Contact : luis.sousa@ics.ulisboa.pt

Presentation

Luís de Sousa is Chair of IPSA/RC20 - Political Finance and Political Corruption and Member of the Editorial Board of Public Integrity. He is also Local Research Correspondent on Corruption for the European Commission and acts as an international consultant on corruption control and political ethics regulation for various international governmental and non-governmental organisations (e.g., SIGMA/OECD, Council of Europe, OSCE/ODIHR, UNDP, Transparency International, etc.). He was founder and former Chairperson of TI-Portugal.

He works and publishes primarily on corruption perceptions and control policies, political ethics regulation, national, local and sectoral integrity systems (including in international development and cooperation agencies), regional integration, cross-border cooperation, local government, in and comparative politics in general.

He is currently coordinating a two-year project funded by the Portuguese grant award body, aimed at designing and developing a multidimensional index to measure the degree of party ethics self-regulation (PESR), and co-coordinating a work package within a five-year project funded by the European Commission’s Horizon Europeprogramme, titled RESPOND – Rescuing Democracy from Political Corruption in Digital Societies, an interdisciplinary and multi-methods study of corruption and undue influence in democracy.