Provision of sustainable urban infrastructure to the bottom billion people through partnering – policy, planning, procurement and management.Sustainable infrastructure provision including for the bottom (socially and economically deprived) billion people including political dimensionsPartnering to serve the urban poor: Improving urban services and fighting corruption. Improving urban quality of life using governance and management principles in the context of urban infrastructure services like water, sanitation and public transport. The issues looked into are partnering, values, access to and quality of urban services, combating corruption, improving accountability and transparency, service provision in uncertain environment, conflict resolutions, strategic decision makingOrganisational relationships including role of private sector, not for profit organisation in infrastructure provision, public-private partnerships (PPPs) for the urban environment, privatization (incl. water sector) – procurement, type of contacts including concessions , tariff setting and regulationPerformance excellence, triggering and sustaining excellence, life cycle performance analysis, monitoring indicators, benchmarking, entrepreneurship including social entrepreneurship in urban service provision including community partnered procurement, and good practices analysisInnovative research methods and their applications in the context of urban infrastructure provision.Specialties: Sustainable infastructureProject managementResearch methodsManagementPartneringPartnershipsPublic private partnershipsContract managementEnterpreneurship Transparancy and accountabilityProcurementPublic transport Urban infrstructureInfrastructure services systemsWater and sanitationSustainabilityAccountabiilty and TransparancyAnti-Corruption, thinking, innovation.Re-inventing Toilet