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Procurement Integrity: Prevention, Investigation and Prosecution of Fraud
Overview
The Combined: Procurement Integrity and Audit seminar offers the exciting opportunity for personal and professional development, consisting of a combination of two courses: Procurement Integrity: Prevention, Investigation and Prosecution of Fraud; and Procurement Audit. Participants in this course will receive two certificates indicating completion of each seminar. To see descriptions of the topical areas covered, please refer to the two individual seminar links above or the seminar description in the ILI Brochure.
In addition, the participants who enroll in this two-week combination seminar will have more opportunities to network and can take part in the optional weekend sightseeing tour of Washington.
Certification
Upon successful completion of the seminar, each participant will be awarded a Certificate of Completion. Successful completion requires that a participant diligently attend all seminar sessions promptly and on time throughout the seminar, read all assignments, and participate in all group discussions and exercises. If a number of sessions are missed without proper reason, the ILI reserves the right to withhold certification.
Format
This seminar is currently offered in-person. Special requests to attend online must be submitted by email as early as possible. Requests will be considered on a case-by-case basis, taking into account the overall experience of each participant and the larger group. In-person seminars, even when being joined online, run from 9:30 am – 4:00 pm Washington, D.C., time.
Course Advisors
Allan Rotman is an experienced procurement and supply chain professional in the infrastructure, energy, water, urban and environment fields with more than 30 years of experience. He has worked at the World Bank (IBRD) (20 years) where he held various senior positions, the Africa Development Bank (2 years), Millennium Challenge Corporation (3 years), directly for government ministries in Kenya (2 years) and in the private sector (15 years) with a prominent international engineering consulting firm headquartered in Canada. Allan is now employed full-time at the USAID funded Global Health Supply Chain – Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) Project as the Leadership, Governance and Procurement Advisor to assist countries with strengthening their own national systems. The GHSC-PSM assists about 30 countries globally, and is funded for $5 billion over 5 years.
Bernard Becq is an independent consultant with more than 35 years of experience. He is a senior adviser, course advisor and lecturer at the ILI. Dr. Becq was the World Bank´s Chief Procurement Officer from 2006 to 2013. Dr. Becq´s experience includes working with French development agencies, in particular, he was the Deputy Chief of the International Consulting Firm of ENPC, and Project Officer and Adviser to the President at Agence Coopération et Aménagement (ACA). Dr. Becq holds graduate degrees in Mathematics from Paris VI University and in civil engineering from ENTPE in Paris, France, and a Master degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Southern California (USC), in Los Angeles, USA, where he also completed post graduate work (PhD ABD).