Mr. Schur is a proven executive with over 20 years of international experience, spanning both the private and public sectors, and incorporating public-private partnerships (PPP), infrastructure, economics, public policy, public sector management, finance, and microeconomic reform. Mr. Schur is currently a Managing Director at Castalia and is based out of Sydney, Australia.
Prior to working at Castalia, Mr. Schur was the Chief Executive Officer of the South Australian Health Partnership, a private consortium delivering the AU$1.8 billion Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH) PPP project. The new RAH is South Australia’s single largest infrastructure PPP.
Prior to this role, Mr. Schur was Secretary to the NSW Treasury. He managed several privatization and PPP transactions, including the sale of NSW Lotteries and the State’s waste disposal business, as well as toll road, rolling stock and social housing PPPs. Mr. Schur also had full responsibility for NSW’s PPP program in a prior role as Deputy Secretary and head of the Office of Infrastructure Management at the State Treasury. He had also advised governments on PPPs during a 6-year career at the World Bank as a senior infrastructure specialist. He was involved in PPP transaction design and implementation for several PPP projects around the world for different sectors.
Earlier on in his career, Mr. Schur pioneered the broad application of PPPs throughout the public sector in South Africa (RSA). He established and headed up the RSA Government's PPP Unit in the National Treasury (widely regarded as international best practice). Here, Mr. Schur led the Treasury team overseeing the procurement of the Albert Luthuli Hospital PPP project and the Universita and Pelonomi Hospital PPP Project. The former was the first social infrastructure PPP negotiated in the country.
Mr. Schur graduated with a Master’s of Economics from the University of London (the United Kingdom) and Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Economics from the University of Witwatersrand (South Africa).