Babak Aghdaee

Babak is a Partner in EY’s Infrastructure Advisory practice. Focused on financial structuring and delivery of infrastructure projects, Babak brings a unique perspective developed through hands-on engineering design experience and capital projects advisory roles. 

Bringing more than two decades of experience, delivering infrastructure projects across power and utilities, transit and transportation and healthcare sectors, Babak has worked as a corporate development consultant with electricity distribution and transmission companies in Ontario, focused on capital planning and financial restructuring. As an engineer, Babak worked technical roles in the Middle East and the UK, facilitating large capital expenditure plans designed to renew old infrastructure assets. 

Babak holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology, a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London and his MBA from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.

Babak approaches complex problems with a blend of analytical rigor and strategic foresight. His technical, commercial and financial knowledge build trust and secure  stakeholder alignment and maintains a strong focus on quality and value of deliverables for clients.

How Babak is shaping the future with confidence

Babak is committed to working closely with diverse stakeholders — public sector, government, asset owners and executives in the private sector  and guiding multidisciplinary teams to integrate technical, commercial and operational perspectives to deliver value for clients.

Through strategic planning and scenario analysis, Babak believes in the importance of evaluating long-term impacts to clients, and advising on policy or structural changes that may be required as part of future-forward approaches.