Julia Patzwaldt is a Senior Strategy Consultant in the Mobility business unit and an expert in sustainable infrastructure investments and financing of climate-friendly technologies. 

Ms. Patzwaldt studied economics and development policy in Hungary and the USA, acquiring special qualifications at the interface between economics and strategic state development. Ms. Patzwaldt has many years of international experience in projects for private and public clients, especially in the fields of mobility, logistics and urban development. She provided consulting services for numerous international projects in more than 20 countries in the fields of strategy development and implementation. For example, she actively covered aspects of urban economics and transport economics in various studies of KfW, GIZ, World Bank, ADB, EU and EBRD. Furthermore, she provided consulting services regarding state development economics and finance, sustainable development concepts for smart cities, logistics and mobility. Ms. Patzwaldt is a seasoned development economist and finance expert with 20 years of experience in sustainable, climate-friendly urban and regional infrastructure investments, service projects for national and local governments, multilateral development agencies and private companies. She has extensive experience in coordinating and managing multi-stakeholder projects, partnerships in smart cities and transportation corridors, and creating and reviewing knowledge-sharing resources and evaluating sustainable investment programs. Ms. Patzwaldt also has in-depth local knowledge of Eastern Europe and Asia and significant experience analyzing and advising decision makers on infrastructure financing, mobility concepts, and economic development strategies. Her client base primarily includes the UN, the World Bank, governments and local authorities, and the private sector. 

Ms. Patzwaldt’s projects have included providing IFI transaction advisory services for public-private partnership contracts in the toll road system and providing expertise on commercial and economic analysis in preparation of the concession project for the construction, operation, and maintenance of a toll road network in Kazakhstan. In these projects, she was responsible for cost-benefit analyses in accordance with IFI guidelines, financial modeling of the transaction and scenarios, comprehensive analysis of strategic development perspectives and stakeholder management, and stakeholder coordination at the highest decision-making level. Economic costing of the low-carbon system transformation was also part of her responsibilities. 

Ms. Patzwaldt is an invited keynote speaker and moderator at various international conferences on smart and sustainable finance solutions in logistics, sustainable transport, transport corridors, organized by UN SPECA, UN ESCAP, WB and national governments. She contributed to EU publications on sustainable mobility, transnational infrastructure networks and economic corridors and co-authored a comprehensive analysis on the Central Asian transport system for the UN Donor Conference under the Millennium Goals and the Almaty Programme of Action. 

Ms. Patzwaldt studied at the University of World Economy and Diplomacy in Tashkent, graduating magna cum laude with a BA International Economics and Finance. Subsequently, she earned her MA Political Economy of Development, at the Central European Universtity in Hungary and the USA, likewise magna cum laude. Ms. Patzwaldt started her professional career in 2001 as a transport economist in innovative mobility and urban development projects at the World Bank, UN and ERBD in Asia. After her involvement in development projects, Ms. Patzwaltt joined Dornier Group in 2007.