Speakers

Lena Diesing is an expert on responsible public procurement at the OECD Centre for Responsible Business Conduct. In her analytical work, she links responsible business conduct and public procurement strategies, and helps public buyers draw on due diligence to enhance their purchasing. Lena has been working at the OECD since 2013. She has focused on policy reviews to evaluate public policies of OECD Members and beyond, and, with external stakeholders, enhanced an indicator-based evaluation methodology, the Methodology for Assessing Procurement Systems (MAPS.) Prior to joining the OECD, Lena worked in the United States’ financial industry, conducting due diligence reviews for a risk management firm in the context of money laundering prevention and countering terrorism finance. Lena holds a Master of Arts in International Economics and International Relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

Peter has more 20 years of experience researching the globalisation of the electronics industry and its effects on working conditions and labour rights. He has been part of several international research projects on contract manufacturing and has co-authored, "From Silicon Valley to Shenzhen: Global Production and Work in the IT Industry." Before coming to Electronics Watch he coordinated European Social Fund-financed projects at IG Metall, focusing on works council trainings. Peter has an MA in Political Science and PhD in Sociology from Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University.

Andrea works for the Strategic Investment Board (SIB) where she advises public sector bodies across Northern Ireland on approaches to maximise social value requirements within ICT contracts. Andrea is also a Visiting Fellow of Practice at the Government Outcomes Lab at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford.

Prior to her role with SIB, Andrea worked within public sector bidding for over 8 years developing bid solutions for a variety of professional services and facilities management contracts, and advising on bid strategies, training and governance processes. Andrea is also a qualified barrister in Northern Ireland and a Board member for a social enterprise.

Anne Davies is Professor of Law and Public Policy and a Fellow of Brasenose College. She studied at Oxford, completing the BA (winning the Gibbs and Martin Wronker Prizes) and the D.Phil. She was a Prize Fellow at All Souls College from 1995 to 2001, and the Garrick Fellow and Tutor in Law at Brasenose College from 2001 to 2015. From 2015-2020 she was Dean of the Oxford Law Faculty.

Professor Davies is the author of five books and numerous articles in the fields of public law and labour law. In public law, she has a particular interest in government contracts. Her D.Phil. thesis examined the phenomenon of contractualisation in the UK National Health Service from a public law perspective. She developed this research into a book entitled Accountability: A Public Law Analysis of Government by Contract which was published by Oxford University Press in 2001. Her book The Public Law of Government Contracts, a wider examination of public procurement and public/private partnership contracts from a public law perspective, was published by OUP in 2008. She continues to write about government contracts and public service delivery more generally, and chairs the Oxford POGO Club for the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford.

Academically, Laura Treviño has a multidisciplinary background. She holds a Bachelor of laws (LLB) from Universidad Panamericana (Mexico), a one-year degree on international and comparative studies from Science Po (France), a specialization on human rights from Castilla-La Mancha University (Spain) and a MSc in Development Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science (UK). Currently, she is a Marie Sklodowska Curie Phd candidate on sustainable public procurement and human rights at the University of Greenwich in London, UK as part of the Sapiens Network funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.

Professionally, she designed and managed the first Business and Human Rights Programme in Mexico’s National Human Rights Institution (NHRI). In the NHRI, she held positions as Director, Advisor and Researcher.
Her work has focused on capacity-building through designing and implementing guidelines and trainings with multi-stakeholders, awareness-raising, policy advice and field fact-finding on business-related abuses on human rights in public procurement, mining, construction, education, transport and energy industries. She has also collaborated with several UN initiatives and agencies in Tanzania, The Netherlands, Cameroon, and Latin America.
She has been panelist in 40+ national, regional and international fora on procurement, business and human rights, including the United Nations in Geneva. She has several publications on responsible business conduct, sustainable public procurement of infrastructure and indigenous consultation.

Ezgi Uysal is a Ph.D. Student at the University of Turin. Her research focuses on enforcing sustainability in the performance of public procurement contracts. After graduating from the Faculty of Law at Bilkent University, she was awarded Jean Monnet a scholarship to study EU acquis within the framework of Turkey’s EU harmonization process. She holds a master’s degree from Leiden University in European and International Business Law, where she graduated as valedictorian. During her studies in Leiden, she investigated whether the EU Public Procurement regime was in line with the UNGPs on Business and Human Rights