Prof Geo Quinot is a professor in the Department of Public Law and is also affiliated with the School of Public Leadership at the University. He teaches Administrative and Public Procurement law. Quinot is a recipient of the University of Stellenbosch Chancellor’s Medal, the annual award for the most outstanding final-year student at the university, which he received upon graduating from his LLB degree in 2000. Other noteworthy awards that he has received include the Rector’s Award for Community Interaction, which he received jointly with Prof Sandra Liebenberg in 2008, the CHE/HELTASA National Excellence in Teaching and Learning Award in 2012 and the Stellenbosch University Chancellor’s Award in 2016. He completed an LLM at the University of Virginia School of Law in the United States as a Fulbright Fellow, an MA in Higher Education Studies at the University of the Free State and an MPA at the University of Birmingham School of Government. His doctoral study focused on the topic of “the Judicial Regulation of State Commercial Activity.” His research focuses on administrative law, with a particular interest in commercial conduct of the state, including public procurement, insolvency of public entities as well as on legal education. He is the founding director of the multi-institutional African Procurement Law Unit (APLU)(www.africanprocurementlaw.org) and editor of the African Public Procurement Law Journal. Prof Quinot is a fellow of the Public Procurement Research Group at the University of Nottingham in the UK and a board member of various journal in his field including the Public Procurement Law Review; Droit Public Comparé - Comparative Public Law; and Закупки и право (Procurement and Law). Prof Quinot is currently one of the lead researchers in the Research Network on Public Authorities and Financial Distress (RPAFD) (https://rpafd.com/)