Piotr Bogdanowicz is a Professor at the University of Warsaw Faculty of Law and Administration, where he lectures on EU law, including EU public procurement law. He is an author of several books (the most recent one on contract modifications in EU procurement law) and articles in leading journals, including “Common Market Law Review”, “Public Procurement Law Review” and “European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review”. 

Willem A. Janssen is the Endowed Professor of Public Procurement Law, holding the chair of the Dutch Association for Public Procurement Law, and an Associate Professor of European and Dutch Public Procurement Law. He holds these positions respectively at the Faculty of Law, Groningen University and at the law department of Utrecht University. He is a researcher at the Centre for Public Procurement (UUCePP) and the Centre for Regulation and Enforcement in Europe (RENFORCE).  

Jana Jíchová is a senior legal and policy officer at the European Commission, specialised in EU public procurement. Since joining the Commission in 2008 she has been at the core of the development, interpretation and enforcement of the Public Procurement Directives. She has worked on the revision of the EU legal framework on public procurement, with a particular focus on the concession model. She contributes to the assessment of Member‑State public procurement performances and is involved in the evaluation of the implementation of their Recovery and Resilience Plans.

Mirta Kapural is President of the Council of the Croatian Competition Agency (AZTN). She has been a member of the AZTN Council since 2019 and has worked at the AZTN for over twenty years, holding various positions, most notably in the Department for International and European Cooperation. She authored numerous papers in the field of EU competition law, she is a regular lecturer at Croatian and European law and economics faculties, and she authored the training program "Competition Law" at the State School for Public Administration.

Karlo Kožina is a teaching assistant and doctoral student at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, where he earned his law degree and a specialist degree in public law and public administration. He previously worked at the Administrative Court in Zagreb before joining the Faculty in 2024, where he now edits the journal Croatian and Comparative Public Administration. He received several academic awards, including the Eugen Pusić Award.

Siniša Petrović  holds a law degree, master's, and doctorate from the University of Zagreb, where he has taught since 1990 and become a full professor with tenure. He has held senior roles including special advisor to Croatia's Prime Minister on European law, EU accession negotiator, and chair of UNCITRAL Working Group I, alongside arbitration positions at the LCIA and the Court of Arbitration for Sport. He has authored over 130 publications in commercial, company, competition, and sports law.

Miguel Assis Raimundo is Associate Professor of the University of Lisbon’s School of Law (Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa), where he teaches since 2006, and Research Fellow of Lisbon Public Law, the Lisbon Center for Research in Public Law (Centro de Investigação de Direito Público), since 2013. He lectures and researches in different fields of Public Law, with a primary focus on the Law of Public Procurement and Public Contracts, covering also other topics of Administrative Law and Litigation, Constitutional Law and Fundamental Rights. He currently teaches Public Procurement Law, Administrative Law and Administrative Litigation at the Graduate and Masters levels.

Mario Rašić works for the European Commission in Croatia and is a lecturer and researcher in law, currently completing a PhD at the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana, with a dissertation on the impact of Directive 2014/24/EU on public procurement for construction works, comparing Croatia and Ireland. He has also taught at institutions including the Zagreb School of Economics and Management (ZŠEM) and EFFECTUS University College, covering administrative law, company law, and economic analysis of law.

With an academic career at the University of Lisbon School of Law (FDUL), where he graduated, obtained a master's degree in Legal and Business Sciences and a PhD in Legal and Economic Sciences, Nuno Cunha Rodrigues is president of the Portugese Competition Authority since March 13, 2023. Nominated Vice-Chair of the International Competition Network (ICN) in September 2025. As an associate professor with habilitation at the mentioned Law School, he holds a Jean Monnet Chair, awarded in 2018 by the European Commission.

Kristina Ozimec Škof is a senior expert in EU funds management with more than 20 years of professional experience in public procurement, irregularity management, and complaints review within the EU Funds Management and Control System in Croatia. She currently serves as Head of the Independent Complaint Handling Sector within the Ministry of Regional Development and EU Funds of Croatia, where she leads activities related to irregularity management and complaint handling, including the prevention, detection, and correction of irregularities and the review of complaints related to public procurement irregularities in EU-funded programmes.