Event Details

When:

Time: 2:30–3:30 pm

Location: Diefenbaker Building, 101 Diefenbaker Place or Online via Zoom

In this talk, Dr. Javier Mendoza Jiménez shares lessons from Spain's experience leveraging public procurement for social impact. He will focus on social economy public procurement policies, including how reserved contracts work and criteria for organizations to participate. He will share factors for success, mistakes to avoid, and illustrate examples of social economy public procurement in action.

 

Javier Mendoza Jiménez is Associate Professor in the Department of Business Organization at the University of La Laguna, Spain. He earned his PhD in Economics with an award-winning doctoral thesis on sustainable public procurement in 2021. He is a member of GEAccounting, the Cajasiete Chair of Social Economy and Cooperatives (CESCO), and the Strategic and Integral Public Procurement and ECRI research groups. As principal investigator and collaborator on numerous research projects, his work examines the intersection of public procurement, social accounting, and the social economy, with publications in leading academic journals.