Tim Whittaker has stepped into the role of director of the EDHEC Infrastructure & Private Assets Research Institute (EIPA), succeeding Frederic Blanc-Brude.
Blanc-Brude, founding director of EIPA in 2016, stepped down to focus on his role as CEO of EIPA's sister organization, Scientific Infra & Private Assets (SIPA), an ESMA-registered provider of infrastructure and private equities market indices and benchmarks. Since 2019, when he became its CEO, SIPA has worked with the world's largest financial institutions and now serves clients representing $700 billion of infrastructure assets under management.
"We have grown considerably, and SIPA now needs a full-time CEO to continue to transform private markets into a more transparent and well-understood investment opportunity,” said Blanc-Brude. “The benchmarking of risk and performance of private assets has become an increasingly important question for the market with events such as COVID-19 and the change in in
