SPEAKERS
SPEAKERS
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”.
Professor Christopher Bovis JD, MPhil, LLM, FRSA is Professor of International and European Business at the University of Hull. He specializes in all areas of European Business Law, anti-trust law and policy, with particular emphasis on public sector management. He is Editor in Chief of European Procurement and Public-Private Partnerships Law Review.
Professor Roberto Caranta is a Full Professor with the Law Department of the University of Turin (Italy). His work focuses on public procurement, particularly sustainable public procurement and remedies, as well as EU and comparative administrative law, with special attention to judicial protection. He is the Coordinator of the Horizon 2020 SAPIENS International Training Network (Sustainability and Procurement in International, European, and National Systems – Grant 956696),
Michael Fruhmann serves as Head of the Procurement Law Unit at Austria’s Federal Ministry of Justice, overseeing public procurement policy, drafting legislation, and coordinating international negotiations. He represents Austria at the European Court of Justice and regularly contributes to conferences and expert panels on EU public procurement developments.
Petra Ferk is an Assistant Professor for Public Administration at the Graduate School of Government and European Studies, Slovenia, and one of the Founders at the Slovenian Institute for Public-Private Partnership. Petra is the national correspondent for European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review, and is active in promoting best practices on PPPs within the trainings organized by the UNECE International PPP Centre of Excellence.
Désirée Klingler is an Assistant Professor of Public Law, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. She is conducting research at the intersection of law & economics with a focus on public economic law (including public procurement and competition law), climate law and international trade law. In her research and teaching, she takes a comparative law approach, comparing legal developments in the United States, the European Union and Switzerland.
François Lichère is a Professor of public law at the University of Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Director of the Chair on public contracts law.
François has published more than a hundred books and articles, mainly in the field of public contracts law but also in public law in relation to business and in administrative law, in French and English.
Carina Risvig Hamer, is a Full Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She holds a PhD in public procurement law from Copenhagen Business School from 2012.
Carina has been lecturing at Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen University and University of Southern Denmark in mainly Public Procurement law, EU law and Administrative Law.
Eva Ružić is a Research and Teaching Assistant in the Department of Administrative Science at the Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka. She holds an LL.M. and focuses her academic work on public procurement law, administrative governance, and the interplay between national and EU legal frameworks.
Albert Sanchez-Graells is a Professor of Economic Law at the University of Bristol Law School. He specialises in European Union and United Kingdom economic law, including competition law, public procurement, and digital regulation. His research concentrates on the way the public sector interacts with the market and how it organises the delivery of public services, especially healthcare.
Sarah Schoenmaekers is a Professor of European Economic Law at Maastricht University, endowed professor of EU law (more specifically with regard to 'the culturally corrected market economy') at the Open Universiteit and professor of construction law at Hasselt University. Sarah is specialized in European economic law. In her research she focuses particularly on European public procurement law, free movement law and the link between EU economic law and culture.
Bojana Todorović is a law lecturer at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Law, specializing in public procurement and environmental law. She combines academic expertise with practical experience, focusing her research on procurement reforms and transparency. She actively contributes to international projects and conferences, advancing legal scholarship and practice.
Pedro Telles, Associate Professor in Public Procurement Law at Copenhagen Business School, is an expert in public procurement regulation, interested in analysing the law in context and changing practice. His recent papers focus on electronic procurement and data, market integration, and how procurement rules shape transparency, cross-border competition, and sustainability.
Tünde Tátrai is a Full Professor at the Corvinus University of Budapest, Institute of Business Economics. Tünde wrote her PhD on Public Procurement and its potential for further development in Hungary. She has been playing a leading role in international research projects (for example International Research Study on Public Procurement) and is the author of numerous books and international publications.
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 teaches 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.