Dr Aris Georgopoulos is Assistant Professor in European and Public Law at the School of Law, University of Nottingham and Head of the Research Unit for Stra­tegic and Defence Procurement of the Public Procure­ment Research Group (PPRG). He has been a Global Governance Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS) of the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, and a Grotius Fel­low at the Law School of the University of Michigan. He acted as expert advisor to national authorities, international organisations and institutions (such as the OECD, the World Bank, the European Central Bank, The European Court of Auditors and USAID) in the area of regulatory reform. He has taught at Universities in the United States, China, Colombia, Italy, Ma­laysia and Turkey. He is a member of the editorial board of the Public Procurement Law Review, the scientific committee of the Revista Digital de Derecho Administrativo, and the Steering Committee of the International Learning Lab of Public Procurement and Human Rights.