Rasmus Horskjær Nielsen is a lawyer at Andel Holding A/S and holds a PhD in public procurement law. Andel is Denmark’s leading energy and fibre-optic group, and are partial subject to the Utilities directive. Rasmus advises on procurement law matters within the Andel group. He is also an external lecturer in procurement law at the University of Southern Denmark and a former postdoc at the University of Copenhagen specializing in public procurement law.

Rasmus Horskjær Nielsen has a background from the law-sector and from the Danish Competition and Consumer Authority, where he worked with writing proposals for the Danish Public Procurement Act. Rasmus Horskjær Nielsen has extensive teaching experience from a wide range of courses, primarily within public procurement law, sustainable procurement and compliance.

Nils is a Senior Experience Strategist at Halfspace. He uses design thinking to create AI solutions that provide value for both the business and the users. Nils helps companies identify where AI can make a difference. He has experience as both a consultant and an entrepreneur. Nils holds a BSc in Cultural and Aesthetic Studies.

Jan Telgen, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Public Procurement at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. He also has extensive experience in consulting on Public Procurement as a partner in PwC, and CEO of Significant and the Public Procurement Research Centre. His scientific work has been recognized with various awards and prizes.

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.

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.

Christoph Krönke is a Full University Professor of Public Law at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. His research focuses on public economic and technology law. He completed his Dr. jur. (summa cum laude) from Munich University in 2013. In 2020, Christoph Krönke received his habilitation in Munich and was appointed as a Full Professor at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business. He transferred to the University of Bayreuth in 2023.

Fredo Schotanus holds the position of Professor of Public Procurement at Utrecht University’s School of Economics in the Netherlands. He is also cofounder and a member of the management team at the Utrecht University Centre for Public Procurement (UUCePP). Apart from his academic role, he serves as a principal consultant at Significant Synergy, where he has amassed substantial practical experience in procurement across mobility, central government, and healthcare sectors.

His research interests span various economic and managerial topics, including achieving policy objectives through public procurement, utilizing open procurement data, joint procurement, sustainable procurement, innovation procurement, and supplier selection. He frequently speaks at events and lectures about procurement for both students and practitioners. His thoughts on the role of public procurement in contemporary society are articulated in his open access inaugural lecture titled “A Better World Starts with Public Procurement”.

Schotanus has contributed to the field through several academic and professional publications focusing on procurement and public procurement in specific. In addition, he has authored several chapters in books such as the open access book “Public Procurement: Theory, Practices, and Tools” and has written guidelines on topics such as supplier selection and innovation procurement. His academic contributions have been honored with various awards, including best paper awards from Public Administration Review and the Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management.

Trygve Harlem Losnedahl is a doctoral research fellow at the University of Oslo writing a dissertation on purposes, principles and means in regulation of public procurement. He has worked as a lawyer at the Oslo based law firm Hjort and at Equinor, and as a deputy judge in Sør-Trøndelag district court. After (hopefully) finalizing his dissertation in 2024, he will take up a position as associate professor at Oslo Metropolitan University.

Dr. Dagne Sabockis works at the law firm Vinge, and specializes in public procurement law, competition law and foreign direct investment law. In 2022, Dagne received her doctoral degree in law from Stockholm School of Economics, with the dissertation “Competition and Green Public Procurement in EU Law”.

Helga Berger has been a Member of the European Court of Auditors (ECA) since 2020. She started in Chamber V (Financing and administering the Union), where she was responsible for the annual report chapter on budgetary management and the special report on “Protecting the EU budget – Better use of blacklisting needed”. In January 2022, she joined Chamber II (Investment for cohesion, growth and inclusion). There, she is currently working on the annual report chapter on Cohesion, Resilience and Value, as well as on a review on the regularity of Cohesion spending. In December 2023 the ECA published the special report “Public procurement in the EU – Less competition for contracts awarded for works, goods and services in the 10 years up to 2021” where Helga Berger has been the Reporting Member. In March 2024 she took over the Chair of Audit Quality Control Committee.
Before joining the ECA, Helga Berger worked as Director-General for Budget and Public Finances at the Austrian Ministry of Finance, as an auditor and ultimately Director-General for management and support at the Austrian Court of Audit, and as a criminal judge, among others. As a trained lawyer, she has more than 20 years of professional experience in the areas of planning, implementation and control of public finances.

Marlene Winther Plas is a partner and attorney at DLA Piper Denmark, and she is the Nordic head responsible for DLA Piper Denmark’s advisory services in IT and data protection. Marlene is the Data Protection Officer for DLA Piper Denmark. She specializes in IT law, including IT regulation/compliance, GDPR, AI, cybersecurity, etc. Marlene advises public authorities and businesses on matters such as IT procurement, IT outsourcing, operational contracts, and IT acquisition contracts, as well as conflict resolution. Marlene has extensive experience in managing and executing large and complex contracts and compliance projects, along with commercial insight and an understanding of clients’ expectations and requirements. Marlene provides proactive advice and works purposefully to find effective solutions to complex challenges. Additionally, Marlene is the chairperson of the Danish IT Lawyers, an association of highly specialized IT lawyers. Marlene is a certified IT lawyer and IT mediator. She has extensive experience as an instructor, having taught at the University of Copenhagen, the Insurance Academy, and several private course providers.

A linguist by training (PhD from Cornell University, 2015), Dr. Linda Heimisdóttir is the CEO of Miðeind, an Icelandic AI company which specializes in building Language Technology solutions for Icelandic and other under-resourced languages. Since joining the company in January 2023, Linda’s main focus has been on navigating the rapidly evolving landscape of AI-based language technology, which has seen considerable disruption with the advent of Large Language Models. Prior to her appointment at Miðeind, Linda was a US-based Program Manager at Appen, where her focus was on structuring high-quality linguistic training data for NLP and AI applications. Linda is a TEDx speaker with an extensive experience in public speaking and advocacy for the cause of small languages in the digital age.

Milena Anguelova Krogsgaard is an certified lawyer in the field of ICT contracts and procurement with more than 18 years of experience. She advises both public and private clients on strategic and practical IT contract law related issues, including procurement and purchasing of IT systems and services, outsourcing, operations, contract negotiations and IT related disputes. Furthermore, she advises on AI solutions af data and IoT contracts.

Jean-Yves Muylle is Head of the Unit responsible for the “Public Procurement” at the European Commission (Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs – DG GROW) since September 2022. His unit main objective is to stimulate the transformation of public procurement into a powerful driver of economic development. He is now in charge of the preparation of the evaluation of the Public Procurement directives and the implementation of the Foreign Subsidies Regulation.

He joined the European Commission in 1996. Over the last 18 years, he held management positions in units in charge of retail financial services, international procurement, policy coordination for the Commission’s policy on “Natural Resources, Energy Union and Sustainability” and public interest services.

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.

Carina 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)

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).

Kirsi-Maria Halonen is a Professor of Public Economic Law at the University of Lapland, Finland. She is a member of the Swedish Competition Authority’s research council, co-lead of the European Procurement Law Group and a former member at the European Commission Stakeholder Expert Group on Public Procurement. Halonen leads research projects funded by the Academy of Finland and Finnish Ministries relating to effective public expenditure, public procurement and security of supply. Professor Halonen has authored many articles and edited research books on public procurement and acts as an editor of European Procurement Law Series (Elgar Publishing) and associate editor of the Journal of Public Procurement.

Maud Vastbinder leads the work of the international implementation of the CO2 Performance Ladder at SKAO (the Foundation for Climate Friendly Procurement and Business). The CO₂ Performance Ladder is an effective GPP tool that uses the ‘power of procurement’ to stimulate decarbonization and the circular economy. SKAO is an independent, not for profit foundation and is the owner and manager of the CO₂ Performance Ladder. Maud is one of the founders of SKAO (14 years ago) and leads all international activities together with her team. Since three years, SKAO has been working with her partners IKEA Foundation, the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), ICLEI and the Utrecht University on the international implementation of the CO₂ Performance Ladder. The Ladder is now being structurally implemented in the Netherlands and Belgium and tested in several other European countries, including Ireland, France, the UK, Germany, Portugal and Denmark.

Jean-Maxime is a partner at Mayer Brown’s Antitrust & Competition practice in Paris. He assists companies across all industries with the upstream assessment of their projects, the coordination and management of multi-jurisdictional filings before the relevant merger control and foreign direct investment (“FDI”) authorities, as well as all reporting and filing requirements under the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation (“FSR”). He has developed extensive experience advising major companies active in regulated industries on the application of these rules, including in the telecommunications, transportation, construction, infrastructure, energy and utilities sectors.

With over a decade of legal experience in public procurement, Pauliina Juntunen currently works as a Legal Counsel in Hansel Oy, a central purchasing body for the entire public sector in Finland. Specializing in procurement and contract law, Pauliina Juntunen has provided both practical and strategic legal expertise in public procurement, contracts and cotract managements. She has experience in insuring the legality and successful contracts for large joint procurements as well as consulting Finland’s procurements bodies in all government, municipality and council level for successful procurements and better contracts and their management. Throughout the years, she has also participated in different development programmes related to procurement and contributed to written official statements to legal proposals and official statements.

Hjördís Halldórsdóttir is a Supreme Court Attorney and partner in LOGOS legal services, Iceland’s largest law firm. She holds an LL.M. degree in law and information technology law from Stockholm University. She is among the country’s leading experts in the fields of construction law and public procurement. Hjördís is chairman of the Association of Icelandic Lawyers, as well as being the chairman of the Icelandic Copyright Association. She is a member of the Icelandic Copyright Committee, and is appointed by the Minister of Justice as an alternate member in a committee that determines the qualifications of candidates for the positions of court judges. Hjördís has extensive real-world business experience and has been on the board of several companies. In 2007-2008 she was the secretary of the Icelandic Bar Association and in 2008-2009 she was vice chairman of the Board of the Icelandic Bar Association. Hjördís joined LOGOS in 2000 and became a partner in 2006.

Víðir Smári Petersen is a Professor of Law at the University of Iceland, and his current research focus is mainly in the fields of Property Law and Construction Law. Before joining the Faculty of Law, Petersen was a partner and Supreme Court Attorney at LEX Law Offices, where he advised clients and litigated cases in various fields, including Public Procurement Law and Construction Law.

Reimar Petursson is one of the founding partners at LLG and is a Supreme Court Attorney. Reimar is the chairman at The Public Procurement Complaint Commission. Reimar previously worked as an attorney at Nestor law firm between 1998-2004, as a legal advisor and CEO at Atorka hf., a legal advisor at Straumur Burdaras investment bank hf. between 2007-2008, and a legal advisor at Hf. Eimskipafelag Islands and Cube Properties between 2008-2011. Reimar was the chairman of the Icelandic Bar Association from 2015-2018.

Albert Sanchez-Graells is a Professor of Economic Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Global Law and Innovation at the University of Bristol Law School (UK). He is currently a member of the UK Cabinet Office’s Open Contracting Advisory Group, as well as a former Member of the European Commission Stakeholder Expert Group on Public Procurement. Albert specialises in EU economic law and, in particular, competition law, public procurement and digital regulation. His most recent monograph is Digital Technologies and Public Procurement. Gatekeeping and experimentation in digital public governance (OUP 2024). Most of Albert’s working papers are available at http://ssrn.com/author=542893. His analysis of current legal developments is published in his blog http://www.howtocrackanut.com.