CBS PPP researchers participated in the Vancouver conference on Public-Private Partnerships

Scholars from the Cluster on ”Public-Private Partnerships” from the CBS Public-Private Platform participated in a conference on public-private partnerships held on 12-14 June 2013 in Vancouver, Canada and organized by Professor Anthony Boardman from the Sauder School  of Business at the University of British Columbia.

The conference was the second conference in the CBS-Sauder-Monash PPP conference series that Anthony Boardman, Carsten Greve and Graeme Hodge have planned. The first conference in the series was held in Copenhagen in 2012. The conference in Vancouver focused on business strategy and political economy of PPPs.

Seven CBS scholars participated from Department of Business and Politics and CBS Law department: Lene Tolstrup Christensen, Sofie Dam, Christiane Schulze, Carsten Greve, Kim Østergaard, Marie-Louise Holle and Christina Tvarnø. There were presentations from practitioners from Partnerships BC in Canada and Macquarie Capital Markets. The conference was a focused one with limited number of attendants and included participants from Cornell University, University of Toronto, University of Edinburgh and Bocconi University.

All the papers can be viewed on the conference website. The PPP conference was funded to a large degree from funds from the CBS-Sauder strategic partnership.