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.

Over more than thirty years as an infrastructure investor and advisor, Wahba has collaborated with governments around the world to develop projects in every infrastructure sector. In the United States, he has invested in transport and logistics companies, solar, wind and hydroelectric plants, as well as gas pipelines, municipal parking systems, and co-generation plants. Internationally, he has participated in the water, transport, energy and data sectors across India, China, Europe, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. In the course of his adventures in infrastructure, he has scouted railways in Inner Mongolia, traveled the roads of rural Côte d’Ivoire, surveyed the ports of Chile, and journeyed to India’s hydroelectric dam at the foothills of the Himalayas.

Wahba has long been an advocate of transformative approaches to infrastructure investment, including renewable and resilient infrastructure, and is a frequent commentator on the need for greater infrastructure investment in both public and academic outlets. Private Equity International named him Global Infrastructure Personality of the Year twice, as well as Global Infrastructure Personality of the Decade. A powerhouse at the York Haven Dam in Pennsylvania was named for him.

He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, an M.Sc. in economics from the London School of Economics, and a BA in economics from the American University in Cairo. He contributes Forbes, The Hill, Pensions and Investments, Infrastructure Investor, the Miami Herald, and other major outlets; is a frequent guest on Bloomberg TV, and has published academic work in the Journal of American Statistical Association, the Review of Economics and Statistics, Finance and Development, and other scholarly publications. His first academic book, A General Equilibrium-Based Social Policy Model for Cote d’Ivoire, was published in 1992 by the World Bank.

Wahba began his career as an economist at the World Bank, where he analyzed the social dimensions of structural adjustments in developing countries. He was the CEO and founder of Morgan Stanley Infrastructure, Morgan Stanley’s global platform for infrastructure investments, where he helped negotiate some of the most groundbreaking public-private partnerships in US infrastructure.

Wahba lives in Miami, Florida, with his wife and their two children.