Karolis Granickas

Karolis is Open Contracting Partnership’s Head of Europe working with the European institutions, country governments, and civil society to improve public spending in the region. Driven by impact and that alone, he focuses on strengthening institutions and their public spending using openness principles. He is interested in how open contracting can help power sustainable transition in Europe. Karolis is a member of the European Commission Multi-Stakeholder Expert Group on eProcurement (EXEP), and Civil Society Committee at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He is the founder of the Open Spending EU Coalition – a community of open spending champions in the EU. Karolis teaches sustainable public procurement and good governance at Mykolas Romeris University and Kaunas University of Technology.

Before joining the Open Contracting Partnership, Karolis worked with Transparency International Lithuania, focusing on citizen engagement using ICT. He also contributed to global open data advocacy efforts, together with the Epsi platform, Open Knowledge International, Open Data Institute and others. From 2014 to 2016, he was a national researcher within the Open Government Partnership Independent Review Mechanism.

Karolis earned his bachelor’s degree in international law from the University of Westminster, UK and Master’s degree in European Union law from the University of Maastricht, the Netherlands.