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United World Infrastructure, LLC (UWI), is a privately-held American company operating globally. The CEO in 2009 was Imran Markar, PhD. The company designs and develops national infrastructure assets and urban economic clusters by collaborating directly and exclusively with national governments and regional municipalities to acquire, invest, design, build, and operate real-estate projects. Additionally, UWI provides urban planning and city management services. United World Infrastructure, LLC, was incorporated October 10, 2006, in Delaware, and registered 2008 in Washington, D.C., as a foreign corporation. Executive offices are headquartered in Washington, D.C., with additional offices in Dubai and Malaysia.

History
United World Infracture, LLC, was an outgrowth of Jumeirah Capital Limited, which was founded July 2004 in Dubai. In October 2006, Jumeirah Capital established a second office in Washington, D.C., to coordinate infrastructure investments and development activities. UWI is privately held by Imran Markar, PhD, Joe Reeder, Mostafa Salim, and Vafa Valapour.

Areas of concentration
UWI cities are developed in countries where governments and municipalities seek private sector partnerships to meet urban demographic needs. UWI focuses on five key sectors including built environments, policy frameworks, investments, city management services, and urban ecology.

Built environments
UWI built environments comprise a range of asset classes of various magnitude, built to support resident needs. Developments include cities, districts, economic clusters, business centers, hospitals, and entertainment centers.

Policy Frameworks
Policy frameworks refers to UWI’s city regulations that are designed in collaboration with local government agencies. UWI's methodology is to customize and establish policies for special economic zones, that include investor-friendly incentive packages for catalyst developments and support foreign investors, visitors, and future citizens of the city. A centralized one-stop-shop system streamlines administrative procedures, and supports the formation of new businesses.

Investments
UWI has invested in and structured large-scale, alternative investment opportunities which include land developments, urban infrastructure developments and concessions, and real estate assets. UWI forms partnerships with government linked entities, and determines an investment strategy that meets the government’s strategic vision for development and reduces reliance on public funds and debt. This provides investors with future returns from urban developments.

City management services
UWI forms partnerships with local and international infrastructure developers and operators that focus on international standard city management services in UWI cities. Stakeholders utilize progressive technologies and smart systems that preserve the environment, minimize energy consumption, and reduce costs. Mitsui & Co., Ltd., one of the most diversified and comprehensive trading, investment and service enterprises in the world, provides intelligent systems in Medini City.

Happiness & Well-being Index
On International Day of Happiness, March 20, 2017, UWI launched a new approach to advance happiness in cities through their own urban developments as well as a consulting services division which would provide support to governments seeking to improve the happiness of residents.

This approach utilizes UWI’s proprietary Happiness & Wellbeing Index to assess communities and then implements a framework to develop recommendations for the policy framework, built environment, and city management services which support improvements in happiness and wellbeing.

The multidimensional index includes self-reported, subjective measures of happiness such as life satisfaction, fulfillment, and emotional effect as well as subjective and objective measures of wellbeing in 9 domains: communal, ecological, cultural, social, physical & mental, financial spiritual, intellectual, and civil.

These measures consider a variety of supranational and national happiness reports and indices including the following: The World Happiness Report (United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network), Global Well-Being (Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index), the Better Life Index (OECD), Gross National Happiness of Bhutan, and Guidelines for Measuring Subjective Well-Being (OECD).

Medini Iskandar Malaysia
Established in 2007, MIM’s shareholders include Khazanah Nasional Berhad (KNB), United World Infrastructure (UWI), and Mitsui & Co., Ltd. Medini Iskandar Malaysia (Medini City) is 2230 acre of land in Johor, Malaysia. Located 40 minutes from the Singapore Changi Airport, the city is developed for a population of 400,000 by 2030. It is Malaysia’s largest single urban development, known as the smart and connected Central Business District of Iskandar Puteri. The gross development value of Medini stands at US$20 billion spanning 15 to 20 years.

UWI city investment partners include Khazanah Nasional, Mubadala Development Company, Temasek Holdings – the sovereign wealth funds of Malaysia, Abu Dhabi, and Singapore – the Kuwait Finance House, and Aldar Properties PJSC.

Signature developments include Mall of Medini, Sunway Iskandar, Avira, Afiniti Medini, Pinewood Studios, and Legoland Malaysia Resort, the first Legoland in Asia, which has over 70 attractions.

Proprietary developments in Medini include infrastructure capacity for a population of 400 thousand people, road development of 60 km, a water reservoir that holds 18000000 impgal, 58 covered bus stops, 1000 custom lamp posts, 6-way ducts and fibre optic cable networks for 400 thousand citizens, the development of cross-city ICT and facilities management services for more than 100 residential and commercial buildings, and master planned communities of 200000000 sqft of building space.

Medini's regulatory framework was created in collaboration with Medini Iskandar Malaysia and the Iskandar Regional Development Authority (IRDA) to attract investors and support national economic development. IRDA facilitates licensing and registration requirements for new businesses and investors. Fiscal and non-fiscal incentive packages apply in Medini

The city of Medini has 6 economic clusters, composed ("comprised" might be the wrong usage) of Zones A through F.

Recognition and affiliations
Awards


 * 2017 – The Medini project received two Greenfield Development Awards:

Green Champion of Emerging Green City Green Champion of Smart and Green Infrastructure

The awards are sponsored by the Institute of Parks and Recreation Singapore and World Urban Parks Association. The Medini project was an initiative of Medini Iskandar Malaysia Sdn Bhd, a public-private partnership between Malaysian Government Linked Companies (GLCs) and private investors, including Khazanah Nasional Berhad, UWI, and Mitsui & Co, Ltd. 
 * 2017 – Medini 10, Medini Iskandar Malaysia Sdn Bhd, won two awards

Best Commercial Development Award Best Commercial Development (Malaysia) Award 
 * 2016 – MSC Malaysia Cybercentre-Status

"Malaysia Cybercentre Status" (MSC) was earned for the multimedia super-corridors within the Pulse, a premier commercial development, and the Compass, a luxury commercial development Affililations
 * Member, World Economic Forum

Other infrastructure development organizations
National government Public companies
 * Infrastructure Development Company Limited, Bangladesh
 * National Infrastructure Development Company, Trinidad and Tobago
 * Temasek Holdings, Singapore
 * French Development Agency
 * Infrastructure Development Finance Company, Chennai, India