Gabriella Racca
Full Professor of Administrative Law
University of Turin
Torino, Italy
Full Professor of Administrative Law, University of Turin
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About me
Gabriella M. Racca is Full Professor of Administrative Law since 2008 and she teaches at the Department of Management of the University of Torino (Italy). From 2017 to 2020, she has been the Coordinator of the PhD Program in Law and Institutions at the University of Torino. She has been Deputy Dean at the Faculty of Economics (2005-2012) and Deputy Director for Research at the Department of Management, University of Turin (2012-2017).
She is the Director of the Master SEIIC, on Efficiency, Integrity and Innovation in Italian Public contracts. The Master SEIIC has been mentioned by two reports of the EU Commission and by the OECD Report “Professionalising the Public Procurement Workforce” as an example of training in the field of public procurement and anti-corruption issues and it is linked to a Competence Center which operates within different networks and projects.
She coordinates the Ius Publicum Network, founded in 2011 by the Board of Directors of Die Verwaltung, Diritto amministrativo, Public Law, Revista de administración pública and Revue française de droit administratif, with the aim of following the evolution of Public Law in each country involved, highlighting on its influences on the development of an Administrative and Public European Law and its connections with other legal cultures.
She teaches in different master programs, among which Master in Public Procurement Management for sustainable development and Master en gouvernance et management des marchés publics en appui au développement durable (both organized by the ITC-ILO and University of Torino). Since the first edition, she teaches in the diploma/master in “Public procurement regulation in the EU and its global context” (organized by Centre of European Law, The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London).
She has been co-director with Prof. Christopher R. Yukins (George Washington University) of two research projects that both led to a book, one on “Integrity and Efficiency in Sustainable Public Contracts. Balancing Corruption Concerns in Public Procurement Internationally” [published in Droit Administratif / Administrative Law Collection (Directed by J. B. Auby), Bruylant, Bruxelles, 2014] and the second on “Joint Public Procurement and Innovation: lessons across borders” [published in Droit Administratif / Administrative Law Collection (Directed by J.B. Auby), Bruxelles, Bruylant, 2019, available online at this link]. She is coordinating with Prof. Yukins a new research project that will lead to a third book, focused on the digitalization of public procurement from a comparative perspective.
She has been Head of Research Units of several EU projects PPI2Innovate, CirPro, Finch and Healthy Ageing and Public Procurement of Innovation and Member of the Advisory Board of the EURIPHI project. She currently is Advisory Partner (as University of Torino) of the Interreg EU Project “NEBA – Supporting the integration of New European Bauhaus values and principles into the regional planning processes”.
She collaborates with different Colleagues of international Universities on many research topics as Administrative Law, Public liability, Integrity, Public Procurement and innovation, digital transition and aggregation models.
In 2023, she has been one of the winner of the “TED Ambassador award”, a competition that aims to identify and reward research in the field of public procurement. High-quality research is crucial for fostering innovation, sustainability and transparency in public procurement.
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Skills
- Research
- international networking
- Community & engagement
- procurement expert
- NEB expert
Interests
- Public procurement
- Anticorruption
- healthcare
- urban regeneration