Lars Benson is a Project Leader on the GPL’s Housing and Homelessness team, supporting projects in Chicago, the State of Colorado, and Alameda County, CA. His work focuses on helping governments quickly and effectively connect people experiencing homelessness with permanent housing and supports that meet their needs. Previously, Lars managed the GPL’s Procurement Excellence Cohorts, which helped cities in the U.S. and Latin America improve procurement operations by tracking performance data and monitoring the results of service-oriented contracts, and was embedded with the Connecticut State Office of Policy and Management, where he supported human service contracting processes. Across Lars’ work at the GPL, he has focused on improving contracting mechanisms for human and social services, developing productive government-provider relationships, and designing performance-based management structures that orient service providers toward measurable outcomes.
Before joining the GPL, Lars earned his Master of Public Administration from the London School of Economics and Political Science.