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22 Oct 2026

Infrastructure ownership: state or private, does it matter?

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

Infrastructure investment can be done successfully by both state and the private sector, there are plenty of examples of both. In this post we look at the USA and France for examples, some of which contrast with the general view … Continued

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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