Andy Cochrane is a specialist consultant as part of the World Bank’s Operations Policy and Country Services team. He oversees strategic procurement improvement programmes across the World Bank’s $40billion annual investment portfolio. He led the rollout of the Bank’s Sustainable Procurement program, the net zero procurement initiative, the implementation of Rated Criteria across the Bank’s operational portfolio, and has delivered training and learning events on strategic and sustainable procurement to operations teams around the world.

Prior to joining the World Bank, Andy spent just over ten years in the New Zealand Public Service, including leading the Construction Accord, a partnership between government and industry aimed at transforming the industry and resolving long-standing challenges such as insolvency, health and safety, lack of diversity, and combative contracts and relationships. Andy led the strategy, data, systems and communications functions for New Zealand Government Procurement, and represented the New Zealand government as a secondee with the OECD Public Procurement Unit, conducting in-depth country and topic reviews including a review of Mexico’s eProcurement system, evaluating the effectiveness of sustainable procurement and eProcurement in Germany, and a framework for measuring the productivity of public procurement.