Alex Murray

Vice President, Head of Real Assets, Research Insights at Preqin

Speaker

Alex is a built environment economist with special interests in the private financing of publicly funded infrastructure and industrial supply chains. Starting his career in the Corporate Finance function at KPMG in London, his use of public datasets to monitor operational infrastructure provided the foundations for his PhD research on asset whole life cost and value. Alex spent eight years as a researcher and lecturer at UCL’s Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction and more recently was a Senior Analyst at the UK Government Cabinet Office, Infrastructure and Projects Authority. His work as a civil servant focused on evaluating the cost and performance of major capital investments programmes using both public and private finance, alongside work streams tracking investors in public-private partnership contracts.