From the deteriorating Gowanus Expressway in Brooklyn, New York, to the aging dams that supply about 70 percent of California’s water, America’s public infrastructure is badly in need of fixing. The nation is estimated to have accumulated about $1 trillion in deferred infrastructure maintenance, and even more will be needed to rebuild or retrofit roads, water plants, schools, and electrical grids to withstand the punishments of increasingly extreme weather. Join our panel of experts as we discuss the state of America’s infrastructure and how some states are developing strategies to better identify and fund needed investments. 

Panelists include:

• Geoffrey Buswick, Managing Director & Sector Leader in U.S. Public Finance, S&P Global Ratings
• Hughey Newsome, Chief Financial Officer, Sound Transit
• Camila Fonseca Sarmiento, Director of Fiscal Research, Institute for Urban and Regional Infrastructure Finance
• Fatima Yousofi, Senior Officer, The Pew Charitable Trusts

Moderated by William Glasgall, Volcker Alliance Public Finance Adviser and Penn IUR Fellow, and Susan Wachter, Co-Director of the Penn Institute for Urban Research and Wharton Professor of Real Estate and Professor of Finance, this briefing is the sixty-second in a series of sixty-minute online conversations featuring experts from the national research networks of the Volcker Alliance and Penn IUR, along with other leading academics, economists, and federal, state, and local leaders.