Mr. James Garber is a business and technology consultant with over thirty years' experience in project/programme formulation and management, knowledge management, business analysis, system/process design, risk management and internal controls reporting for clients in government, private industry and international organizations. His undergraduate degree is in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and he has an MBA in finance from the Wharton School. 

Despoina Kouria is a Supplier Diversity and Sustainability analyst with Corporate Procurement at the World Bank Group (WBG), which she joined in 2020. She is part of the team that mainstreams sustainability considerations into over $1.7 Billion of annual purchases for the World Bank Group’s global offices and leads Corporate Procurement’s efforts in promoting and increasing the participation of women- and other diverse-owned businesses within WBG procurement processes and across its supply chain.

Dwi Wahyuni Kartianingsih is the Director for Business Climate Development and International Cooperation National Public Procurement Agency, Indonesia.

She is in charge of formulating strategies, policies, and guidelines regarding business climate and international cooperation in Government Procurement (GP), mainly related to the participation of MSEs in domestic GP and non-MEs in international GP, sustainable procurement, development funding cooperation, and international trade agreements.

Mr. Choi is the head of Procurement Training Planning Team in Public Procurement Service, Republic of Korea (PPS). He is currently in charge of planning procurement officials' capacity development and private sector employee's as well. 

Dechen Wangmo is a Senior Procurement Officer working under Ministry of Finance since 2011. In this role,  Ms. Dechen is responsible for managing the e-procurement sytem development project in Bhutan. She is mainly involved in conducting  requirement study and stakeholder meetings for the  system development. She is also responsible for providing capacity building to the eGP system users which include procuring agencies, bidders and financial institution users.

Tserensambuu Nurenzedgombo is a ICT and Public procurement expert with 15 years of experience in web application development, system analysis, business architecture and ICT development including work for governmental projects, 10 years of experience in Public Procurement.

Currently, He is the Head of Electronic Procurement and Information technology division in the State procurement agency of Mongolia.  In this role, he leads design and development of e-Procurement system of Mongolia.

Mr. Hyeok Sung work in Construction Business Management Division at the Public Procurement Service (PPS), Korea, in charge of bidding, contracting, management, revision of regulations, and system improvement for Public Construction. He has also previously worked in the fields of construction management service contracts, cost review, and construction work supervision. He holds a certificate of architectural engineer, and in 2019, earned a master’s degree in Urban Study & Planning from the University of Sheffield in the UK.

Saurabh specializes in architecting of technical solutions. He has been working on Blockchain use cases for Governments and has developed key architectural considerations and policy imperatives for use and promotion of Blockchain by Governments. In his career spanning 18 years, he has designed production grade Blockchain systems to enterprise level Financial Management Systems for Governments. He converges domain understanding with his technical expertise to deliver effective solutions for clients.

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., School for Policy Studies of the University of Bristol, the U.K.
• Master of Public Administration, Seoul National University
• Bachelor of Law, Korea National Open University
• Bachelor of International Economics, Seoul National University
• Shincheorwon High School, Gangwon Province(Gangwon-do)
   

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Chris is an international procurement specialist and an e-GP consultant with 43 years practical experience implementing donor-funded projects in Africa, Asia, the Caucuses and the Middle East.  Over the last 13 years, he has focused on supporting the adoption of e-GP by providing training and business requirements analysis for the design and procurement of e-GP systems. Chris is a passionate advocate for adopting a data-driven Open Contracting approach to public procurement and the use of the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) in e-GP.