Fiona Waters is a Cambridge economist with over 30 years’ experience across more than 30 countries, specialising in economic advice for infrastructure, urban development, place, and innovation. She founded Waters Economics in 2012 to provide independent, evidence-based advice to public and private sector clients in the UK and internationally, particularly across Asia.

Fiona has advised national and city governments, international agencies, multilateral development banks, and corporates and private-sector organisations on regional economic development, infrastructure investment, regeneration, and economic policy, including work with the World Bank and Asian Development Bank. Her career began in the UK in urban regeneration and economic policy and

later expanded across Asia and the Middle East. Fiona has held senior leadership roles in international consultancies and has contributed to a number of joint academic and practitioner publications on urban economics, place, and transport, bridging applied policy, investment decision-making, and delivery.