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Dr. Luís de Sousa is Principal Researcher at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa (ICS-ULisboa). He is Chair of the ��ʿ����Research Committee (RC20) on Political Finance and Political Corruption and a member of the Editorial Board of Public Integrity. He also serves as the Local Research Correspondent on Corruption for the European Commission and acts as an international consultant on corruption control and political ethics regulation for various international governmental and non-governmental organisations (e.g., SIGMA/OECD, Council of Europe, OSCE/ODIHR, UNDP, Transparency International). He is the founder and former Chairperson of TI-Portugal. His research focuses and publishes primarily on corruption perceptions and control policies, political ethics regulation, national, local, and sectoral integrity systems (including in international development and cooperation agencies), regional integration, cross-border cooperation, local government, as well as comparative politics more broadly. He is currently coordinating a two-year project funded by a Portuguese grant-awarding body, aimed at designing and developing a multidimensional index to measure the degree of party ethics self-regulation (PESR), and coordinating a work package on perceptions of political corruption and support for democracy in a five-year project funded by the European Commission’s Horizon Europe programme, titled RESPOND – Rescuing Democracy from Political Corruption in Digital Societies, an interdisciplinary and multi-method study of corruption and undue influence in democracy.