Foundational Public Private Partnerships (PPP)

Course Director

Dr. Julian Spencer Roche Julian Roche began his career with the MoD as an analyst and modeller. He subsequently joined the mainstream Civil Service fast stream, joining a team that negotiated the first series of PPP deals. He then returned to the private sector, first as an economic macro and energy analyst and then a divisional forecasting head for the companies that subsequently became Global Insight. After having worked on a range of commodity and energy derivative contracts for the London Commodity Exchange, in 1991 he set up his own consultancy, developing a particular expertise in infrastructure development, project finance and since 2010, renewable energy, where he has advised institutions including banks, project developers, sovereign wealth funds and other government institutions worldwide, including the World Bank and export credit agencies such as ECGD, in addition to advising private sector organisations in negotiations with governments and other off-takers. He takes especial pride as having served as an Economic Adviser to a State government in Australia. He has now trained for more than two decades, regularly presenting seminars on a range of topics, with a particular interest in developing country infrastructure, renewable and project finance, all of which include detailed analysis of PPAs and other off-take contracts, as well as modelling and valuation, mostly recently for a major electricity producer in Asia. He delivers several weeks’ training every year, the majority for organisations in Asia-Pacific, Africa and the Middle East, as well as being responsible for a number of courses in conjunction with Universities. A PPP design, modeling, management and governance expert who has been working in the field of PPP and transformation expert for more than 14 years. UNECE CoE collaborator as a member of the committee to create standards of PPP transactions procurements. Has designed, tendered and managed multi hundreds millions US$ PPP projects throughout its life cycle. Julian holds a first-class degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University and amongst other postgraduate qualifications, a PhD in risk management. He has also published a number of technical books, including on financial modelling, derivatives, and forecasting.