Nino Gamrekeli has been working at the State Procurement Agency of Georgia since May 2018. Since January 2020, she holds the position of the head of the Tender Procedures Division.

Nino has experience in public procurement since 2015. She was employed in various state institutions and worked in public procurement.

Nicolas Penagos is the Head of the MAPS (Methodology for Assessing Procurement Systems) Secretariat housed at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

Before joining the MAPS Secretariat, he was the Head of Latin America at the Open Contracting Partnership. Prior to that, he was Acting Director and Deputy Director at Colombia’s National Procurement Agency. Nicolás holds a double major in industrial engineering and mathematics; and a masters in sustainable development from the University of Paris - Dauphine.