1. Sadek Wahba was born on 1965 and is an American economist and businessman.
15 Facts About Sadek Wahba
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Sadek Wahba is the founder and managing partner of the Miami-based global infrastructure investment company I Squared Capital, and the author of Build: Investing in America's Infrastructure.
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Sadek Wahba's grandfather, Mourad Wahba, was a high court judge.
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Sadek Wahba was born in Cairo and attended the College de la Sainte Famille.
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Sadek Wahba began his career as an economist for the World Bank, where he worked on the social dimensions of structural adjustment.
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Sadek Wahba subsequently joined Lehman Brothers, where he worked on structured financing.
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In 2012, Sadek Wahba formed I Squared Capital, a US-based private equity group that invests in infrastructure projects in the US and in developing economies, particularly China and India.
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Sadek Wahba is known as an advocate for increased investment in infrastructure both to address public needs and as a tool to create sustainable economic growth.
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Sadek Wahba argues that infrastructure investment is capable of stimulating economic growth while providing tangible benefits to the public and the environment.
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Sadek Wahba cites the 2021 Texas power crisis as an example of the "crisis" caused by long-term under-investment in domestic infrastructure and neglect.
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Sadek Wahba 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, in addition to the book Build:Investing in America's Infrastructure.
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Sadek Wahba is a member of the President's Infrastructure Advisory Council.
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Sadek Wahba is a senior fellow at the Development Research Institute of New York University, a member of the board of trustees of the American University in Cairo, a foundation fellow of St Antony's College at the University of Oxford, a former member of the Brookings Foreign Policy Leadership Council, and was part of the expert committee on the World Economic Forum first report on global infrastructure investments.
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Sadek Wahba is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Global Advisory Council of the Wilson Advisory Center, and a member of the board of directors of the Miami Cancer Institute.
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In 2019, Sadek Wahba became the only person to receive the "Global Personality of the Year" award from Infrastructure Investor magazine twice and Global Infrastructure Personality of the Decade by Private Equity International.