• Bio

    Francisco Cardona is a renowned international expert focused on designing and assessing (M&E) civil service and public administration reforms, administrative law and administrative justice, anticorruption policies and institution building. His experience stretches from his native Spain, where he developed a career within the civil service, to international organisations such as the OECD, SIGMA Programme, where he spent 15 years as a senior policy analyst in public governance, and as an adviser to a host of some 25 transition and developing countries in Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean region. Francisco joined the CIDS in 2013 as an international expert. He has a background education as a lawyer  from Valencia University, 1976, and several master degrees in public administration. He enjoyed a Fulbright research scholarship in California, USA and is fluent in English and French, apart from in his native Spanish and Catalan.