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Sope Willams Elegbe is an author and Nigerian Professor of law, born on 9 August 1975 to Chief and Mrs F.O Willams. She attended Home Science Primary School, Ikoyi, Queen’s College, Yaba, the University of Lagos for her LLB, and London School of Economics for her LLM .She was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1999.

Career

Elegbe started her career at the University of Stirling, Scotland, as a lecturer in Business law in 2000. In 2003, moved to the University of Nottingham and joined their School of Law .In 2008 she was co-opted to work on a project on the World Bank expert group that helped the Bank reform its procurement process which lasted till 2011. She obtained a PhD in public procurement and anti-corruption law in 2012.

Willams-Elegbe was the Head of Research at the Nigerian Economic Summit Group, Lagos from 2014 till 2016. In 2016, she moved to South Africa and was appointed a Professor of law at Stellenbosch University, South Africa in 2017, where she is the Head of the department of Mercantile law, and the Deputy Director of the African Procurement Law Unit.

Life and work

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Willams-Elegbe has written four books namely : Fighting Corruption in Public Procurement (Hart, 2012); Public Procurement and Multilateral Development Banks: Law, Practice and Problems (Bloomsbury/Hart 2017); S. Williams-Elegbe and G. Quinot (eds), Public Procurement Regulation for 21 Century Africa (Juta, 2018) and G. Quinot and S. Williams-Elegbe (eds), Public Procurement Regulation in Africa: Development in uncertain times (Lexis Nexis, 2020).

The books are used in teaching in universities in the UK , South Africa, and the USA because the book Fighting Corruption in Public Procurement was the first book to highlight the need to examine legal approaches to addressing procurement corruption. Public Procurement and Multilateral Development Banks is used as a training resource by the staff of the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. She is a consults for various organizations including the World Bank, the OECD, the United Nations as well as the governments of Nigeria and South Africa.

Her research work is the area of  public procurement, anti-corruption, digitalization of the public sector and sustainable development law, with a focus on human rights and sustainable public procurement and the impact of corruption on sustainable procurement.

Willams-Elegbe is the Vice-Chair of the Debarment and Exclusion sub-committee of the International Bar Association and a member of Transparency International’s Working Group on Debarment and Exclusion. Fellow at the Public Procurement Research Group, Nottingham University in 2020 an advisor international institutions and government bodies on procurement and anti-corruption matters who trains the public and the private sector in ethics and anti-corruption law. She co-runs the LLM and PG Diploma in Public Procurement Policy and Regulation in Stellenbosch University, the only program of its kind in Africa.

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She was born in Geneva, to Chief and Mrs F.O Willams.

Her research work is the area of public procurement, anti-corruption, digitalization of the public sector and sustainable development law, with a focus on human rights and sustainable public procurement and the impact of corruption on sustainable procurement.

... co-run the LLM and PG Diploma in Public Procurement Policy and Regulation in Stellenbosch University.

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Life

She was born in Geneva,. to Chief and Mrs F.O Willams.

She attended Home Science Primary School, Ikoyi, Queen’s College, Yaba ,University of Lagos, and London School of Economics .She was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1999.

Career

Sope Willams Elegbe started her career at the University of Stirling, Scotland, as a lecturer in business law in 2000. In 2003, moved to the University of Nottingham and joined their School of Law .In 2008 she was coopted to work on a project on the World Bank’s expert group that helped the Bank reform its procurement process which lasted till 2011. She obtained a PhD in public procurement and anti-corruption law in 2012.

Sope was the Head of Research at the Nigerian Economic Summit Group, Lagos from 2014 till 2016. In 2016, she moved to South Africa and was appointed a professor of law at Stellenbosch University, South Africa in 2017, where she is the a the Head of the department of Mercantile law, and the Deputy Director of the African Procurement Law Unit.

Life and Work

Her research work is the area of  public procurement, anti-corruption, digitalization of the public sector and sustainable development law, with a focus on human rights and sustainable public procurement and the impact of corruption on sustainable procurement.

On February 2016 Nigerian Lawmakers in the House of Assembly pointed out to members of the Bureau of Public Procurement of the need for the Public Procurement Act of 2007 reformation.

They stressed that Nigeria has been defrauded because of the loopholes in the act and the failure of the agencies to enforce the law. Sope Williams-Elegbe, when contacted offered that the only solution was to engage legislative, institutional and organisational changes in public procurement reforms.

Sope is the Vice-Chair of the Debarment and Exclusion sub-committee of the International Bar Association and a member of Transparency International’s Working Group on Debarment and Exclusion. Fellow at the Public Procurement Research Group, University of Nottingham in 2020 an advisor international institutions and government bodies on procurement and anti-corruption matters who trains the public and the private sector in ethics and anti-corruption law.

She co-run the LLM and PG Diploma in Public Procurement Policy and Regulation in Stellenbosch University.

In 2019, the South African National Research Foundation nominated her to be to the an “Internationally recognised researcher” The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) appointed her as an “anti-corruption champion” the same year.

She has published work on Public Procurement, Open Governance, Integrity and Anti-Corruption, WTO Law and Development Law

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