Chibuzor
Ekwekwuo has over three
decades’ law practice experience, both as a litigator at the beginning and in
the last 18 years as a corporate and consulting attorney. He holds a Post
Graduate Diploma in Anti- Corruption Studies, a Post Graduate Degree in Public
Procurement for Sustainable Development from Turin University, Turin. He is an IP3 and APMG Certified PPP
practitioner. He is a renowned
Public Procurement specialist who is known for his vast and credible consulting
experience in developing Public Procurement frameworks, (laws, regulations,
standard bidding documents including evaluation forms and other tools) in
at least twenty-three (23) States of the federation and at the Federal level in Nigeria. He has extensive consulting
work experience in Public Finance Management, Anti- Corruption Reforms,
structuring public regulatory framework, process reviews, legal dimension of
organizational development, evaluating state public finance systems for the
purpose of developing reform strategies and facilitation of related learning
programmes at both national and sub-national levels in Nigeria and at
various times managing and monitoring their implementation both as consultant
and project leader. He is the founder of
the Nigerian Procurement Monitoring Portal/Program which won the World Bank
Institute Innovation challenge (www.procurementmonitor.org). He is
the managing partner at A&E Law Partnership, and Lead
Public Procurement Consultant for the Component 3.5 of the European Union
supported Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption Programme in five (5) states of
Anambra, Lagos, Edo, Kano and Adamawa.