January 2008

Dear Colleague:

Welcome to IP3's website! I trust that you are visiting our website because you have a professional interest in economic development and the role that public-private partnerships, effective regulatory reform, and competitive utility management can play in promoting economic growth. As you click through our updated and newly expanded site, you will find useful information about the philosophy, organization, services, products, and qualifications of IP3. As we celebrate our 14th year of business, we take pride in our devotion to assisting public and private clients plan, structure, and implement public-private partnership (PPP) programs, regulatory reform initiatives, and utility management reform activities in virtually every sector of the global economy.

At IP3, we believe that the resources of the public and private sectors fused in partnership represent the new paradigm for economic development in the 21st century. Public-private partnerships are increasingly being used as a policy tool to transform the role of national and local governments in public service delivery, infrastructure development, poverty alleviation, capital market development, and governance around the world. Since 1990, almost every country has embarked on an effort to promote private sector financing and operation of public services. Since then, thousands of transactions have been concluded. Multilateral and bilateral donor and financial organizations increasingly recommend the adoption of public-private partnerships as an economic development and modernization strategy. In this global phenomenon of economic and political reform, IP3 has been at the forefront.

When national and local leaders as well as executives from public and private enterprises are interested in learning about or beginning the process of introducing public-private partnerships, be it in the health, transport, water, energy, information technology, or financial sector, IP3 is there. Since 1994, IP3 has advised over 175 countries on economic, financial, legal, and technical aspects of public-private partnerships and has trained over 25,000 managers, regulators, and policy-makers on the "best practices" in engaging the private sector to deliver public services, at higher levels of quality and lower costs to the consumer.

IP3 is more than an economic and financial consulting firm. We are a capacity building firm. We take enormous pride in our ability to deliver practical results for our clients by not only serving as their technical advisors, but also through our commitment to develop the capacity for each and every individual and institutional client to successfully achieve results. Through our practical and skills-oriented training and consulting activities, IP3 has succeeded in providing clients with tested strategies to dramatically increase quality of service at lower costs. We continue to help organizations attract private sector participation and financing at the best possible terms for consumers, while placing our clients on an equal footing to negotiate "win-win" arrangements and contracts on all types of public-private partnerships in every sector of the economy. I encourage you to browse through our website and learn more about IP3. Please contact us today to hear how IP3 can assist you and your organization deliver results for your constituents, customers, and colleagues in the new economy of tomorrow.

Sincerely,

Matthew L. Hensley
President