Speaker Lists

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Minister of Finance, Indonesia

Born in Bandar Lampung on August 26th, 1962, Sri Mulyani Indrawati earned her bachelor's degree in economics from the Universitas Indonesia (1986). Then she continued her study at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, United States, and earned a Master of Science in Policy Economics (1990). In 1992, she earned a Ph.D. in Economics. Sri Mulyani has been the Minister of Finance of Indonesia Since 2016, when she served in the same post from 2005 to 2010. As finance minister from 2005 to 2010, Sri Mulyani was a tough reformist and was largely credited with strengthening Indonesia's economy, increasing investments, and steering Southeast Asia's largest economy through the 2007–10 financial crisis. In 2014, she was ranked as the 38th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes magazine. Later at the IFPSM World Summit 2022, she will be a Keynote Speaker.

Enzo de Laurentiis

The World Bank’s CPO, USA

Enzo de Laurentiis obtain his law degree from the University of Trieste in Italy; he later continues his study by completing the Master of Laws degree in International Legal Study from the American University Washington College of Law. De Laurentiis has vast experience in the procurement field; his recent work experience is becoming the manager of the Procurement Policy Unit at the Governance Global Practice; Regional Procurement Manager for East Asia and Pacific, and Latin America and Caribbean Regions of the World Bank. Currently, de Laurentiis is a Chief Procurement Officer at the World Bank.

Marina Lindic

President, IFPSM

Marina Lindič is a co-founder and president of the Slovenian Purchasing Association (ZNS). Since 1st of January 2020, she is President of International Federation for Purchasing and Supply Management (IFPSM). Before she was the Treasurer and IFPSM Board member.

From the year 2005 till mid of 2022 Marina was employed in insulation group Ursa. She was Purchasing Manager, for Business Unit (BU) Adria & BU Italy, covering strategic purchasing for glass wool plant in Slovenia and XPS plant in Italy. She was responsible for strategic purchasing for direct and indirect purchasing for both BUs. Additionally, she was Capex Lead buyer on Ursa Group level for 10 plants in EU -European union.

From 2005 until 2016 she was Supply Chain Director of Operating Unit (OU) Mediterranean and Southeast Europe. She was covering the following areas: logistics, procurement and customer service. In the first years of working at Ursa, she was responsible for the OU Adria region (i.e. Italy, Slovenia, along with other former Yugoslavian countries, Bulgaria, Greece and Albania). After, she was responsible for OU Mediterranean and Southeast Europe, adding Austria, Hungary, Romania and Turkey to the before listed countries.

From Finished studies at Faculty of economics in Ljubljana until the year 2005, she was working in the company Trimo Trebnje, where she was responsible for strategic, operational purchasing, and logistics.

In her spare time, she among others, lectures on the Procurement Academy (Topics: 1: Lean in procurement and 2: Supply chain management and its optimization 3. Managing and ensuring smooth procurement in times of uncertainty). She is lecturing and moderating event like: yearly Procurement conference in Slovenia and many conferences in Slovenia and abroad. Marina is a co-author of the book Strategic purchasing, and an expert editor& co-author of the Guide for the Head of Purchasing.

She is a Chair of the Supervisory Board of the Handball Club Trimo. In the free time she likes to read books, hikes, plays tennis and badminton and enjoying her free time with grandchildren.

Robin Asad Suryo

Executive Secretary of NPPA, Indonesia

Robin Asad Suryo is the Chief Secretary of the National Public Procurement Agency (NPPA). He got his Master's and Ph.D. degrees in economics from Colorado State University, USA. As a professional in the field of Public Policy, Suryo had many years of experience in public sector reform, especially concerning government procurement and public-private partnerships. Since joining NPPA in 2008, he has been involved extensively and played an essential role in the public procurement reforms in Indonesia. Suryo had been appointed for several vital positions with a high level of responsibilities in NPPA. He served as deputy chairman for Monitoring, Evaluation, and Information System (2014-2015), deputy chairman for Policy and Strategy Development (2015-2018), and deputy chairman for Institutional and Human Resource Development (2018-2021). He represented the Indonesian government as the lead negotiator for several government procurement FTAs negotiations, including IEU-CEPA, IJ-EPA, and IEFTA-CEPA. He also served as the general secretary of the Indonesian Procurement Professional Association (IAPI) and is currently a member of IAPI's board of trustees. Based on his past experiences, he will deliver the subject of "Leveraging Procurement into Strategic Landscape of the Organization."

Marcell Vollmer

CEO of Prospitalia Group, Germany

Marcell Vollmer joins Prospitalia Group from the global consulting firm Boston Consulting Group (BCG) based in Frankfurt, Germany, where he was a Partner and Director. In Prospitalia Group, he focused on digital transformation, new business models, IT and process optimization, and reorganization, emphasizing global procurement, supply chain, and operations. Before BCG, Dr. Vollmer held global senior executive positions at Celonis (Chief Innovation Officer) and SAP (including Chief Procurement Officer and Chief Digital Officer). Later at the Summit, he will explain "Digitalization & Procurement 4.0."

Gde Iswantara, ST., MM

Head of Corporate Procurement / SCM, Sinarmas Mining, Indonesia

With more than 18 years of experience in Procurement / Supply Chain Management in his CVs, Gde Iswantara has been the Head of Corporate Procurement/SCM for the Sinarmas Mining Group since April 2019. He is an experienced Deputy Director with a demonstrated history of working in various leadership positions in the Oil & Gas and Coal Mining Industry. Iswantara studied Electronic Engineering and Magister Management at the University of Indonesia. Since he has a vast experience in Procurement / Supply Chain Management, Iswantara will discuss a topic about "Chasing Value Beyond Saving" at the Summit.

Ahmed Merzouk

Lead Procurement Specialist at WB East Asia & Pacific Region

Ahmad Merzouk currently resides in Washington DC, United States of America; he officiates in World Bank as a Lead Governance Specialist and Procurement Specialist for the East Asia and Pacific region. He has more than 35 years of experience in the procurement field. Before joining the World Bank, Merzouk worked for the Government of Morocco in several executives and managerial positions, playing a pivotal role in reforming the public procurement system in the country.

Mihaly Fazekas

Assistant Professor of Public Admin, Central European University

Mihaly Fazekas currently resides in Vienna, Austria; he is an assistant professor at the Central European University, Department of Public Policy, focusing on using data science methods to understand the quality of government globally. Fazekas has a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, where he pioneered data science methods to measure and understand high-level corruption in Central- and Eastern Europe. In 2020, Fazekas won the IMF's Anti-Corruption Challenge leading an interdisciplinary team across government and academia.

Dr. Erwin Suryadi, ST., MBA

Head of SCM at Upstream Oil & Gas Controlling Body, Indonesia

Erwin Suryadi is the Head of Supply Chain Management & Cost Analysis Division at SKK Migas (Special Task Force for Upstream Oil and Gas Business Activities Republic of Indonesia). Suryadi got his Doctorate of Economics at the Parahyangan Catholic University of Bandung, Indonesia, in 2014, after finishing his Master of Business at the San Francisco State University, San Francisco, USA. Prior to his current position, Suryadi served as Head of Goods and Services Procurement Management Division and as Expert Advisor for Deputy of Internal Control, both at SKK Migas.

Amadou Diallo

CEO of MEA DHL Global Forwarding, Uni Arab Emirate

Since 2017 Amadou Diallo has been Chief Executive Officer of DHL Global Forwarding, Middle East & Africa, one of the leading providers of road freight services worldwide. He was previously Chief Executive Officer of Africa and South Asia Pacific DHL Global Forwarding. Before this, Chief Financial Officer of Deutsche Post DHL Logistics Divisions and Managing Director for the integration of Exel and DHL. Diallo has more than 25 years of experience in the tourism, banking, express, and logistics industries. He was born in Senegal and is fluent in several languages, including English, German, French, Fulani, Wolof, and Spanish. Diallo is Chairman of the supervisory board of Amref Health Africa in Germany, a member of the board of ARC Insurance, and a member of the Universal Business School of Mumbai.

Sebastian Chua

Head of Procurement, Health Promotion Board, Singapore

Sebastian Chua started his procurement career with Hewlett Packard/Agilent Technologies as their Country Manager for India, Singapore, Thailand & Philippines before taking on the portfolio as the Regional Procurement Manager. Sebastian then moved on to join Microsoft & Alcatel-Lucent as Head of Procurement to transform their procurement organization in the Asia Pacific region. He has won several awards during his long and illustrious career, such as the 2019 Procurement Leaders APAC Awards for Transformation and CPO categories, the 2019 CIPS Asia Awards for Transformation and Best Public Procurement Project, the 2018 Public Service Innovation Champion Awards, the 2017 CIPS Asia CPO Awards, the 2017 Supply Chain Asia Awards, and the 2017 Supply Chain Asia Awards.

Guo Qingsong

Procurement Director at ALIBABA

With over 20 years of experience in multi-national companies and China internet company covering end-to-end procurement and supply chain function, including oversea assignment experience and global team management experience, has earned Qingsong as the Procurement Director of Alibaba since 2014.

Michael Bevis

CPO of City of Norfolk, Virginia, USA

Michael Bevis is an internationally recognized thought leader in the public procurement profession. He is a Fellow of NIGP and has presented classes and conducted symposia on five continents and eleven countries. He has over 30 years of legal and procurement professional and is currently Chief Procurement Officer for the City of Norfolk, Virginia.

Michael is passionate in his support of fellow professionals. He currently serves as past Chair of CJE and a past Chair of the Governing Board of NIGP and serves on IFPSM Global Standard Board. He is a graduate of Georgetown University Law School and Lincoln Memorial University.