Acknowledgments

Procuring Infrastructure Public-Private Partnerships 2018 is a joint product of the World Bank's Infrastructure, PPPs and Guarantees (IPG) Group and the Global Indicators Group. It was prepared by a team co-led by Tania Ghossein and Fernanda Ruiz Nuñez under the general direction of Clive Harris, Abha Joshi-Ghani, and Federica Saliola. Members of the core team included Mikel Tejada Ibañez (topic leader), Nasser Alreshaid, Adam Jankowski, Khasankhon Khamudkhanov, Helene Candice Larroque, Svitlana Orekhova and Zeina Traboulsi. The team would like to recognize the active involvement and support of Laurence Carter and Jordan Z. Schwartz. The team would like to offer special thanks to the formal peer reviewers of this report: Jenny Chao, Enzo de Laurentiis, Jeff Delmon, David Duarte, Felipe Goya, Rui Monteiro, Giulia Motolese, Philippe Neves, and Anand Kumar Srivastava.

The African Legal Support Facility (ALSF), the Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), the Global Infrastructure Hub (GI Hub), and the Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) co-funded the report. The GI Hub team led by Jack Handford provided technical support throughout the preparation of the report. For more information about the GI Hub, visit www.gihub.org

The team is indebted to the following individuals for pro bono feedback and guidance at various stages of the project, particularly during the development of the survey instrument: Daniel Alberto Benitez, Francois Olivier Bergere, Jenny Jing Chao, Jeffrey John Delmon, David Duarte, Felipe Goya, Junglim Hahm, Jay-Hyung Kim, Enzo de Laurentiis, Cledan Mandri-Perrott, Rui Monteiro, Giulia Motolese, Philippe Neves, Daniel Pulido, Victoria Hilda Rigby Delmon, Anand Kumar Srivastava, and Satheesh Kumar Sundararajan (World Bank); Javier Calvo, Carla M. N. Faustino Coelho, Emmanuel B. Nyirinkindi, and Michael Opagi (International Finance Corporation, IFC); Isabel Rial (International Monetary Fund, IMF); Maude Vallee (African Legal Support Facility); Andrew J. Kline and Sonja Walti (American University School of Public Administration); Trevor Lewis (Asian Development Bank); Cao Fuguo (Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing); Joel Moser (Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, SIPA); Vishwas Udgirkar (Deloitte India Tohmatsu India Private Limited); Bill Banks (Ernst and Young); Claudine Lim, Jean-Patrick Marquet, and Jordan Tank (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, EBRD); Chris Blades (European Investment Bank, EIB); Ed Farquharson (European PPP Expertise Centre, EPEC); Marc Frilet (Frilet Societe d'Avocats, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, UNECE); John Forrer (George Washington University Business School and Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration); Deborah DeMasi (George Washington University Law School); Christopher Carrigan (George Washington University Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration); Jonathan Halpern (Georgetown University); Jack Handford (Global Infrastructure Hub); Raghav Koshik, Henry Lee (Harvard Kennedy School); Pradeep Singh (Indian School of Business); Alex Katon (InfraCo Africa); Allard Nooy, Prabaljit Sarkar, Jeremy Saw, and Shalabh Singhania (InfraCo Asia Development Pte. Ltd.); James Ballingall (Infrastructure UK); David Bloomgarden, Rocio Medina, Gerardo Reyes-Tagle, and Marcos Siqueira (Inter-American Development Bank); David Baxter (IP3 Institute); Walid Abdelwahab and Fida Rana (Islamic Development Bank); Michael Klein (Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies); Andrés Rebollo (K-Infrastructure); James Stewart (KPMG); David van Slyke (Maxwell School of Public Administration); Anthony Coumidis (McBains Cooper); Stephen Gaull (Millennium Challenge Corporation); Ian Hawkesworth (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD); Richard Abadie and Kylee J. Anastasi (Pricewaterhouse Coopers); Agnes Dasewicz (United States Agency for International Development, USAID); Caroline Nicholas and Joao Ribeiro (United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, UNCITRAL); Geoffery Hamilton (United Nations Economic Commission, UNECE); Lawrence Martin (University of Central Florida); Jacques Gansler (University of Maryland School of Public Affairs); Stephane Saussier (University of Paris-Sorbonne); José Luis Guasch (World Bank and University of California, San Diego); and Nicolas J. Firzli (World Pensions Council).

The team would also like to thank our many other colleagues for their valuable guidance: Anabela Abreu, Gabi G. Afram, Kiran Afzal, Khalid Sulaiman A. Alkhudairy, Jamal Al-Kibbi, Beatrix Allah-Mensah, Saltanat Alymkulova, Bolormaa Amgaabaza, Preeti Arora, Samra Bajramovic, Trichur K. Balakrishnan, Andre A. Bald, Julia Barrera, Paolo Belli, Jyoti Bisbey, David Bot Ba Njock, Mazen Bouri, Thomas Buckley, Odeta Bulo, Erik Caldwell Johnson, Helene Carlsson Rex, Jasmin Chakeri, Antonio L. Chamuco, Cordelia Chesnutt, Brett E. Coleman, Luis Constantino, Elena Corman, Vickram Cuttaree, Laurent Debroux, Joelle Dehasse, Sebastien C. Dessus, Jaime R. Díaz Palacios, Ousmane Dione, Dung Do, Catherine Doody, Arnaud Dornel, Sebastian Eckardt, Fatou Fadika, Eneida Fernandes, Lincoln Flor, Xavier Furtado, Carolin Geginat, Coralie Gevers, Mark Giblett, Andrew Goodland, Mirlinda Gorcaj Llalloshi, Pierre Graftieaux, Errol Graham, Alina Gres, Faris H. Hadad-Zervos, Lira Hariravaka Rajenarison, Mohamadou Hayatou, Wedex Ilunga, Aknur Jumatova, Isfandyar Zaman Khan, Qaiser M. Khan, Dongjin Kim, Maria Deborah Kim, Alexander Kremer, Sashikala Krishani Jeyaraj, Takafumi Kadono, Laura Kullenberg, Sergiy V. Kulyk, Eric R. Lancelot, Bernado Langa, Adja Mansora Dahourou, James Robert Markland, Benjamin McDonald, Carole Megevand, Kouami Hounsinou Messan, Sarah G. Michael, Nadir Mohammed, Jacques Morisset, Peter Mousley, Joyce Msuya, Marta Mueller Guicciardini, Emanuel Salinas Munoz, Martin Naegele, Serah Njere Njoroge, Cristina Isabel Panasco Santos, Cveta Peruseska-Joncevska, Christian Peter, Doina Petrescu, Tu-Oanh Phan, Tatyana Ponomareva, Paul Procee, Idah Z. Pswarayi-Riddihough, Madhu Raghunath, Hadija Rahama Diba Kamayo, Kailash S. Ramnauth, Binyam Reja, Hugh Riddell, Alberto Rodriguez, Pedro Rodriguez, Michel Rogy, Rodrigo Rojo, Abdulmuhsen Saad Alkhalaf, Mehnaz S. Safavian, Hoon Sahib Soh, Yannick Saleman, Mahaman Sani, Shyamala Shukla, Lia Sieghart, Alex Sienaert, Katrina M. Sharkey, Chitambala John Sikazwe, Tamara Sulukhia, Hua Tan, Elvis Teodoro, Thato Thipe, Dr. Maria Vagliasindi, Paul Vallely, Rainer Stefan Venghaus, Thomas A. Vis, Mara K. Warwick, Puteri Natalie Watson, Bernardo Weaver Barros, Gregor Wolf Namoos Zaheer, and Johannes Zutt.

The team is grateful to the Georgetown University Law Center and McCourt School of Public Policy, the George Washington University Law School, and the American University Washington College of Law for organizing an externship program for students to conduct research for the project. The team would like to thank for their invaluable help and support all the students who assisted in the data collection and research process throughout the project under the team members' supervision: Rodrigo Ajenejo, Duygu Baci, Salomee Bohbot, Ify Bozimo, Vanessa Cervello Ferrando, Rayan Charara, Paloma Cipolla Moguilevsky, Ivana Dahl, Sania Durvesh, Anuraag Gupta, Cristina Gutierrez, Kay Hechaime, Kevin Jung, Libba King, Man Yik Lau, Yucheng Liu, Yasmin Mansour, Natacha Massih, Thomas Montenegro, Elizabeth Anna Resch, Christian Ruberwa, Ashwini Sahu, Saurya Siryal, Jie Song, Patricia Vallejos, Susan Yin, Verena Walther, Jiachen Wang, Anran Yu, and Leticia Zecca.

The Procuring Infrastructure PPPs 2018 website is managed by Hashim Zia and Geoffrey Alan Shott, while its online database is managed by Varun V. Doiphode and Fengsheng Huang.

The report's media and outreach strategy is managed by Cara Santos Pianesi. The team includes Yelena (Lena) Osipova and Jixuan (Lylia) Li.

The report was edited by Nancy Morrison and designed by a team at Base Three LLC, led by Dania Kibbi and Marianne Siblini.

Procuring Infrastructure PPPs 2018 would not have been possible without the generous contributions of a network of more than 1000 local PPP legal experts, private sector operators, academics, government officials, and other professionals routinely administering or advising on PPP procurement processes in the 135 economies surveyed. The names of those wishing to be acknowledged individually are listed at the end of the report and are made available on http://bpp.worldbank.org.