Ruairi Macdonald
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Blavatnik School of Government**
Note
Ruairi convenes the Oxford Procurement of Government Outcomes Club (Oxford POGO Club), which is chaired by Professor Anne Davies. All are welcome to participate in this online peer learning initiative. Please email Ruairi to be added to the Oxford POGO Club mailing list.
Biography
Ruairi is passionate about public procurement and contract management. He is a lawyer in both the US (Attorney, New York) and the UK (Solicitor, England and Wales). In October 2023, Ruairi moved to the Faculty of Law to work part-time with Professor Anne Davies on a project called SPARKS -- Sustainable Procurement Applied Research and Knowledge Sharing. Ruairi retains an association with the Government Outcomes Lab (GO Lab) at the Blavatnik School of Government, where he has worked part-time since May 2018.
Ruairi convenes the Oxford Procurement of Government Outcomes Club (Oxford POGO Club) and is the civil society co-chair of the UK Open Contracting Advisory Group (which includes the Cabinet Office) as part of the Open Government Partnership process around national action plans.
Ruairi has almost two decades of experience negotiating and managing US federal government contracts with a wide range of agencies, including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, US Department of Education, US Department of Health and Human Services, and US Environmental Protection Agency.
Ruairi has a PhD in Public Policy and Public Administration from the George Washington University in Washington, DC. He also has a masters in philosophy (MPhil) degree in public policy and a master of laws (LLM) degree in government procurement law from the George Washington University. His bachelor of laws (LLB) degree is from Queens University Belfast.
Ruairi is originally from Belfast and travels home often.