Richard has 40 years experience of public procurement and project management firstly with Crown Agents in the UK & 3 years as Manager of Crown Agents Services Ltd, Singapore; 9 years as a consultant on World Bank projects in Russia, Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia and Uzbekistan living in Russia and Belarus; 3 years as World Bank Senior Procurement Specialist in the World Bank Ukraine office. For the last 15 years with EBRD London HQ, working first as a Senior Procurement Adviser on municipal infrastructure projects in EBRD’s countries of operations and since 2010 as Associate Director with the Procurement Policy and Advisory Department (PPAD).
Currently, as PPAD Head of Innovation he has specific responsibility for e-procurement, participating in IFI and OECD working groups, responsible for the concept, design, development and implementation of the SaaS contract for EBRD’s Client e-Procurement Portal (ECEPP) operational since 2015 and now operational in 27 countries of operation with projects worth over EUR 15bn using the system for project procurement.
IFI financed projects experience in over 27 countries in Asia, Europe and the Middle East.