Sue Arrowsmith QC (hon) is Professor Emerita of Public Procurement Law and Policy at the University of Nottingham, where she was formerly Director of the Public Procurement Research Group (1998-2020) and of the postgraduate Executive programme in Public Procurement Law and Policy (LLM/Diploma/Certificate) (2009-2020). She was formerly a Tutor (1987-88), Lecturer (1988-1991) and Professor (1991-1998) at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and Achilles Professor at the University of Nottingham (1998-2020). She has a first class honours degree in jurisprudence from Oxford University (Somerville College), where she won several university and college law prizes including the prestigious Gibbs Prize, and a D.Jur from Osgoode Hall Law School, where she studied on a Commonwealth Scholarship. In 2019 she was awarded the title of Queens Counsel (honoris causa) by Her Majesty The Queen in recognition of her exceptional contribution to the law of England and Wales, and in 2007 received the CIPS Swinbank Medal for thought innovation in purchasing and supply.

She has recently been appointed as a member of the Advisory Panel for the Independent Review of Criminal Legal Aid (Ministry of Justice) and is a member also of the Department of International Trade's Thematic Trade Advisory Group (Public Procurement) dealing with trade negotiations with trading partners outside the EU (2020- present).

Recently she has played a major role on the Cabinet Office Procurement Transformation Advisory Group (2019-2020), advising on the post-Brexit procurement reform programme which resulted in the Government's Green Paper of December 2020. In 2018-2019, as Expert to the International Partnership Against Corruption in Sport (IPACS) Task Force 1, she supervised the research work on procurement in international sporting events in collaboration with the OECD that was used as the basis for the 2019 IPACS report on tackling corruption in procurement for these events.