Speakers

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.

Lachezar Anguelov is an Associate Professor at The Evergreen State College, specialising in public management and policy. His research primarily explores the contracting capacity of public organisations, oversight mechanisms, and comparative public policy. Additionally, he is interested in citizen trust in public institutions, participation in organisational decision-making, and inter-local collaboration.

Following the successful completion of her pioneering LLM study in the regulation of construction procurement in the public sector, Allison registered in 2016 for a doctoral study to continue her research in this field. In her doctoral dissertation, Allison asked whether a relational understanding of construction procurement in South Africa assists in formulating regulation for this area of public procurement. She successfully completed her study in 2017 and was awarded the doctoral degree in 2018. In 2021, she published the first dedicated academic work on construction procurement law in South Africa with Juta & Co.

Allison is currently Deputy Director of the African Procurement Law Unit situated at Stellenbosch University. She does consulting work with government agencies on procurement issues and provides training to state officials on government procurement. Her most recent research procurement was on data protection in procurement with Open Contracting Partnership.

Sergio G. Lazzarini (PhD, 2002, Washington University in St. Louis) is a Professor at Ivey Business School, Western University, and Chafi Haddad Senior Research Fellow at Insper (Brazil). He does research on how public and private actors interact and organize their activities to improve economic and social performance. He is a former Professor at Insper and founder of Insper Metricis, a center for the study of impact measurement and investing. Sergio has held visiting positions at Harvard University (2010, 2012), University of St Gallen (2009), HEC Paris (2014), Insead (2015), Brandeis (2016), Imperial College (2017), the University of Utah (2019), and the University of Toronto (2021-22).

He has published a trilogy of books on public-private interactions: Capitalismo de Laços (Elsevier, 2011; revised edition by Bei Editora, 2018), Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and Beyond (Harvard University Press, 2014, with Aldo Musacchio), and The Right Privatization: Why Private Firms in Public Initiatives Need Capable Governments (Cambridge University Press, 2022). Sergio has been a consultant to several firms and multilateral organizations such as OECD, IDB, and the World Bank, and his research was cited or interviewed by news sources such as The Economist, New York Times, Financial Times, Forbes, BBC, and Bloomberg.

Professor of Public Leadership/Enterprise, Newcastle BS, Northumbria. Was Professor of Public Leadership and Management at IMPGT, Aix-Marseille Université, France.Graduate of the University of Durham, University of Warwick Doctorate; acted as Head of International Centre for Public Services Management, NTU Business School, Director, MPA/MPP Programmes, University of Nottingham, Director, MA in Managament, Durham Business School, University of Durham, Director MBA Programme, Sunderland Business School, Head, Centre for Leadership, Teesside BS. Prior to an academic career, was company director of a small family firm and is still company secretary to a design company Honorary Chair of UK Joint University Council, Fellow of UK Academy of Social Sciences, Regional Studies Association,Joint University Counci. Holds Visiting Professorships at Universities of Eastern Finland, Aix-Marseille, France,Tor Vergata, Rome, Manchester Metropolitan, Northumbria, Edge Hill &) Glasgow Caledonian

Michal Plaček is Professor of Public and Social Policy at Charles University and Global Research Affiliate SPRI Arizona State University. His research focuses on the institutionalization of sustainable public procurement in different sectors. He has published in journals such as Governance, Public Management Review, and Public Money and Management. He worked for 12 years as head of the internal audit department and also contributed to the preparation of the National Public Procurement Strategy of the Czech Republic.

Lena Brogaard is Associate Professor in Public Administration and Deputy Director in the Centre for Research on Public-Private Collaboration at Roskilde University. Her research focuses on the outcomes of public-private collaboration, and how organizational and individual-level factors contribute to innovation and value creation in various cross-sector arrangements such as public-private partnerships and public procurement.

Lisa Vanden Eynden works as a Policy Analyst for the Infrastructure and Public Procurement Division at the Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD) in Paris. She works mainly on advancing the use public procurement to advance member states’ strategic objectives such as sustainability, human rights, gender equality and innovation. She has been involved in different projects, including a project with Norway on leveraging public procurement to protect and promote human rights, as well as on the development of a compendium of good practices on Green Public Procurement. She is also working with the European Commission (DG Reform and DG Regio), on different projects, including one on the promotion of sustainable public procurement in projects funded by EU funds.

Lisa holds a Master of Laws (LLM) in International Public Law and International Human Rights Law from University College London (UCL), and Master of Laws from university Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne. Before joining the OECD, she worked in Vienna, at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe on combating human trafficking in supply chains. She also worked at the French Assemble Nationale for the European Affairs Commission, and at the lobbyist firm in Paris.