Thursday, June 29, 2023 – 9:00 Eastern US – 14:00 UK – 15:00 CET
Please join GW Law School’s Government Procurement Law Program for a free one-hour webinar — a roundtable discussion on the emerging field of global public procurement counsel who represent firms and institutions on public contracting issues all over the world.
Registrants from 46 countries across six continents
Panelists
- Kristina Arcara, Chief Audit Executive, Battelle
- Benedetta Audia, Partner; Chair, International Development Practice, DLA Piper; Professorial Lecturer in Law, GW Law School; former UNOPS counsel
- Kevin Dent, Ingleside Consulting – decades of experience in global defense transactions, including with Raytheon and Baker Botts
- Johannes Schnitzer, McKinsey & Company – Managing Counsel, Global Public Sector
- Ann Stravalle-Schmidt, GW LLM, 2023; experienced in-house counsel; will discuss her academic study of global public procurement counsel
- Eric Yeo, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Senior Director, Executive Legal Counsel & Global Public Sector Lead
Moderator: Christopher Yukins, GW Law School
The program will address:
- Career pathways — how to become a global counsel
- Challenges of dealing with different public procurement laws in multiple jurisdictions
- How to upskill and structure an in-house department for global procurement markets
- Varying levels of legal maturity in different jurisdictions – how to adjust
- Capacity-building – staying ahead of emerging legal trends
- Sharing lessons learned between nations and regions
- Cultural barriers: how to anticipate and resolve different national and legal cultures
Research Resources
E. Leigh Dance, Develop Yourself: 18 Competencies for Global General Counsel (Feb. 2017)
General Counsel Magazine (Legal 500), What I want from my GC — a CEO’s perspective (interview with Luis Alvarez, CEO, BT Global Services)
Susan Hackett, Challenges for general counsel structuring an effective global law department (Thomson Reuters)
Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD), Professionalising the public procurement workforce: A review of current initiatives and challenges (Jan. 2023)
Johannes Schnitzer & Christopher Yukins, The need to professionalize public procurement in-house counsel: Q&A with Professor Christopher Yukins and Johannes Schnitzer
Ann Stravalle-Schmidt, Guardians of Global Compliance: The Risk Managers of International Public Contracting and Procurement (GW Law, Spring 2023)