Vishal Savalani

About Vishal Savalani

Vishal Savalani is a Senior Economist and Consultant with over 10 years of experience in conducting economic analysis, financial analysis, and forecasting. He has led and conducted several benefit-cost analyses and economic impact analyses for transportation/infrastructure, environmental, and energy related projects using Microsoft Excel,@Risk, and IMPLAN. In addition, Vishal regularly worked on freight and passenger rail related projects and state rail plans at HDR using large and complex datasets such as Transearch. During his 8.5-year tenure at HDR, Vishal served as a Senior Economist, Task Lead, and Project Manager on several economic analyses for state and local agencies where he assisted multiple agencies in securing over $500M in federal funds (e.g, TIGER, FASTLANE, INFRA, BUILD, RAISE, etc.) on infrastructure projects.Vishal joined InfraStrategies in 2021 where he was tasked with providing advisory services to the firm\'s clients in the public and private sectors. This includes: strategic advisory services, program development, financial planning and financial advisory services, private involvement and public-private partnerships, federal discretionary grant support services, and innovative technologies.Vishal recently joined WSP in June 2022 where he currently serves as a Senior Lead Consultant for the Advisory Services group in Washington, DC. Specialties: Consulting, Economics, Transportation Economics, Transit Planning, Data Analysis, Financial Analysis, Forecasting, Economic and Financial Modeling, Statistics, Federal Discretionary Grants, Benefit-Cost Analysis, Economic Impact Analysis, Fare Policy Analysis, Transit Oriented Development, State Rail Plans, and Freight Plans, Public-Private Partnerships.

Experience

1. Service Lead - Economics, Finance & Grants, Assistant Vice President

   WSP in the U.S.

   Jan 2024 — Present · Washington, DC, US

Education

• Université Lumière Lyon 2

  Bachelors in Economics, Economics

  2006 — 2009

• Alfred Lerner College of Business & Economics at University of Delaware

  Masters of Science, Economics and Applied Econometrics

  2010 — 2012

• Alfred Lerner College of Business & Economics at University of Delaware

  Bachelors of Science in Economics, Economics

  2009 — 2010

Skills

• Economics
• Microsoft Office
• Macroeconomics
• Research
• Econometrics
• Financial Analysis
• Sas
• Stata
• International Business
• Eviews