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III. Introduction of the Panel
ALEXANDER GERALDO: I appreciate Mike’s kind words and I assure you the check is in the mail. As Mike just mentioned, my name is Alexander Geraldo and I am the Symposium Editor for the University of Baltimore School of Law Journal of Land and Development. And I’d like to welcome you all and thank you as well for attending tonight’s event 2015 Journal of Land and Development Symposium on public-private partnerships. It should be noted in advance and Professor Walchak would reiterate this, that there are various terms for public-private partnerships. So if during this presentation you hear the title PPP or P3s or the like, know that that its all one of the same and interchangeably used.
Now before I introduce the illustrious panel of speakers we have here today, I would like to reiterate some of Mike’s sentiments and like to acknowledge some people who have made tonight’s event a reality. First, I would like to thank Dean Ronald Wiech and Associate Dean Victoria Shultz for their guidance in helping the Journal shape this topic of P3s and sharing the knowledge on us of both legislative and policy implications of P3s from both a private and federal prospective. I also would like to thank Heather Cobbett, the assistant director of external relations communications for the school. Unfortunately, Heather was not able to attend tonight’s event. But, I would like to thank her for being a godsend. She has literally helped with the logistics and the most minute details for tonight’s events. I would also like to thank Professor McFarlane and I was not aware of your award but that is a great honor. So, I would like to give you one more round of applause for that. [Applause]
Not only is she our faculty Advisor, but Professor McFarlane brought the topic to the forefront when I was trying to decipher a topic for this symposium. But I would also and most importantly like to thank you for zealous advocacy in presenting the goals of our Journal and always arguing and articulating in every capacity possible.
And finally, and by way of introduction, I would like to thank Scott Walchak. His contribution to the journal has been immense, not only for your ability to publish an article that will be coming out shortly, or being a panel speaker here tonight as well as a moderator, but for your collaboration. You have truly been a collaborator every since and I’d like to consider you a friend. And as such, and without further delay, I would finally introduce our panel members beginning with the after mentioned Scott Walchack.
Scott Walchack is a deputy counsel to the Maryland Department of Transportation and former principal counsel to the Maryland Department of General Services. Both control agencies of the state focusing *106 on the state’s infrastructure as is. He focuses on real property transactions and procurement and has been the lead counsel to a number of the state’s largest infrastructure projects. Including the state center project a proposed 1.5 billion redevelopment of a 28-acre state office complex in mid-town Baltimore. The construction of the new state of the arts State Public Health Lab adjacent to Johns Hopkins Hospital and currently advises on the Purple Line project the second ever PPP light rail transit line in the U.S and the first in suburban Washington DC. Mr. Walchak is a adjunct professor here at the University of Baltimore School of Law in areas of estate and finance and is an adjunct faculty at the International Law Institute in Washington D.C. teaching in areas of PPP, procurement, and project monitoring and evaluation. He has served as an expert to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law and currently to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe.
Next we have L. Preston Bryant Jr., a senior vice-president in McGuireWoods Consulting LLC in Richmond, VA, where he advises clients on infrastructure and economic development projects as well as structuring public-private partnerships. He served as Virginia’s Secretary of Natural Resources in the cabinet of Governor Timothy Kaine from 2006-2010. In that position, he headed the state’s six environmental, recreational, wildlife, and historic resources agencies; a staff of over 2,000 and a $420 million annual budget. He also helped write Virginia’ first-ever statewide energy plan and chaired the governor’s commission on climate change. Prior to joining the governor’s cabinet, Mr. Bryant was an elected member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1996-2006 and he also was a partner in the Virginia-based civil engineering firm and while in the House Mr. Bryant served as lead sponsor of Virginia’s innovative PPP procurement statute. He received his B.A. from Randolph-Macon College in 1986.
Martin Jacobson is a retired partner at Simpson Thacher & Barlett LLP. Mr. Jacobson has a broad range of experience in financial transactions, concentrating in the financing of infrastructure, industrial property and transportation equipment. He has represented sponsors, lenders, underwriters, and other credit providers in domestic and international transactions. He is He is a Lecturer in Law at University of Chicago Law School. He is the founding chair of the Project Finance Committee of the New York City Bar Association and has been listed in the Chambers USA Guide to America’s Leading Business Lawyers in the international ‘Who’s Who’ of Business Lawyers among others. He is a senior advisor at the International Law Institute in Washington D.C. He received his B.S. degree Summa Cum Laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 1969, his MBA from New York University Stern School of Business in 1973, and his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1976.
*107 Next we have Ms. Shukla a senior consultant in infrastructure finance at the PPG Group of World Bank. Prior to this, she worked as an advisor to the executive director at the World Bank in its undertaking technical assignments at the Asian Development Bank, the Islamic Development Bank, and the Reserve Bank of India. She has over 25 years of experience in infrastructure financing, policy and regulation with specific expertise in PPP arrangements, innovative finances, and support instruments, project designs, structuring and implementation. She has a MPA from Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts and a M.S. in Financing from Johns Hopkins University in the United States.
