Dr. Carina Lanfredi is an executive director at Diriyah Gate, a position she has held since May 2023. She is responsible for revamping and restructuring the group’s procurement contract and claims management function, aligning local needs with core corporate objectives, and enhancing governance and redefining process flows. In addition, she contributed to strengthening partnerships and resolving large-scale claims and disputes. Before taking on this role, she worked as a contract and claims management consultant between 2020 and 2023 and lead a team of five on cross-sector projects in five countries. Some of her duties included providing strategic consultancy and guidance, as well as advice to improve business efficiencies. Lanfredi was the group executive director of Veon Procurement in the Netherlands from 2018 to 2020. Her duties included restructuring contract management functions on three continents: Europe, Africa and Asia. During the period between 2002 and 2017, she worked at Thyssen-Krupp, Bilfinger AG and Siemens in Germany in several leadership roles where she established a comprehensive global contract and claims management function, transformed the group contracting process, and managed politically sensitive litigation, among other responsibilities. Lanfredi received a certificate in innovation and entrepreneurship from Stanford University in 2020; professional training in leading high-performing businesses from the European School of Management and Technology in Berlin in 2017; and professional training in general management from the executive development program at the University of Mannheim in 2014. Lanfredi earned a dual doctorate in business administration in 2010 from Universidad Mayor in Chile and a master’s degree in engineering law and international dispute resolution from the University of Central Lancashire in the UK in 2007. She is fluent in five languages — English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and German.