Dr Dejan Makovšek

Infrastructure and Public Procurement Division · Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) · company speakers →

Dr. Dejan Makovšek has almost 20 years of experience in investment planning/appraisal, major infrastructure procurement, and economic regulation in the transport sector and beyond. Prior to joining the OECD, Dejan worked as management consultant for KPMG, where was he was engaged in a number of projects involving the planning and financing of investments in infrastructure, forensic analysis of failed infrastructure projects and others. While working full time, he pursued and completed a PhD on systematic cost overruns in transport infrastructure and their causes. At the OECD, Dejan developed several major projects on infrastructure investment planning/ex-post analysis, contract renegotiations, cost reviews in infrastructure projects and others. He designed, led, and co-authored one of the largest international projects on the subject of procurement choices and outcomes, specifically on dealing with uncertainty in contracts. The project involved experts from UK, Sweden, Denmark, Australia, and 9 other countries. The project was finished in 2018, with 19 dedicated publications and a synthesis. Recently, Dejan designed and managed the first ever transport policy review of a country (Estonia). In a yearlong project, with a team of ten policy and transport-modelling experts, a deep-dive was performed into ten thematic areas, including transport sector organization, infrastructure planning, procurement, and funding. Dejan co-developed the OECD’s first evidence based method to inform procurement strategies in major projects (STEPS). Dejan also held invited lectures at Paris School of Economics, UCL in London, National Bureau of Economic Research in the US, World Bank, IMF, and many other government and international institutions.

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