Barbara Weber, PhD, Lic., MSc is the Founding Partner of B Capital Partners. She is a Non-Executive Director on the Board of both, the London Pension Fund Authority (LPFA) as well as Bekk og Strom AS, a company owning and operating hydro power plants in Norway. She was instrumental in setting up an infrastructure investment platform for Swiss pension funds (IST3), for which she also served on the Investment Committee for several years. Barbara has over 20 years of infrastructure and private equity as well as project finance experience gained during several years with Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, PolyTechnos and, since 2003, with B Capital Partners. She previously worked for the private sector development group of the World Bank in Washington DC. She is a prolific author and has written four books on infrastructure investing, the latest one being "Infrastructure as an Asset Class. Second Edition" (2016). Barbara wrote her Ph.D in Economics at Harvard University and University of St. Gallen. She holds an MSc in Business & Operations Research from Warwick University and a post-graduate degree in International Relations from Mannheim University.