Annamaria La Chimia
Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham
Dr La Chimia LLB (La Sapienza, Rome) LLM and PhD (Nottingham) is Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham and Director of the Humanitarian and Development Procurement Unit of the Public Procurement Research Group (PPRG). She is a qualified Barrister and solicitor (Italy) and Academic Lead of the Procurement and Human Rights International Financial Institutions Hub within the Learning Lab on Procurement and Human Rights. She is the recipient, as Principal Investigator, of a BA-Leverhulme Research Grant to conduct research on procurement and Human Rights (awarded in March 2016).
In Nottingham, Dr. La Chimia is also the School's Equality officer and the School’s Athena Swan Lead. She coordinates the LLM Specialism in Law and Development and teaches in numerous courses at UG, PG and Executive levels, including Law and Development, Procurement and Development, EU Law and Public Law. In addition she has taught at a range of international institutions, including the Masters Degree Program in Human Development and Food Security at the Universita' degli Studi di Roma Tre (since 2004), the Masters Degree in Public Administration, University of Rome (2006 and 2008); the Masters Degree in Procurement at Stellenbosch University (2011). She was a Visiting Professor at the University LUISS Guido Carli of Rome (2010) and at the University of Milan (2015). In 2009 she was awarded with a research grant by the British Academy to carry out a project on food aid policies in the USA and the EU.
She has extensively published in the area of development aid procurement and procurement by multilateral and bilateral aid donors as well as on aid effectiveness, food aids, and the use of aids as tools for migration control. Her work was featured in the International and European law reviews (including the International and Comparative Law Quarterly, the European Law Review, the International Trade and Development Journal, and the Public Procurement Law Review), and in numerous international edited collections. She is the author of Tied aid and Development Aid Procurement in the framework of EU and WTO Law: the imperative for Change, published by Hart Publishing in 2013.
In recognition of her work on food aids she was invited, in 2015, to join the Trans-Atlantic Food Assistance Dialogue (TAFAD) a group of NGOs and Academics that conducts research on food aids and food security and that is present, as observer, at the meetings of the UN Food Assistance Committee.
Dr. La Chimia has worked with and acted as an expert advisor in the field of procurement for numerous national and international institutions including the European Commission (DG Trade and DG Development), the NGO ActionAid, the Commonwealth Secretariat and OECD/SIGMA. More recently (March 2017) Dr. La Chimia has been appointed on the expert review panel for the UK Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) in charge of ensuring the effectiveness of UK/DFID’s aids procurement system.