Post Award Governance of PPP projects in the Indian water and sanitation sector

October 14, 2013 | 17:00 h - 18:30 h

Dr. Mahalingam will present a few case studies of

Private-Public-Partnerships (PPP) in the Indian water and sanitation sector.

These cases will be used to highlight the post-award challenges that PPPs

face, and will attempt to create a typology of such challenges. The talk

will also discuss the role of project adaptability and institutional

maturity in combating these challenges. Although the data focuses on India,

some findings can be generalized across broader contexts.

Venue: The Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn,

Walter-Flex-Straße 3, 53113 Bonn, Germany. Room: Right conference room, ground floor.

Date: Monday, October 14, 2013, 17:00 - 18:30 h

About the Water Lecture series

The Water Lecture series is a joint series organized by the Center for

Development Research (ZEF), the Hydrological Research Group at the Geography

Department (University of Bonn), the Global Water System Project (GWSP), the

UN-Water Decade Programme on Capacity Development (UNW-DPC), the United

Nations University (UNU) and the German Development Institute / Deutsches

Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE )in Bonn.

About the speaker

Dr. Ashwin Mahalingam is an Assistant Professor at the Building Technology and

Construction Management division of the Civil Engineering Department at

IIT-Madras. He has been at IIT-Madras since 2006 as a faculty member, but

was also a student there from 1994-1998 where he received a BTech in Civil

Engineering. After his B.Tech, Ashwin proceeded to Stanford University for a

Masters in Construction Engineering and Management. He then helped start up

an internet based company in the USA called All Star Fleet, aimed at

providing asset management services for construction companies.

Following this he returned to Stanford University to pursue a Ph.D on Infrastructure Project Management. His doctoral thesis focused on how institutional

differences lead to increased costs and challenges on large infrastructure

projects with international participation. Dr. Mahalingam's current research

interests include Public Private Partnerships in Infrastructure, IT based

Innovation in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry, and

ways in which organizations react to the globalization of engineering

services.