Shambhu Uprety is a civil engineer by education with an M.Sc. degree in highways. He has been working as a World Bank staff since 2009 as a Sr. Procurement Specialist. He has supported all sectors (transport, energy, water/irrigation, agriculture, health, education, social safety/protection, governance, procurement reforms, etc.) for procurement management under Bank-financed projects. He was a co-team leader for the Integrated PFM Reform Project, which had a procurement component. He is also a Master Trainer on public procurement. He worked for Nepal Administrative Staff College (NASC) and many other training institutions and colleges/universities in Nepal as a resource person delivering procurement training on Works, Goods, and Consulting services.
Before joining the Bank, he was a civil servant for about 20 years, and in the last 10 years, he served as a procurement unit chief in the Department of Education and managed procurement for WB, ADB, JICA, DFID and GoN funded several projects under their respective procurement guidelines for educational administrative and school infrastructure development projects. Participated in drafting public procurement law of Nepal and mainly involved in developing standard bidding documents for works.