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HKU Competition Law Lecture Series

Combatting Collusion and Corruption in Public Procurement: A Challenge for Government’s Worldwide

Competition and Antitrust

Date & Time Monday, 25 November 2024 7:00-8:00 pm (HKT)
Duration 1 hour
Location Academic Conference Room, 11/F Cheng Yu Tung Tower, The University of Hong Kong
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This lecture will highlight why protecting public procurement processes from distortion by collusion between suppliers bidding for government contracts and corruption of public officials should be a priority for governments and relevant authorities. It will consider why, despite significant international and national efforts to combat collusion and corruption, these practices seem to remain pervasive problems in public procurement. Finally, it will provide some reflections on how efforts to combat these practices can be bolstered, including through prevention, deterrence, and greater policy coordination between public procurement, competition, and anti-corruption authorities.

About the Speaker

Professor Alison Jones

King’s College London; (AIIFL Fellowship: 25 November 2024)

Alison Jones is Professor of Law at King’s College London and a solicitor at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP. Alison teaches and researches in the sphere of competition law. She is a co-author of Jones and Sufrin’s EU Competition Law: Text, Cases, and Materials (OUP, 8th ed, 2023), and Combatting Corruption and Collusion in Public Procurement: A Challenge for Governments Worldwide (OUP, 2024). She has also published papers in leading academic and specialist competition journals and a number of edited collections. Her research has won Concurrences Antitrust writing awards. She has also prepared expert reports for the European Commission, the UK Government and the US House Committee of the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law.

Chair

Professor Thomas Cheng

Professor, Faculty of Law