Interviews and replays

Patrick Seguin

Chairman - Bordeaux-Gironde Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) - France.

Pierre Hurmic

Mayor of Bordeaux - France.

Véronique Ferreira

Vice-President in charge of finance and public procurement at Bordeaux Métropole - France.

Katharina Knapton-Vierlich

Head of Public Procurement - Directorate-General of Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (GROW) - European Commission – Brussels.

Hervé Fournier

Metropolitan advisor - Delegate for sustainable public procurement, Nantes Métropole - representative of France Urbaine.

Laure Bédier

Director of Legal Affairs - Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty - France.

Pierre Le Goff

Mayor of Guimaëc - Public procurement representative for the Association des Maires de France (Association of French Mayors).

Sébastien Martin

President of the Urban Community of Grand Chalon and of the French Inter-Municipality Organisation.

Thomas Lesueur

General Commissioner - Interministerial Delegate for Sustainable Development - France.

François Lichère

Associate Professor of Public Law - Director of the Public Contract Law Chair - Jean Moulin University Lyon 3 - France.

Ivo Locatelli

Senior Expert - Strategic Procurement Team Leader - European Commission - Brussels.

Samira Boussetta

Innovation and sustainable development procurement policy officer.

Bertrand Wert

Head of innovation, innovation public procurement - European Commission - Brussels.

François Lucas

Managing Director of Arcade Cycles - France.

Maria Gavin

Leader of the first Irish Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) programme, Enterprise Ireland.

Mauro Draoli

Innovation Director - AGID - Italy.

Alain Di Crescenzo

President of CCI France

Fabienne Buccio

Prefect of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region.

Patrick Amoussou Adeble

Secretary General for Regional Affairs of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region - France.

Matthieu Cahen

Policy analyst.

Sarah Longlands

Chief Executive of the Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) - Manchester area - United Kingdom.

Simon Clément

Senior Coordinator - Sustainable Economy and Procurement - Germany.

Valentina Schippers

Expert, Coordinator of the Urban Agenda Partnership for innovative and responsible public procurement, Chair of the Eurocities public procurement working group, Coordinator of Circular Procurement, Amsterdam Metropolitan Area - Netherlands.

Alain Rousset

President of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region - France.

Angela Russo

Head of International Cooperation Projects – CONSIP - Italy.

Gonçalo Negrao

Innovation and Sustainability Advisor - Municipal Finance Department of the Lisbon Municipality - Portugal.

Stéphane Saussier

Professor of Economics and Public Management - Director of the Public-Private Partnership Economics Chair - IAE, Sorbonne Business School - France.

Stéphane Pintre

President of UDiTE Europe and SNDGCT France.

Anna Lupi

Legal Advisor and Policy Officer - European Commission - Brussels.

Antoine Détourné

Executive Officer of ESS France (Chamber of the social and solidarity economy) - France.

Stéphane Pfeiffer

Deputy Mayor in charge of housing, employment, the social and solidarity economy and innovative economic models - Bordeaux City - France.

Adina Crisan-Revol

French spokesperson for the European Commission - PhD in political science - Professor at Sciences Po -graduate of the College of Europe - Associate Researcher at the Center for European Studies - Brussels.

Edward Jossa

Chief Executive Officer - UGAP - France.

Matthieu Guerlain

Managing Director of Finance and Public Procurement - Bordeaux Métropole - France.

Véronique FERREIRA

Vice-President of Bordeaux Métropole

Véronique Ferreira is an associate professor of history, mayor of Blanquefort since 2012 and vice-president in charge of finance and public procurement at Bordeaux Métropole since 2020. She was president of the finance commission of Bordeaux Métropole and the Urban planning agency from 2014 to 2020.

Claudine BICHET

Deputy Mayor of Bordeaux and Vice-President of Bordeaux Métropole

A graduate from the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris (ESCP), Claudine Bichet worked for 15 years in the service of large private groups in strategic and financial management positions.
Convinced of the climate, social and democratic emergency, she has chosen to put her experience and all her energy at the service of the general interest and environmental and social causes, which are the heart of her commitment. She wishes to contribute at the local level to the definition of an inspiring, fair and sustainable model of society for future generations.
Her commitment at the scale of the city of Bordeaux and the metropolis, to change the vision of the future, focuses on the climate challenge, on the energy transition of the territory and on a project for an egalitarian society between women and men.

Nathalie GUIRMA

Journalist / Presenter

A television and radio host and blogger, Nathalie has been an editorial manager for France Télévision and a host for the channels France 2 (Télé Matin), France 5 (La Quotidienne) and the Belgian public broadcaster RTBF since 2021. She now produces and hosts national conventions, seminars and galas focusing on French expertise. Nathalie co-hosted the first BEE conference in 2022.

Valérie GUINAUDIE

President of the Communauté de communes du Grand Cubzaguais

Valérie Guinaudie is mayor of Mombrier, president of Grand Cubzaguais Community of communes and departmental councilor of the canton L'Estuaire in Gironde. Very committed to environmental, cultural, social, local food, and childhood and youth issues through her political and associative career, she leads a concerted political project for the intercommunity about economic development and public purchasing.

Christian BRASSAC

Vice-President of the Strasbourg Eurometropolis in charge of responsible public procurement, France Urbaine

Christian Brassac, a former mathematics professor and teacher-researcher in cognitive psychology in Lorraine, eastern France, is Vice-Chairman of Strasbourg’s Eurometropolis, with authority over responsible public procurement. He is also deputy city councillor for Strasbourg, responsible for public purchasing and procurement.

Christophe AMORETTI-HANNEQUIN

Responsible finance and purchasing advisor, France Urbaine

An engineer by training, Christophe Amoretti-Hannequin joined the Ministry of Defense and specializes in the field of purchasing. After a master's degree in financial management of local authorities in 2007, he has held the position of director of purchasing programming and performance for Aix-Marseille Provence Métropole since 2015. In 2021, he became responsible finance and purchasing advisor at France Urbaine.

Mélanie GAROUSTE, WEKA

Public Procurement Project Manager Edition WEKA

An expert in the fields of public procurement and legal publishing, Mélanie Garouste is a lawyer with a Masters’ degree in Contract Law and Public Procurement. She is the editorial and media project manager for WEKA Publishing, where she shares her expertise by designing and running masterclasses on public procurement.

Jean-Yves MUYLLE

Head of the Public Procurement Unit, DG GROW Internal Market, European Commission

Jean-Yves Muylle is Head of the Unit responsible for public procurement within the Directorate General for the Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) at the European Commission since September 2022. The objective of his unit is to stimulate the transformation of public markets as a driver of economic development.
He joined the Commission in 1996. Over the last 17 years, he has held senior positions in the units responsible for retail financial services, international public procurement, coordination of European Commission policies about natural resources, sustainability and the Energy Union within the General Secretariat of the Commission, and services of general interest.

Mario COMBA

Professor of Public Law and Comparative Economic Law at the University of Turin (Italy), member of the Public Procurement Board at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (Italy), member of the Council of ELI (European Law Institute)

Mario Eugenio Comba is a professor at the University of Turin, teaching Comparative Economic Law and Comparative Public Law. He is a member of the Council of the European Law Institute and the Scientific Board of the Master’s program on public procurement and sustainable development. An expert in public contracts, he has advised public and private clients for 30 years.

Paulo MAGINA

Deputy Head of Public Procurement at the OECD

Paulo Magina, Deputy Head of the Public Procurement Division at the OECD, joined the organisation in 2014. He leads working groups on international standards and best practices in infrastructure governance and public procurement. A former CEO of Portugal’s National Public Procurement Agency, he has more than 20 years’ experience in the public and private sectors.

Guillaume MALESPINE

Director of audit, internal control and risks at UGAP

Since 2017, Guillaume Malespine has been director of audit, internal control, risks and compliance at UGAP, the main public purchasing center in France. He is an academic and began his career as a teacher and researcher at the University of Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne), before being assigned to the Secretary General of the International Association of High Administrative Jurisdictions (AIHJA) between 2004 and 2006. He was legal and tax manager for a national association of elected officials, before joining UGAP in 2009, as deputy legal director. Guillaume Malespine is also an internal mediator at UGAP.

Jean-Marc JOANNES, Achatpublic.com

Editor-in-Chief at Achatpublic.com

Jean-Marc holds a PhD in Public Law and is the editor of the Juris-Classeurs - Droit Public collection, a reference work on public procurement law. After working as Editorial Director for Le Moniteur Publishing, then as Editor-in-Chief of the Gazette des Communes, he has been the Editor-in-Chief at AchatPublic.info since 2019.

Emmanuelle MAIRE

Head of the Products and Sustainable Consumption Production Unit, Directorate-General for Environment, European Commission

Emmanuelle Maire, Head of Unit for Production, Products, and Sustainable Consumption at the European Commission's Directorate General for Environment, leads efforts to transition the EU to a circular and green economy. Her team promotes stakeholder dialogue across the EU, supporting the Circular Economy Action Plan.

Anthony POULIN

Deputy Mayor of Besançon in charge of finance, public procurement, sustainable development and coordination of resilience actions, Lecturer at the University of Franche-Comté (public finance, financial management of local authorities)

Anthony Poulin is the Deputy Mayor of Besançon, and is responsible for finance, public procurement and sustainable development. Elected as an ecologist, his approach combines financial and environmental issues. Under his impetus, Besançon has established a strategy making public procurement a lever for transforming the local economy.

Malou VAN POPTA

Senior Procurement Adviser, CSR Ambassador within the Cooperation Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, The Hague, Netherlands The Hague, Netherlands

Senior procurement officer and CSR-ambassador working for the Dutch government for the last five years. With a small team, responsible for promoting and advising on incorporating sustainability in tenders for the purpose of achieving the Dutch objective regarding climate neutrality and a circular economy.

Jean-Marc JOANNES, Achatpublic.com

Editor-in-Chief at Achatpublic.com

Jean-Marc holds a PhD in Public Law and is the editor of the Juris-Classeurs - Droit Public collection, a reference work on public procurement law. After working as Editorial Director for Le Moniteur Publishing, then as Editor-in-Chief of the Gazette des Communes, he has been the Editor-in-Chief at AchatPublic.info since 2019.

Frédéric MARTY

Economist at the CNRS, UMR 7321 GREDEG Research Group in Law, Economics and Management, OFCE affiliated researcher, Innovation and Competition Department, Sciences Po Paris

A former student at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris-Saclay, Frédéric Marty is a CNRS research fellow for the Research Group in Economics, Law and Management (GREDEG - Université Côte d'Azur). He is also an associate of the organisations CIRANO (Montreal) and OFCE (Sciences Po., Paris). His work focuses on economics and competition law, in particular algorithm-based anti-competitive practices and the history of competition policy. From 2019 to 2023, he was a member of the Collège de l’Autorité de la Concurrence (French competition authority) as a qualified official for regulated professions.

Olivier GIANNONI

General Secretary and Legal Director of UGAP, Teacher and author

Olivier Giannoni, General Secretary and Legal Director of UGAP since 2017, began his career as a rapporteur for the Administrative Court. He has worked for the French Ministry of Finance and the Directorate-General for Civil Aviation. He also teaches at the Panthéon-Assas University and Sciences Po in Paris.

Nathalie GUIRMA

Journalist / Presenter

A television and radio host and blogger, Nathalie has been an editorial manager for France Télévision and a host for the channels France 2 (Télé Matin), France 5 (La Quotidienne) and the Belgian public broadcaster RTBF since 2021. She now produces and hosts national conventions, seminars and galas focusing on French expertise. Nathalie co-hosted the first BEE conference in 2022.

Sarah MCKINLEY

Director of the Community Wealth Building programme, European Representative of the Next System project for The Democracy Collaborative organisation

Sarah McKinley, Director of Community Wealth Building Programs at The Democracy Collaborative, advances community wealth building and fosters learning exchanges around the democratic economy in the U.S., U.K., and Europe. Based in Brussels, she has co-authored numerous reports on community wealth building and democratic economy initiatives.

Aude SALDANA

General Secretary of the GSEF Global Social Economy Forum

Aude Saldana, General Secretary of the GSEF since April 2022, is campaigning for international recognition of the SSE in achieving sustainable development goals. She coordinates the actions of the GSEF and supports its members in their efforts to work with governments and international organisations. With a postgraduate degree in Political and Social History and a Master’s in Development and International Cooperation from Sorbonne University, she worked for various international NGOs before joining the GSEF.

Nathalie GUIRMA

Journalist / Presenter

A television and radio host and blogger, Nathalie has been an editorial manager for France Télévision and a host for the channels France 2 (Télé Matin), France 5 (La Quotidienne) and the Belgian public broadcaster RTBF since 2021. She now produces and hosts national conventions, seminars and galas focusing on French expertise. Nathalie co-hosted the first BEE conference in 2022.

Roxana FAMILY

Director of the Chair and Master in Business Law and Ethics, Director of the LL.M. in Taxation, Business Law and Compliance, Faculty of Law CY Cergy Paris Université, Scientific Director of the International Journal in Compliance and Business Ethics (Revue Internationale de la Compliance et de l'Ethique des Affaires, RICEA - LexisNexis)

Roxana Family is Chair Director and Director of the Masters’ programme in Business Law and Ethics at CY Cergy Paris University, and has a degree in Private Law and Private International Law, as well as a PhD in Law from the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas. As a barrister and in-house lawyer, she also runs the LL.M. in Taxation, Business Law and Compliance and the International Review of Compliance and Business Ethics (RICEA).

Didier LEJEUNE

CEO of SCC France

After graduating from Centrale Lyon, Didier LEJEUNE earned a degree in economics at the University of Lyon and an MBA from IAE in Paris. He started his career at IBM in 1983, holding various management roles in sales and human resources. In 1991, he joined ECS as Director International Sales, later managing ECS Italy and Info Products Spain. Appointed Allium Sales Director France in 1999, he became CEO of SCC France in July 2020, having served as SCC's General Manager since 2013.

Laurence LAROCHE

Purchasing Director, La Poste Group

Laurence Laroche is a graduate of the Mines - ParisTech school. She began her career as a consultant with Accenture, staying until 1988. She then joined the PSA Group, first in Auditing, then in Management Control, Supply Chain and Procurement. In 2008, she joined St-Gobain as Vice-President of Procurement at Verallia. In 2015, she joined the Rockwool Group as Chief Product Officer. Since 2019, Laurence Laroche has been Purchasing Director for the La Poste Group.

Loeizig SEVELLEC

Sales Director, Renault Trucks France

Trained as an engineer, Loeizig Sevellec began his career as a procurement officer in the aerospace sector in 2003, before joining Renault Trucks in 2007. In 2014, he joined the sales industry, and has held the position of New Vehicle Sales Director at Renault Trucks France since summer 2023.

Mélanie GAROUSTE, WEKA

Public Procurement Project Manager Edition WEKA

An expert in the fields of public procurement and legal publishing, Mélanie Garouste is a lawyer with a Masters’ degree in Contract Law and Public Procurement. She is the editorial and media project manager for WEKA Publishing, where she shares her expertise by designing and running masterclasses on public procurement.

Chiara VENTURINI

Head of the Digital Transformation, Eurocities Brussels

Chiara Venturini is head of the “digital transformation” and “economic development” teams the Eurocities network of major European cities. Before joining Eurocities, she worked for European charity networks in the digital sector for 10 years, and was a sustainability and supply chain consultant.

Céline COLUCCI

Executive Officer, Les Interconnectés

A graduate in political science, Céline Colucci has been the general delegate of Les Interconnectés association since 2009, the first French community association dedicated to digital issues. The association's mission is to carry the voice of the territories, support the increase in skills of communities and facilitate the implementation on the ground of social, sober and ethical digital technology. As a center of resources and expertise on innovation and digital issues, the network offers national and regional events and runs operational working groups to support territories in the deployment of their projects.

Jean-Noël OLIVIER

Director General of Digital and Information Systems at Bordeaux Metropole

After several years in consulting for the public sector, mainly for government ministries, Jean-Noël Olivier joined the world of communities, first at the City of Bordeaux then now at Bordeaux Métropole as general director of digital and information system.

Nathalie GUIRMA

Journalist / Presenter

A television and radio host and blogger, Nathalie has been an editorial manager for France Télévision and a host for the channels France 2 (Télé Matin), France 5 (La Quotidienne) and the Belgian public broadcaster RTBF since 2021. She now produces and hosts national conventions, seminars and galas focusing on French expertise. Nathalie co-hosted the first BEE conference in 2022.

Delphine JAMET

Deputy Mayor of Bordeaux and Vice President of Bordeaux Métropole

After studying history, Delphine Jamet joined the civil service. Very committed, she was a municipal councilor of Bordeaux for several years and has been Deputy Mayor since 2020 and in charge of digital within Bordeaux Métropole.

Edward JOSSA

President of UGAP

Edward Jossa, a graduate of the Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA), has been the CEO of UGAP since 2016. He was previously Director of the administration and equipment at the Ministry of Justice, Director General of local authorities for the Ministry of the Interior, and CEO of the Agence de Services et de Paiement (ASP), a French public body.