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.
The Stanford Global Projects Center is located at the Yang & Yamazaki Energy & Environment (Y2E2) building at Stanford University. We research new ways to finance, develop, and invest in critical infrastructure worldwide.
Registration for the 2018 Digital Cities Summit is now open! GPC's Second Annual Digital Cities Summit will take place on February 26th and 27th, 2018 in McCaw Hall at the Stanford University Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center.
The GPC along with the CDDRL and Common Good hosted a “Renewing American Infrastructure” roundtable in February 2017. The roundtable brought together policymakers from the public and private sectors as well as academia to develop recommendations for federal infrastructure reforms in the US.
The GPC's new case study on Queensland Motorways in Australia looks at an existing toll road network which was contributed in-kind by the Queensland government to its defined-benefit pension fund in 2011.
Showcasing how the GPC has influenced large-scale, global projects by bringing together insights from diverse disciplines, the Stanford Office of International Affairs recently published an interview with Professor Levitt, Director of the GPC.
The first annual Digital Cities Summit on October 3-4 hosted by Stanford and PARC brought together an invitation-only group of ~200 global CEOs, SVPs, entrepreneurs, and policy makers at the Stanford campus.
GPC Managing Director Michael Bennon and Research Associate Dr. Rajiv Sharma have been featured in World Bank PPP Blog. Read their newest post here.
Taking investors increased prioritization of climate finance into consideration, our new case study examines if 'being green' is rewarded in the market and takes an empirical look at decarbonization risk and stock returns.
In October 2015, the GPC and West Coast Infrastructure Exchange hosted a training for public officials focused on P3s in the water sector. View a summary of the training here.
Since the 2008 financial crisis, beneficiary organizations have been seeking ways to mitigate the risk of their investments and make better financial decisions. The latest book by GPC members, Ashby Monk, Rajiv Sharma and Duncan Sinclair, and published by Stanford University Press, offers such organizations a path forward.
The highlights of research by GPC's Soh Young In and Dr. Ashby Monk, in collaboration of Ki Young Park from Yonsei University, on ESG investments appears in the Special Issue of the IAEE Energy Forum.
GPC congratulates Daniel Hall for receiving Best Paper Award at the 2017 Engineering Project Organization Conference (EPOC) held in Lake Tahoe, California.
GPC congratulates PhD student Caroline Nowacki for receiving a Stanford Centennial TA Award for her contribution to the Civil and Environmental Engineering classes Entrepreneurship and Global Project Finance.
