Dr Barbara Weber, Founding Partner, BIBS CAPITAL AG

Dr. rer. pol. Barbara Weber, Lic. oec., MSc is the founding partner of BIBS CAPITAL AG, an investment advisory boutique for institutional investors specialised in Infrastructure, Public Private Partnerships (PPPs), Clean Energy and general private equity portfolios. She is also author of three books on infrastructure investments. The latest one "Infrastructure as an Asset Class" (2010) has just been published by Wiley.

BIBS CAPITAL AG provides its clients with a thorough knowledge of the markets, professional strategic portfolio planning and construction, as well as a structured and thoughtful due diligence process with particular focus on risk assessment to evaluate both direct investment opportunities and fund managers. Systematic investment monitoring, controlling and reporting are naturally also part of its services.
 
Barbara has over 12 years of direct and fund investment experience in private equity with particular focus on infrastructure and clean energy, gained during several years with Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, Poly Technos and, since 2003, with BIBS CAPITAL AG. She previously worked for the Private Sector Development Group of the World Bank in Washington DC on Russia.

Barbara lectures at the University of Zurich and the European Business School and regularly writes for various international academic and non-academic journals. She wrote her Ph.D in Economics at Harvard University and University of St.Gallen. She holds an MSc in Business & Operations Research from Warwick University and a post graduate degree in International Relations from Mannheim University.

BIBS CAPITAL AG

Bibs Capital focuses on Private Equity and Infrastructure investment advisory for institutional investors. Services include the optimal definition of a client’s Private Equity / Infrastructure investment strategy keeping in mind its entire assets and its financial and strategic goals, specific asset allocation over segments and years, market research, due diligence of Private Equity and Infrastructure funds, fund of funds as well as co-investment opportunities, investment monitoring/controlling and reporting.