Jyoti Bisbey
Ms. Jyoti Bisbey is the Lead Infrastructure Economics and Finance Officer in the Macroeconomic Policy and Finance for Development Unit in the United Nations' Asia HQ at Bangkok, Thailand. She is currently on an external assignment to the UN from the World Bank Group (WBG). Jyoti is leading the dialogue on SDG 2030 Agenda economics and financing issues for the Asia-Pacific region. At present, she is authoring the theme chapter of the flagship report– Economic Development Survey for 2020 on ‘Economics of Sustainability’. She has also co-authored many blogs, an Infrastructure Financing book, available at UN ESCAP’s website and presented on topics such as SDGs and ESGs.
At the World Bank, Jyoti was at the Infrastructure, Public-Private Partnership (PPP) and Guarantees unit while working at the Central Asia, China, and Mongolia Transport Cluster to explore innovative financing in the region. At the World Bank, Jyoti led the dialogue on PPPs in Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Sri Lanka and generally as a focal point in Eastern Europe and Central Asia region and previously in Brazil, Vietnam, Russia, Uruguay, Mozambique, Madagascar, Kenya and Ethiopia. Jyoti represented the World Bank in discussions with other Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) on defining Private Capital Mobilization, which is the core of Billions-2-Trillions (B2T) agenda. The work won the World Bank President’s Excellence Award.
Her recent achievements have been leading the development and implementation of the PPP Certification Program ‘CP3P’, financial recovery planning for Vietnam Electricity, Inland Water transport (IWT) PPPs in Latin America, construction bond financing using WB intermediation and structuring PPPs in Irrigation subsector. Her work has focused on a variety of infrastructure investment project phases from transactions structuring to implementation and from financing policy to program development, financial viability assessments and structuring of PPP options. Jyoti specializes in Infrastructure Finance with an MBA from George Washington University and Mathematics in undergraduate from St. Stephens College in Delhi.