The Global Projects Center is an interdisciplinary research center at Stanford University. We seek to facilitate understanding of the financing, development, and governance of critical infrastructure worldwide.
We conduct interdisciplinary research, facilitate engagement among academic and industry leaders, and educate future leaders within the infrastructure finance and development space.
Registration for Stanford GPC's 2015 P3s for the Water Sector Executive Education course is now open. Register now to receive a special early-bird rate!
The P3 FLIPS Program is a new Stanford GPC research initiative on public sector best practices for infrastructure delivery via Public-Private Partnerships.
In the September cover story of Institutional Investor magazine, GPC Executive Director Dr. Ashby Monk discusses his vision for the center and the investment community - to re-root finance in the real economy.
The Stanford Global Projects Center is located at the Yang & Yamazaki Energy & Environment (Y2E2) Bldg at Stanford University. We research new ways to finance, develop, and invest in critical infrastructure worldwide.
Dr. Douglass C. North, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, passed away on November 23rd, 2015 at the age of 95. Dr. North was an early collaborator in GPC’s research and helped advance GPC's work on the transaction costs associated with cross-national infrastructure projects.
The idea of selling membership into society is not new, but it has taken on new life of late. Considering this trend, a recent paper by authors including GPC's Dr. Ashby Monk explores if Immigrant Investment Funds (IIFs) could become a new source of infrastructure funding. The paper also considers how IIFs could potentially help solve urgent problems surrounding migration, refugees and related public attitudes.
The GPC’s Dr. Rajiv Sharma delivered a keynote talk at the European Commission in Brussels last week at a High Level Conference on Boosting Investments in Transport. The main message of Dr Sharma’s talk was that government’s should recognize the value of partnering with true long-term investment partners for the delivery of their infrastructure needs.
