Lisbon, September 18 - 19, 2025

Folliot-Lalliot Laurence

University of Paris Nanterre

 


 

Laurence Folliot-Lalliot, a French national, is full Professor of Public Law at the University of Paris Nanterre, where she serves as Co-Director of the Master’s Degree in Law and Economics. She participates in the GOMAP directorate team (Master’s degree course in public procurement governance for francophone students) organized by the ILO, Sciences Po, and the University of Turin and she teaches at the ARMP of Senegal. She is part of the steering committee of the Public Contracts in Legal Globalization Network. She worked with the World Bank as a Senior Legal Counsel in Public Procurement from 2009 to 2012. Since then she has been a consultant on procurement and PPP reforms in several countries, where she has worked with International Organizations such as the WB, AfDB, UNEP, OECD, and the EU. Expert working with the French delegation of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) on the preparation of the UNCITRAL Legislative Guide on PPP (first version, 1996‑2003), as invited expert she has also contributed to the preparation of the second version (2013-2019). In the serie published by the Public Contracts Networks, she co-edited (with Prof. Simone Torricelli) the book: Contrôles et contentieux des contrats publics – Oversight and Challenges of Public Contracts, (Bruylant, 2018).

With Professor Chris Yukins during spring 2020 she co-hosted a series of webinars on Public procurement and the Covid Crisis and prepared an article for the Review Concurrences: "COVID-19: Lessons learned in public procurement. Time for a new normal?".

In 2024 she wrote another article with Professor Chris Yukins: Concurrences N° 2-2024 – Will Protectionism Prevail in Global Public Procurement?