An international, cross-industry career that has moved from corporate management to extensive research, advisory and capability development services to public, private and third sector organisations. Tim has lived and worked in the UK, France (3 years) and United States (20 years), building an impressive research and entrepreneurial record, with demonstrated commitment to delivering social benefit.

As Founder and President, World Commerce & Contracting (formerly International Association for Contract & Commercial Management), Tim has built a 72,000 member worldwide non-profit association which increasingly influences commercial policies and contracting practices in major corporations and governments. In September 2019, he was presented with the Financial Times ‘Market Shaper of the Year’ Award.

Tim was until recently Professor and Chair, International Commercial & Contract Management, University of Leeds, School of Law, where he taught and led development of inter-disciplinary commercial programs.

Prior to founding World Commerce & Contracting, Tim was on the Chairman’s staff at IBM Corporation and led the development of worldwide commercial processes and skills. His early career included management roles in banking, automotive and aerospace industries, where he led negotiations up to $1.5 billion in value. He has served in advisory roles for government departments in various countries, including the US, UK, Australia, Canada, and Japan.

Helena Haapio is a Contract Strategist at Lexpert, Professor of Practice at University of Lapland and an Associate Professor of Business Law at University of Vaasa.

She is a pioneer of Proactive Law and Contract Design, a lawyer on a mission: a practitioner by day and a researcher, author, and editor by night. Her research focuses on merging proactive legal thinking with design: helping people and businesses use contracts and law proactively to achieve better business and societal results, balance risk with reward, and prevent unnecessary problems. She has devoted her life to improving contracts, especially for people who lack legal training: engineers, business and project managers, entrepreneurs who encounter contracts on a daily basis. Together with information designers and colleagues she has explored new contract genres and designs. She co-authored with Prof. George Siedel Proactive Law for Managers (Gower 2011) and recently co-edited two books for Edward Elgar, one on Legal Design and the other on Contract Design.

Proactive Law for Managers: https://www.routledge.com/Proactive-Law-for-Managers-A-Hidden-Source-of-Competitive-Advantage/Siedel-Haapio/p/book/9781409401001

Legal Design book: https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/legal-design-9781839107252.html

Contract Design book: https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/research-handbook-on-contract-design-9781839102271.html

Robert Handfield is the Bank of America University Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management at North Carolina State University, and Executive Director of the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative (http://scm.ncsu.edu/). Handfield is considered a thought leader in the field of supply chain management, and is an industry expert in the fi eld of strategic sourcing, supply market intelligence, and supplier development.

Associate Professor Of Law, Stanford Law School

Teaching Fellow in Business Management, University of Leeds?

Tutor - University of Oxford Climate Change Programme; Chief Sustainability Officer,? CGI

Sarah Dadush is a Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School where she teaches and writes in the areas of contract law, business and human rights, and consumer law. She is the founding Director of the Responsible Contracting Project (RCP), the mission of which is to improve human rights in supply chains through innovative contracting practices.

A leading member of the American Bar Association (ABA) Business Law Section Working Group to Draft Human Rights Protections in International Supply Contracts, Dadush co-authored the 2021 report, "Balancing Buyer and Supplier Responsibilities: Model Contract Clauses to Protect Workers in International Supply Chains, Version 2.0," which contains a first iteration of the responsible contracting toolkit that RCP is now implementing.

Dadush is also a member of the European Model Contract Clauses for Responsible and Sustainable Supply Chains, which is drafting model clauses for companies that are or will be in-scope for the new mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence legislation coming out of Europe.

Additionally, she is Co-Chair of the Legislative Developments sub-committee of the NYC Bar Association’s Business & Human Rights Committee and Co-Chair of the Responsible Investor Model Clauses (RIMC) sub-committee of the ABA's Corporate Social Responsibility Committee.

Before joining the Rutgers faculty in 2013, Professor Dadush was Legal Counsel for the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a specialized agency of the United Nations based in Rome. Prior to that, she was a Fellow at NYU Law School’s Institute for International Law and Justice and an associate attorney at the global law firm, Allen & Overy. She received her J.D. and LL.M. in International and Comparative Law from Duke University School of Law in 2004.

Responsible Contracting Project website link: https://responsiblecontracting.org/

Professor of Law; Director, Business Law Program, American University

Economist, University of Oxford ?Government Outcomes Lab