Fang Wei is CP3P and discusses the insights the program gave him and how the framework has helped with project delivery.
1. What first prompted you to a career in public private partnerships?
New trends in the Latin-American infrastructure market, nowadays PPP has gradually become the main engineering contracting form for more and more Latin-American governments.
2. Can you give us a background on your (PPP) job role emphasising on the PPP sector that it is related to?
As a business manager, in the process of develop new project opportunity, I need to know how the PPP project is structured, how to control and allocate the risk, so that can help our project development work and reduce development risks.
3. What prompted you to get certified, how did you hear about APMG’s PPP certification program?
I always pay attention to PPP news and new tendency, I heard about the APMG PPP certification program from the PPP blog of the World Bank Group. Before the PPP certification came out, I could not find a reliable way to test and prove my PPP knowledge, and as an innovation of the World Bank Group, the PPP certification provide me a widely accepted way to get certificated in the PPP field.
4. Take us through your thought process while deciding to get certified.
I am passionate about learning more about PPP, the PPP certification give me a complete systematic, clear way to achieve it, so I decide to get certified.
5. Why did you chose APMG’s PPP certification program and how did it help? You could include some details regarding the PPP Certification Guide that was a fundamental reference material for this certification.
ALL the content is organized in a systematic way which can give the full cycle knowledge about PPP.
6. What are your key strengths and how have you used them in your current PPP role?
Have a clear mind about structure projects and risk allocation.
7. What factors of your role as a PPP practitioner are easy? You could use an example here to explain about it.
Project full process management ideas to learn, to development the PPP project.
8. What characteristics and skills do you think make a better PPP professional or a successful one?
Have to know clearly about all the PPP cycle from the PPP project identification to Appraising , structuring to Post-Project Manager.
9. What is next in line for you, how are you planning to utilise the knowledge gathered from doing the Foundation and Preparation exams of this PPP Certification Program?
Considering the actual situation in the work, I will apply the PPP knowledge to my daily work to help me in the PPP project development
10. What is your advice for newcomers or other PPP practitioners on helping deliver successful projects in the PPP world?
Think and learn in a systematic way, through the overall knowledge framework, because you can't see the forest for the trees.
I have six years cross-cultural project management and group structuring experience in the Ibero-America market, currently working on the development and management of infrastructure projects in Latin America.