KEYNOTE ADDRESS
PROF THULI MADONSELA
Law Faculty Trust Chair of Social Justice, Stellenbosch University and former Public Protector of the Republic of South Africa
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS & TOPICS INCLUDE
(Detailed programme will follow in due course)
| SPEAKER | Topic |
| Ester Kuugongelwa | The role of procurement in meeting the sustainable development goals – a case study on Namibia |
| Sope Williams-Elegbe | Public procurement and blockchain technology |
| Geo Quinot | Holding procurement officials to account for irregular (but not corrupt) procurement decisions |
| Jonathan Klaaren | Gauteng Finance Management Bill |
| A.M. Adedayo | The troubled life of public procurement in Nigeria’s energy sector – time for a wake-up call? |
| Belita Manka &
Collin Swan |
Risky business: can debarment against poor performers mitigate future performance risk? |
| Jarosław Kola | Public procurement as a tool of conducting development policy in emerging markets– example of Poland |
| Tetyana Loskutova,
Gary van Vuuren & Pieter Claassen |
Counterparty risk management using smart contracts on blockchain |
| Ama Eyo | Framework agreements in public procurement in Africa: progress and limitations |
| Annika Engelbert | Law in books and law in action: how to empower the anti-corruption potential of public procurement systems |
| Luana F. J. Swensson | Aligning policy and legal frameworks for supporting smallholder farming through public food procurement |
| Faith Mbabazi | Causes of low bidder participation in government procurement in Uganda |
| Dave Wickens | Cost-effectiveness as a design principle for regulatory reform |
| Tetyana Loskutova | Information availability and reliability in anti-bribery work |
| Lara Adewunmi | The influence of professionalism in the Nigeria public procurement system |
| Elisabetta Morlino | Remedies in procurement by international organizations: what effectiveness? |
| Emanuele Colonnelli,
Francesco Loiacono & Edwin Muhumuza |
Information and reputation: evidence from administrative data and a randomized controlled trial in Uganda |
| Dominic Npoanlari Dagbanja | The investment treaty regime and public procurement regulatory autonomy |
| Barbara Makhosazana (Seate) Masilela | Reform of public procurement systems |
| Faith Mbabazi | Monitoring the ‘big spenders’ as a strategy to promote value for money in public procurement |
| Kingsley Udeh | Blueprint for designing an effective bidder remedies regime |
| Allison Anthony | Law in practice: a call for reform in public procurement capacity |
| Sandeep Verma | (How not to undertake?) Reform of public procurement systems: some insights & lessons from real-life procurement cases and experiences in India |
| Cliff Gondo | The determinants of and prerequisites for turning procurement officers into professionals: the case of Zimbabwe |
| Olga Martin-Ortega and Claire O’Brien | Procurement and human rights: beyond buying social |
| Larence Folliot-Lalliot | Adapting procurement reforms in a disruptive environment |
| Kyle Jordaan | Preference contracts in the tender process: a tripartite classification |
| Nika Soon-Shiong | Public procurement and implementing agents: the middlemen in charge of school infrastructure. |
| Lauren Kohn | Supplier remedies and administrative review |
| Sanjeev Narinanen | E-procurement in Africa |
| Sara Valaguzza | Anticorruption policies in public procurement regulation: nudging public vs public |
| Neli Garbuzanova | Whole-cycle procurement approach |
| George Nwangwu | The management of risks in the procurement of privately financed infrastructure projects in Nigeria |
| Andrea Sundstrand | Labour conditions in Swedish public procurement |
| Annamaria La Chimia | Procurement in the Global South: where the boundaries of procurement are pushed, and new systems are tested |
| Willard T Mugadza
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The role of Electoral Management Bodies in enhancing Democracy in Africa through Procurement: The case of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission |
| Mario E. Comba | Transparency in the 2014 EU Directives on public procurement: different approaches from Member States and a view from Francophone Africa |