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Valentina Schippers-Opejko is Coordinator of the Urban Agenda Partnership on Innovative and Responsible Public Procurement, Chair of the Eurocities Working Group on Public Procurement and expert on public procurement. In 2021 she has been Coordinator of the Circular Procurement working group of Metropolis Region of Amsterdam. She has 23 years of experience and still working for a public authority. She is motivated to share her experience and to push forward public procurement as a strategic tool to accelerate innovation, circular economy, sustainability, economic recovery, energy transition and other challenges public authorities are dealing with.