Full Name
Mr. Enzo De Laurentiis
Job Title
Consultant
Company
World Bank
Country (Work Address)
United States
Speaker Bio
Enzo de Laurentiis is an international consultant with over 30 years of experience specializing in all aspects of public sector procurement including almost 26 years in management and leadership positions at the World Bank (the Bank).
Until November 30, 2023, Mr. de Laurentiis was the Bank’s Chief Procurement Officer, a position he held for almost 6 years leading procurement policy development, strategy, and implementation. As head of the function, he approved the largest contracts financed by the Bank and performed a key advisory role on the most innovative, technically complex, and riskiest investment projects of the Bank in all regions of operation.
Previously, Mr. de Laurentiis served as Manager of the Procurement Policy Unit, where he was responsible for rolling out a major procurement reform for the Bank, as a Practice Manager in the Governance Global Practice, and as the Regional Procurement Manager for the East Asia and Pacific and the Latin America and Caribbean Regions of the Bank.
Prior to joining the Bank in 1998, Mr. de Laurentiis was Projects Director and later Vice President of an international consulting firm providing advisory services on procurement to Multilateral Development Banks, countries, and the private sector. He has previous international banking experience.
Mr. de Laurentiis has been a member of the adjunct faculty at American University Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C., from 1992 to 2004, teaching international contracts and international procurement law. He is a current member of the Scientific Committee of the International master’s in public Procurement Management and the Strategic Committee of the bachelor’s degree in Global Governance at Tor Vergata University in Rome.
Mr. de Laurentiis holds a law degree (Dottore in Giurisprudenza) from the University of Trieste in Italy and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in International Legal Studies from American University Washington College of Law, in Washington, DC.
Until November 30, 2023, Mr. de Laurentiis was the Bank’s Chief Procurement Officer, a position he held for almost 6 years leading procurement policy development, strategy, and implementation. As head of the function, he approved the largest contracts financed by the Bank and performed a key advisory role on the most innovative, technically complex, and riskiest investment projects of the Bank in all regions of operation.
Previously, Mr. de Laurentiis served as Manager of the Procurement Policy Unit, where he was responsible for rolling out a major procurement reform for the Bank, as a Practice Manager in the Governance Global Practice, and as the Regional Procurement Manager for the East Asia and Pacific and the Latin America and Caribbean Regions of the Bank.
Prior to joining the Bank in 1998, Mr. de Laurentiis was Projects Director and later Vice President of an international consulting firm providing advisory services on procurement to Multilateral Development Banks, countries, and the private sector. He has previous international banking experience.
Mr. de Laurentiis has been a member of the adjunct faculty at American University Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C., from 1992 to 2004, teaching international contracts and international procurement law. He is a current member of the Scientific Committee of the International master’s in public Procurement Management and the Strategic Committee of the bachelor’s degree in Global Governance at Tor Vergata University in Rome.
Mr. de Laurentiis holds a law degree (Dottore in Giurisprudenza) from the University of Trieste in Italy and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in International Legal Studies from American University Washington College of Law, in Washington, DC.
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