Private Equity Financing in Infrastructure and Real Estate: Impact, Strategies, and Value Addition

Josephine Gemson is currently Associate Professor at the School of Management, Economics and Mathematics at King's University College at Western University, Canada. She received her graduate degree in Finance from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK and her PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, India. Her research interests include corporate finance, private equity, and project and infrastructure finance, and she has published her work regularly in noteworthy journals including the Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Venture Capital, Utilities Policy, Journal of Private Equity, Journal of Structured Finance, and Public Works Management & Policy. She teaches finance, economics, and accounting, and has experience teaching at the undergraduate, MBA, and executive-MBA levels in various countries.

Thillai Rajan A. is Professor of Finance at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, and a Founder of YNOS Venture Engine. He also heads the Centre for Research on Start-ups and Risk Financing at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. A past Associate at the Mossavar-Rahmani Centre for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, his teaching and research areas include corporate finance, project and infrastructure finance, public private partnerships and venture capital. He obtained his PhD from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and has received international research grants from organizations such as DFID, 3iE, and AusAID. His research has been published regularly in various journals, most notable among them being Utilities Policy, Venture Capital, Energy Policy, Journal of Private Equity, ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, Development Policy Review, and The Journal of Development Effectiveness. From 2009 to 2018 he edited the annual India Venture Capital and Private Equity Report series.

Josephine Gemson目前是加拿大西部大學金斯大學學院管理、經濟和數學學院的副教授。她在英國格拉斯哥的斯特拉斯克萊德大學獲得金融學研究生學位，並在印度馬德拉斯的印度理工學院獲得博士學位。她的研究興趣包括企業金融、私募股權以及項目和基礎設施金融，並且她的研究成果經常發表在知名期刊上，包括《季度經濟與金融評論》、《風險投資》、《公用事業政策》、《私募股權期刊》、《結構化金融期刊》和《公共工程管理與政策》。她教授金融、經濟和會計，並在不同國家的本科、MBA和執行MBA課程中有教學經驗。

Thillai Rajan A.是印度馬德拉斯的印度理工學院金融學教授，也是YNOS Venture Engine的創始人。他還擔任印度馬德拉斯的創業和風險融資研究中心主任。他曾是哈佛大學哈佛肯尼迪學院Mossavar-Rahmani商業與政府中心的副研究員，他的教學和研究領域包括企業金融、項目和基礎設施金融、公私合作夥伴關係和風險投資。他在印度管理學院班加羅爾分校獲得博士學位，並獲得DFID、3iE和AusAID等組織的國際研究資助。他的研究定期發表在各種期刊上，其中最著名的是《公用事業政策》、《風險投資》、《能源政策》、《私募股權期刊》、《ASCE建築與管理期刊》、《發展政策評論》和《發展效果期刊》。從2009年到2018年，他編輯了年度《印度風險投資和私募股權報告》系列。