Darin welcomes Peter Smith, the former president of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply in the United Kingdom. He has also served as managing editor for Spend Matters Europe, part of the world’s leading family of procurement websites. 

Peter has held executive level procurement positions in both the public and private sectors. He is a frequent columnist and well-known author and in 2010 published the book “Buying Professional Services”, published by the Economist. Peter holds a Master’s degree in Mathematics from Cambridge University and is a lecturer at for the Procurement MBA Program at the University of Birmingham. 

Together, they discuss Peter's thoughts and advice on the future of procurement and the differences between procurement in Europe and the US as well as his latest book: Bad Buying: How organizations waste billions through failures, frauds and fck-ups.*