Enzo de Laurentiis is an international consultant with over 33 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).  Since his retirement from the World Bank, Mr. de Laurentiis continued to advise the Bank, the IADB, AIIB, ADB, and IFAD on a broad range of procurement policy, risk management and organizational aspects and major private sector companies on related business aspects.

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. He is also a Management Board’s member of FIDIC Credentialing Limited (FCL) and was appointed Investment Committee Chair for the forthcoming PrimAfrica Climate Fund (anchored in the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs).

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.