Barbara Weber

Founding Partner at B Capital Partners

Interviewee

Barbara has over 25 years of infrastructure investment, private equity as well as project finance experience gained at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, PolyTechnos Venture and, since 2003 with B Capital Partners. Beforehand, she worked for the Private Sector Development Group of the World Bank. Barbara is a Member of the Board at B Capital Partners AG as well as of various of its portfolio companies. She is and has been on the Investment Committees of Palisade’s Real Assets Fund and the Impact Fund. Before, she served as Non-Executive Director for the London Pension Fund Authorities (LPFA). Further, Barbara was key in setting up IST3, an infrastructure investment platform for Swiss pension funds, as well as its Investment Committee, of which she also was part for several years. She is a prolific author and has written four books on infrastructure investments, 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.