Barbara Weber

Founding Partner at B Capital Partners

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Barbara Weber is the Founding Partner of B Capital Partners.

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 the President of the Board of B Capital Partners AG as well as a Board Member of various of its portfolio companies. She has been on the Investment Committees of Palisade’s Real Assets Fund and the Impact Fund.

In addition, Barbara served as Non-Executive Director for the London Pension Fund Authorities (LPFA, AuM GBP 8bn) incl. the Risk & Audit as well as the Investment Committee. She also served as Chairman of the Non-Executive and the Executive Board of two Energy & Infrastructure Funds in distress. Further, Barbara was key in setting up IST3, a Swiss infrastructure investment platform for a group of Swiss pension funds for which she also handpicked the Investment Committee, incl. herself.

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.