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Donald A. Strombom

Donald A. Strombom, President of IDBC, LLC and a Director of the Centennial Group, is a Professional Civil Engineer who began his career working with state and local governments in the US. After a two year highway planning and programming assignment in Ethiopia he returned to the United States to complete a Ph.D. in Engineering, with a dissertation calling for new approaches to transport investment planning in developing countries. In 1969 he joined the World Bank as its first Senior Urban Transport Engineer, soon becoming Division Chief of Urban and Transport Projects and later Deputy Director, during the years when the World Bank first began addressing the issues of urban poverty and development. He worked in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America, gaining wide experience in project evaluation, financing and implementation.

In 1981 Mr. Strombom was appointed Chief of Procurement Policy for the World Bank, a position that involved setting and administering policies and procedures for its borrowers to award contracts for goods, works and services. These procurement rules are the Bank’s primary means to ensure the proper use of funds from its loans and credits to member countries.

Mr. Strombom left the World Bank in 1987 and established IDBC and IPC. These companies, now combined in IDBC-LLC, a member of the Centennial Group, have wide ranging experience in working with the multilateral development institutions, their member country governments, NGOs and some of the best known private sector companies to promote international business and development in all regions of the world.

In recent years, he has written numerous articles and advised on how good procurement practices can be an effective tool to combat corruption. He chaired the procurement discussions of the International Anti-Corruption Conference held in Washington, DC in 1999.