Prof. Dr. Désirée Klingler is Assistant Professor of Public Law at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, with a research and teaching focus on smart cities, public procurement and international trade law. Before, Désirée was a practicing lawyer at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York, working in project finance of energy transition projects, capital market deals and advising clients on ESG disclosures. For her Ph.D. thesis on the “Efficiency and Sustainability in Government Contracting: A Law and Economics Analysis,” Désirée received the Swiss National Science Foundation scholarship, and won the International Public Procurement Award and the Walther Hug Prize St. Gallen. 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 at Yale School of Management, where she wrote a report on competition law and digital platforms that she presented 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.