Craig Sugden

Former Principal Public-Private Partnership Specialist, East Asia Department, ADB

Craig Sugden is an economist with 28 years of experience in Australia, Asia, and the Pacific. His Australian work focused on the modernization of infrastructure management and the delivery of major projects with an emphasis on private sector participation. Craig has helped more than 20 countries in Asia and the Pacific with economic reform and management. At ADB, he avised the PRC and Mongolia on their PPP programs.

Construction workers on a bridge in the PRC.

Keeping the 'private' in PPPs in the PRC

To attract the private sector, it needs to be given a fair chance of competing for PPPs and turning enough of a profit to recover their investment in the People’s Republic of China.

Craig Sugden