The 22nd virtual roundtable on measuring corruption will be held on October 12th (Thursday) from 8:00 to 9:30 (Central Standard Time – Mexico City) / 16:00 to 17:30 (Central European Summer Time – CEST) / 23:00 to 24:30 (Japan Standard Time– JST). This time, the discussion will focus on a networks approach for the analysis of corruption in procurement.
A presentation will be given by Dr. Issa Luna Pla (Columbia University / National Autonomous University of Mexico) and Dr. José R. Nicolás-Carlock (National Autonomous University of Mexico), followed by a combination of Q&A and open-floor discussion.
Dr. Issa Luna Pla is an Adjunct Senior Researcher at ILAS in Columbia University and the coordinator of the Corruption and Impunity Observatory of the Legal Research Institute at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where she was Vice Dean from 2018-2021.
Dr. José R. Nicolás-Carlock holds a postdoctoral research position at the Institute of Physics of UNAM, and he is co-leader of the Corruption and Impunity Observatory of the Institute of Legal Research. He co-edited the book Corruption Networks: Concepts and Applications published by Springer in 2021.
If you would like to join, please email me at jpozsgai@hus.osaka-u.ac.jp with a quick line about your area of expertise (if needed).
As before, the meeting intends to bring together a small number of specialists to have an informal conversation about the measurement of corruption. This will be the twenty-second installment of a series of meetings planned for 2022-24.