Luís de Sousa got his Ph.D. in Political Science at the European University Institute in 2002, following public defence of a thesis entitled Corruption: Assessing Ethical Standards in Political Life through Control Policies. In 2003, he was awarded Gulbenkian Prize for Young Researchers. He is currently Research Fellow at ICS-ULisboa. Before that he was Professor of Political Science at Aveiro University, Edmond J. Safra Network Fellow at Harvard University, Gulbenkian Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, ARC Research Associate at the Australian National University, Research Fellow at CIES-IUL, and Visiting Fellow at the University of Gothenburg, University of Sofia, University of Bucharest. He is coordinator of ANCORAGE-NET, a research network on anticorruption agencies and founding member and former Chairperson of Transparency International-Portugal (TIAC). He is also Local Research Correspondent on Corruption for the European Commission and acts as a consultant to various international governmental organizations on corruption control. He has produced expert opinions on corruption control legislation, carried out feasibility studies, institutional capacity assessments, sectoral risk assessments and national integrity system assessments to various foreign governments on behalf of the European Commission, OECD/SIGMA, Council of Europe and UNDP. He has several publications on the topic in international publishers and indexed journals.

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