Marta Andhov

Marta Andhov is an associate professor at the University of Copenhagen Faculty of Law. Her main research interests focus on public procurement law, sustainability, governmental contracts and the interaction between public and private law in the context of international trade.

She has provided independent insight to key research projects, amongst others, for the European Commission, Danish Institute for Human Rights, and multiple national procurement agencies and universities.

Her 2019 co-edited (with R. Caranta and A. Wiesbrock) book Cost and EU Public Procurement Law – Life-Cycle Costing for Sustainability contributes to the development of life-cycle criteria tools and methodologies for public procurement in the EU. It collects both sector-crossing contributions analysing the most relevant theoretical and legal aspects, including both EU law and contract theory, and sector-specific contributions relating to some of the most important sustainable goods and services markets.

SAPIENS PROJECT ROLE

Marta is a member of the Steering Committee, Leads Communication, dissemination and exploitation of the SAPIENS project. She will supervise ESR 12 on SAP tools to fight climate change and co-supervise  ESR 9 for Empowering minorities and disadvantaged groups through supply chains.

Marta regularly teaches abroad, including at the Procurement Regulation Postgraduate Diploma, MA at King’s College, the United Kingdom, and the University of Torino in Italy. She also actively collaborates with research centres and practitioners all around the world with the most recent collaboration on sustainable capital cities with the George Washington University in the United States

In 2020, Marta became a co-host of Bestek Public Procurement which, through discussions, hope to contribute to solutions and a better understanding of public procurement law.