Masayuki Omote has worked for public procurement reform with more than 15 countries in Europe and Latin America. Before joining the OECD in 2017, he worked in Japan, Afghanistan, and Bolivia as a public procurement specialist at a procurement agency affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. He also worked at the country office of the Inter-American Development Bank in Peru in the field of public governance and public financial management.
As a scholarship recipient from the World Bank, he holds a Master of Science in Foreign Service (MSFS) from Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. (concentration on international development and public governance). He is lead author of the OECD policy paper Professionalising the public procurement workforce: A review of current initiatives and challenges (published in January 2023).