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What is infrastructure and why does it matter? 
28 Sep 2026

What is infrastructure and why does it matter? 

by Simon Taylor | posted in: Course material, Infrastructure | 0

Summary: Infrastructure means the equipment, assets and processes that allow our normal lives to go smoothly. That includes: the supply of drinking water; the taking away of waste water and sewage; energy supplies; transportation; and communication. These are all services that, at least in richer countries, we rely on daily … Continued

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Simon is Management Practice Professor of Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School. From 2008-2018 he was the first Director of the University of Cambridge Master of Finance (MFin) degree, and was later the first Director of the University's Global Executive MBA. An economist and former equities analyst at JPMorgan and Citigroup, he teaches on financial markets and institutions, infrastructure finance and the world financial system. He is a Fellow in Management at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he is a member of the investment committee, and a research associate of the Cambridge Energy Policy Research Group, where he specialises in nuclear finance.

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