Dr. Désirée Klingler is a lawyer at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York. She works on project development & finance of energy transition projects, capital market deals and advises clients on ESG disclosures. Before working as a practicing lawyer, Désirée wrote her Ph.D. thesis at the University of St. Gallen on the “Efficiency and Sustainability in Government Contracting: A Law and Economics Analysis,” where she analyzed factors that promote sustainability and innovation in public procurement in the U.S., EU and Switzerland. For her Ph.D. thesis she won the prestigious Swiss National Science Foundation scholarship, the International Public Procurement Award and the Walther Hug Prize St. Gallen. During her Ph.D., she was a visiting researcher at U.C. Berkeley Haas and at Yale Law School, where she completed her LL.M. in 2020. Due to her interest in empirical analysis, Désirée participated in various statistical summer schools in the U.S. and Europe and was a research assistant to Fiona Scott Morton at the Yale School of Management, where she co-wrote a report on “Amazon’s Digital Theory of Harm” and presented it to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. Notable publications of Désirée Klingler include “Promoting Sustainable Public Procurement through Economic Policy Tools” (co-written with Steve Schooner), which won the TED Ambassador Award of the European Commission in 2023, and a cost-benefit analysis of fair labor rules in the Yale Journal on Regulation Bulletin in 2021.