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Elizabeth David-Barrett
University of Sussex
Director, Centre for the Study of Corruption
Description
Liz Dávid-Barrett is Professor of Governance & Integrity, and Director of the Centre for the Study of Corruption, at the University of Sussex. She is also Deputy Director (Research) of the UK government’s Governance and Integrity-Anti-Corruption Evidence programme, a prestigious research programme funded by the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office. She has been at Sussex since 2014 but in 2022-23 took leave to assume a role at the International Anti-Corruption Academy in Vienna, where she was appointed to head the Global Programme on Measuring Corruption. Before becoming an academic, Liz worked as a journalist in the Balkans for The Economist and Financial Times, at political risk consultancy Oxford Analytica, and at London think tanks the Institute for Public Policy Research and the Centre for European Reform. She has a DPhil, MSc and MA from the University of Oxford and an MA from the University of London.
Liz’s research focuses on corruption at the interface of business and government, all around the world. She has published widely on state capture, corruption in public procurement and bribery in international business – as well as on approaches to countering these risks, including transnational networks in law enforcement and investigative journalism. Recent co-edited books include the Dictionary of Corruption (2023, Agenda, with Robert Barrington, Rebecca Dobson Phillips and Georgia Garrod) and Understanding Corruption: How Corruption Works in Practice (2022, Agenda, with Robert Barrington, Sam Power and Dan Hough).
Liz engages widely with anti-corruption practitioners globally, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean and Europe, and has advised the UK government and the G20 on their international anti-corruption work.
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