematic risk assessment in public procurement. The example of 6 European countries” (Spanish, online).

Special presentation:

Observatorio Fiscal, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

Closing observations

Welcome Message: 

Giovanna Rodríguez-García, Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga

Keynote address: 

Monitor Ciudadano de la Corrupción

Sandra Martínez Rosas, 

Directora Programática Iniciativas Sistema Político y Estado, Transparencia por Colombia (in Spanish)

Anti-corruption in Practice

Moderator: TBD

• Maria Jofre, Open Ownership (Chile), “Beneficial ownership transparency in the Americas” (in person)

• Scott Greytak, Transparency International USA, “How the Trump Administration Can Use the U.S.'s First-in-the-World Foreign Extortion Prevention Act to Prosecute Corrupt Foreign Officials Across the World” (English, in person)

• Sarahi Salvatierra, Fundar, Centro de Análisis e Investigación (Mexico), “Redefinir la corrupción. Miradas desde el enfoque de género” (Spanish, in person)

• Augusto Lopez-Claros, Global Governance Forum (Spain), “Combatting Corruption to Advance Good Governance: Exploring Options for an International Anti-Corruption Court” (Spanish, online)

• Camilo Peña Galeano, Transparencia por Colombia, “Trasbambalinas: Análisis de facilitadores de corrupción en Colombia” (Spanish, in person)

Fiscal & Compliance Dimensions

Moderator: TBD

• Lucio Picci, University of Bologna (Italy), “Compliance and “Leakages” in International Regimes:The Case of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention” (English, in person).

• Andrew Laing, Dublin City University (Ireland), “How the US Can Curb Corruption Through the Budget Process - to Systematically reduce the $1.5tr p.a. losses from corruption and other inefficiencies within the US General Government Sector” (English, online).

• Abigail Zislis, Georgetown University Law Center (USA), “Colombia’s Victims’ Law (Law 1448): The Limitations of Transitional Justice in Light of Systemic Corruption” (English, in person).

• Nicolas Soto, LUISS Guido Carli (Italy), “Assessing the determinants of public transparency in Chilean Municipalities” (English, in person).

• Heidi Smith, Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico), “The Effects of Corruption on Budgeting and Financial Management in Mexican Local Governments” (English, online).

Political Dynamics & Citizen Participation

Moderator: TBD

• Luiz H. Maués Ventura, UNMSM (Peru), “Do Populists really “clean the house”? Examining Corruption and Governance in Contemporary Latin America.” (Spanish, in person)

• Mario Hidalgo, Universidad UTE (Ecuador), “La Captura de los Mecanismos de Participación Ciudadana y Control Social en Ecuador” (English, in person)

• Pedro Páez Bimos, UNIANDES Ecuador, “¿Cómo implosionar un Estado? Reflexión sobre la participación ciudadana y la corrupción en Ecuador desde el 2018” (Spanish, in person)

• Samuel de Paiva Naves Mamede, Taylor University (USA), “Corruption, populism and COVID19 in Brazil” (English, online)

Closing observations

Welcome Message:

Bonnie J. Palifka, Director and founder of ACA, Tecnologico de Monterrey

Keynote address: 

Educación y transparencia, bases contra la corrupción

Sergio Fajardo

Faculty of Excellence, Escuela de Ciencias Sociales y Gobierno, Tecnológico de Monterrey (in Spanish)

Teaching Anticorruption

Moderator: TBD

• Giovanna Rodríguez-García, Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga (Colombia), “Teaching Methods for Studying Corruption: Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in a Multidisciplinary Master’s Course” (Spanish, in person)

• Ingrida Kalinauskienė, Transparency International Lithuania (Lithuania), “Action Civics against Corruption: Participatory Budgeting as an Anti-Corruption Teaching Tool” (English, online).

• John Dell'Osso (USA), “Didactic Exercise: Following the Money in Public Corruption Scandals” (English, online)

• María Jaraquemada, Abogada PUC (Chile), “De la Teoría a la Práctica: Sistemas de Integridad Local en Chile” (Spanish, online).

Examining Accountability: Gender, Ethics & Justice

(Sponsored by the Project Experimentos de Laboratorio en Universidades Colombianas, financiado por el ICETEX)

Moderator: TBD

• Inês Ascenso, CEI-Iscte (Portugal), “‘Do as I say, not as I do’: Understanding the moral inconsistencies and tradeoffs behind corrupt actions” (English, online)

• Giovanna Rodríguez-García, Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga (Colombia), “Género y Corrupción: Evidencias Experimentales de Percepción, Castigo y Denuncia en Colombia” (Spanish, in person)

• Emilio José Moya Díaz, Universidad Católica de Temuco (Chile), “Desafíos para la implementación de políticas anti corrupción en gobiernos locales. El caso de Chile” (Spanish, online)

• Santiago Basabe-Serrano, Universidad San Francisco de Quito (Ecuador), “Corrupción judicial en América Latina: trayectorias y desafíos” (Spanish, online)

• Diego Tipan, UEES (Ecuador), “Análisis de sentencias de corrupción en Panamá del 2018 al 2024. Impunidad real e impunidad financiera” (Spanish, in person)

Systemic & Institutional Perspectives on Corruption

Moderator: TBD

• Vitoria Santos, FGV Direito SP (Brazil), “O processamento dos danos oriundos da corrupción no cenário de multiplicidade institucional: uma análise a partir do caso Refinaria Abreu e Lima (RNEST)” (English, in person)

• Danny Carr, University of the West Indies (Trinidad & Tobago) “Explaining the Persistence of Corruption: A Case Study of Predatory Principals in Trinidad and Tobago” (English, in person)

• Flory Chacón Roldán, Universidad de Costa Rica, “La patria quebrada: historia reciente de la corrupción en Costa Rica 1998-2015” (Spanish, in person)

• Luiz Fernando Vasconcellos de Miranda, Federal University of Pará (Brazil), “Methodological paths for a new concept of corruption” (English, online)

• Michèle Patricia Akiobe Songolo, Laval University (Canada), “Institutional Corruption Between Systemic Pathology and Organizational Consequence: A Philosophico- Normative and Empirical Exploration Through Case Studies” (English, in person) 

Closing observations

Networking Cocktail: Hall Auditorio Alfonso Quintana, S.J.