[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":89},["ShallowReactive",2],{"team-prevention-research-innovation":3},[4,34,53,71],{"id":5,"status":6,"sort":7,"user_created":8,"date_created":9,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":11,"first_name":12,"last_name":13,"position":14,"phone":15,"email":16,"image":17,"cv":18,"category":19,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":21,"nid":24,"slug":25,"function":26,"country":29,"directorate":31,"hidden":33},693,"published",4,"03bebfd8-0b40-4a2a-820d-b9d9c13b9de6","2025-03-27T21:21:36.000Z","3d9ff205-1640-4f34-b5b6-86977f51bbd6","2026-05-20T21:43:09.000Z","Dr Claudia","Baez Camargo","Director, Prevention, Research and Innovation","+41 61 205 55 36","claudia.baez-camargo@baselgovernance.org","708c19be-70e9-46d4-b42d-fe7bbc667225","Dr Claudia Baez Camargo is Director of Prevention, Research and Innovation at the Basel Institute on Governance.\n\nClaudia's work brings together academic research and technical assistance with the goal of promoting anti-corruption and good governance approaches that are context sensitive and address the relevant root causes of weak rule adherence and enforcement. Her primary interest is in articulating approaches that respond to the needs and expectations of the intended audiences and beneficiaries, with a strong emphasis on co-design and local ownership. Among other areas, she has conducted extensive research on how behavioural factors, such as those associated with social norms and mental models, can impact governance and anti-corruption outcomes in spite of the existence of good legal and regulatory frameworks. Consequently, in her work Claudia has developed ample experience in developing interventions to help close the implementation gap that is often observed when robust laws are adopted but the corresponding behaviour change is lagging.\n\nAt the Basel Institute on Governance, Claudia is responsible for the development, oversight and management of the Institute’s research activities in the areas of public and global governance. Claudia also works with a broad range of interested stakeholders on technical projects aimed at developing context-sensitive strategies to prevent corruption and enhance good governance in the public sector.\n\nClaudia holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame, USA and a graduate degree in economics from the University of Cambridge, England. Originally from Mexico, she initiated her professional career working with the Ministry for Social Development, Federal Government of Mexico. There, Claudia was involved in developing demand-driven poverty reduction programmes aimed at ensuring access to basic public services for low-income rural communities.\n\nBefore joining the Basel Institute in 2009, Claudia was Assistant Professor of Political Science at William Paterson University, New Jersey, where she taught courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels in comparative politics, Latin American history and research methods. To date, she continues to teach courses on corruption and development, health systems governance and has developed a special curriculum on research methods focusing on corruption studies.","Director",null,[22,23],"Senior management","Public Governance","35","dr-claudia-baez-camargo",[27,28],"Core Management","Extended Management",[30],"Switzerland (HQ)",[32],"Prevention Research and Innovation",false,{"id":35,"status":6,"sort":36,"user_created":8,"date_created":37,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":38,"first_name":39,"last_name":40,"position":41,"phone":42,"email":43,"image":44,"cv":45,"category":46,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":47,"nid":48,"slug":49,"function":50,"country":51,"directorate":52,"hidden":33},732,47,"2025-03-27T21:22:01.000Z","2026-04-23T22:32:41.000Z","Dr Jacopo","Costa","Senior Specialist, Prevention, Research and Innovation","+41 61 205 56 71","jacopo.costa@baselgovernance.org","85c65935-3aba-4674-822c-0723d1c9fd40","Dr Jacopo Costa joined the Basel Institute on Governance's research team in April 2019.\n\nHe holds a PhD in Sociology and Political Studies from the University of Turin. During his doctorate, he held two visiting research posts, one at the Centre International de Criminologie Comparée of the University of Montreal, and the other at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University in Boston. He also holds a master’s degree in International Relations from the University of Florence and a bachelor’s degree in Culture and Human Rights from the University of Bologna. \n\nHis research has focused on a variety of topics, including the nature of informal networks, the corrupt exchange in the public works and football industry, illegal wildlife trade between East Africa and South East Asia, and the nexus between corruption and money laundering. Using social network analysis and ethnographic techniques, Jacopo has studied the structures, functions and norms that make it possible to achieve illegal and criminal goals. His research has been published in renowned academic journals in the field of criminology and political science, such as \\*Governance\\*, \\*Global Crime\\*, \\*Trends in Organized Crime\\*, and \\*Crime, Law, and Social Change\\*. \n\nSee Jacopo's research profiles on [Google Scholar](https:\u002F\u002Fscholar.google.com\u002Fcitations?user=17A9WHkAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao) and [ResearchGate](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.researchgate.net\u002Fprofile\u002FJacopo-Costa).","Team",[23,46],"12806","dr-jacopo-costa",[],[30],[32],{"id":54,"status":6,"sort":55,"user_created":8,"date_created":56,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":57,"first_name":58,"last_name":59,"position":60,"phone":61,"email":62,"image":63,"cv":64,"category":46,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":65,"nid":66,"slug":67,"function":68,"country":69,"directorate":70,"hidden":33},746,60,"2025-03-27T21:22:10.000Z","2026-04-23T22:32:42.000Z","Noémi","Jäger","Associate, Prevention, Research and Innovation","+41 61 205 55 11","noemi.jaeger@baselgovernance.org","65c7f55d-6b03-4b42-a5cc-4c546c9f4873","Noémi Jäger supports the Prevention, Research and Innovation team at the Basel Institute on Governance. She was promoted to the position in March 2025, having joined the Basel Institute in March 2024 as Legal Research Intern.\n\nPrior to joining the Basel Institute, Noémi gained experience as an Academic Trainee at the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, where she monitored the implementation of asset recovery agreements and provided support in the implementation of policy dialogue, strategic partnerships and events in asset recovery and anti-corruption. In her early career, she worked as a researcher for an on-campus law clinic focusing on human rights violations.\n\nNoémi holds an LLM in Public International Law from the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands and a Bachelor’s in International Relations with special focus on Law from the University of Geneva, Switzerland.",[46],"61857","noemi-jager",[],[30],[32],{"id":72,"status":6,"sort":73,"user_created":8,"date_created":74,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":75,"first_name":76,"last_name":77,"position":78,"phone":61,"email":79,"image":80,"cv":81,"category":82,"division":20,"location":20,"tags":83,"nid":84,"slug":85,"function":86,"country":87,"directorate":88,"hidden":33},751,18,"2025-03-27T21:22:13.000Z","2026-06-04T14:36:43.000Z","Dr Saba","Kassa","Senior Specialist \u002F Deputy Director, Prevention, Research and Innovation","saba.kassa@baselgovernance.org","f6382220-0a46-438a-bead-7dc8f4e2abe5","Dr Saba Kassa is a public governance expert with over 10 years of experience in promoting democratic governance. She leads implementation of the research, technical assistance and capacity-building activities of the Basel Institute's Prevention, Research and Innovation team.\n\nPrior to joining the Institute, Saba worked for several international organisations in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, including the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, the German Ministry for International Cooperation and the International Institute of Democracy and Electoral Assistance.\n\nSaba holds a PhD in International Development Studies from the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, a Master in International Development Studies from the University of Amsterdam, as well as a Master in Public Administration from Erasmus University Rotterdam.","Management",[23,46],"42","dr-saba-kassa",[],[30],[32],1780855219093]