Grant Baldwin

Grant Baldwin, MS, CPPO, CPM

Senior Contracts Officer

When did you start work at the UO?
2016
What degrees, licenses and certificates do you hold?
Bachelor of Science, Psychology, San Francisco State University
Master of Science, Procurement and Contract Management, Saint Mary's College of California
Certified Purchasing Manager (CPM)
Certified Public Procurement Officer (CPPO)
What professional memberships do you hold?
Institute for Supply Management
What are your hobbies and interests?
Guitar and songwriting
What professional accomplishment are you most proud of?
As Director of Sustainable Sourcing for a major conservation organization, I was part of a negotiation team that successfully stopped major U.S. buyers of paper products from using a specific supplier linked to illegal clear cutting of primitive rain forests in Asia.
Tell us one fact that people might not know about you.
I tend to be clumsy. Once while working as a stage hand, I slipped and fell off the stage, into the first the orchestra pit. I landed on the first violinist, breaking the bridge of her Stradivarius. Eventually, we were on speaking terms again.