Marta Andhov’s (previously Andrecka) main research interests focus on public procurement law and interaction between public and private law in context of governmental trade. Throughout her projects, she gained in-depth knowledge of the legal aspects of public procurement as well as public-private partnerships.

Marta specialises in procurement practises, research and academia across the profession. Dr Andhov has provided independent insight to key projects, amongst others, for the European Commission, Danish Institute for Human Rights, Swedish Purchasing Consortium, Public Procurement Analysis (London) and Rambøll Management Consulting (Copenhagen) and multiple universities.

Marta undertakes teaching in public procurement law, corporate social responsibility, international commercial arbitration, public-private partnerships and European Union Law. She regularly teaches abroad among others at the King’s College.

Jan Telgen recently retired as chaired professor of Public Procurement at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. He has extensive consulting experience on public procurement as partner of PwC Consulting and CEO of Significant. Currently, prof Telgen is co-director of the Public Procurement Research Centre, focused on generating and distributing knowledge about public procurement

Professor Christopher Yukins teaches in the government procurement law program at George Washington University Law School, the leading program of its kind in the United States.  He has taught there, in traditional classrooms and online, on contract formations and performance issues in public procurement, bid protests and claims litigation, state and local procurement, anti-corruption issues, foreign contracting, procurement reform, and comparative and international law.  He has testified on issues of procurement reform and trade before committees of the U.S. Congress and the European Parliament.  He led a major study of agency-level bid protests for the Administrative Conference of the United States, and he serves as a researcher through the Stevens Institute of Technology’s Acquisition Innovation Research Center (AIRC).  He is a visiting professor at the Université Paris Nanterre, and an appointed visiting lecturer at the University of Paris.  He teaches masters students through the United Nations ILO-International Training Center (Turin, Italy).  He lectures regularly on procurement issues and corruption at the International Anti-Corruption Academy (Austria), where he has also developed several online courses.  He has spoken as a guest lecturer at institutions around the world, and he was a contributing editor to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime manual, Guidebook on Anti-Corruption in Public Procurement.  He is an active member of the Public Contract Law Section of the American Bar Association, and contributes to the Section’s ongoing reforms of the ABA Model Procurement Code for State and Local Governments.  He is a member of the Procurement Roundtable, an organization of senior members of the U.S. procurement community.  He is a faculty advisor to the Public Contract Law Journal, is a member of the editorial board of the European Procurement & Public-Private Partnership Law Review, and is on the advisory board of The Government Contractor.  He has worked on a wide array of international projects on capacity-building in procurement, and he was an advisor to the U.S. delegation to the working group on reform of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Model Procurement Law.  Together with his colleagues, he runs a colloquium series on procurement reform at The George Washington University Law School.  In private practice, Professor Yukins has been an associate, partner and counsel at leading law firms; he is currently counsel to the firm of Arnold & Porter.

Susie is a lawyer, consultant and trainer with over 20 years experience advising on public procurement.

For 10 years Susie was a Partner at law firm Bevan Brittan LLP where she was head of the Commercial department and then went on to lead the Procurement, Competition and State Aid team. Her legal work covered all aspects of procurement, including advising on the scoping and procurement of major PPP and construction projects, and commissioning of health and social care, early market engagement strategies, structuring frameworks and dynamic purchasing systems, preparation of tender documents, advising on selection and evaluation and legal challenges.

Susie now works as a freelance procurement trainer and consultant working in the UK, EU and further afield including on capacity building projects in countries developing and improving their procurement systems. Over the past three years she has been involved in five MAPS assessments.

Susie is an Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Nottingham, a founder member of the UK Procurement Lawyers Association and is also on the editorial board of the Public Procurement Law Review.

Paul Iske is professor at the School of Business and Economics, University Maastricht, Netherlands, focusing on Open Innovation and Business Venturing and Visiting Professor Knowledge-driven Innovation at the Department of Information Science, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Paul is founder and CFO (Chief Failure Officer) of the ‘Institute of Brilliant Failures’ (www.brilliantfailures.com), with the mission to highlight the importance of experimentation to achieve paradigm shifts and breakthrough innovation. Paul is Chairman of the Dutch Personalised Healthcare Catalyst Foundation (www.phc-catalyst.nl), with the mission to accelerate the transition towards personalized, data-driven healthcare. He is an international author, consultant and speaker on innovation, entrepreneurship, knowledge management and creativity. He spent 18 years as Chief Dialogues Officer, Head of Innovation and Knowledge Management at ABN AMRO Bank. Before that, he finished his PhD in Theoretical Physics and fulfilled a number of jobs in Strategy and R&D at Shell.

Sue Arrowsmith is Emerita Professor of Public Procurement Law and Policy at the University of Nottingham, where she is also Director of the Public Procurement Research Group and of the postgraduate Executive programme in Public Procurement Law and Policy, a part-time postgraduate course for procurement lawyers/regulators/professionals.  She has a B.A. (first class hons.) from Oxford University, where she won many prizes, including the prestigious Gibbs Prize,  and a D.Jur from Osgoode Hall Law School. She is also a Member of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (MCIPS).

Her publications have been extensively cited by courts around the world. Her many books include (most recently) The Law of Public and Utilities Procurement (3rd ed. 2014 (Vol.1) and 2018 (vol.2)), which was described in 2018 by the domestic High Court as “the leading academic authority” and “highly persuasive” for the courts in making decisions in this field. She is founding editor of Public Procurement Law Review and from 2008-2011 was Project Leader of the EU-funded project for developing a global academic network on procurement regulation.

She has been a member of the UNCITRAL Procurement Experts Group, the World Bank International Advisory Group on Procurement and (for nearly 20 years) the European Commission’s independent Advisory Committee on procurement, and an Expert with the International Partnership against Corruption in Sport (IPACS), Taskforce 1. She has also been consultant for the UK, UN, WTO, OECD, EU, European Central Bank, ILO and the Law Commission of England and Wales.

In 2007 she was awarded the CIPS Swinbank Medal for thought innovation in purchasing and supply and in 2019 was made an honorary Queens Counsel (QC) in recognition of her significant contribution to the development of the law of England and Wales.

Line Skorpa Nygaard is Lawyer and Senior Advisor in the Norwegian Competition Authority. Line Skorpa Nygaard works in the Market Monitoring department of Construction, Industry and Energy and has years of experience from cases regarding illegal bid rigging and cartels.

Line Skorpa Nygaard has also worked a lot with issues regarding bidding consortia.

Mario Sõrm is a Senior Associate at Sorainen. Mario Sõrm has years of experience in the public sector and as a supervisory board member of state owned enterprises. He also had a hand in drafting theEstonian Competition Act as well as the Public Procurement Act, not to mention numerous other pieces of legislation. Mario Sõrm also has been working within EU working groups and lectures representing Estonia and giving lectures as a TAIEX expert on EU e-commerce law in three different continents.

Dr Carri Ginter is an Associate Professor of European law at the Tartu University (Estonia) and a Dispute Resolution Partner at the Law firm Sorainen, which is acting in the Baltic states and Belarus. In 2015 – 2016 Dr Ginter was a member of the management board of Port of Tallinn – the biggest port authority in Estonia, and as far as both cargo and passenger traffic are taken into account, the biggest port on the shores of the Baltic Sea. Dr Carri Ginter supervises research on masters and PhD level and publishes internationally on topics of EU law and procurement law. Most recently in European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review with the title Excluded Tenderer’s Access to a Review in a Public Procurement Procedure. Dr Carri Ginter has recently published articles regarding the in-house topic as well.

Carri Ginter is an expert on EU law with many years of experience. Carri Ginter is also experienced within IP advice, fightring corruption and state issues.

Therése Westermark is working as Head of Unit of the Swedish Competition Authority’s Procurement Supervision unit. Therése Westermark has been working within law and procurement the last 15 years and has 10 years of experience from the Swedish Police.