Global Revolution VII
Global Revolution VII, 15 and 16 June 2015
The 7th in the series of successful international conferences was attended by policy-makers, lawyers and practitioners from the main international organisations involved in procurement regulation, as well as world-leading leading professors and researchers.
The conference included plenary sessions for all delegates and a series of parallel workshops and debates focusing on specific topics of interest to different delegates.
The conference was sponsored by The Achilles Group.
Key themes
Key themes included:
- Experience of the new EU procurement regime
- The remedy of ineffectiveness
- Access for SMEs
- Procurement and the public interest
- Health sector procurement and the NHS
- Plurilateral procurement: the transparency agenda
- The new face of procurement in the Multilateral Development Banks, including reform of the World Bank regime
- Country systems, harmonisation and aid effectiveness
- Developments in debarment and self-cleaning
- Electronic procurement in practice
- Procurement in Africa
- EU and global defence issues
Speakers
Conference speakers included:
- Robert Anderson, World Trade Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland
- Dr Marta Andrecka, Aarhus University, Denmark
- Professor Sue Arrowsmith, The University of Nottingham, UK
- Claire Barclay, Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr, South Africa
- Peter Bennett, Cabinet Office, UK
- Ashish Bhateja, ADB
- Roger Bickerstaff, Bird & Bird, UK
- Peter Braun, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, Germany
- Chris Browne, World Bank, USA
- Dr Luke Butler, Bristol Law School, Faculty of Social Sciences and Law, UK
- Kathrine Eddon, Pinsent Masons LLP, UK
- Rosemary Choueka, Bristows LLP, UK
- Xavier Codina, Bufete Codina y Asociados, Spain
- Dr Richard Craven, University of Northumbria, UK
- Jo Dale, Crown Commercial Service
- Dr Paul Davis, IFPSM Global Standard Board, UK
- Kuldip Dhanoya, Nabarro LLP, UK
- Nicola Dimitri, University of Siena
- Pascale Hélène Dubois, World Bank, USA
- Dr. Vera Eiró, Nova School of Law, and Consultant, Linklaters LLP (Lisbon Office), Portugal
- Dr Ama Eyo, University of Bangor, UK
- Professor Laurence Folliot-Lalliot, Université de Paris Ouest, France
- Chris Gallagher, CGA
- Angela Gallop, Axiom International
- Neli Garbuzanova, NHS, UK
- Dr. Aris Georgopoulos, University of Nottingham, UK
- Dr Anna Gorczynska, University of Łódź, Poland
- Jeff Gutman, Brookings Institution, USA
- Kirsi-Maria Halonen, Hansel Oy and University of Turku, Finland
- Wojciechtek Hartung, Counsel at Domański Zakrzewski Palinka sp.k., Poland
- Emily Heard, Bevan Brittan LLP, UK
- Dr Baudouin Heuninckx, Belgian Defence Procurement Division, Belgium and The University of Nottingham, UK
- Robert Hunja, World Bank Institute, USA
- Jan Jackholt, Procurement Department EBRD, UK
- Chris Jansen, VU University, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Susanna Johansson, Lund University, Sweden
- Dae-in Kim, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
- Dr Totis Kotsonis, Eversheds LLP, UK
- Professor Peter Kunzlik, University of East Anglia, UK
- Kodjo Osei-Lah, WTO Secretariat, Geneva, Switzerland
- Dr Annamaria La Chimia, The University of Nottingham, UK
- Anne Langley, Department for International Development, UK
- Professor John Linarelli, Durham University, UK
- Paulo Magina, OECD, Paris, France
- Debbie Metcalfe, LLM MSc MCIPS - Achilles Information Limited, UK
- David Meyer, USAID, USA
- Jeanmarie Meyer, Millenium Challenge Corporation, USA
- Anna Müller, World Trade Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland
- Caroline Nicholas, UNCITRAL Secretariat, Vienna, Austria
- Eliza Niewiadomska, EBRD, UK
- Dr Grith Ølykke, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
- Ulrich Paetzold, FIEC, The European Construction Industry Federation, Belgium
- Dr Cesar Pereira, Justen, Pereira, Oliveira & Talamini Advogados, Brazil
- Juan José Pernas García, Universidade da Coruña, Spain
- Dr Hans-Joachim Prieß, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Berlin, Germany
- Professor Geo Quinot, Stellenbosch University and African Public Procurement Regulation Research Unit, South Africa
- Kate Rees, Hogan Lovells LLP, UK
- Carina Risvig Hamer, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
- Professor Dimitrios Raikos, Hellenic Single Public Procurement Authority, Greece
- Youssef Saad, Office of the Minister of State for Administrative Reform, Lebanon
- Dr Albert Sánchez Graells, University of Leicester, UK
- Martin Schellenberg, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, Germany
- Major Daniel Schoeni, US Air Force, USA
- Dr. Sarah Schoenmaekers, Maastricht University, Netherlands
- Dr. Johannes S. Schnitzer, Schnitzer Law, Austria
- Professor Steve Schooner, George Washington University, USA
- Professor Joshua Schwartz, George Washington University, USA
- Rafael Schwind, Justen, Pereira Oliveira & Talamini Advogados, Brazil
- Vinay Sharma, African Development Bank, Tunisia
- Mari Ann Simovart, University of Tartu Kaarli, Estonia
- Evgeny Smirnov, EBRD, UK
- Susie Smith, Consultant, Bevan Brittan LLP, UK
- Marc Steiner, Swiss Federal Administrative Court, Switzerland
- Dr Andrea Sundstrand, Stockholm University, Sweden
- Pilvi Takala, Procurement Training and Counselling Services, Finland
- Elisabeth Täubl, International Anti-Corruption Academy, Austria
- Simon Taylor, Keating Chambers, UK
- Dr. Pedro Telles, University of Bangor, UK
- Dean Jessica Tillipman, George Washington University, USA
- Dr Peter Trepte, Barrister and The University of Nottingham, UK
- Sandeep Verma, Author: www.BuyLawsIndia.com, India
- Katharina Vierlich, European Commission, Belgium
- Dr Ping Wang, PPRG, The University of Nottingham, UK
- Lina Wedin Hansson, Lund University, Sweden
- Peter Ware, Browne Jacobson
- Dr Sope Williams-Elegbe, University of Lagos, Nigeria
- Professor Tim Wilson, Northumbria University, UK
- Malcolm Youngson, IFPSM, UK
- Professor Christopher Yukins, George Washington University, USA
- Dr Xinglin Zhang, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, China
- Professor Shayou Zheng, Equipment Academy, China
Collaborators
- The African Public Procurement Regulation Research Unit
- The Centre for Public Procurement and PPP
- Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, China
- The Procurement Lawyers' Association
- Durham University
- Forum Vergabe
- The International Federation of Purchasing and Supply Management
- The George Washington University
- Achilles
- The World Trade Organization
- The University of Lagos