Alex Murray is a built environment economist with special interests in the private financing of publicly funded infrastructure. Starting his career in the Corporate Finance function at KPMG in London, his development of methods to collate and apply public datasets to monitor operational infrastructure provided the foundations for his PhD research on infrastructure 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 historic capital investments using both public and private finance, alongside work streams tracking investors in public-private partnership contracts. Alex joined Preqin as Vice President in September 2020, where he specialises in coverage of unlisted infrastructure.