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Frederic Blanc-Brude

Frederic Blanc-Brude

CEO , Scientific Infra & Private Assets (SIPA)

Frederic Blanc-Brude, PhD, is CEO of Scientific Infra & Private Assets (SIPA), a regulated index and data provider originally developed from EDHEC research and now a part of PEI Group. He joined EDHEC in 2012 after 10 years of private sector experience in the infrastructure finance field, with direct involvement in more than USD 6bn of transactions. His research focuses on asset pricing applied to highly illiquid assets and the stochastic modelling of cash flows in infrastructure projects. He has published papers in economics and finance journals, co-authored a book on the valuation of unlisted infrastructure equity and debt investments, and is a regular contributor to the press. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Alternative Investments. 

He holds a PhD in Finance from King’s College London and degrees from the London School of Economics, the Sorbonne, and Sciences Po Paris. He is a regular contributor to the G20 working group on long-term infrastructure investment, has advised the European Occupational Pensions and Insurance Authority on the prudential treatment of infrastructure investments, and represents EDHEC on the Advisory Board of the Global Infrastructure Facility of the World Bank. 

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