About us

Worldwide interest in PPP

Each country's approach to PPPs has to be developed within the policy objectives of the host government and according to the private and public sector resources available. The UK's experience and, increasingly, the experience being gained in other countries in the successful development of PPPs however have valuable lessons for those countries starting out on the road to develop their own PPP programmes.

Sitting at the centre of infrastructure planning and delivery in the UK and through its extensive work with other PPP programmes around the world, IUK is well placed to explain the philosophy and basic steps by which a PPP programme may be developed and implemented and provide an effective channel for sharing up to date, relevant and practical experience from the UK as well as from other markets.

IUK’s core international team

The international work of IUK is lead by James Ballingall and Javier Encinas. This core team then draws across the whole of IUK capability and wider HM Treasury expertise as required.

James Ballingall

James Ballingall joined Partnerships UK (part owned by HM Treasury, and responsible for delivery of PPP projects in England) in 2003 as Head of the Legal and Regulatory practices, where he was responsible for PFI guidance and standardisation, approving sector standard form contracts and derogations for all PFI projects in England, and providing legal support to the other PUK groups.

He transferred to Infrastructure UK in HM Treasury in 2010 as Head of Assurance, and since 2011 heads the International practice.

Prior to IUK and PUK, James was a Partner at Theodore Goddard Solicitors (now Addleshaw Goddard) where he led projects, asset and structured finance and rail teams and was involved in a range of PFI and PPP projects covering education, health, MOD, prisons, transportation and other sectors. James read law at Cambridge University.

Javier Encinas

Javier Encinas joined the international unit of Partnerships in 2007 and transferred to the international unit of Infrastructure UK (IUK) in 2010. Since 2007, Javier has been involved in providing support to overseas governments implementing PPP policy, programmes and projects. He coordinates IUK international support and training programmes. Javier is also member of the team looking at international cost comparisons for infrastructure delivery, leading the international work.

Prior to joining PUK, Javier worked for a French Multinational and for a Paris-based Think Tank, and undertook strategy consulting and corporate finance assignments with Citigroup and Roche in China, India, Switzerland and the UK.

Javier holds an MBA with Distinction and specialisation in Finance from Manchester Business School, in the UK, and M.A. and B.A. degrees (Diplôme de Grande École) from the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences-Po), in France. He is fluent in Spanish, English and French.

Additional internal and external resource

In addition to the core team, the international unit has full access to all of IUK’s policy and project support resource as well as to representatives from HM Treasury and Local Partnerships and to a pool of experienced Associates.

IUK is staffed by professionals with skills that cover the necessary public sector client-side aspects of the infrastructure spectrum, and in particular PFI/PPP projects. This workforce comprises the mix of expertise which characterised PUK – namely a combination of public and private sector experience, with backgrounds in policy development, project delivery, procurement, commercial contracts, finance and law - with sector specific and issue specific specialists. Additionally, IUK can draw specialists from its sister organisation, Local Partnerships (LP) and from a pool of external expert associates.