Bio
A Canadian citizen and Brazilian permanent resident, Michener is a Professor of Government at FGV-EBAPE, Rio de Janeiro. He also leads FGV's Public Transparency Program and an Open Society Foundation-sponsored international research network, the Transparency Evaluation Network. His research and writing focus on the politics, policy, measurement, and conceptualization of transparency, freedom of information (particularly in Latin America), and open data, as well as the operation of anti-corruption and accountability policies in Brazil. Michener helped lead the Brazilian campaign for a freedom of information law, drawing international attention to the issue through his blog, Observing Brazil.
His scholarship has been published by the journals Governance, World Development, the Journal of Latin American Studies, The Journal of Democracy, and Public Administration, among others. Michener teaches courses on Transparency and Good Government (MPA, IMBA), Qualitative Methods (MA, PhD), Democratic Political Institutions (BBA), and Public Policy (MPA).
He graduated with a PhD and Master's in Comparative Politics and International Relations from the University of Texas, Austin(2010) and did his undergraduate work at McGill University, Montreal.
Related Publications
G20 Anti-Corruption Open Data Principles Assessment: Methodology and Analytical Framework
- open data
Getting ahead of the curve: Exploring post-COVID-19 trends and their impact on anti-corruption, governance and development
- technology
- media
- economic growth
- inequality
- anti-corruption
- citizen trust
- COVID-19
- civic space
Deferred prosecution agreements, plea bargaining, immunity programmes and corruption
- settlement
- corporate settlement
- immunity
- plea bargain
The implications of spyware and surveillance technology for anti-corruption activists
- humanitarian operations
- civil society
- risk
- information and communication technologies icts
Corruption challenges in small island developing states in the Pacific region
- natural resource management
- pacific island countries
- small island developing states sids
Gregory Michener
Affiliation
Fundacao Getulio Vargas (FGV)
Professional Title
Professor
Country/Territory
Topics
- Accountability
- Media
- Open data
- Public Services
- Advocacy
- Rule of law
- Tools
- Impunity
- Anti - corruption institutions
- Whistleblowing
Specialisms
Access to Information, Transparency, Policy Evaluation, News Media Independence, Anti-Corruption