The Economic and Social Value to Infrastructure - a seminar with Ian Reeves
This event is part of a seminar series hosted by Alliance Manchester Business School’s Infrastructure Development Research Group and will address the Economic and Social Value to Infrastructure.
- Event Time
- 29 Mar 12:00 - 29 Mar 13:00
- Event Location
- Alliance Manchester Business School, Booth Street West, Manchester, M15 6BP
- Event Type
- Business speakers
With Visiting Professor in Infrastructure, Investment and Construction, Ian Reeves CBE
This event is part of a seminar series hosted by Alliance Manchester Business School’s Infrastructure Development Research Group and will address the Economic and Social Value to Infrastructure.
Ian Reeves CBE, Alliance MBS Visiting Professor in Infrastructure, Investment and Construction, will contend that:
- Undervaluing and underinvesting in the UK’s infrastructure over decades is at the heart of the UK’s economic and social decline, and that reversing this is critical to sustaining, let alone, improving our wellbeing.
- The economic and social value of Infrastructure is far greater than we give credit for in our planning process, and
- This is particularly true when we treat infrastructure as a dynamic, interconnected, integrated whole system, where the value reflects the product of, rather than the sum of, all of the individual parts.
About the speaker
Ian is senior partner and co-founder of Synaps Partners LLP. He is visiting Professor of infrastructure investment and construction at Alliance Manchester Business School, chairman of GCP Infrastructure Investments Limited, Senior Independent Director of Triple Point Social Housing REIT PLC, and chairman of The Estates and Infrastructure Exchange (EIE). Ian was founder and chairman of High-Point Rendel Group a pioneering management and engineering consultancy company with a global network of offices.
He has been president and CEO of Cleveland Bridge, chairman of McGee Group, chairman of Constructing Excellence and chairman of the London regional council of the CBI.
Ian was awarded his CBE in 2003 for services to business and charity.
