Ensure the role doesn't allow much in the way of status, money, power or any other form of personal gain. Unfortunately that is hard to do given the possibility to gain the aforementioned goods via the opportunity to accept bribes.
The most obvious way to go about prevention would be to institute excessively redundant amounts of transparency.
Ensure the role doesn't allow much in the way of status, money, power or any other form of personal gain.
Running a big, important research project which will shape decisions about what to do with a large number of people? There's no way to keep money, status, and power away from that.
I have just received a survey questionnaire regarding future directions in EU (European Union) research funding, and thought it would be interesting to see how LessWrong would answer the main question:
Imagine that EU funding is available for one ambitious, visionary project extending beyond 2020.