Bio
Mihály Fazekas completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2014 looking at high-level corruption, state capture, and state capacity in Central- and Eastern Europe. Now, he works at the University of Cambridge as the scientific coordinator of the Horizon 2020 funded project DIGIWHIST. This large-scale research project uses a Big Data approach to measuring corruption risks in public procurement and to allowing citizens to hold governments to account.
He has also taken a leading role in other research projects on corruption such as ANTICORRP; and directs a think-tank, Government Transparency Institute, specializing in using Big Data to understand government performance. He holds three master degrees in economics, public policy, and teaching. He has experience in both quantitative and qualitative methods in diverse fields such as economics, public policy, and political science acquired in numerous research projects across Europe.
He has worked for the European Commission, OECD, World Bank, RAND Europe, Ecole Nationale d’Administration, Hertie School of Governance, and Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His latest research efforts concentrate on fair competition, transparency, and openness in public procurement markets with particular emphasis on quantitative analysis of corruption risks, bid rigging, and administrative capacity using large-scale administrative databases.
Together with Bence Tóth and István János Tóth, he was awarded first prize in a U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre competition for their pioneering work in developing new proxy measures of corruption.
Related Publications
Lessons Learnt in Recovering Assets from Egypt, Libya and Tunisia
- asset recovery
- mena
- illicit financial flows
- illict assets
- mutual legal assistance
Overview of corruption and anti-corruption in Azerbaijan
- judiciary
- police
- patronage
- nepotism
Asset declaration regimes in selected Asian countries
- conflicts of interest
- asset disclosure
- integrity
- accountability
Open Governance Standards: Promoting Citizen Empowerment and Participation
- open governance
Illicit Financial Flows in Mozambique
- illicit financial flows
- financial integrity
- africa
- development
- financial secrecy
- illegal flows
Mihaly Fazekas
Affiliation
University of Cambridge
Professional Title
Research Fellow
Region
- Europe and Central Asia
Country/Territory
- Austria
- Bangladesh
- Belgium
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Brazil
- Bulgaria
- Chile
- Costa Rica
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Ecuador
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Georgia
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Ireland
- Italy
- Kosovo
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Moldova
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Russia
- Serbia
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Tanzania
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- United States
Topics
- Accountability
- E-government
- Open data
- Aid & Development
- Public Services
- Politically exposed persons
- Corruption Measurement
- Anti - corruption training
- Diagnostics
- Quantitative studies
- Surveys
- Tools
- Political finance
- Grand corruption
- Patronage
- Political parties
- Revolving door
- Construction
- Budget
- Public procurement
- Taxation
- Anti - corruption institutions
- Codes of conduct
- Conflict of interest
- Governance
- Defence
- Organised crime
Specialisms
Public procurement; Grand corruption; Quality of law-making;Big Data