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WASHINGTON – On Tuesday, September 9, 2014, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the U.S. Department of Transportation will host the Infrastructure Investment Summit at Treasury. The Summit is part of the President’s Build America Investment Initiative to encourage private sector investment in our nation’s infrastructure. The day-long conference will bring together leading institutional investors and project developers with federal, state, and local government officials to focus on innovative financing approaches and highlight other resources that support infrastructure investment. Following a keynote address by Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew, three panel discussions will focus on state and local approaches to project development, investor perspectives and best practices for efficient project delivery. These discussions will be moderated by senior Administration officials, including Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, Treasury Deputy Secretary Sarah Bloom Raskin and White House National Economic Council Director Jeffrey Zients. A series of afternoon breakout discussions will follow the morning panel sessions. An agenda and additional details will be announced in the coming days ahead of the conference.
WHO: Secretary of the Treasury Jacob J. Lew
Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx
Treasury Deputy Secretary Sarah Bloom Raskin
White House National Economic Council Director Jeffrey Zients
Treasury Deputy Secretary Sarah Bloom Raskin
White House National Economic Council Director Jeffrey Zients
WHAT:Infrastructure Investment Summit
WHEN:Tuesday, September 9, 2014
8:30 AM EDT
WHERE: U.S. Department of the Treasury
Cash Room
1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.
AGENDA:
8:30 a.m. Introductory Remarks
Karen Dynan, Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at
the Department of the Treasury
8:35 a.m. Keynote Address
Jacob J. Lew, Secretary of the Department of the Treasury
8:45-10:00 a.m. State and Local Perspectives: Project Life Cycle from Idea to
Financing to Delivery
Moderator: Anthony Foxx, Secretary of the Department of
Transportation
Panelists: James Bass, Texas Department of Transportation;
Jane Garvey, Meridiam Infrastructure; Greg Nadeau, Federal
Highway Administration; Phillip Washington, Regional
Transportation District
10:00-10:15 a.m. Break
10:15-11:30 a.m. Investor and Advisor Perspectives: What Makes Projects
Attractive to Private Investors?
Moderator: Sarah Bloom Raskin, Deputy Secretary of the
Department of the Treasury
Panelists: Jim Barry, BlackRock; Marc Lipschultz, Kohlberg Kravis
Roberts & Co.; Laurie Mahon, Canadian Imperial Bank of
Commerce; Nicolas Rubio, Cintra U.S.; Ed Smith, Ullico Inc.;
11:30-11:40 a.m. Break
11:40-11:45 a.m. Remarks
Penny Pritzker, Secretary of the Department of Commerce
11:45-1:00 p.m. Innovations in Infrastructure Finance: Cutting Edge Solutions
from the U.S. and Abroad
Moderator: Jeffrey Zients, White House Director of the National
Economic Council and Assistant to the President for Economic
Policy
Panelists: Christopher Ailman, California State Teachers’
Retirement System; Christopher Leslie, Macquarie Infrastructure
Partners; Dolly Mirchandani, Allen & Overy; George Pierson,
Parsons Brinckerhoff
1:00-1:15 p.m. Break
1:15-3:40 p.m. Breakout Sessions
The breakout sessions scheduled in the afternoon are closed
pressed. The conference will convene again at 3:40 p.m. for closing
remarks by Secretary Foxx.
3:40-3:55 p.m. Closing remarks
Anthony Foxx, Secretary of the Department of Transportation
The keynote address, morning panel sessions and closing remarks at this event are open press. A live webcast of those sessions will be available at https://home.treasury.gov/news/webcasts.
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