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Public Procurement: Global Revolution V
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About the conference

Conference themes

  • Key issues and developments in EU public procurement.
  • Procurement regulation in the 21st century: challenges and issues for practitioners in the developed and developing worlds.
  • Globalisation and harmonisation in public procurement regulation.
  • Procurement practice and academia: the role of universities in procurement education and reform.

The conference includes speakers from

  • European Commission
  • WTO
  • World Bank
  • Asian Development Bank
  • UNCITRAL
  • OECD and SIGMA
  • Europol
  • CIPS
  • COMESA

The Global Revolution series

The conference Public Procurement: Global Revolution V is part of a successful series of conferences on the "Global Revolution" theme. The latest conference in the series of conferences was Public Procurement: Global Revolution IV, held on 19-20 April 2010. The conference was all set to be the biggest and best event yet in the series of conferences, with a full-house of 300 delegates and speakers coming from more than 40 countries and five continents, and including representatives from most of the major international institutions working in public procurement. But a volcano in Iceland had other ideas! In the end, around 100 speakers and delegates made it to Nottingham, and the decision was made to do a re-run in Copenhagen. 

Organisers and conference programme directors

The Public Procurement: Global Revolution V conference is organised jointly by University of Copenhagen and University of Nottingham. The programme directors are Professor Steen Treumer and Professor Sue Arrowsmith.

  • Professor Steen Treumer is professor of public Procurement Law at Centre for Enterprise Liability (CEVIA) at the Faculty of Law at the University of Copenhagen. The research area of CEVIA is the interplay between public and private law rules in relation to enterprise liability. 
  • Professor Sue Arrowsmith is professor of Public Procurement Law at University of Nottingham, and director of the Public Procurement Research Group (PPRG) at the University of Nottingham. PPRG is a global leader in research and teaching on public procurement regulation.

The series Global Revolution conferences are partly funded through the European Commission's Asia Link Programme that is an initiative by the European Commission to promote regional and multilateral networking between higher education institutions in Europe and developing countries in Asia. The project consortium is led by University of Nottingham (UK); other consortium members are University of Copenhagen (Denmark), Copenhagen Business School (Denmark), Central University of Finance and Economics (China), University of Malaysia (Malaysia) and Xinjiang University of Finance and Economics (China).