Public Integrity, Anti-corruption and Governance 

Beatriz Aguedo-Huiza is a Peruvian lawyer and doctoral researcher at the Graduate School of Law of Kyoto University, where she is affiliated with the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Law and Policy (KILAP). 

Her research focuses on anti-corruption, public integrity systems, institutional governance, and the implementation of international governance standards, with particular attention to Peru and Latin America.

Her doctoral dissertation examines the implementation of Peru’s OECD-inspired public integrity system between 2017 and 2026. Combining legal and public policy analysis, her work investigates how international integrity standards are translated into domestic legal and institutional frameworks and the political, administrative, institutional, and behavioral factors that shape their implementation.

She also conducts research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and institutional integrity. Her recent work examines how public integrity principles and anti-corruption safeguards can be incorporated into AI governance, including questions of accountability, discretion, transparency, and contestability in algorithmic governance. She has also explored the use of science fiction prototyping and speculative methods as complementary approaches to legal and governance research.

Before beginning her doctoral studies in Japan, she worked for approximately seven years in Peru as a lawyer specializing in corporate compliance, anti-corruption, anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CFT), and regulatory governance. Her professional experience includes advising private-sector organizations and working as an governance analyst in a Peruvian state-owned enterprise, where she contributed to the implementation of institutional integrity and compliance measures.

Beyond academia, she enjoys a full day at a museum, going to concerts and hiking. She's an advocate for the ethical care of hamsters, and proudly identifies as Hufflepuff.