Irvin Francis

Irvin Francis is an experienced manager with a demonstrated history of working in well-known Malaysia’s Trade Promotion Organisation (TPO) – MATRADE. He serves the organization for quite some time, which enabled him to obtain strong professionalism in trade-related. He is also experienced in analyzing and forecasting trade data as well as nurturing Malaysian companies towards internationalization.

Swayamsiddha Mohanty

Swayamsiddha Mohanty is the Public Procurement Professional with more than 20 years of experience in various industries and sectors namely oil and gas, IT, manufacturing industries, FMCG, health, education, micro-finance, urban, transport, energy, MSME and Governance. She is currently working as Senior Procurement Specialist, Governance Global Practice, World Bank.

Chandan Kumar Ghosh

Chandan Kumar Ghosh is the Project Manager for the Nepal Electricity Authority’s KaligandakiTransmission Corridor Project. He has 20 years of professional service in the Authority. He was a deputy manager for the Hetuada-Dhalekbar-Duhabi 400 kV Transmission Line Project under the Nepal-India Electricity Transmission & Trade Project. Mr. Ghosh has a master’s degree in electrical power engineering and a bachelor’s degree in electrical and electronics engineering, both from the Kathmandu University. 

Blandine Wu Chebili

Blandine Wu Chebli is a Senior Procurement Specialist with the World Bank where she is currently working on the GovTech Global Partnership. She has country experience in Benin, Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, France, Tunisia, and Zimbabwe. Previously she was a Principal Procurement Policy Specialist with the African Development Bank.

She holds an MBA from the Université du Québec à Montréal and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Université Paris 8.

Hunt La Cascia

Hunt La Cascia is a Senior Procurement Specialist in the Governance Global Practice at the World Bank. Based in Washington DC, he as more than 25 of professional experience of which 17 years are in development work around the world. He focuses the full range of procurement fiduciary and reform, service and knowledge functions supporting the World Bank’s Global portfolio of projects which contain Information and Communications Technology (ICT) components.