Robert Anderson

Robert Anderson is Honorary Professor in the School of Law at the University of Nottingham, a member of the Public Procurement Research Group, a member of the Editorial Board of the Public Procurement Law Review, and an independent consultant, researcher and trainer based in Sarasota, Florida, USA. He also serves on the part-time external faculties of the Public Procurement Management Programs of the Universities of Rome Tor Vergata and Belgrade. He previously served as Counsellor and Team Leader for Government Procurement and Competition Policy in the Secretariat of the World Trade Organization, in Geneva, Switzerland and, earlier in his career, in: (i) the Canadian Competition Bureau (Canada's national competition agency); (ii) the Department of Finance of the Canadian Province of Saskatchewan; and (iii) the Economic Council of Canada.

Robert is co-editor of three books:  (i) (with Antony Taubman and Nuno Pires De Carvalho) Competition Policy and Intellectual Property Rights in Today's Global Economy (Cambridge University Press, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the World Trade Organization (WTO), 2021); (ii) (with Sue Arrowsmith, Professor Emerita in the School of Law at the University of Nottingham) The WTO Regime on Government Procurement: Challenge and Reform (Cambridge University Press and the WTO, 2011); and (iii) (with Prof. Nancy Gallini of the University of British Columbia) Competition Policy and Intellectual Property Rights in the Knowledge-based Economy (Industry Canada Research Series, 1998). He is the author/co-author of numerous articles published in the Public Procurement Law Review, the Journal of International Economic Law, the Antitrust Law Journal, the Georgetown Journal of International Law, the George Washington Law Review, the George Mason Law Review, the Swiss Review of International Economic Relations ("Aussenwirtschaft"), The Government Contractor (an important outlet for US procurement professionals), the Canadian Competition Record and other venues, in addition to chapters in numerous edited volumes. Currently, he is at work on a forthcoming book on Preventing Corruption and Supplier Collusion in Public Procurement, to be authored jointly with Alison Jones (Kings College London) and William Kovacic (George Washington University Law School) and published eventually by Oxford University Press.

In his consulting work, Robert is currently engaged in major capacity building projects for the International Trade Centre (a UN agency based in Geneva, Switzerland), on public procurement and competition policy in Thailand; in similar work for the US Commercial Law Development Program, on competition policy and public procurement in the Dominican Republic; and (recently) in presenting a series of workshops for the Inter-American Development Bank, relating to Brazil’s accession to the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA).

Robert holds degrees in law and economics from Osgoode Hall Law School (Canada) and the University of British Columbia, respectively, and has separately completed two Executive Certificate Programs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, in Economic Development and Public Policy.