For the first time since the COVID Pandemic began, the International Anti-Corruption Academy hosted the in-person sessions of its hybrid Master in Anti-Corruption Studies. The MACS 2022 students, which are in their third out of seven modules, travelled from 5 countries across the globe to come together from 17 April to undertake live sessions of the module with the topic of “Sociological, Criminological, and Political Economy Approaches to Study Corruption.” They stayed until 25 April and will come back to IACA for their next hybrid module on 10 July.

The module has been taught by several well renowned experts in the field of anti-corruption such as Morten Koch Andersen (Denmark), Adam Graycar (Australia), Jeroen Maesschalck (Belgium), Pallavi Roy (India/UK) and IACA’s faculty staff Martin Zapata (Bolivia) and Pawan Kumar Sinha (India). The students learnt about Politics, Governance, Development and Corruption, Collective Action in the Fight Against Corruption, Sociology, Criminology and Anthropology and Corruption, Corporate Social Responsibility and Open Government Partnership and Open Data. Many of the live sessions were held in hybrid format, so students who are online-only had the opportunity to attend alongside their hybrid-mode peers. Moreover, the students had the opportunity to attend social events, an expert talk by Alexandra Manea from the World Bank and a Panel Discussion on Disrupting Corruption Through Whistleblowing. They also had the chance to participate in a trip to the United Nations Office in Vienna with an expert talk by Sophie Meingast from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

The MACS programme offers a series of interdisciplinary modules that concentrate on concepts and applied perspectives for preventing and countering corruption and establishing solid components of compliance and is run in both hybrid and online format. For more information about IACA’s Masters programmes and to apply, please visit the following links for MACS and IMACC.