Dr. Srinivas Sampath

Director, Emerging Areas, Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Dr. Srinivas Sampath is the Director for the Emerging Areas, within the Water and Urban Development Sector Office of Sectors Department-2 of ADB.
He is an infrastructure and investment banking executive with over 30 years’ experience with deal experience spread over 45 countries in structuring, developing and financing infrastructure assets, and in developing markets for private sector investment. He has significant operational experience in transport, energy, social and urban infrastructure.
Within ADB, he has worked in non-sovereign, PPP, and sovereign operations, thus bringing a unique blend of skillsets in delivering product agnostic solutions to ADB clients.
He started ADB’s PPP transaction advisory business in 2011 and later became one of the founding members of the Office of PPP (now Office of Market Development and PPPs/OMDP) in 2014 and led its transaction advisory business.
In 2013, led the setting up of a dedicated urban climate resilience fund in close collaboration with DFID (now FCDO), and Rockefeller Foundation to support both sovereign and non-sovereign operations of ADB.
In 2021, he led the setting up of a debt platform dedicated to accelerating sustainable infrastructure in Asia in partnership with HSBC, Temasek and Clifford Capital.
Currently leading the Emerging Areas team within the urban infrastructure space. The team is responsible for originating and executing transactions in affordable housing, sustainable tourism, municipal finance and sub-sovereign financing, and other cross-cutting themes.
He obtained his PhD in Economics from UCL in the UK, and also holds two master’s degrees in Urban Planning, and in Geography.