Michael Barzelay

Michael Barzelay’s academic career spans nearly 25 years. He currently holds LSE’s first professorial chair in public management. He co-directs the Department of Management’s new MSc Public Management and Governance and is a Research Associate of LSE’s Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation. Prof. Barzelay serves as the founding executive director of the Center for Transformation and Strategic Initiatives, a Washington, D.C. based non-profit organization, whose mission is to improve the practice of transforming public service organizations through research, education, and advisory work. In addition, he co-edits Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Institutions, and Administration, published by Blackwell. His earliest academic research resulted in The Politicized Market Economy: Alcohol in Brazil’s Energy Strategy (University of California Press, 1986), which traced the origins and evolution of the country’s alcohol fuel program and analyzed the economic efficiency of alcohol production and distribution, as a gasoline substitute. His latest book is Preparing for the Future: Strategic Planning in the U.S. Air Force (Brookings, 2003), which received the Brownlow Book Award of the U.S. National Academy of Public Administration. Professor Barzelay’s first university degree was taken at Stanford University, where he followed a self-designed inter-disciplinary major in Studies of the Developing World. He earned a Masters in Public and Private Management at Yale School of Organization and Management and a PhD in Political Science from the Yale Graduate School. Before joining LSE in 1995, Professor Barzelay was Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He consults widely, for such organizations as the World Bank and the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, part of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Market Intelligence

You need to understand the market, and where that market it going - CG/lA can do that with you, through strategic advisory, M&A due diligence and trend identification. Take our recently released (January 2012) Global Infrastructure Market Demand 2015 Report, showing overall global infrastructure market demand by region, and sector. The "2015 Report" gives you a context within which to plan, make decisions and target opportunities. Key initiatives include:

Global Infrastructure Demand 2015

Global Infrastructure Demand 2030

Building your Business

Leadership Forum events give you one place - one airline ticket, one hotel, one trip, 2 days - to meet key project developers and global infrastructure decision-makers. The Leadership Forum's unique mix of in-depth workshops, rapid project presentations, pre-scheduled one-on-ones and informal sessions in iconic settings in your global infrastructure marketplace.

5th Global Strategic Infrastructure Leadership Forum

10th Latin American Strategic Infrastructure Leadership Forum

4th North American Strategic Infrastructure Leadership Forum

Intelligence & Trends

Total annual turnover in the world infrastructure market is nearly $2 trillion (including O&M). Where do you get your information? How does the public sector get up to speed, and stay there? Where do you go to exchange information, crowd source new ideas, build consensus? How do you build your social business network - across disciplines, across continents, across sectors? Stay tuned for ViP, or register to be a first adopter.