Infrastructure & Capital Projects · Urban Governance · Procurement, PPP & Delivery

I structure, procure, and deliver the infrastructure that gets built, and the cities that work.

I am Chahat Shah, an infrastructure and capital projects leader and urban governance specialist with 14 years across government and Big 4 advisory, and a Harvard MPA. I structure, finance, procure, and deliver major infrastructure, from first-of-their-kind capital projects and PPP transactions to citywide public services, for governments, developers, and institutions at scale.

Chartered Engineer Certified Procurement Professional Harvard MPA (STEM)

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What I Do

Four capabilities, one operator

I work across the full arc of infrastructure: how it is structured and financed, how it is procured and contracted, how it is delivered, and how it is governed once it is running. Click any card to see the proof.

Capital Project Delivery & Procurement

End-to-end procurement and contract management for major infrastructure.

EPC and design-build packages, FIDIC-based contracts, bid process management, term sheets, claims, and contract closure. Capital budgeting and cash-flow control on programs worth hundreds of millions.

EPCDesign-BuildFIDICBid Process ManagementClaims & Closure

Infrastructure Finance & PPP / P3 Structuring

Financing architecture for public infrastructure, taken to financial close.

Institutional lending raised and taken to financial close, PPP and P3 transaction structuring, model RFPs, multilateral engagement including originating a state's first Asian Development Bank engagement in the urban sector, and finance models adopted into national policy.

Financial ClosePPP / P3Transaction AdvisoryModel RFPsMultilateral (ADB)

Urban Governance & Program Delivery

Program management units embedded inside government, delivering at scale.

Citywide and statewide services across solid waste, water and sanitation, housing, transportation, and digital public services, from policy and institutional design to on-the-ground delivery.

PMU / PMCInstitutional DesignService DeliverySwachh Bharat (Clean India)

Data, AI & Delivery Units

Real-time delivery dashboards and applied AI for public decision-making.

Live visibility into outcomes, risks, and bottlenecks for leaders, and helping institutions adopt AI responsibly. Currently building a delivery dashboard for the Office of the Mayor of Las Vegas.

Delivery UnitsGenAI in GovtDashboardsBloomberg Harvard

Sectors

Where I have delivered

Financial Districts & IFSC Affordable Housing Water & Sanitation Transport & Mobility Power & Utilities Sports & Mega-events Smart Cities & Digital Public Services

What Makes The View Unusual

Dual fluency, across two axes

Most people sit on one side of each line. I have worked both. Toggle to see how.

The Operator

Inside GIFT City and the Chhattisgarh government, I procured first-of-their-kind infrastructure myself, from utility tunnels to a power substation to a command center, and learned how decisions are really made and landed.

The Adviser

As a Director at Deloitte and Vice President at EY, I advised the governments and owners who commission infrastructure, structuring finance and running transactions under pressure for senior leaders.

The Capital Side

I structure the finance and close the transaction, from institutional lending raised to financial close, to a $400M housing model adopted into national policy, PPP structuring, and model RFPs.

The Delivery Side

Then I manage the contracts that turn capital into a built asset on the ground, through FIDIC-based bid management, claims, contract closure, and program delivery for millions of citizens.

Flagship Work

Capital, contracts, finance, and delivery

Fourteen years and more than thirty major projects, distilled to three flagships that lead with the capital and P3 story.

Capital Projects & Procurement

15+ first-of-their-kind packages, procured end to end

At GIFT City, India's first smart city and only IFSC, I ran procurement and contracts for utility tunnels, a substation and PPA, water and power infrastructure, and a Tier-4 data center and city command center, on EPC and design-build contracts.

EPC, design-build & FIDIC · ₹1,200 Cr (~$141M) budget

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Infrastructure Finance & PPP

A $400M finance model adopted into national policy

Designed an affordable-housing finance model adopted into India's PMAY 2.0 National Mission Guidelines, the world's largest affordable-housing mission, and raised institutional lending to financial close.

Into national guidelines · ~$400M to financial close

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Urban Delivery

Waste management transformed for 7M citizens

Led the program that rebuilt solid-waste management across Chhattisgarh on FIDIC-based contracts, processing 1,600 tons a day and creating 9,500 green jobs, contributing to the state being named India's cleanest.

India's cleanest state · 9,500 green jobs

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Selected Engagements & Packages

The hard evidence, scannable

Contract types, standards, and finance figures for the technical reader. Filter by what you are looking for.

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Utility tunnels including a 4.5 km Phase II, on design-build and EPC contracts (GIFT City)EPC · Design-Build

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66/33kV substation & distribution network with PPA, energy storage, and solar power (GIFT City)Power · PPA

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Water & sewage treatment plants, plasma pyrolysis plant, automated solid-waste collection (GIFT City)Water · Waste

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Tier-4 data center, C4 command center, SAP S/4HANA ERP integrator selection (GIFT City)Digital Infra

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₹2,532 Cr + ₹825 Cr (~$395M) institutional lending raised to financial close (EY, PMAY, Chhattisgarh)Financial Close

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$400M affordable-housing finance model adopted into PMAY 2.0 National Mission GuidelinesInfra Finance

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26,725 houses tendered via standardized NIT worth ₹1,242 Cr (~$146M) (Chhattisgarh)Procurement

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FIDIC-based bid process management across waste, water, transport and sanitation (EY, Chhattisgarh)FIDIC

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Model RFP for PPP housing projects and draft Slum Rehabilitation Policy (Chhattisgarh)PPP / P3

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P3 structuring for a State Road Transport Corporation, unlocking landbank and finances (Deloitte)PPP / P3

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Originated a state's first-ever Asian Development Bank engagement in the urban sector, securing a technical assistance grant and an MoU for long-term concessional infrastructure financing (EY)Multilateral · ADB

^* The headline capital figure is a career aggregate of budget managed, lending raised to financial close, and tenders floated. USD at ₹85 = $1. Each line item above is individually documented.

Delivery Record

Delivered clean, at scale

Capital delivered and public money governed across fourteen years, and the compliance record that came with it.

$200M⁺

Capital portfolio delivered

$500M

Annual public procurement governed

600⁺

Contracts completed within budget and approved timelines

Zero

Disputes or litigation losses

Currently

Where I am now

Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative Fellow at the City of Las Vegas, selected to serve as embedded delivery-unit advisor to the Office of the Mayor on a multi-agency Downtown Homelessness Intervention, and building a real-time, AI-enabled delivery dashboard for live visibility into outcomes, risks, and bottlenecks. Director at Deloitte India (on sabbatical) and a 2026 Harvard Kennedy School MPA (Edward S. Mason Fellow). I am exploring senior roles where governments, developers, and institutions structure, finance, and deliver infrastructure and urban transformation at scale.

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