Kathrin Frauscher
Kathrin Frauscher
Board Member
Kathrin Frauscher is the Deputy Executive Director at the Open Contracting Partnership. Kathrin’s journey as a social entrepreneur started in an unlikely place – the World Bank Institute, the incubation lab of the World Bank. Kathrin worked in countries such as Nigeria, Uganda, and Mongolia in challenging but potentially transformative sectors, including mining, construction, and service delivery. Once she realized the potentially massive impact that more accountable procurement processes could have, there was no turning back. While at the World Bank, Kathrin and her team began a user-centered iterative process to create a global organization better equipped than the World Bank to work across stakeholder groups in developed and developing countries to open up government contracting. Kathrin now co-manages the OCP with Gavin and is still thrilled by the daily opportunity to change how contracting can deliver value for everyone.
Before working at the World Bank for ten years, she got a Master's Degree in Advanced International Relations from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University and a BA in Economics from the University of Vienna. Kathrin is a 2021 Fellow of World Commerce & Contracting for making significant contributions to the development of commercial and contract management.