Osaka, 18 November 2024
Dr. Joseph Pozsgai-Alvarez is a Specially Appointed Associate Professor in the School of Human Sciences of Osaka University (Japan). He is the founder of the Japan Network of Anti-Corruption Researchers (JANAR), a member of the Steering Committee on (Anti-)Corruption and Integrity of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Economic Criminology (Elsevier), and Board Member of RC20 – Political Finance and Political Corruption of the International Political Science Association (IPSA).
For the past fifteen years, his professional and academic efforts have focused on the pursuit of knowledge and improvement of anti-corruption policies and public integrity.
From 2018 to 2021, the focus of his work at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies of Kyoto University involved data generation and theoretical and computer modeling of corruption and moral values in Asia-Pacific and Latin America. During this time he also co-created the ACE Digital Library, an open-source database and tool to facilitate the mapping of scientific literature related to corruption, hosted by the international NGO Global Integrity; and he edited The Politics of Anti-Corruption Agencies in Latin America, published by Routledge in 2021.
He holds the position of Specially Appointed Associate Professor and Director of the International Undergraduate Degree Program (IUDP) at the School of Human Sciences of Osaka University, and Deputy Director of its International College. The subjects he teaches include Ethics and Criminology, Globalization Studies, Introduction to Politics, and Quantitative Research Methods, among others.
He served as a Consultant in the Western Hemisphere Anti-Corruption Index project developed by John Jay College of Criminal Justice in 2021, with the goal of quantifying the levels of policy implementation of international anti-corruption conventions across Latin America and the Caribbean. He also provides technical expertise in the development of the Anti-corruption Collective Action Indicators, a project implemented and managed by the Basel Institute on Governance.
Today, he leads the research project Multidimensional measurement of corruption in Southeast Asia and Latin America, funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan. He is also co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Anti-Corruption Research and Practice, forthcoming in 2025.