Sadek Wahba

SENIOR FELLOW

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Sadek Wahba, a former World Bank economist, is Chairman and Managing Partner of I Squared Capital, an independent multi-billion-dollar global infrastructure investment company.

Wahba focuses on understanding and measuring the effect of infrastructure investment on economic growth, including its impact on income inequality and poverty reduction in the U.S. and emerging economies.

Wahba holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, an M.Sc. in economics from the London School of Economics (LSE) and a B.A. in economics from the American University in Cairo. He is a published author on economic research, including articles in the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Review of Economics and Statistics as well as other publications and proceedings. One of his publications was selected by MIT as one of their 50 most influential papers in the last 50 years. He was part of the expert committee on the World Economic Forum's first report on global infrastructure investments.

He is a Fellow of St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, a trustee of the American University in Cairo and member of the Wilson Center’s Global Advisory Council. He is also a member of the board of directors of the Miami Cancer Institute. Wahba was named Global Infrastructure Personality of the Year twice, as well as Global Infrastructure Personality of the Decade, by Private Equity International (PEI).