Kenny Cheung

CPO The World Bank Group

Kenny heads the World Bank Group’s procurement and vendor management effort globally across 130+ locations, and is undergoing a modernization agenda for the function to improve its efficiency, governance, value generation and sustainability of its ~26,000 vendor base.  Before joining the Group, Kenny was the Executive Director and Global co-Chief Procurement Officer at Goldman Sachs, responsible for the delivery of a number of industry leading commercial, vendor risk management, and sustainable supply chain initiatives across 97 cities and 35 countries.  Kenny also had a long career with the National Australia Bank Group and ExxonMobil Corporation where he spent much of his time in procurement transformational roles. Kenny has an Executive MBA from the Australian School of Management and Honors in Engineering from the University of Melbourne.  He is married with three children, a keen cyclist and violinist, and an active member of his local church.