IGS: Current and Recent Graduate Research
Rajiv Sharma
The role of private institutional investors in developing urban infrastructure assets
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Contact Info:
- Email: rajiv.sharma@ouce.ox.ac.uk
Academic Profile
Rajiv has completed a Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Engineering with first class honours from the University of Auckland. His specialisations were in financial economics and mechatronics engineering.
Rajiv has worked as a research fellow for the United Nations Environment Program Finance Initiative. He also has investment management experience working for venture capital private equity firm, Oxford Capital Partners.
Rajiv is a keen sportsman playing cricket competitively to first class level but also enjoys football, tennis, golf and drama.
Current Research
Rajiv Sharma is a D.Phil. candidate in Economic Geography at the University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment as a Clarendon Scholar. For his D.Phil., Rajiv is looking at the role that private institutional investors are playing in the global infrastructure market. His research seeks to identify the factors of success and failure for investments made into the infrastructure asset class.
The thesis will examine the evolution of the global infrastructure market through a period of exponential market growth followed by a significant contraction due to the global credit crisis. It will use a case study methodology to contrast examples of successful infrastructure investments with those that have proven to be less effective.
The research is multi-disciplinary, drawing upon theories from economic geography, economic growth and investment management.