Full Name
Roberto Laguado Giraldo
Job Title
Senior Procurement Specialists
Company
Inter-American Development Bank
Speaker Bio
Roberto Laguado is part of the Interamerican Development Bank’s procurement team and currently supervises the procurement of works financed by this bank in Argentina. For the past 15 years Roberto has worked in the Region of Latin American and the Caribbean focusing on developing strategic plans to enhance and strengthen capacities of public buyers with special focus in countries such as Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, Jamaica, Argentina, Brazil, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama and Dominican Republic. Currently, Roberto supervises the fiduciary procurement implementation of IADBs portfolio in Argentina, of around US$12 billion and contracts of nearly US$1.6 billion per year. Among his latest tasks in Argentina is supporting IADB borrowers in implementing the use of FIDIC contract conditions and Dispute Boards in 40 projects of Roads, Energy and Water and Sanitation sectors. Roberto holds a LLM from Warwick University in England and graduate studies in public, commercial and international law.
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