Siddharth Varma
Mind the infrastructure gap
I’ve been spending a lot of my time in the past few months trying to get the bottom of an apparent paradox. An often cited McKinsey & Company report states that the world has an $800 billion annual infrastructure finance gap. On the one hand, institutional investors around the world have large volumes of capital...
What the public thinks about infrastructure
Key to the success of the UK’s first National Infrastructure Assessment is for the Commission to look beyond the views of the academics and assorted experts to understand what the public thinks about the big issues we’re thinking about. Running public consultations is one way of doing this (and we’ve just launched our third as...