Markus Hottenrott is a Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer of Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners (MSIP). Markus has been a part of MSIP since inception and has been with Morgan Stanley for over 20 years. Prior to joining MSIP, Markus co-headed Morgan Stanley’s European transportation and infrastructure industry group in the Investment Banking Division, where he specialized in privatizations and structured finance transactions in Europe and the Middle East. Before that, in the Firm’s German office, Markus concentrated on the public transportation and infrastructure sectors. Markus has a legal background and studied at the universities of Heidelberg, Dresden and Munich. He wrote his doctoral dissertation in law at Humboldt University in Berlin.