Carlos T. Albarracín, a partner in Milbank's Global Capital Markets Group and Latin America Practice Group, was a speaker at a training seminar for government officials organized by the World Bank Group and hosted by the Ministry of Finance of Argentina in Buenos Aires on March 29, 2017. Argentina recently enacted a new public-private-partnership law to promote foreign investment in infrastructure projects and created a new governmental agency tasked with developing a $30 billion infrastructure development plan to modernize the country’s critical infrastructure. The event focused on recent regional experience developing successful infrastructure development programs and, in addition to Carlos Albarracin (who focused on financing infrastructure projects through the capital markets: recent experience in Colombia) the event featured Pablo Quirno, the Chief of Staff of the Ministry of Finance; Karina Granda, Director of the PPP Agency of the Government of Peru; Marianne Fay, Chief Economist for Sustainable Development Global Practice at the World Bank; Heinz Rudolph, a Lead Specialist at the Financial Sector Practice of the World Bank who focused on development of critical infrastructure in Chile and Latin America; and Daniel Bond, a Senior Consultant for the World Bank on financing of Colombia’s infrastructure sector.
