Sope Williams-Elegbe

Prof. Sope Williams is a public procurement and anti-corruption expert and consultant based in South Africa. Sope has worked as a lecturer at the universities of Nottingham and Stirling in the UK and the University of Lagos, in Nigeria. At present, she works as a Professor of Public Procurement Law at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. In 2022, she was a recipient of the International Anti-Corruption Excellence Award for Research and Education.

Sope has studied and conducted research in public procurement and anti-corruption for the last two decades. She has an LLM (with distinction) from the London School of Economics and a doctorate degree in public procurement and anti-corruption from the University of Nottingham, UK. Sope's research is used in teaching in universities all over the world and she is regularly invited to speak at conferences and workshops. Her research has also been cited by the Constitutional Court of South Africa in the controversial and high profile case of Shaik v The State, in which corruption allegations were levelled against President Jacob Zuma of South Africa. Sope is passionate about ethics and transparency in public service and advocates for new ways to think about public procurement reform in developing countries.

Sope has consulted for different governmental and non governmental organizations including the World Bank, the OECD and various United Nations agencies. Sope has written five books on public procurement and published over 60 journal articles on issues relating to procurement, anti-corruption and international law.