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I am a public procurement expert with almost 20 years of research and hands-on experience in a variety of regulatory environments . I am also a part-time University Lecturer on industrial organization and market design. am committed to ensuring 'thinking and doing' in procurement coexist under one roof, with my research and civil service practice constantly informing each other

Gian Luigi Albano

Emails: gla@gianluigialbano.com | galbano@luiss.it | gianluigi.albano@consip.it

GIAN LUIGI ALBANO

I have over 20 years experience in the field of public procurement and economics. I am Head of Division at Consip, the Italian government's company in charge of the most important national programme for the centralization and modernization of public spending for goods, services and civil works. My work has received international recognition by practitioners, academics and by international organizations.

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(Some of) The Lessons of Paul Milgrom and “Bob” Wilson to avoid “Bad Buying” and … “Worse Thinking” – Part 1Data management and Information in public procurement 4.0Books&Ideas: "Atomic Habits" and KaizenGas in - Electricity outThe Alluring Legacy of William Vickrey to Public Procurement (Practitioners)“Will the next global emergency require "virtual" central purchasing bodies?”

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MY STORY

I am familiar with the most prominent procurement systems (including EU Directives, UNCITRAL Model Law, World Bank Guidelines and US FAR) and I can speak fluently four languages. I collaborate with academic institutions (I am adjunct professor of Economics at LUISS “G. Carli” in Rome) and I act as internal and external examiner for PhD students from many institutions all over the world.

In my capacity as “people manager” in the public sector I believe in equality of opportunities and in nurturing employees’ personal development and individual transformation as well as harmonious collective action, that is, the constant pursuit of individual aspirations/ambitions within the attainment of the firm’s objectives.

My ambition is to thrive in a world where traditional barriers among different professions are progressively vanishing.

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MY BOOK

I have published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and my book The Law and Economics of Framework Agreements (Cambridge University Press, with C. Nicholas) is the leading monograph on the most widely used technique for demand aggregation.

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(Some of) The Lessons of Paul Milgrom and “Bob” Wilson to avoid “Bad Buying” and … “Worse Thinking” – Part 1

(Some of) The Lessons of Paul Milgrom and “Bob” Wilson to avoid “Bad Buying” and … “Worse Thinking

2020-10-14 12:56

The 2020 Nobel Laureates for Economics, Paul Milgrom and Robert (“Bob”) Wilson “have studied how auctions work. They have also used their insights to

Data management and Information in public procurement 4.0

2018-09-25 16:54

The following text is (almost) the transcript of the keynote speech I delivered at the 2018 Global Public Procurement Conference organised by the Interamerican

Books&Ideas: "Atomic Habits" and Kaizen

2024-07-14 13:58

I bumped into “Atomic Habits” half by accident and half some sort of mental correlation with another recently finished book “The Subtle Art of Not Giv

Gas in - Electricity out

2022-12-15 19:41

Gas, electricity and economic fragility

The Alluring Legacy of William Vickrey to Public Procurement (Practitioners)

2021-01-03 16:13

In 1996, the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences was awarded jointly to James A. Mirrlees and William Vickrey “for their fundamental contributions to th

“Will the next global emergency require "virtual" central purchasing bodies?”

2020-07-05 19:54

Psychologists as well as sociologists will pour much ink – whether virtual or liquid – about the impact of social distancing on learning, soft skills

Much noise and a few signals: Will Alice ever learn anything about centralized procurement?

2020-05-30 23:10

Occasionally, the discussion about the pros and the cons of policy makers’ inclination to create new or to further expand the role of already-establis

Gli appalti pubblici tra la Scilla della flessibilità e la Cariddi dell'ipertrofia regolamentare

2018-06-02 17:16

Chiunque abbia maturato un minimo di esperienza negli appalti pubblici in Italia è ben consapevole di quanto le "regole del gioco" siano frutto di un

Start-up post 26 May 2018 (EN)

2018-05-25 23:26

I have been incessantly using the metaphor of Sisyphus in my training sessions on the economic analysis of procurement, and particularly of public pro

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