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Oshani Perera
Director, Public Procurement and Infrastructure Finance
Oshani Perera is the Director of the Public Procurement and Infrastructure Finance program of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD).
She advises governments on smart public procurement, public-private partnerships (PPP) and infrastructure financing strategies to optimize value-for-money, at the point of commissioning and across the asset life cycle. In the public procurement of goods and services, Oshani focuses on the design of policies, technical specifications, award criteria and contract conditions that embed environmental and social performance. In the commissioning of infrastructure, she focuses on the structuring of project preparation and of PPPs, developing robust feasibility analyses, optimizing risk allocation, improving predictability of demand and revenue, channelling capital towards green and sustainable public assets.
Oshani has advised policy-makers in the EU, USA, Canada, India, Sri Lanka, Abu Dhabi, Chile, Bhutan, China, Ghana, South Africa, Costa Rica, Lao PDR, USA, Vietnam, Mauritius, Brazil and Costa Rica.
Before joining IISD, Oshani worked at KPMG, with a focus on corporate sustainability and supply chain management and at McKinsey & Company, specializing in foreign direct investment and industrial competitiveness.
- Investing in Sustainable Energy: The case for solar technologies in Sri LankaThis commentary outlines why Sri Lanka should abandon coal and invest instead in a national solar energy program modelled on the experience of India.
- A Step in the Right Direction: The EU's revised directives on public procurementThe revised EU directives on public procurement provide welcome leadership on sustainable public procurement. The question that remains is how it can be implemented.
- Investment Incentives for Sustainable Development: The case of Lao PDRThis commentary discusses how Laotian Policy makers can offer a differentiated mix of investment...
- Developing a Sustainable Investment Framework in Lao PDR: Broad recommendationsThis commentary has recommendations on upgrading the Laotian framework for foreign direct...
- The Case for Pursuing Sustainable Public Procurement in Lower Income CountriesThis commentary discusses the economic and industrial gains afforded by well implemented...
- Rethinking Investment IncentivesThis commentary tracks the disadvantages of long term tax holidays and describes how targeted and...
- Sustainable Development in Greenland: Perspectives from a preliminary stakeholder consultationHow Greenlandic policy-makers are planning for sustainable investment in their country's natural...
- Sustainable Procurement in Fragile StatesIISD has undertaken a preliminary assessment of the value of sustainable procurement in fragile...
- Information Technology Enabled Services (ITES) Sector Industries Might be Cut Down to Size, but Globalization Will Continue: An IISD CommentaryIISD and AccountAbility will soon release a report on responsible competitiveness in information...