25. Level Up your Public Private Partnerships

Haryana, India

Amandeep is a leading international PPP transaction advisor with over 21 years of experience. He has played multiple roles in value chain of PPP projects from ‘concept-to-commissioning’ as well as project monitoring support. His expertise covers formulation of PPP regulatory framework; project screening & prioritization; feasibility studies/business cases; PPP transactions through to financial close and capacity building. Amandeep has steered more than 60 PPP projects/programs across different sectors.

Amandeep has consistently excelled at focusing on sustainable development and pro-people interventions through PPPs. He has served as PPP Advisor to various governments and is passionate about the knowledge transfer. Currently, he is working with the World Bank as short term consultant assisting in PPP projects in various countries.

Amandeep's proudest achievement: Leading first mover USD 1.5 billion PPP transaction in East Africa.

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Johannesburg, South Africa

I am the CEO and Head Trainer of PPP Training Online. We have, since 2017, trained + 500 infrastructure practitioners using the CP3P qualification. I am an ex-banker with good experience of public sector credit risk, including the structuring and risk evaluation of PPP transactions. I have experience across a wide range of sectors including power, water, transport, health, education, and affordable housing.

PPPTO also provide PPP consulting services and have worked with the World Bank, IFC, USAID, UK Prosperity Fund, UK China Infrastructure Alliance, SIDA, Danish Embassy, and the European Investment Bank.

Andre’s proudest achievement: Experiencing practitioners progressing from being apprehensive about using PPP procurement methodologies to becoming more self-confident about their own capabilities. Many candidates are now able to positively express themselves and to conceptualise, structure, develop and procure bankable transactions.

Mr. Abhaya Krishna Agarwal is a Retired Partner at Ernst & Young LLP, India. Abhaya has over 30 years of diversified consulting experience in Finance/PPP and infrastructure advisory sector.

He has been instrumental in developing number of marquee infrastructure projects across many countries in sectors including water supply and sanitation, health, education, real estate, transport, and industrial parks. He is one of the leading experts on infrastructure and PPP in India and other emerging markets with extensive experience in project finance, strategy, policy framework, project conceptualization, procurement, capacity building and transaction structuring.

Besides India, he has extensively worked in more than 20 countries of Africa, ASEAN and Middle East. He has advised several IFIs on sector programs and transactions. He has led project teams which have conceptualized some of the largest infrastructure programs in India and East Asia such as Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor and infrastructure corridors for Philippines and Indonesia. Further, he has developed PPP frameworks of Bhutan, Philippines, Somalia and India.

Abhaya has also been an active participant on panels discussions, lectures and workshops relating to water and public infrastructure development. Some of the recent conferences include Indian Infrastructure Conference on Desalination; Indian Infrastructure Conference on Public Asset Monetisation; and UNESCAP Regional Workshop on PPP & Capital Market Financing for Sustainable Infrastructure Development.

Abhaya's proudest achievements:

• Successfully closed Habibganj Railway Station redevelopment transaction, India’s first station redevelopment project on PPP
• Successfully closed India’s first integrated SWM project on PPP mode at Sonipat & Panipat cluster in Haryana 
• Successfully closed Vizhinjam port project, India’s first greenfield port on PPP

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Sergei is the founder and CEO of PPP Expertise Eurasia – an independent provider of consulting and training services in Public-Private Partnerships, Infrastructure and Project Finance. As a certified trainer, he has delivered CP3P courses to over 300 participants.

He also led the effort on translating the complete CP3P Body of Knowledge into Russian, making all 3 exams now available in that language.

PPP Expertise Eurasia is the leading provider of CP3P training in Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and West Balkans, working on mandates from IFC, EBRD, ADB, National PPP Centre of Russia, etc.

Previously Sergei had over 15 years of experience in PPP and Project Finance as a banker and consultant. He was Managing Director, Head of Infrastructure Financing Sberbank, prior to that - Senior Banker, Head of PPPs with Eurasian Development Bank. He worked on projects in transport, utilities, healthcare, education, water, power etc., including a few international PPP Deals of the Year.

He holds MA in History degree from Moscow State University, MBA from MIRBIS and London Metropolitan University and MSc in Major Programme Management from Said Business School, University of Oxford.

Sergei’s proudest achievement is witnessing the immediate impact that his company’s training programmes make in terms of significantly enhancing the participants’ expertise in PPP, very often boosting their careers, and leading to transformational impact for PPP capacity and project pipeline development in their countries.