Valuing and financing infrastructure: Day 2

Thursday 27th April

Valuing and financing infrastructure at national and international scales

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This day of the conference will explore the wider value of infrastructure at a national and international level. It will also look at funding of infrastructure which is often a barrier to its development.

There will be interactive sessions, panel discussions, networking and short presentations around the following key themes:

• What are the pressing needs and possible solutions for infrastructure provision at a national and international level?
• What new local government business models are emerging and how do we govern infrastructure for the best possible outcomes?
• How can we incorporate the wider value (such as cultural, social and environmental factors) of infrastructure into decision making processes?
• What is best practice in financing infrastructure programmes?
• How do infrastructure sectors, such as transport, water and waste approach these problems and what can we learn from activities in these areas?
• What role can universities working with key stakeholders do to address these points?

Confirmed speakers for day 2 include:

• Prof Brian Collins, Director of the Centre for Engineering Policy, University College London
• Richard Ploszek‎, Commercial Specialist, ‎Infrastructure and Projects Authority
• Prof David Hall, Director of the Public Services International Research Unit (PSIRU)
• Prof Julie Froud, Manchester University and Foundational Economy
• Henry Leveson-Gower, Head of abstraction and upstream policy, Defra & Research Fellow, Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus
• Prof Tom Theis, Director, Institute for Environmental Science and Policy, Professor of Civil and Materials Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago
• David Bentley, Head of Asset Management, CIPFA
• Prof Becky Loo, Professor of Geography, University of Hong Kong
• Dr Seema Alim, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College
• Chris Zevenbergen, Professor of Flood Resilience of Urban Systems, IHE Delft
• Dr Iain Clacher, Associate Professor in Accounting and Finance & Deputy Director of The Centre for Advanced Studies in Finance (CASIF), Leeds University Business School
• Prof Barbara Evans, Chair in Public Health Engineering, University of Leeds
• Dr Julia Steinberger, Associate Professor Ecological Economics and Industrial Ecology, University of Leeds
• Prof Liz Varga, Professor of Complex Infrastructure Systems, Infrastructure Systems, Cranfield School of Management
• Prof Paul Nightingale, Professor or Strategy, University of Sussex
• Prof Phil Purnell, Co-Director CITIES Theme, University of Leeds