Martin Trybus
Martin Trybus is Professor of European Law and Policy and Director of the Institute of European Law at the University of Birmingham (Birmingham Law School), United Kingdom, Visiting Fellow, at the University of Utrecht, Netherlands. His research focuses on EU law, especially law and policy relating to public procurement and to defense integration.
He is the author of Buying Defence and Security in Europe: The EU Defence and Security Procurement Directive in Context (CUP, 2014, in Chinese in 2018), and numerous academic articles. He is also the editor or co-editor of a number of collections, including EU Public Contract Law: Public Procurement and Beyond (Bruylant, 2014) with Roberto Caranta and Gunilla Edelstam and Public Procurement: The Continuing Revolution (Kluwer, 2002) with Sue Arrowsmith. His most recent publications dealt with small and medium-sized enterprises and public procurement.
SAPIENS PROJECT ROLE
Martin is a member of the steering committee, Director of Training and lead supervisor for ESR 1 and ESR 11.
Professor Trybus has been working with several international organisations and especially the OECD and the EDA, and for national governments on projects involving procurement reform and defence procurement, defence exports, and State aids. Previously he worked for the universities of Nottingham and Sheffield and OECD/SIGMA in Paris. He serves on the ESA Procurement Review Board. 2017-2021 he worked as Network Coordinator and Director of Research on the EU-funded project “EU Trade and Investment Policy (EUTIP).”
