Research Team

Julie Kim is P3 FLIPS Program Developer at the Stanford Global Projects Center and is working to develop sustainable business models for public-private partnerships (P3) in the U.S. market,  drawing upon 30-year P3 experiences and best practices globally and developing new and innovative approaches where needed. Recently, her research focus has been on P3 political risks and infrastructure banking cooperative. She is currently leading GPC’s P3 Financial Literacy in Public Sector (P3 FLIPS) Initiative. Julie has over 25 years of experience in large-scale infrastructure projects in the U.S. and Asia, with a special expertise in transportation sector. She is a founder and CEO of BeneTellus, a consulting firm specializing in infrastructure privatization and financing. Dr. Kim was Senior Researcher and Director of Asia-Pacific Infrastructure Initiative at RAND Corporation. Prior to RAND, she was a senior executive with AECOM and URS Corporation where her experience encompassed all phases of large-scale infrastructure development projects from initial planning phase through design, construction, and operations phases. Dr. Kim was also the founding Executive Director of Collaboratory of Research in Global Projects (CRGP), a predecessor to GPC. Dr. Kim holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from M.I.T. as well as a M.S. and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Stanford University.

Dane Rook is a Research Engineer at Stanford University’s School of Engineering. Dr. Rook’s work explores the intersection of machine intelligence and long-term investing. Broadly, his research interests are in natural-language processing, alternative data, knowledge graphs, and agent-based models, as well as their applications to responsible finance and asset ownership. Previously, he was a researcher at Kensho (an AI-startup acquired by S&P) and J.P.Morgan. Dr. Rook earned his doctoral degree from the University of Oxford as a Clarendon Scholar. He also holds degrees from the University of Cambridge and the University of Michigan. Dr. Rook is an advisor to technology startups in both the US and Europe.

Carter recently obtained his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University. He is passionate about infrastructure development, procurement, governance, public-private partnerships (PPPs), project finance, and public policy. His current interdisciplinary research examines the impacts of deferred maintenance on public sector buildings. Prior to entering the PhD program, Mr. Casady served as research associate for the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, conducting simplified Benefit-Cost Analyses (BCAs) on U.S. managed lane projects. His past experience also includes work for the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), President’s Council of Economic Advisors (CEA), and Cornell Program in Infrastructure Policy (CPIP). He holds a B.S. in Policy Analysis & Management (2016) from Cornell University and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering (2017, 2020) from Stanford University.

Antonio Vives is Consulting Professor with the Stanford Global Projects Center (GPC). He also currently serves as Principal Associate at Cumpetere and is a former Member of the Public Infrastructure Advisory Commission of the State of California and the Sustainable Development Department of the Inter-American Development Bank, IDB. For 25 years he was a member of the Investment Committee of the Pension Fund of the Bank which currently has over $3 billion USD in assets, 15 years of which he served as Vice-Chairman. Antonio has been a professor at the IESA Graduate School of Management in Venezuela, and at the graduate business schools of Carnegie Mellon, George Washington and Virginia Tech universities in the United States.  He has authored a textbook on corporate financial evaluation and published numerous articles on financial management and private infrastructure. Most recently he co-wrote "Financial Structuring of Infrastructure Projects in Public Private Partnerships", published by the IDB, “The Economics and Finance of Water”, published by the World Bank and “Selecting infrastructure delivery modalities: No time for ideology or semantics” published in the Journal of Construction Engineering and Management. He is a recognized expert on Corporate Social Responsibility in Spanish speaking countries. Antonio holds a MBA in Industrial Administration and a Ph.D. in Corporate Finance and Capital Markets, both from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Kate Gasparro was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow studying Sustainable Design and Construction at Stanford University. She has since earned her Ph.D. from Stanford. Kate has spent the past four years bridging the fields of civil engineering and public policy through extensive academic studies, and has published work on the use of public private partnerships to address failing transportation infrastructure. She has gained an understanding of the complexities of infrastructure development through her work with urban planners, civil engineers, policy analysts, and municipal leaders, and she is pursuing research regarding crowdfunding and microlending for infrastructure projects. In addition to her work in the United States, Kate spent the past three years fostering a collaborative relationship between Engineers Without Borders and a rural community in Nicaragua to address water sanitation and delivery issues and is currently working on a development project in Juarez, Mexico as part of an international research initiative. Recently, Kate was recognized as a Rhodes and Truman Scholarship finalist for her innovative vision and work to address community growth through infrastructure delivery. Kate holds a BS in civil engineering from Clemson University.