Taskforce

Senior Counsel Legal Transition Programme, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Eliza Niewiadomska, Senior Counsel in the Legal Transition Programme of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London (EBRD) is responsible for public procurement regulatory advice and technical cooperation within economies the EBRD operates. Key regional technical cooperation programmes led by Eliza include the EBRD UNCITRAL Public Procurement Reform Initiative, established in 2011, the EBRD GPA Technical Cooperation Facility, formed in 2014 and Open Government, first initiated in 2014 to assist post-Maidan Revolution Ukraine.

Lawyer and economist, Eliza worked for Polish government during regulatory reforms preparing Poland’s accession to European Union and upon leaving civil service, as a general counsel in the IT industry. Prior to joining the EBRD in 2009, she Eliza was head of procurement at power & energy company, PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna SA in Warsaw.

Counsellor and Head of the Government Procurement and Competition Policy Group WTO Intellectual Property, Government Procurement and Competition Division (IPD), World Trade Organization

Reto Malacrida has occupied this position since April 2019. Before then, he was senior Counsellor with the WTO's Legal Affairs Division for many years. Reto is a part-time lecturer at the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland and a member of the Advisory Board of the Model WTO.

Legal and Economic Affairs Officer Government Procurement and Competition Policy team, IPD Division, World Trade Organization

Since 2009, Philippe Pelletier has been working with the Secretariat team supporting the work of the WTO Committee on Government Procurement and the negotiations of new accessions to the GPA. Moreover, in this role, he has undertaken numerous technical co-operation missions. He also has extensive experience researching and writing in the area of government procurement. Mr. Pelletier is a licensed attorney in Quebec, Canada, and a graduate of the University Laval.

Legal Affairs Officer Government Procurement and Competition Policy team, IPD Division, World Trade Organization

Carol Cravero works as a Legal Affairs Officer at the WTO's Secretariat. She is a fully qualified lawyer admitted to the bar in Italy and holds a French-Italian PhD cum Laude in Sustainable Public Procurement Law. External collaborator of the ITC/ILO since 2013, she also worked as the principal advisor to the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Development in Burkina Faso and as a AfDB consultant in Senegal for the reform of their respective government procurement systems in 2021.

Technical Assistance Officer Government Procurement and Competition Policy team, IPD Division, World Trade Organization

Astghik Solomonyan is a Technical Assistance Officer for Government Procurement and Competition Policy team of the IPD. Ms Solomonyan has been awarded a PhD from the University of Nottingham in UK after the completion of a thesis related to government procurement. Before joining the IPD, Ms Solomonyan provided consultancy services to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and other international organizations.

Policy Expert, EBRD GPA TC Facility

Dr. Dorina Jitaru has a professional experience of over 19 years, as an Associate Professor. She has taught courses such as International Trade and Trade Policies, International Investment Flows and Economic Integration. She also has experience working in the Ministry of Economy of Moldova, as well as in different research projects as a researcher-coordinator.

Starting in 2013, Dorina works for the EBRD as a regulatory and policy expert in Moldova, Tajikistan, Kyrgyz Republic, North Macedonia and Uzbekistan following the work at the UNDP as a national consultant for Moldova GPA accession. In July 2016 Moldova has officially joined WTO GPA. The main focus of the ongoing projects is the reform of Public Procurement Sector of Republic of Moldova in the post GPA accession context and in Tajikistan in the accession process, as well as eProcurement implementation in Uzbekistan, and in North Macedonia - assisting it in the WTO GPA accession process.

Legal Consultant, EBRD GPA TC Facility

Antonella Salgueiro is a lawyer and legal consultant working with international organizations, governmental agencies and MDBs on matters related to GPA accession and implementation. Formerly, as a Young Professional at the Intellectual Property, Government Procurement and Competition Division of the World Trade Organization, she focused on GPA administration, related technical assistance activities, and research work on procurement and competition policy. She is also a qualified attorney dealing with issues related to competition law and international trade. Antonella has researched and published papers on competition issues, including its interface with public procurement, SOEs and intellectual property. Before joining the WTO, Mrs. Salgueiro received, top of the class, a LL.M. degree in Business, Competition, and Regulatory Law from the Freie Universität Berlin in Germany and counts as well with more that 12 years of experience related to IP.

Procurement Expert, EBRD GPA TC Facility

As a lawyer, Eriks has extensive experience in the area of public procurement. Within Latvia’s central public procurement body, he dealt with the transition of EU procurement directives into national law and the review of tenderers´ complaints on procurement procedures. He is a partner in the law firm “Public and Private Law Consulting”, in charge of public procurement and PPP projects. Eriks has consulted for major procurement and PPP projects in different sectors such as infrastructure, IT and healthcare. He is a permanent lecturer and chairman of seminars at the European Academy for Taxes, Economics and Law in Berlin, Germany, and also member of the European Commission’s Public Procurement Stakeholders Expert Group.

Legal / Procurement expert, GPA in UA

Graduated from the Kyiv National Economic University, holds a Master Diploma in Management, State Regulation of Economy and a Master Diploma in International Law from the Ukrainian Academy of Foreign Trade. Has solid +10 years of experience in public service. Took part in trainings and internships in governmental structures of EU countries, Japan, India, Training Center of ILO and World Bank (Turin, Italy). From 2009 Oleksandr Shatkovskyi has been working as the procurement expert and trainer, in particular in international projects financed by EU, EBRD, WB, EIB.

Scope of professional interests: procurements (public and private), anticorruption activities, international politics, economics, and law.

Economist / Procurement Expert, GPA in UA

A graduate of the National Technical University of Ukraine, the Kyiv National Economic University, and the Kyiv-Mohyla Business School, holds a Master’s Degree in Radio Engineering and Business Economics, and Postgraduate Ph.D.

Taras has worked in international and Ukrainian companies. He has more than 25 years of professional experience in Telecommunication, Security System and IT and more than 15 years of experience in the Public Procurement sphere. He participated, as a volunteer, at the public procurement reform in Ukraine.

From 2015 Taras Shymko has been working as the procurement expert and trainer, in particular in international projects financed by EBRD, World Bank, GIZ, the Governments of Canada and Switzerland. He takes part in projects and programs to develop and support SMEs and the development of business associations. Provides consulting, mentoring and technical support to economic operators for participating in international public tenders.

Director Legal Transition, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Michel Nussbaumer currently works as Director of the EBRD Legal Transition Programme, the Bank’s initiative to promote an investor friendly, transparent and predictable legal environment in transition countries. Prior to that, Michel worked as counsel in one of the EBRD banking operations teams, where he was responsible for legal aspects of various investments of the Bank, with a particular focus on SME financing. Michel has practice as a commercial lawyer in Geneva, Moscow and London. He is a Swiss national, graduated from the University of Fribourg, received his Master of Laws from the University of California at Berkeley and also was a visiting scholar at Moscow State University.

Former Collaborator former Team Leader, Government Procurement and Competition Policy team, IPD Division

Robert Anderson is a part time academic, independent consultant and trainer on matters relating to competition policy, government procurement, intellectual property and the multilateral trading system. He previously worked in the Secretariat of the World Trade Organization from 1997 through 2019, and held the position of Senior Counsellor and Team Leader for Government Procurement and Competition Policy in the Organization from 2005 through March 2019. In the course of his career, he has led workshops and seminars or delivered presentations on topics in his areas of responsibility in more than 80 countries, worldwide.  

Mr. Anderson holds the title of Honorary Professor in the School of Law at the University of Nottingham (United Kingdom). Additionally, he currently serves as an external (adjunct-style) faculty member in the International Public Procurement Management Program at the University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy); its sister program at the University of Belgrade (Serbia); and the Academy of International Economic Law and Policy (AIELPO) of the European Public Law Organization in Athens, Greece.

Former Collaborator Legal Affairs Officer, former Legal Affairs Officer at the Government Procurement and Competition Policy team, IPD Division

Anna Müller is a fully qualified lawyer admitted to the bar in Germany and to the roll of solicitors in England and Wales. Prior to joining the WTO in June 2011, she practiced law in the Commercial Litigation & Arbitration section of Clifford Chance's Frankfurt office. In her current role, her functions are focused on the administration of the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement, related publications and technical assistance. In particular, she works extensively with transition and developing countries interested in GPA accession, often in co-operation with other international institutions supporting procurement reform in the economies concerned. She publishes on a regular basis on topics related to government procurement and competition policy at the international level.

Former Collaborator

Qualified lawyer in Moldova since 2012 specialized in commercial law, competition and public procurement with academic experience.

Working with the EBRD on public procurement TC projects in Moldova since April 2017. Mr. Rogac holds an LL.M. in European Law from Queen Mary University of London and an M.A. in EU Public Procurement from King’s College London. Relevant Publications on: www.lawseconomics.com.

Former Collaborator

Mr. Karen Brutyan, Ph.D. in Economics. He has over 15 year’s extensive professional experience in public procurement, including 11 years as the Head of the Public Internal Financial Control and Procurement Regulatory Department within the Ministry of Finance of Armenia. He coordinated (i) public procurement, (ii) internal audit, and (iii) financial management and control (budget execution methodology) areas in the public sector of the Armenia. Karen also coordinated negotiations on Armenia’s accession to the World Trade Organization Government Procurement Agreement. In 2010 Armenia joined the GPA.

Starting from 2011 Karen works as a public procurement and public financial management expert with different international organizations: EBRD, WB, etc.