Speakers

Marta Andhov, PhD University of Copenhagen // Associate professor in public procurement law at Center for Private Governance, Faculty of Law
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.
Read more Marta Andhov, PhD University of Copenhagen // Associate professor in public procurement law at Center for Private Governance, Faculty of Law
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.
Willem A. Janssen Public Procurement Research Centre of Utrecht University // Associate professor in EU public procurement law
Dr. Willem Janssen is an Associate Professor in European and Dutch Public Procurement Law at the law department of Utrecht University and a researcher at the Centre for Public Procurement (UUCePP) and the Centre for Regulation and Enforcement in Europe (RENFORCE).
Read more Willem A. Janssen Public Procurement Research Centre of Utrecht University // Associate professor in EU public procurement law
Dr. Willem Janssen is an Associate Professor in European and Dutch Public Procurement Law at the law department of Utrecht University and a researcher at the Centre for Public Procurement (UUCePP) and the Centre for Regulation and Enforcement in Europe (RENFORCE). His line of research, ‘Public Procurement (Law) for Good’ delves into challenging questions related to sustainable and responsible outsourcing and insourcing in the public procurement (law) context. He is widely recognised as an expert and publishes on this topic in international and Dutch academic journals, is co-host of BESTEK – the Public Procurement Podcast, co-leads interdisciplinary projects ‘Public Interest Ecosystems’ and the ‘Transactional State’, and is a regularly invited speaker on climate change and social injustice.
Martin Trybus University of Birmingham // Professor of European Law and Policy and Director of the Institute of European Law at the Birmingham Law School
Martin Trybus, LL.M., Ph.D., Ref. iur., is Professor of European Law and Policy and Director of the Institute of European Law at the Birmingham Law School of the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Read more Martin Trybus University of Birmingham // Professor of European Law and Policy and Director of the Institute of European Law at the Birmingham Law School
Martin Trybus, LL.M., Ph.D., Ref. iur., is Professor of European Law and Policy and Director of the Institute of European Law at the Birmingham Law School of the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. He has published widely on procurement law and policy and especially defence procurement and is the author of Buying Defence and Security in Europe: The EU Defence and Security Procurement Directive in Context (CUP, 2014, Chinese edition 2018) and European Defence Procurement Law (Kluwer, 1999). He is also the co-editor (with Sue Arrowsmith) of Public Procurement: The Continuing Revolution (Kluwer,2002), (with Roberto Caranta) of The Law of Green and Social Procurement in Europe ( Djøf: Copenhagen, 2010), and (with Roberto Caranta and Gunilla Edelstamm) of EU Public Contract Law (Bruylant, 2014). He is the Chair of of the Procurement Review Board of the European Space Agency (ESA) in Paris and has worked on numerous projects for the OECD, the ILO, the European Commission, the European Defence Agency, and various Member State governments. Professor Trybus is currently the Director of Training of an EU-funded Horizon2020 Marie Curie network on sustainability and procurement (‘SAPIENS’) in which 15 doctoral students across 10 institutions conduct research on various aspects of the use of public procurement to promote sustainbility.