Monica A. Altamirano, Specialist in Public-Private Partnerships
About
Policy analyst and Systems Engineer with a strong background in Economics. In 2010 she defended her PhD Thesis titled: Innovative contracting practices in the road sector: Cross-national lessons in dealing with opportunistic behaviour, carried out at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management of Delft University of Technology. She researched the technical and institutional dimensions of road procurement strategies and the preceding processes of road reform –liberalization and privatization making use of New Institutional Economics Her PhD research included Finland, Spain and the Netherlands. In addition, by developing and playing the serious game “Road Roles” over 14 times, she engaged in the experimental research of the impact of economic incentives in contracts on the emergence of cooperative behaviour from private contractors towards the public client.Since 2010 she joined Deltares and has promoted and carried out a number studies to translate the lessons learned on PPP’s and private financing in the road sector to the water management sector. The focus of her current work is on making green Adaptation to Climate Change a financially viable concept for developing and emerging economies.
She serves regularly as Financial Expert to the Dutch Disaster Risk Reduction Team and has the academic lead of the work group on Disaster Resilience within the Future of Construction Project of the World Economic Forum.
Recent projects include the development of decision support tools, one for the choice of project delivery and finance mechanism for Wastewater projects, and another for value driven procurement of flood protection infrastructure projects. As well as working in Bangladesh on the use of Satellite Data services for Climate Risk Management in the Agriculture Sector; and projects to bring Water Stewardship in Action in close collaboration with CDP and the South Pole Group.
Information
- Email: altamirano@deltares.nl
- Website: https://www.deltares.nl/en/
- Location: The Hague, Netherlands
Industry experience
Education: PhD
Seniority: Expert, Engineer, Consultant
Years of experience: 10 to 20 years
Taxonomy
- Finance
- Finance and Markets
- Governance & Planning