President Joe Biden recently appointed 26 industry and government leaders to the President’s National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC).
NIAC, founded in 2001, advises the White House on reducing physical and cyber risks and improving the infrastructure sectors’ security and resilience. It has conducted dozens of studies.
Biden named Abedayo Ogunlesi, chairman and CEO of Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), an independent asset manager focused on infrastructure, as NIAC chairman.
GIP has more than $84 billion in assets under management. Before founding GIP in 2006, Ogunlesi worked for Credit Suisse, where he held several senior positions. He also served as head of the Global Investment Banking Division from 2002 to 2004 and an Executive Board and Management Committee member. Additionally, he was an attorney at a New York law firm and served as Thurgood Marshall’s law clerk while Marshall was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court.
Ogunlesi holds a Bachelor of Arts in politics, philosophy, and economics from Oxford University, a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Those named to the NIAC are senior executives in various sectors, including banking and finance, communications, dams, defense, emergency services, energy, food and agriculture, and government facilities.