Fabiano Angélico is a senior researcher at GRIP (Research Group on Public Integrity) at USI - Università della Svizzera italiana (also known as the University of Lugano), in Switzerland. He holds a Ph.D. in Communication Sciences from USI and a Ph.D. in Public Administration from Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV/EAESP), Brazil. He also holds a master's degree in Public Administration and Government (FGV EAESP, Brazil) and did postgraduate studies in Transparency, Accountability and Anti-Corruption at the University of Chile Law School.
His research focuses on open data, transparency, open government, accountability, anti-corruption, and anti-money laundering issues. He is particularly interested in the potential and limitations of open data and social accountability in countering corruption and money laundering. He also analyses the impact of grand corruption and money laundering, focusing on reparations via social reuse of the recovered assets.
Before joining USI, Angélico worked at São Paulo City Hall in Brazil and provided consultancy services to different international non-profits (Transparency International, Global Integrity, CiFAR - Civil Forum for Asset Recovery) and multilateral organizations, such as the World Bank, UNODC, UNDP, UNESCO and EUROsociAL (program for cooperation between the European Union and Latin America).
