Susie is a UK qualified lawyer, consultant and trainer specialising in public procurement and Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Nottingham. 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.
Read more Susie Smith Bevan Brittan LLP // consultantSusie is a UK qualified lawyer, consultant and trainer specialising in public procurement and Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Nottingham. 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 covers all aspects of procurement, including advising on the scoping and procurement of major PPP and construction projects and commissioning, early market engagement strategies, preparation of tender documents, advising on selection and evaluation and legal challenges. Susie works in an advisory role on international capacity, building projects in countries developing and improving their procurement systems.
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 (LLM/Diploma/Certificate).
Read more Professor Sue Arrowsmith University of Nottingham, UK // Professor EmeritaSue 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.
Carina Risvig Hamer is Professor in administrative law and public procurement law at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen.
Read more Carina Risvig Hamer University of Copenhagen // ProfessorCarina Risvig Hamer is Professor in administrative law and public procurement law at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen. She is currently leading two research projects the CPB Project and PROCUREGREEN, both funded by the Danish Independent Research Fund. She has previously worked at the Danish Competition and Consumer Authority (2006–2013), where her tasks included drafting procurement legislation (including the Danish implementation of the Remedies Directive), giving guidance on public procurement law, handling informal complaints of breaches of the procurement rules and taking part in the negotiations of the 2014 Procurement Directives. Since 2020 she has been an expert member of the Danish Complaints Board for Public Procurement. Carina is the author of several books and articles in public procurement law.
Prof. Iryna Zapatrina, founder of PPP Academy (Ukraine) and Edu4Bis B.V. (the Netherlands)
Read more Iryna Zapatrina founder of PPP Academy (Ukraine) and Edu4Bis B.V. (the Netherlands) // Professor and founderProf. Iryna Zapatrina, founder of PPP Academy (Ukraine) and Edu4Bis B.V. (the Netherlands)
Ph.D. in economics, Doctorate in economics (finance), Professor (finance), Senior PPP and PIM Consultant of the World Bank, EBRD, UNECE, UNDP, USAID, the Laureate of the State Prize in the Field of Science & Technics of Ukraine, former Deputy-Minister of Housing and Communal Services of Ukraine (2007 – 2010), Deputy-director of Scientific Financial Institute under the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine (2005-2007).
Author of more than 150 scientific & analytical publications on Finance, Infrastructure Development and PPPs including the monograph “Public-Private Partnership for Sustainable Development Goals” (2017). The correspondent from Ukraine and an author in European Procurement & Public Private Partnerships Law Review (EPPPL).
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