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Prof. Dr. Rika Koch

Profile

Prof. Dr. Rika Koch Co-Fachgruppenleiterin

Contact

  • Contact hours Monday
    Tuesday
    Thursday
    Friday
  • Address Berner Fachhochschule
    Business School
    Institut Public Sector Transformation
    Brückenstrasse 73
    3005 Bern

Activities

  • Co-Lead Research Group Public Procurement and Law (PPL)

  • Teaching Law for Business and Researching Public Procurement Law at the Intersection with Sustainability, Digital Technologies and International Trade

Teaching

  • SWD1: Law for Business

  • SWD 3: Data Protection Law

  • CAS Public Procurement:
    - Public Procurement for Innovation
    - Cybersecurity and Data Protection in Public Procurement

Research

  • Public Procurement Law

  • Sustainable Development

  • Digital Transformation of the Public Sector and Digital Sovereignty

  • International Trade Law

  • Sustainable Public Procurement

  • Public Procurement of Digital Technologies

  • Sustainable IT-Procurement

  • Public Procurement for Innovation

  • Sustainable Development in Swiss Law

  • Implementation of Social Sustainability Criteria in Public Tenders

  • Joint and Cooperative Procurement

  • Public Sector Digitalization in Developing Countries

  • Public Procurement and Open Source Software (OSS)

CV

  • Rika Koch is a professor at the Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH), where she leads the Research Group on Public Procurement and Law (PPL). She is als o a lecturer in Foreign Trade Law and Public Procurement Law at the University of Bern. Her research focuses on public procurement and international economic law, particularly at the intersection of sustainability and digitalization. Prior to that, Dr. Koch was a Lecturer and Postdoctoral Fellow in WTO law at the University of Zurich and worked as a legal counsel at the Swiss State Secretariate or Economic Affairs (Seco) as well as the Swiss Federal Office for Meteorology and Climatology (Meteoswiss).
  • Since 2022 Professor, Co-Lead Research Group Public Procurement and Law Bern University of Applied Science
  • 2019-2022 Deputy Head of Legal Services ederal Office of Meteorology and Climatology (MeteoSwiss)
  • 2017-2022 Lecturer in WTO Law (JHJ Moot Court) University of Zurich, Faculty of Law
  • 2014–2019 Research Assistant and Postdoctoral Researcher University of Zurich, Faculty of Law
  • 2013–2014 Legal Intern State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), Foreign Economic Affairs Directorate
  • 2006-2010 Bachelor of Arts in Political Science University of Zurich
  • 2011-2013 Master of Law University of Bern
  • 2015-2019 PhD University of Zurich

Projects

Language skills and intercultural knowledge

  • German - Native or bilingual proficiency
  • English - Full professional proficiency
  • Spanish - Limited working proficiency
  • French - Elementary proficiency
  • Japanese - Limited working proficiency
  • Switzerland
  • Japan