Ole Helby Petersen (PhD, Copenhagen Business School, MA in Political Science, University of Copenhagen), is Professor in Public Administration at the Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, and Director of the Center for Research on Public-Private Collaboration at the same institution.
His research interests include public sector contracting, public-private partnerships, privatization, human resources, transaction costs, experiments, and research-practice collaboration. He has published extensively on these topics in leading scholarly journals in public administration and management. Â
Ole is currently involved in several research projects collecting big data on public procurement and using machine learning and natural language processing. Recent projects focus on green public procurement, measures of product complexity, and contract language in incomplete contracts.