Stephen Ashcroft

Stephen Ashcroft
Conference Moderator

Leveraging his 25-year procurement career experience in UK, Middle East and Africa helping some of the world’s leading organisations with their procurement challenges – to now be an entertaining, challenging and informative conference host and key speaker. His peer-recognised leading knowledge, insights and skills come from thriving in challenging situations of doing, learning and growing – and still sees the glass as half full!

Stephen has held leadership positions with The African Development Bank Group and AECOM, a Fortune 500 company, and previously a UK consultant, advisor and visiting lecturer at University of Manchester. Stephen holds a Bachelor’s in engineering, a Masters in Management and is a Fellow of CIPS and author of the CIPS text ‘contracting in the public sector’