Infrastructure matters.
Without roads, bridges, transit, ports, airports, and power and water systems, communities don’t work, societies can’t function and economies fail.
But U.S. infrastructure is in crisis.
Decades-old structures are crumbling – putting lives and livelihoods at risk. And the climate crisis strains the power grid and vital water supplies.
We are losing ground in a global infrastructure race.
Recent government spending has helped. But our way of planning, building and paying for infrastructure is mired in old systems that no longer work.
That is because we rely on government to solve the problem. But that’s no longer an approach we can rely on.
The government planning and funding model seems like the American way. But America hasn’t always done it that way.
Public private partnerships, infrastructure banks, privatization – around the world, countries have adopted these strategies successfully. Sadek Wahba argues they may be the answer to the biggest infrastructure challenges the U.S. faces.
Available fall 2024 from Georgetown University Press
BUILD: INVESTING IN AMERICA’S INFRASTRUCTURE
About Sadek Wahba
Sadek Wahba is an economist and leading expert on infrastructure investment. He is founder, chairman and managing partner of I Squared Capital, an independent global infrastructure investment company with over $39 billion in assets under management. He is a member of the President’s National Infrastructure Advisory Council, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Foundation Fellow at St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the New York University Developmental Research Institute. He is Chair of the Steering Committee of the Wahba Institute for Strategic Competition at The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
