Peter has more than 19 years experience working on a variety of infrastructure projects. Within the Project Finance team of UniCredit Corporate & Investment Banking he started in 1995 with a focus on PFI and infrastructure projects in Europe. He has been responsible for the structuring and arranging of several landmark transportation projects mainly in the railway sector as well as for financial advisory mandates for private and public clients.

Starting in 1999 but more actively since 2003 he developed the project finance business in Turkey for UniCredit Group and built up a broad network to Turkish customers and authorities. He was in charge for the structuring and arranging of the privatizations of Istanbul Airport, Ankara Airport and Antalya Airport among others.

As the most recent deal highlights in 2013 Peter closed his Financial Advisory mandate for the Eurasia Road Tunnel Crossing in Istanbul, a landmark USD 1.2bn financing involving Multilaterals, ECAs, intl. and Turkish commercial banks. Furthermore Peter closed the refinancing of Mersin Port using for the first time a corporate bond issue for an infrastructure concession based asset in Turkey.

Since 2010 Peter is heading UniCredit’s cross border Infrastructure Turkey Team based in Istanbul and Munich. Beginning with 2014 the Munich part of the Infrastructure Turkey team has moved to the CEE Division of UniCredit Group headquartered in UniCredit Bank Austria AG, Vienna.

Peter's main focus is now on the upcoming large Privatizations and Hospital PPPs in Turkey. The first of its kind, the Mersin PPP Hospital has been signed on 21 November 2014. He is a graduate of the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich with a degree in Business Administration.

Nasser specializes in structuring, negotiating and financing infrastructure transactions in the form of public private partnerships, privatisations and joint ventures. His sector focus is social infrastructure and his portfolio boasts several landmark projects. His varied career has exposed him to unparalleled experience in many aspects of business operations management, from start-up to steady state.

He has facilitated the formulation of strategies and their delivery; he has undertaken intricate advisory assignments; and he has led the origination and negotiation of a range of complex transaction. Nasser holds a BSC in engineering from UCL, a MSc in construction economics and management from UCL and a Masters in Finance from London Business School. He is a chartered civil engineer and a member of the institution of civil engineers and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Famer Engin is a senior regional manager at EDC, Canada’s official export credit agency, and is in charge of business development in the Eastern Meditterenian and Caucasus regions. He worked as a financial advisor for EKF, Denmark’s export credit agency, before joining to EDC. Prior to his role for EKF, he worked as the deputy general manager at Renova Economics and Investment Consulting. He started his career in Citigroup corporate and investment banking in New York and worked as a vice president in its fixed income devision. He holds a masters degree from Cornell University.

Arvind Mayaram has a PhD in Finance and is a Certified PPP Specialist. He was earlier the Finance Secretary of India. He has been the Alternate Governor of India on the Board of World Bank, ADB and African Development Bank. He was India's finance deputy in G20 and BRICS. He was also on the Board of the Reserve Bank of India and the Securities Exchanges Board of India. He was India's chief negotiator for BRICS New Development Bank and co-chair of the Framework Working Group of G-20.

In the Indian State of Rajasthan he worked, in addition to several other assignments, as Investment Commissioner, Secretary Industries & Commerce and Tourism Secretary. He has also had experience of senior management positions in several public sector enterprises.

He has been instrumental in several major initiatives in the area of investment, infrastructure development, Public Private Partnerships and institution building. He spearheaded the establishment of the framework for mainstreaming PPPs in India and accelerated the process of including newer areas for PPPs.

He has worked extensively in the field of infrastructure finance. He also designed the first PPP module for delivering infrastructure in the rural areas deftly combining infrastructure asset creation and delivery of services with private investment in economic activities and skill development for the poor and an integrated education and skill certification programme for school dropouts.

He was Vice President of the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA), formed under the aegis of UNCTAD, UNIDO, FIAS and MIGA for two terms in early 2000.  He has been an investment promotion expert with the UNCTAD for several years and his expertise in the area of PPPs is internationally acknowledged.

He has undertaken a large number of missions for the UN agencies in several developing countries such as Sudan, South Africa, Fiji, Ecuador, Uzbekistan, South Africa, Cambodia etc. and has led several foreign economic negotiations on behalf of the Government of India at sub-cabinet level strategic economic dialogues with countries such as the USA,  China, the UK, Japan and South Korea.

He is an institution builder. He was one of the founder members of the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA), a multilateral organisation.  In addition to many other important initiatives in building institutions, he conceived of the unique public private partnership structure for Project Development Company of Rajasthan (PDCOR) and National Skill Development Corporation and the National Skill Development Trust, the foundation stones of the National Skill Development Mission in India.

He served two three-year terms as chairman of the UKTI (UK Government) Advisory Group on Public Private Partnerships, served as a member of the UK Financial Services Sector Advisory Board and as Chairman of British Expertise. He is chairman of the British Expertise Project Finance and PPP working group. John is a member the UN Economic Council for Europe Panel of PPP Experts. He has been involved the evolution of contemporary theory of PPP since its inception in the UK in 1992.

John is well known in the City of London, where he is an adviser to The Lord Mayor of the City of London on PPP. John runs the British Expertise series of PPP Master Classes providing training for novices and experts in PPP.

With a background in project management of major real estate and infrastructure developments John has developed a thorough appreciation of both finance and management. He has gained wide-ranging hands-on experience in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East, where he has advised many major private sector clients and governments on various strategic issues.

Mr Davie is a Visiting Professor at the London Metropolitan Business School.

Sergey is leading on the trainings component of the PPP Experts Group business. Currently one of his priorities is developing a comprehensive programme of the International Diploma in PPPs that would feature use of innovative business gameplay methods. Previously he was Managing Director, Head of Infrastructure Finance and Sberbank Corporate Investment Banking in Moscow.

Sergey has more than ten years of experience in the infrastructure, project finance and PPPs, primarily with banks. He led teams that financed and advised on a number of major PPP deals in Russia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Sergey holds an MSc in Major Programmes Management from the University of Oxford, MBA from the London Metropolitan University, MA in Politics from University College London and BA in History from Moscow State University.

Dr. Atty. Ramazan Arıtürk has 20 years' experience working on  variety of infrastructure projects in Turkey. As co-founder of Elmadag Law Firm, Mr. Ariturk is consulting to Ministry of Health of Turkish Republic for 18 PPP City Hospital Projects, especially in the field of PPP Law, Administrative Law and Law of Contracts. At the same time, Mr. Ariturk is giving lectures in different leading Turkish Universities such as Istanbul Trade University and Sabahattin Zaim University.

Idil is an Associate Director at EBRD's Municipal and Environmental Infrastructure Division based in Istanbul. Since joining the EBRD in November 2013, she has led several projects including landmark healthcare facility PPPs in Adana, Izmir and Kocaeli. In 2015, Idil developed a EUR 950 million investment envelope targeted to finance and support Turkey's EUR 14 billion Hospital PPP Programme. In addition, Idil was responsible for the development of a TRY 700 million financing framework to support the development of capital markets in Turkey with the aim to attract new international investors. Subsequently, she worked on the realisation of the bank's first corporate bond participation in the country.

Prior to joining EBRD, Idil was a Manager in the Project Finance Department of Garanti Bank. In 2012 and 2013, she led the Project Finance Portfolio Management team, representing a USD 13 billion portfolio, including infrastructure, energy, utilities, cement, real estate, steel, petrochemicals and other projects. Prior to 2012, she led the infrastructure team and was responsible for the origination, structuring, execution and syndication of long term non-recourse/semi-recourse loans. Her experience spans across various high caliber infrastructure PPPs in Turkey, such as Mersin Port, Istanbul and Antalya Airports, or the Eurasia Car Tunnel.

Before 2003, Idil worked at PwC where she advised mostly foreign corporate clients on Turkish mergers and acquisitions.

Idil holds an MBA in Finance from the American University - Kogod School of Business (1999) and an MSc degree in Business Administration from Bilkent University (1997).

At the time of Ms. İstiroti’s first entry into the Health Industry in 1990, healthcare management was not recognised as a profession. She became one of the first healthcare executives to apply professional hospital management practices in Turkey. İstiroti, who has helped the training of raising numerous managers in the healthcare sector, received her master’s degree on Health and Hospital Management at İstanbul University and Bahçesehir Univertsity after receiving her bachelors degree in Psychology at Boğaziçi University.

İstiroti started her career in health services management at International Hospital, a model institution in terms of hospital management. She started as a public relations manager, then carried on as a administrative coordinator during her 8.5 years of service at this hospital. Afterwards, she worked as the marketing manager at the American Hospital at 2003 . She also pioneered to start the first, largest, and an examplary elderly living center with a rehabilitation hospital within the complex, ”Yaşamkent” under Bayındır Holding as the general manager of that project.

She, as the Deputy General Manager of the group, undertook the duty of opening new hospitals under Acıbadem Healthcare Group and contributed to the development of this healthcare network model with the operational and marketing focus . The institution currently had 9 hospitals and 24 branches, a Health Insurance Company, a University, a project company focusing on turn-key hospital activities and several group companies focusing on health care at her departure.v

In the beginning of 90′s, İstiroti observed a lot of patients in Turkey traveling abroad especially to USA, UK, Germany or Israel in order to receive essential and high risk medical services. In charge of the institution’s International Marketing, especially after 2005 by orchestrating activities for patients from abroad incoming to group hospitals,İstiroti turned Acıbadem into a well-recognized, reputable brand in the international arena. She took the role for marketing b2b services of Bozlu Holding and starting up a cancer center called Neolife. She also supported Dünyagöz Group’s development and the opening of the new facilities and enlarging the chain and overtook the marketing activities as the Deputy General Manager.

By mid 2012, Ms İstiroti worked as the general manager for Liv Hospital undertaking the role of creating the brand ‘Liv Hospital’ as well as the implementationof all the Hospital management processes, creation of the medical and administrative team. Liv Hospital İtsnabul openned at 2013 and Liv Hospital Ankara openned at 2015 . She continues the development of the Group as Group Coordinator.

Meri İstiroti also took role as Chairwoman to TÜSİAD (Turkish Industrialists’ and Businessmen’s Association) Medical Tourism Sub-Committee, and served as the Chairwoman of DEİK (Foreign Economic Relations Board) Healthcare Committee amongst Turkey’s most estimable Non-governmental Organization (NGO)’s on international business. Persently , she acts as the Chief Executive Of Turkish Medical Tourism Development Association.

She has published three books : 'Last Word by physicians' & 'letters to my 30 th age self' and 'Pusula 1'( compass ) on integrated marketing in healthcare services . She raises 2 children.

She has been rewarded as the 'year's Health manager' on 2002 by the industry. She has been honored by 'honor reward' at her carreer by two Rotary Clubs on 2014 and 2015.

On March 2015, she received ‘Innovative Approaches in Health & Contributions to Health Tourism’ award from Greek Ministry of Health and Health Tourism Commission in behalf of Liv Hospitals.

She has been part of many social reponsibility projects . Presently she works on the contest about the best health management Project that will motivate the health management students for their future.

Ebere Ihetu is Managing Director and founder of ENA Consulting, and has over 15 years’ professional experience in the infrastructure sector. Prior to founding ENA, he was part of the project finance team at Standard Chartered Bank, Dubai.

Ebere gained his diverse experience through working on the equity & developer side, financial advisory and debt funding of projects and has closed several PPP deals in the UK and Middle East. His transaction experience is equally diverse and includes social infrastructure, transport, renewables and utilities, with a cumulative capital value of over USD 10bn.

Ebere holds an MBA from the University of Leeds, a Postgraduate Diploma in Accounting and Financial Management from the University of Essex, a BA (Hons) in Economics and Business Administration from Oxford Brookes University and a Diploma in Islamic Finance from CIMA, UK.

Dr. Irfan Al Hasani is currently a senior economist at Dubai Competitiveness Office, Dubai’s Department of Economic Development (DED), Government of Dubai, UAE. Before joining the DED, he had been working as a senior economist at the Dubai Economic Council (DEC), the think tank of the Government of Dubai/ UAE in the economic-decision making. He conducted dozens of working/ policy papers and surveys in various economic issues. He has also developed a number of critical initiatives and policy recommendations and some of them have been put in place. Al Hasani has also worked as an economic editor-in-chief at the DEC.

Before being an economic researcher, Al Hasani worked as an academic in a number of universities. He has also collaborated as a trainer.

Al Hasani has partaken as a speaker, panellist and moderator in a number of high-profile local, regional and international conferences in various issues particularly Public-Private Partnership (PPP): UK, Australia, Spain, India, Morocco, and Dubai.

Al Hasani published several papers in referred and non-referred journals, and one book entitled “International Finance”. His research interests cover a wide range of topics, importantly: PPP, international economic relations, economic development, and oil markets. Al Hasani has published hundreds of articles in various issues of MENA in local newspapers. Additionally, he has been frequently invited as an economic expert in a number of business TV interviews.

Al Hasani collaborated as a referee for various research and academic institutions, such as the International Journal for Administrative Sciences/ Institute of Administrative Development-Dubai; an editor-in-chief of “Finance & Business” Journal issued by the Federation of UAE Chambers of Commerce, Dubai; Al Owais Creativity Award, and most recently Rashid Bin Humaid Award for Culture and Science, among others.

Al Hasani is a member in many societies and research hubs, among others Canadian Economics Association (ECA).

Al Hasani received numerous awards and certificates. In 2008, he was the “Third Prize Winner of the Dubai Economic Research Award (DERA), the most prestigious research under the patronage of the UAE Ministry of Finance. The winning paper entitled “PPP Policies and Their Applicability to Dubai”. In 2002, he has been selected as ‘the best research project’ from the Arab Society for Economic Research at Cairo (Egypt) to conduct a study on “The Political Economy of International financial crises and their Implications to GCC Markets”. Al Hasani has been also awarded many certificates of thanks and appreciation from several local and foreign educational and research institutions, e.g., Georgia University, Al Khaleej newspaper, conferences, etc.

Al Hasani holds PhD degree in economics/ PPP from the University of Derby (UK). He also holds master and bachelor degrees both in Economics.

Thomas is a health economist who joined the Council of Europe Development Bank early 2015 as Technical Advisor for Health Projects. He has worked for more than 20 years in advising governments in reforming their health care systems.

He started his career at the World Bank supporting the government in Haiti implementing its first privatization programme and then went on carrying out different long term assignments for the European Commission, the French or the Italian cooperation, in places such as Russia, Morocco, and the Gaza strip among others.

In recent years, he carried out several feasibility studies for Japanese and European investors looking for developing hospital care in Africa. Today he is in charge of assessing and monitoring the health portfolio at CEB, including the sustainability of hospital projects.

Syed Afsor H Uddin is the CEO of the PPP Office under the Prime Minister’s Office, Government of Bangladesh. He was appointed in January 2012 to lead the implementation of a renewed PPP program in Bangladesh.

Syed started his career as a fast track entrant to the British Civil Service. He was the senior Policy Advisor in the PPP/PFI team at HM Treasury prior to joining PWC (UK) in 2007 as a Management Consultant providing public sector agencies advice on PPP projects. He completed his LLB (Hons) at the London School of Economics and specialized in Banking and Finance Law during his LLM degree before being called to the Bar from Lincoln’s Inn in 1996.

As CEO of the PPP Office, Syed Uddin has spearheaded changes to the institutional and procedural framework in government to enable the development of a pipeline of thoroughly developed PPP projects within a structured time frame.

Mansoor has over fifteen years of experience in consulting and applied economic research at Colliers International, Ernst & Young, Andersen Consulting Worldwide, and with a leading Real Estate Developer Manazel Real Estate PJSC (Abu Dhabi, focusing on affordable / mid-income housing) in the areas of Business / Strategic / Operational Planning and Transformation, Operators Search & Selection, Market and Financial Feasibility Studies, Valuations, Due Diligence and Private Equity.

Colliers International has very established practices in UK, USA, Singapore and Hong Kong, relating to Healthcare, Education and Public Private Partnership (PPP), and in the region, Mansoor is working with Colliers’ international offices and through Colliers’ centres of excellence platforms to bring together global innovations with in depth local knowledge, to provide solutions which satisfy clients’ local needs.

Mansoor works in both the Dubai and Saudi Arabia office.

Gordon is the Business Development Manager for InterHealth Canada Limited and is responsible for the identification of business opportunities where international best practise solutions can be implemented in an efficient and economical manner.

Having worked extensively in clinical and commercial roles across the globe, he has gained an intimate understanding of many public and private healthcare systems.

His focus is to develop solutions for clinical and commercial challenges by integrating multi-disciplinary caregivers, subject matter experts, clinical and resource managers and financiers.

The experience which Gordon brings to the InterHealth Canada team includes a background of critical care, clinical management, regional and global multinational clinical education and support, project management and international trade.

Dr Mudit Saxena from HealthCare Global (HCG) has assumed charge as Group CEO of Hyderabad’s CARE Hospitals. Prior to this, Dr Mudit was COO for Karnataka, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh regions of HCG. He comes with over 18 year of experience in leadership role across corporate, trust and public sector hospitals.

Dr Mudit has also worked with Fortis Healthcare for over two years and Wockhardt Hospitals for three years. Additionally, he has worked with Monilek Hospital and Research Centre, Jaipur, MGNIMS-Medical College and Hospital, Jaipur, PD Hinduja Hospital, Mumbai, and with the Government of Rajasthan.

Meleshkov Vitaly is a Manager in the Corporate finance department (Infrastructure and Debt Advisory) of PwC in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Vitaly specializes in financial modelling of project finance and infrastructure deals, structuring PPP projects, preparing analytical materials, business plans and marketing researches. Vitaly participated in more 6 PPP projects in healthcare on public and private sides. He has more than 8 years of experience in providing financial services in corporate finance.

“I’m a medical doctor by profession, however I have been working in different management roles in healthcare industry for over 13 years now. My story began with Healthcare Transformation Program of Turkey which was started in 2004 when I started to work as the “Director of the Projects” at the Social Security Institution. The largest Healthcare reimbursement system so called MEDULA was first established during my time and after that I worked for the betterment of healthcare information and technology systems in Turkey. My private sector business life has started in 2009 and my last appointment before Beckman Coulter was with HIMSS as the Country Director when we started the digital hospital revolution with the Ministry of Health in this period.

I have joined the Beckman Coulter family as the Business Unit Manager of PPP Segment in April 2017, just a couple of months after the first PPP Hospital went live. We are proposing to establish and operate a full stack high end technological laboratory solution for the PPP Hospitals to provide them faster and better quality results aligned with their contracts with the Ministry of Health. We have two successful implementations in Yozgat and Adana PPP Hospitals with Ronesans until now and we are looking forward for the upcoming PPP Projects.”

I joined NKY in 2007; as a team leader in the preparation of the concept design and tender documents of the initial PPP Healthcare Model in Turkey. In 2009, I worked as the Project Coordinator for Healthcare Projects; in 2012 I have worked as the Project Manager for Bilkent Integrated Health Campus and in 2013 I was Managing Director for Supervision Works of Adana, Etlik, Ikitelli and Kayseri Health Campus Projects. Since 2014 I hold the position of General Coordinator in the company.

I managed the design team for Bilkent and Mersin Integrated Health Campus projects and also I am still the Managing Director for NKY’s Supervision (Project Management) contracts for PPP Hospitals. I have +10-year exclusive and first-hand experience on PPP Healthcare investments in Turkey and abroad.

I contributed to the Turkish Ministry of Health’s 2010 Design Guideline for Hospitals book, I was awarded my Project Management Professional (PMP) licence in 2015, and I am a Board Member in PPP Association of Turkey.

Engr. Chidi K.C. Izuwah Snr started his career as a lecturer in fluid mechanics, fluival hydraulics and hydropower engineering at the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria in 1986. Thereafter, he held several senior oil & gas asset management positions in a career spanning over 21 years with SPDC (Shell Nigeria) and Shell International USA and Europe.

Chidi held very high level sensitive positions like Project Manager for the Bonny Terminal Major Tank Rehabilitation Project; Port Harcourt Industrial Area Standby Central Power Plant High Pressure Gas Supply Project; Contract Manager for the Bonga FPSO Mooring and Installation Contract, Asset Manager for the EA FPSO Offshore Bayelsa State and Corporate Pipelines Asset Manager responsible for Shell´s entire crude oil evacuation and export network in Nigeria.

Chidi is currently the Ag. Director General/CEO of the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission in the Presidency awaiting confirmation by the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Chidi was previously the Executive Director of the Support Services Department of the Commission. He was also the pioneer Executive Director of the PPP Resource Department of the Infrasructure Concession Regulatory Commission and built the department from scratch.

In this role he was responsible for catalysing Public and Private expertise and resources towards putting in place a world class PPP pre contract regulatory framework and guidelines for driving the preparation & development phase of Federal PPP Projects. Chidi is a frequent speaker at Infrastructure Finance, Islamic Finance and PPP conferences.

General Manager of Ardana Consultants, a consultancy firm specialized in PPPs and investment analysis.

Member of the Steering Committee of PPP for Cities (IESE Business School and UNECE) and of the Competitiveness School for Regions, Clusters and Cities (IESE Business School and European Foundation for Cluster Excellence)

Consultant in public-private partnership, project finance, procurement and infrastructure management with 20 years of experience working in the public and the private sector.

Ümit joined KPMG Istanbul in 1999, after graduating from Business Administration, Koç University. Ümit had six years audit experience in KPMG Istanbul and in 2005 taken the manager responsibility for advisory services. Among over 100 due diligence projects his due diligence engagements included work done for major global corporate and private equity clients in their acquisitions in Turkey.

Umit completed his 6 months of assignment in KPMG London Business Modelling Group and started to work in KPMG İstanbul office in July 2010. During his assignment he gained significant experience in model audit and building for project finance and merger and acquisitions transactions in mainly energy and infrastructure sectors

In Turkey he led the project for the development of a business model for the biggest four Public Private Partnership deals for the construction and operation of an integrated health campus in Kayseri, Bilkent, İkitelli and Etlik. He also led over 10 other projects in the same area for international and local investors and financing banks. He took part in all stages of this project from negotiations with subcontractors and Ministry of Health to communications with banks and from analysis of tax status of the project to the development of the model to be presented to the Ministry of Health and the financing banks

Sıla Cılız İnanç, graduated from Marmara University, Faculty of Law in 1995, joined Akfen Holding in 1997 upon having carried out law internship in 1996. She took part in Public Private Partnership projects (PPP) in Turkey, mergers and acquisitions, worked in concern with infrastructure, construction, and energy and competition law. She took an active role in secondary legislation of Public Tender Law. She worked at every stage of build-operate-transfer projects, transfer of rights/concession and all process of privatizations implementations including tenders and transfers in which Akfen and its subsidiaries participated, also dealt with establishment of financial structures, facility agreements and both share and bond issues laws and regulations. She conducted company and holding structure works. She is now Deputy General Manager of Akfen Holding A.Ş. and also Board Member of various Akfen Holding subsidiaries, Akfen Altyapı Danışmanlık A.Ş. and Akfen İnşaat Turizm ve Ticaret A.Ş.

Timur Balta has more than 20 years of experience in business development projects. He currently serves as a General Manager at CCN Healthcare.

Mr. Balta oversees the operations and services of Healthcare Public Private Partnership Projects including Mersin and Bilkent Integrated Health Campus projects. His overarching responsibilities include organizing and coordinating healthcare operations and service activities and providing the executions of decisions taken by the Board of Directors of CCN Holding. Before joining CCN Healthcare, Mr. Balta worked as a Business Development Manager at IC Investment Holding Inc. With DİA’s establishment Mr. Balta transferred as Govermental Affairs Coordinator.

Mr. Balta earned his B.S. in Business Administration and Management at the Marmara University. He is fluent in English.

Ilker Kose is currently working as a faculty Member in Istanbul Medipol University and the director of Technology Transfer Office. He holds B.Sc. in Electronics Eng. from Istanbul University, Turkey and M.Sc. and Ph.D. from Gebze Technical University, Turkey in Computer Engineering. In parallel to his academic studies, he has more than 18 years of experience mostly in healthcare and health insurance domains in both private and public sectors. He managed many nation-wide health information systems, including Family Physician Information System, Health-NET (Saglik-NET), Central Hospital Booking System, etc. and standardization studies including National Health Data Dictionary, Minimum Health Data Sets, etc. His research interests include data mining applications, health and insurance information systems.

Miss Kadian Birch is an attorney-at-law with specialization in health law and policy. She possesses over eight years of work experience in the public health sector. Miss Birch is currently the Director Technical Coordination and Program Management within the Office of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health. Her duties involve providing technical advice on strategic priory projects and programmes including public private partnerships initiatives. Previously, Miss Birch was a legal officer within the Legal Services Unit of the Ministry. Miss Birch holds a Bachelors of Laws Degree from the University of London, a Certificate of Legal Education from the Norman Manley Law School and a Master of Science in International Health Policy and Management from Brandeis University. Miss Birch is also a Fulbright Alumni.

After graduating from Plymouth University in Applied Biology and Psychology I joined the Department for Trade and Industry in 1988 and began working on major projects and export policy.
Since then I have maintained my focus on developing international trade and encouraging more UK companies to invest and do business overseas while, at the same time, facilitating investment in the UK by businesses from around the world.

I have worked in London in areas ranging from developing policy for re-establishing trade links with emerging central European markets to, in my last posting in London in 2012, Olympic legacy projects with Rio de Janeiro and high value opportunities in the airport, railway and ports sectors.

Overseas I have helped build partnerships and supported UK companies in Venezuela (1992), Bangladesh (1998- 2002), Brazil (2005-2010) and most recently China, where, in Shanghai, I was the head of the UKTI team until the end of 2014.

I am very much enjoying my current role in Ankara, building valuable partnerships and strengthening the already excellent commercial relationship between Turkey and the UK.

Stefan has an extensive background as solution architect in complex system integration projects. He worked for various customers in Germany, Austria, UK and the Gulf Region. Over the last few years Stefan’s focus moved to the healthcare industry. When with IBM Middle East he designed the IT infrastructure for several electronic medical record (EMR) systems. With Honeywell Stefan now works as an Enterprise Architect and works closely with customers who develop and implement digital hospitals.

Charbel Rizkallah Joined Honeywell in April 2013 as Middle East Sales Leader for Honeywell Intelligent Life Care Business, the last 2 years as HW ILC META & India Sales & Projects Leader. Honeywell ILC is a Leading Provider of healthcare workflow and communication solutions and sensing medical goods and equipments.

Mr. Rizkallah’s have been serving the healthcare industry in the Middle East region since almost a decade. He received a B.E. Bachelor of Engineering degree in Low Current Electrical Field and M.S. in Computer Communications from the Lebanese University – Faculty of Engineering and Executive MBA from the Lebanese AMERCIAN University (Beirut – New York). He is a Member of Lebanese Engineering Syndicate since 2008, Member of the Saudi Arabian Engineering Syndicate since 2009.

Mr. Rizkallah with two other Honeywell Colleagues invented the Alarming Connectivity at PoC (Honeywell Internal Invention # H0044383)

2015 Honeywell President Club Award Winner.

Founder and Chairman of Bilim Özel Sağlık Hizmetleri A.Ş. Bilim was founded by Dr.Hasan Şenol in 1999. The company is one of the leading companies in service procurement sector specialized on imaging units.

Dr Hasan Şenol has speciality mainly on MRI . His studies on radiology are mainly as follows:

• Graduated from Ankara University School of Medicine
• Completed speaciality part in Osmangazi University Department of Radiology Specialty Programme
• Studied in USA Ohio – MR Training
• Studied in USA – the UK – Germany – Italy – various medical seminar and training programme.

He also has researches on Research on Medical Physics – Nuclear Physics; and on economic, cultural and psychological impact of relations of production on people and society.

Dr. Çağdaş Evrim Ergün is a legal specialist in PPP, infrastructure projects and project finance. He represented sponsors and lenders in the development and financing of several major projects in the energy, transportation and health sectors.

He is a recommended lawyer by the current edition of European Legal 500 in Project Finance/Projects and Dispute Resolution, Chambers and Partners in Projects & Energy and IFLR as a “Leading lawyer-highly regarded” in corporate and finance.  He holds a Ph.D in administrative law and lectured on energy law, project finance and international arbitration at various universities and other institutions.

Illustrative transactions include representation of:

• Lenders in the financing of Kayseri Health PPP Project, which was the first project tendered within the scope of the health PPP program of Turkey. This project was awarded the Best PPP Deal of the Year by EMEA Finance in 2016.
• Lenders in the financing of Adana Health PPP Project, which was the first health PPP project to reach financial close in Turkey. Adana PPP was awarded the Best PPP Deal of the Year and Best Social Development Deal of the Year by EMEA Finance in 2015.
• Lenders in the financing of Yozgat Health PPP Project.
• Lenders in the financing of İkitelli Health PPP Project.
• Lenders in the financing of Eskişehir Health PPP Project.
• Lender in the financing of Tekirdağ Health PPP Project.
• Lenders in the financing of Public Health Institution and Laboratory Health PPP Project.
• Lenders in the financing of Third İstanbul Airport Project.
• Sponsors in the financing of Northern Marmara Highway Project.

Sponsors in the financing of İzmir and Kocaeli Health PPP Projects.

Kenneth Birrell is Portfolio Director - Head of Facilities Management Consultancy with Mott MacDonald based in Glasgow UK

Kenneth has over 30 years’ experience in the facilities management industry having progressed through the NHS graduate management scheme in the UK and going on to undertake many senior facilities management roles within the NHS before moving into FM consultancy in 2008; this included two years working on a flagship hospital project in Western Australia.

Currently, Kenneth is responsible for co-ordinating and developing the portfolio of international activity undertaken by Mott MacDonald’s Facilities Management consultancy team. He is highly experienced in both operational and strategic FM management and in providing FM advisory services. Kenneth has led teams providing technical and advisory services for major education, health, custodial, hospitality and accommodation projects.

He has carried out Due Diligence advisory work for UK and international FM Providers, SPV’s and lenders. This includes detailed analysis of a range of Public Private Partnership/Private Finance Initiative (PPP/PFI), Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT), NPD (Non-Profit Distributing) and concession agreements both in the UK and Internationally.

On qualification as an Attorney at Law in Istanbul in 2000, Gunay joined ABA Law office in the same year where she worked on Commercial Law, Credits Rights Law, Insurance Law and Litigations.

She moved to Toronto Transit Commission Legal Department in 2009 examining legal precedents and drafting various legal memoranda’s. Conducting and providing legal advice she informed the Legal Department on all legal legislations.

In July, 2009, she joined Kronis, Rotsztain, Margles and Cappel LLP as an international lawyer specializing in Banking and Finance Law drafting and negotiating legal terms and conditions for numerous contracts with internal and external vendors.

In March 2011, she moved to the International Law Department at Elmadag Law Firm pursue the end to end PPP Project counselling to clients in all aspects of the projects including project assessment, financing, and negotiation and drafting of project documents.

She provides legal advice on all corporate business law matters as well as providing legal memoranda’s and documents for assigned cases within the Law firm

Specialties: End to End PPP consulting, Commercial Contract Management, documentation, drafting and negotiation.

Eyup Vural Aydin has completed his undergraduate degree in Political Science and Public Administration as well as his master degree in European Union Economy at Galatasaray University.

In 2015 Dr. Aydin has started his doctorate studies at Marmara University in the field of Public-Private Partnership which has recently come in the foreground in Turkey. He has become entitled to obtain his doctorate degree in 2013 with his thesis titled “Application of Public-Private Partnership in Infrastructure Financing in Local Authorities”.

Following his masterstudies, he worked on several programs such as economic impact of European Union accession process on candidate countries, democracy loopholes stemming from membership structure of European Parliament and grants, funds and development programs of the EU.

His works on investment, development and growth have been compiled in a book titled as impact of Basel-2 banking system on Turkish SMEs. In a businessmen association in which he worked between 2006-2013. Dr. Aydin provided strategy courses and seminars by performing meetings with business world in many Turkish cities within the scope of the duties he undertook.

Preparing many publications in Public Private Partnership model, which he started to work on in his doctorate degree, he examined his model especially in infrastructure investments as an alternative financing model. He continues his works on securitization of infrastructure investments by way of the forementioned model as an innovative financing means. His book, which is titled as “Alternative Financing Models in Local Authorities”, will be soon published by Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality.

Dr. Aydin is the General Manager of PhD Consulting which he founded in 2013. PhD Consulting offers investment and management consulting services and consultancy in the field of Public Private Partnership.

At the same time, he is the Chairman of “Istanbul Public Private Partnership Center of Excellence (Istanbul PPPCoE)” and of DEIK PPP Committee which was founded within the scope of Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEIK). He is also the Vice Chairman of DEIK Ivory Coast Business Council.

Afsin Alp is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Ceiba Tele ICU. Afsin has over 14 years of investment management experience. Prior to founding Ceiba Tele ICU and establishing Ceiba Capital Management LLC, Mr. Alp worked as a Portfolio Manager for Nomura Bank’s Principal Strategies group managing a Long/Short Equity Healthcare Fund with $500 million of assets under management (AUM).

Afsin also worked for Millennium Partners for 2 years managing one of United States’ largest healthcare focused hedge funds with $1 billion in gross AUM (2010 – 2012). In early 2005, Afsin developed the proprietary equity valuation model which has become the core investment strategy of the hedge fund he co-founded “Meadowbrook Capital Management LLC.” (2003 – 2009). Prior to Meadowbrook, Afsin was part of a portfolio team at Raymond James Financial, where he performed quantitative and equity research analysis (2002 – 2003).

Afsin has been quoted in several publications and has written academic articles on options pricing and volatility forecasting. Some recent articles include “Economic Dilution Effect of Employee Stock Options” and “Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity (1.1)- Model for Estimating Volatilities.” Afsin is one of the founders of the Stock Investors’ Society in Istanbul, Turkey, and is currently a member of the organization’s Board of Directors. A native of Istanbul, Turkey, Afsin earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Istanbul Technical University (1998). He holds an M.S. in Finance from Hofstra University-Frank G. Zarb School of Business, which he attended on full scholarship (2003). He received his MBA from Columbia Business School (2011).

Bülent Ayhan has more than 15 years of experience in financial management and development projects. He currently serves as Investment Planning Coordinator at CCN Holding.

Mr. Ayhan oversees the operations and services of Healthcare Public Private Partnership Projects including Mersin and Bilkent Integrated Health Campuses projects along with Public Health Agency Campus. His overarching responsibilities include setting up operational and contractual structures of PPP projects, operational and equipment tenders and M&A activities. Before joining CCN Holding, Mr. Ayhan worked as a Financial Analysis Director at Soyak Holding and has worked in U.S.A at several real estate finance positions before that.

Mr. Ayhan earned his M.B.A at McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University and B.S. in Chemical Engineering at the Boğaziçi University. He is fluent in English and German.”

Orkun Gürer is an Enterprise Account Manager with 10 years’ experience in PPP projects, sales, and business development. He joined Abbott in 2010.

Orkun specializes in PPP laboratory services management to design, operate and achieve goals.

After a successful career in sales and business development, Orkun now advises other people how to achieve same success and also help them to understand PPP dynamics.

Orkun is a fellow of UNECE International PPP Centre of Excellence.

To contact Orkun Gürer please email orkun.gurer@abbott.com.

1977 Burhan Özdemir, born in Düzce - Akçakoca, completed his primary and secondary education in Akçakoca.

Bachelor of Education Dumlupınar University, Department of Civil Engineering, completed his Master's degree in Structural Engineering at Manchester University of Technology in the UK. Through his master's studies, he published Technical Articles in the field of advanced building technologies in the UK. He developed a first tried method to increase the earthquake resistance on a special type of cement. This work was published at the 2002 International Conference on Reinforced Concrete Structures Repair and was awarded by the UK Institute of Structural Engineers.

Between 2002-2005, Jacobs Engineering worked in the UK's Nuclear Energy Department from a number of US Technical Consulting firms. BNFL (British Nuclear Fuel Limited) was involved in the construction and commissioning of Nuclear Stations. In 2005-2006, the leading company of the UK's transport sector, Mouchel, managed the project work of the British Highways and Railways Public Institutions. He joined Campbell Reith Hill in 2006-2008, where he was involved in the management of Public-Private Partnership and Urban Transformation projects.

At the beginning of 2008, he returned to Turkey and founded his own company. During this period, he managed the award-winning investment projects domestically and in foreign countries such as Algeria, Qatar and Azerbaijan. The largest private investment project in North Africa is the Algerian Trust Complex Buildings, the Doha World Trade Center and the Istanbul Trump Towers projects.

In 2012, MÜSİAD Construction Sector Board Chairman and in 2013, Istanbul Chamber of Commerce Construction and Contracting Committee Presidency was elected. During his tenure, he organized and led international symposiums on Kanal Istanbul, New TOKI Vision, Overseas Contracting & Consulting, Public-Private Partnership Investments, Istanbul International Finance Center and Urban Transformation. He has developed a project on the development of the Overseas Contracting & Consulting Sector jointly with the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Turkey and the UK Commercial Attaché (UKTI). This project took place in April 2013 in the Joint Economic and Trade Committee (JETCO) agreement signed by the Minister of Economy of the Republic of Turkey and the Minister of Trade of the UK in London.

At the end of 2014, MÜSİAD wrote the report 'Turkey's Position in the Construction Sector and Future Projection Analysis in the Construction Sector' published as a Research Report. In the Housing Sector, there were written and visual publications on issues such as the Impact of the 17th & 25th December initiatives on the Housing Sector, the regulations for the Projecting and Building Inspection Firms, the need for State Contribution for the Overseas Contracting Sector 2023 targets and Tax Regulations on Property.

Burhan Özdemir, who has been a member of the AK Party since 2002, has been a Candidate Candidate for the AK Party's Düzce in the 2011 General Elections. At the age of 38, Burhan Özdemir speaks English at a good level and is married with three children.

Serhat Inanc – PPP and Finance Expert

Serhat Inanc was the Board Member of Turkerler Holding from Turkey.

Prior to joining Turkerler, Serhat was CFO of Emek Proje Company, a semi private investment firm dedicated to redevelop landmark 5 star Hotels with International Chains in Turkey owned by the Turkish Pension Fund. Prior to Emek Proje, Serhat was Coordinator in Akfen Holding, a Turkish conglomerate dedicated to infrastructure investments including airports and ports. He started his career in PwC.

Serhat joined Turkerler in 2006. He was Coordinator in Turkerler Construction Company, admiral ship of the Group. He was responsible for finance, mergers & acquisitions, information technology, corporate strategy and planning.

In 2010, Serhat started to serve as an Executive Board Member in Turkerler Holding. He was responsible from business development, mergers & acquisitions, and corporate strategy. He was also leading Healthcare PPP Investments of the Holding with executive positions as Board Member and/or CEO.

Mr.Ali Budak is a versatile senior manager with extensive experience in managing and delivering multimillion dollar Projects in companies such as Enka, Alarko, İçkale, Leo  Daly, worked as Contractor and Consultant representative in various countries like UAE, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Romania, Turkey, Russia, Belarus, Cyprus, Saudi Arabia and Libya.

The range of projects include large residential and commercial projects, hospitals, canals and bridges, crude oil pipelines and sewage treatment plants including a water supply project in Cyprus involving laying of subsea suspended HDPE pipeline.  He is Deputy General Manager of Akfen İnşaat A.Ş. and oversees the operations and services of Healthcare Public Private Partnership Projects including Isparta, Eskişehir and Tekirdağ.

Born in Tarsus, Kılınç completed his primary, secondary and high school education in Tarsus. After his graduation, he started his graduate education in Istanbul University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Health Management in 2011. Kılınç, who worked in administrative positions in various health institutions until 2006, is the Director in Special Damla Hospital between 2006 and 2010, General Coordinator in Özel Emsey Hospital Hospital between 2010 and 2012, and Kılınç, who was taken as the Manager in Ankara Etlik City Hospital between 2012 and 2015, Akfen Construction continues to work as Assistant General Manager in the projects of Isparta, Eskişehir and Tekirdağ city hospitals, which are built with public private cooperation model. In addition, Tarsus Medical Park Hospital, He also gave consultancy services to many private hospitals such as the private Medikar Hospital. Kılınç is married with two children and has experience in the field of health administration, architectural integration, management and medical equipment.