Ryan J. Orr teaches Global Project Finance and Infrastructure Investment to students in the Engineering School and Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He serves on the editorial review board of the Journal of Structured Finance, Public Works Management and Policy, and the Journal of International Business Studies. Dr. Orr recently has been involved in designing policy strategies to confront India's infrastructure bottleneck, advising on start-up and structuring activities of California's Public Infrastructure Advisory Commission, and constructing a portfolio for a $500 million globally diversified infrastructure fund of funds. At Stanford, Dr. Orr has planned and hosted a series of seven Executive Roundtables involving legal, financial, technical, and public policy experts to explore new models for infrastructure development both in the United States and in emerging markets. His current work focuses on infrastructure funds, syndicate and club deal structures, and institutional investment in infrastructure. In his consulting, he actively advises several pension and sovereign wealth fund investors. Dr. Orr holds a PhD in Engineering from Stanford University and was advised by Nobel Laureate, Economics, Douglass North.

Dr. Ashby Monk, Research Director, CRGP

Ashby Monk, PhD, is a Research Director at Stanford University and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Oxford. He is also an Adviser on Special Projects & Opportunities at the Alberta Investment Management Corporation. Dr. Monk has a strong track record of academic and industry publications. His research and writing has been featured in The Economist, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Institutional Investor, Reuters, Forbes, and on National Public Radio among a variety of other media. His current research focus is on the design and governance of institutional investors, with particular specialization on pension and sovereign wealth funds. He received his Doctorate in Economic Geography at Oxford University and holds a Master's in International Economics from the Universite de Paris I - Pantheon Sorbonne and a Bachelor's in Economics from Princeton University.

W. Richard (Dick) Scott is a professor of sociology, emeritus, with courtesy appointments in the Schools of Business, Education, and Medicine. Since 2002, he has played a key role in CRGP research by introducing his broad framework on institutions and institutional differences to our study of global projects. He is lead editor of the book, Global Projects: Institutional and Political Challenges, co-edited with Raymond Levitt and Ryan Orr, published by Cambridge University Press in June, 2011. His major field is organizational studies and among the many types of organizations studied are educational, research, and healthcare organizations. His most recent empirical research project examined changes in the healthcare delivery systems in the San Francisco Bay area during the second half of the 20th century. Changes in five populations of healthcare organizations (eg, hospitals, HMOs, HHAs) were depicted and explained in terms of wider changes in the material resource (eg, demographic characteristics and financial resources) and institutional environments (eg, changes in regulatory, normative, and belief systems). He continues to focus on the general issues of institutional influences on organizational forms and functions, including changes in political regimes and policies.