Florence is responsible for the infrastructure private debt team at PIC. She has over 13 years’ experience in the infrastructure space, including leading major transactions in the renewable energy, transportation and social infrastructure sectors. The team has provided around £5bn of financing in the last five years to greenfield and brownfield projects as well as corporate borrowers across the UK and Europe.

Florence started her career at Natixis Infrastructure team in Dubai, and prior to joining PIC she was an analyst at Moody's focusing on new infrastructure issuers’ ratings.

She holds a Masters degree from Rouen Business School majoring in finance and decision-making.

Gwenola Chambon, CEO and Managing Partner of Vauban Infrastructure Partners, has had a pivotal role in establishing Vauban as a European leader in infrastructure asset management. Under her leadership, Vauban currently oversees more than €9 billion across 8 funds, solidifying its position as a key player in the industry. Over the past 15 years, Gwenola has transformed Vauban into a multibillion-dollar asset manager with international prominence.
Headquartered in Paris, Vauban distinguishes itself with a team of over 76 professionals who have collaborated for over a decade. Specializing in European core infrastructure investments, Vauban predominantly targets brownfield mid-market assets, following a long-term strategy focused on yield and sustainable value creation.

Vauban's recent successes encompass significant transactions in mobility, energy transition, social infrastructure, and digital infrastructure across 16 different geographies. These achievements underscore Vauban's reputation as a prominent player in the European infrastructure market. Particularly noteworthy are recent acquisitions such as the acquisition of Cellnex’s Austrian tower alongside EDF Invest and MEAG, Cellnex being the third largest provider of passive mobile tower infrastructure in Austria, Coriance, a leader of the French district heating sector, and the merger of Aves One and Wascosa into a major European railcar leasing platform.

Gwenola Chambon graduated from ESCP Business School in 1995 (master’s in business). Throughout her 28-year career, Gwenola has developed an extensive knowledge of the European infrastructure sector and has deep experience financing and investing in infrastructure assets. She has worked on numerous landmark transactions, from the first PPP projects in continental Europe (Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, France) to the development of strategic acquisitions in the European core infrastructure space (notably in digital infrastructure in France, Spanish PPPs, Coriance, Railcar Platform etc.). Prior to founding Vauban Infrastructure Partners, Gwenola headed the equity infrastructure activities of Natixis IM for 9 years and spent two years at the infrastructure fund Galaxy. Before that, Gwenola was Head of European Infrastructure at CFIG, and previously was a senior member of the project finance team at BNP Paribas.

In addition to her responsibilities as director on the boards of various European infrastructure companies (Proxiserve, Axione, Papre etc.), Gwenola is a member of several industry groups including the European Commission working group of Experts in Infrastructure, PRI advisory board as well as a member of its expert group, EFAMA, and the AFG and AFIC working groups for infrastructure. She is also an active member of the Institut de la Gestion Déléguée in France and of IFA (Institut Français des Administrateurs) and is responsible for project finance courses in ESSEC’s Masters of Complex Financing.

In 2024, Gwenola Chambon was named chairwoman of the Philarmonie de Paris.

Vauban Infrastructure Partners

Vauban Infrastructure Partners is a leading infrastructure asset manager focused on European core infrastructure investments. Headquartered in Paris, Vauban employs c.76 professionals, the majority of whom have been working together for over a decade. Vauban targets predominantly European brownfield mid-market assets, and pursues a long-term, yield-driven strategy matching the underlying nature of the assets and long-term commitment to all stakeholders’ interests through a strong focus on creating sustainable value. Vauban has raised c.€9bn across 8 funds in core infrastructure, and has invested in the mobility, energy transition, social infrastructure, and digital infrastructure sectors spanning 16 different geographies.

M. Nicolas J. Firzli is director-general of the World Pensions Council (WPC), the global think-tank & asset owners association. Mr. Firzli is co-chair of the World Pensions Forum (WPF) held annually in a G12/EU capital, coordinator of the G7 Pensions Roundtable held on the sidelines of the G7 Summit, co-chair of the Singapore Economic Forum (SEF APAC+ Summit), and cofounding-member & advisory councillor of the World Bank Group Global Infrastructure Facility (GIF).
He has chaired the main Asset Owners Roundtable of the 2015 Climate Change Conference (Paris COP 21 Summit) and (co)authored and helped develop key notions such as “Modern Trusteeship and Fiduciary Capitalism”, “The SDG–Driven World Economy”, “The Pension Wealth of Nations”, “Sustainable Finance Shifting the Trillions”, and “The Geoeconomic Century”.

World Pensions Council (WPC)

The World Pensions Council (WPC) is a Paris-based global think-tank & asset owners association focusing on pension funds, social security, and sovereign wealth institutions. We work closely with a wide range of asset owners and government agencies – at executive and board (trustees) level – to ensure employees can continue to receive the retirement income they need whilst building a better life for their children. The WPC is a cofounding member of the World Bank Group-led Global Infrastructure Facility (GIF).

Marc C. Ganzi is President and Chief Executive Officer of DigitalBridge Group, Inc. (NYSE:DBRG). Mr. Ganzi has been a successful entrepreneur and executive in the communications infrastructure industry for over 25 years, actively investing in and operating businesses across the digital ecosystem including cell towers, data centers, fiber, small cells, and edge infrastructure.
In 2013, Mr. Ganzi founded and served as the CEO of Digital Bridge Holdings (DBH), a leading global investor and owner of mobile and internet infrastructure. DBH was acquired by DigitalBridge Group in July 2019 as part of the Company’s transformation into the leading global investment firm focused on digital infrastructure. In conjunction with the acquisition, Mr. Ganzi was named CEO-Elect of DigitalBridge and assumed the role of CEO in July 2020. DigitalBridge currently manages a $45 billion portfolio of digital infrastructure assets on behalf of its limited partners and shareholders.

James Heath is the Chief Executive of the National Infrastructure Commission. The NIC advises the UK Government on long-term strategy and policy for economic infrastructure, covering digital, transport, energy, water and wastewater, waste and flood risk management. Previously, James was Director, Digital Infrastructure at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS), responsible for advising Ministers on broadband, mobile and telecoms security policy, and overseeing the UK’s £200m million 5G Testbeds and Trials Programme. Prior to joining the UK Government, James was Director, Policy at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), responsible for public policy, government relations and regulation.

National Infrastructure Commission

The UK’s National Infrastructure Commission is the body responsible for providing independent analysis and advice to the UK government to help the country meet its long term infrastructure needs. Its objectives are to support sustainable economic growth across all regions of the UK, boost competitiveness, improve quality of life, and support climate resilience and the transition to net zero carbon emissions by 2050. The Commission publishes a National Infrastructure Assessment every five years setting out its assessment of long term infrastructure needs, with recommendations to the government. The second Assessment was published in October 2023, presenting a costed programme of strategic infrastructure renewal in line with the Commission’s objectives.

Masoud joined EQT Partners in 2008 and is a member of the Infrastructure Partners’ Investment Committee, Infrastructure Portfolio Performance Review Committee and has been a board member in portfolio companies across digital infrastructure, energy & environmental, and transport sectors. Prior to joining EQT Partners, Masoud worked at Bain & Company in Stockholm. Masoud holds a M.Sc. degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from Chalmers University of Technology.

Henrik is the Chief Investment Officer at IMAS Foundation, responsible for a EUR 12 billion multi-asset portfolio, spread across listed and non-listed assets with a strong sustainability focus. IMAS Foundation is a sister foundation to the INGKA Foundation – the owner of Ingka Group, who owns and operates the majority of the IKEA stores globally .

Prior to IMAS, Henrik served nine years as Chief Investment Strategist at the Nordic bank Nordea and was part of the management group for the bank’s savings and wealth offering business. His previous jobs include analyst and economist positions within Nordea as well as business correspondent, covering the Nordics for AFX News/AFP/Financial Times. Alongside his current role at IMAS, Henrik is a board member of the Swedish fintech company Lysa Fonder.

Henrik has a degree in economics from Stockholm University, an MBA from INSEAD and is a CEFA holder from Stockholm School of Economics

IMAS Foundation

IMAS Foundation is a sister foundation to the INGKA Foundation—the owner of INGKA Group, who owns and operates the majority of IKEA stores globally. The foundation was set up in 1998 by Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of IKEA, and specialises in creating long-term returns on financial assets.

IMAS Foundation has a charitable purpose to create a better everyday life for the many people in need. This charitable purpose is achieved by managing its assets and by financially supporting INGKA Foundation.

Matina is currently the deputy head of QIC Global Infrastructure, a business she co-founded in early 2006. QIC Global Infrastructure has directly invested over $10billion in global infrastructure covering toll roads, airports, ports, water and energy utilities and social infrastructure. Matina is on the management and investment committees and has overall portfolio responsibility.

She has extensive funds management and investment banking experience specializing in the infrastructure sector. Her expertise covers both acquisitions and valuation, business development and strategic plans. Whilst at QIC she has been actively involved in the implementation of a diversity policy. Prior to joining QIC, Matina held senior positions in AMP Capital Investors, Bankers Trust and Macquarie Bank. She started her career as a tax adviser at Arthur Andersen.

She has been a director on several boards of infrastructure companies including current a directorship at Port of Melbourne. Previous board appointments include Brisbane Airport Corporation, NorthConnex, M7, Epic Energy, PARF, QML, TransGrid, Epic Energy, Pacific Solar and India Infrastructure Holdings.

Matina has a Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws from the UNSW and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

QIC

QIC is a leading investment provider for sovereign wealth funds, superannuation funds and other institutional investors.

Created in 1991 by the Queensland Government to serve its long term investment responsibilities, QIC has the heritage and insights to understand our clients’ needs. We have grown to become one of Australia’s largest institutional investment managers with over A$75 billion (30 September 2016) in funds under management. We have the capabilities relevant for today’s investment landscape and we are bound by a common philosophy – to deliver outcomes.

Spanning fixed interest and liquid strategies, infrastructure, real estate, private equity, and multi-asset solutions, we adapt our approach to suit the investor and the investment context.

Gerard Reid is a Co-founder and Partner at Alexa Capital. He is focused on assisting people and organizations in the energy and mobility areas who are struggling to understand and come to terms with the unpredictable and rapid change going on around them. Gerard has developed a strong reputation as a leading global expert in the energy and mobility space. He is an avid blogger and author with a following of more than 150k across several platforms and he is the co-host to “REDEFINING ENERGY” podcast. He is also a member of the World Economic Forum Future Energy Council.

Patricia is an experienced Board Non-Executive Director and Committee Chair, a purposeful leader with over two decades institutional investment and governance experience across real assets, energy transition and private equity, structuring $10Bn+ transactions including at Macquarie and Townsend.

Well-known as an accomplished networker and in demand trusted thought partner, she has a breadth of leadership and sustainability experience, including as co-founder of UK Government’s Green Investment Bank.

Patricia currently serves on the Boards of Legal and General Assurance Society Ltd and Aquila European Renewables PLC. In addition, she is an Independent Investment Committee Member at UK pension plans’ infrastructure investing platform GLIL and Old Mutual’s African Infrastructure Investment Fund 4.

Patricia is the co-founder of InfraNEDs (leading women NEDs in infrastructure and real assets Boards), a Fellow of Chapter Zero UK, 2023 “NED to watch” finalist, Leading Women of Influence in Private Markets and mentor to Nordic VC Katapult Ocean CEOs (deep clean tech).

Patricia began her career in Corporate Finance at Morgan Stanley. She holds an Engineering Ph.D. from Cambridge University.

Christian is Chief Investment Officer at Perpetual, where he leads the overall investment process and investing activities. Prior to joining Perpetual, Christian held several positions within the Allianz Group. In his latest role he was the responsible investment advisor at risklab / Allianz Global Investors for family offices and fiduciary clients. Prior to this, he worked as risk manager at Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty, leading the risk governance activities around the economic capital model. Christian holds a doctorate degree in Finance from Goethe University Frankfurt and obtained a Bachelor’s degree in International Business Economics as well as a Master’s degree in Econometrics from Maastricht University. Christian is author of several articles on model uncertainty, option pricing and alternative illiquid asset classes.

Perpetual Investors

Perpetual Investors is a multi-strategy investment firm based in Munich, Germany. Based on clear guidelines, the firm follows a sustainable, unrestricted long-term investment strategy within an institutional open architecture approach. The asset universe includes but is not limited to Private Debt, Private Equity, Infrastructure, Real Estate, Hedge Funds, as well as liquid equity and fixed income.

Ashli Aslin joined Albourne in 2021 as a Senior Analyst on the Real Assets team. She has 19 years of experience working in institutional investments, both as an allocator and an investment consultant. Ashli is responsible for investment diligence on across real assets, focusing on infrastructure.

Prior to Albourne, Ashli was an Investment Officer with the South Carolina Retirement System working across different portfolio initiatives in credit, private equity, emerging markets, and traditional fixed income. Most recently was responsible for the build-out of the pension’s infrastructure program, where she led the sourcing, portfolio construction, and underwriting process for real assets mandates totaling over $2.0bn, including fund and co-investment opportunities. Ashli also worked as a Senior Analyst at NEPC, LLC, where she helped pension, endowment, and corporate clients with asset allocation and implementation decisions. Ashli holds a BA in economics from Vanderbilt University and a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of South Carolina.

Anna Baumbach is a Partner at Palladio Partners. She has over 20 years of industry experience in asset management. Prior to joining Palladio Partners, she was a member of the investment team of a German consulting firm Feri. In this position, she advised private and institutional investors on investments in real assets, incl. infrastructure, private equity, private debt and timber.

Palladio Partners

Palladio Partners specialises in providing independent advice on real assets, in particular infrastructure, for German institutional investors. The owner-managed investment boutique was founded in 2012 and today operates from offices in Frankfurt and Luxembourg, with a team of more than 70 experts and €9.1bn assets under management. Palladio Partners advises German insurers and pension funds as well as banks, church institutions and foundations on their individual investment strategies. The firm assists its clients in managing complexity and offers them access to attractive global investment opportunities.

Palladio Partners is committed to sustainably promoting German infrastructure – through investments and by being an active participant in various relevant industry initiatives such as „IDI - Initiative deutsche Infrastruktur e.V.“. The firm is a signatory to the Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI).

Kate Campbell is Founding Partner of Astrid Advisors, an independent advisory and placement business focusing on infrastructure, the energy transition and the path towards net zero. She and her business partner, Louisa Yeoman, established Astrid Advisors in 2019.

Kate has 20 years’ experience of capital raising and capital markets, starting her career in investment banking, equity capital markets at Deutsche Bank, London. She subsequently worked at Bear Sterns and JP Morgan, as an Executive Director in the capital introduction team advising hedge funds on marketing and fundraising activities.

Most recently, prior to establishing Astrid, Kate and Louisa were coHeads of European Distribution for AMP Capital, establishing their European client business, raising capital for a series of fund vintages, coinvestments, consortium builds and syndication processes for AMP’s private infrastructure equity and debt platforms.

Kate holds a Masters in Spanish and French from Edinburgh University.

Astrid Advisors

Astrid Advisors is an advisor and placement agent covering infrastructure, the energy transition and real assets investments focused on sustainability and the path towards net zero. We partner with GPs in their capital raising of equity and debt strategies, primary funds, secondaries and co-invests. Founded in 2019, the Astrid team have a proven partnership and track record of fundraising in infrastructure and private credit and are recognised in the GP and LP community as specialist thought leaders and fundraisers in infrastructure and the energy transition, as well as more recent trends in sustainable food production, agriculture, and natural capital. Our philosophy is to partner with a select group of managers who we believe have the potential to be outstanding and differentiated in their field, and to bring our extensive network, expertise and energy to achieving their fundraising goals.

Nic has over 16 years of experience in alternative assets with a focus in real assets investments. He assists in the management of the teams responsible for sourcing, conducting due diligence, and evaluating investments for real assets primaries and co-investments. Nic helped to design and is an instructor for ILPA’s “Real Assets for the Limited Partner”, a one day, deep-dive seminar offered to ILPA members.
Prior to Aksia’s acquisition of TorreyCove Capital Partners, Nic was a Senior Vice President, joining the firm in 2011. Prior to that, Nic was an Associate at PCG Asset Management, where he supported the Risk Management department and assisted in the due diligence of private equity investments.
Nic graduated from the University of San Diego with a BBA and holds an MBA from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California.
In 2019 and 2020, Nic was recognized as a Knowledge Brokers “New Guard” and Knowledge Broker, respectively, by Chief Investment Officer.

Aksia LLC
Aksia LLC, together with its wholly-owned subsidiaries, (collectively, “Aksia”) is a specialist portfolio advisory firm providing alternative investment solutions to clients across private equity, private credit, natural resources and infrastructure, real estate and hedge funds. Aksia provides an array of services including non-discretionary, discretionary and investment management.

Aksia advises on over $290 billion of client alternative allocations globally (as of August 31, 2023). The firm represents pension plans, insurance companies, government-related institutions, endowments, foundations and superannuation funds.

Aksia employs over 450 professionals across the globe, including 220 investment research, operational due diligence, and risk management professionals (as of September 30, 2023). The firm is 100% employee owned by its 16 partners and is headquartered in New York, with offices in San Diego, London, Tokyo, Chicago, Athens, and Hong Kong.

Hans-Peter Egler is currently Director Sustainable Infrastructure / Public Sector with South Pole. He has 30 years of experience in international cooperation in the areas of infrastructure, investment, trade, and production including environmental and social issues. Cooperation with businesses and financial entities of all kinds, the World Bank, regional development banks, various UN organisations, non-governmental organisations, industries, and retailers in Switzerland and in developing countries as well as government agencies in developing and industrialised countries. 20 years of experience in innovative project management at the interface between the economy, environment, and development cooperation. Prior of working with South Pole, Hans-Peter was heading the Global Infrastructure Basel foundation and before that the Division of Trade Promotion at the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, where he used to work for 25 years.

South Pole

South Pole is a leading climate project developer and solutions provider.

Since its founding in 2006, South Pole has supported and provided climate finance to over 850 projects in more than 50 countries. Together, these projects have helped reduce over 200 million metric tonnes of CO2 emissions and provided measurable benefits to communities vulnerable to climate change. South Pole's projects accelerate the transformation across all sectors, including across sustainable land-use, ecosystem conservation, circular economy, and renewable energy.

South Pole also advises governments and thousands of leading companies on their climate journeys to achieve net zero emissions. With its global Climate Solutions platform, it implements comprehensive strategies that help organisations across the world build resilience and turn climate action into long-term business opportunities. Our global team of over 1,000 experts spread out over 42 locations across 6 continents. is trusted by many FT500 businesses and world-class investors around the world.

Olivia Eijking has 27 years of experience in the energy markets, working in New York, Paris, Hamburg and London, across trading, investment management, private equity and project development. She has held leadership positions with alternative investment managers and industrial groups, including as partner & COO for Global Advisors, one of the first energy & metals focused hedge funds, CFO for Massena Capital Partners Private Equity during its substantial expansion, and co-founder & co-managing director of Ferrostaal Capital, the renewable energy venture of the German industrial services group.
As an entrepreneur, Olivia notably launched Kreen, the wind, solar and storage focused renewable energy consultancy that advises manufacturers, project developers and sponsors in the financing and development of renewables projects. She combines substantial operational and financial experience across both developed and emerging markets globally, encompassing structuring, financing, project development, construction, and asset management.
Over the course of her career, Olivia has been directly involved in 5.5 GW’s worth of renewable energy projects as well as the oversight of over USD 1.2 b in energy asset investments.
Mrs. Eijking received an MSc in Management, majoring in Corporate Finance, from EM Lyon business school. She is fluent in English, French and Spanish, and is learning Dutch, German and Italian.

Kreen

Kreen is a bespoke renewable energy investment partner. We advise manufacturers, project developers and sponsors in the financing and development of renewable energy projects, especially in more difficult emerging and frontier markets.
Since 2019, we have supported over 1GW of solar and wind projects in Romania, France, overseas French territories, Latin America, Southern and Central Europe. Our involvement is over the long term, and includes PPA negotiations, debt arrangement, equity structuring and full M&A leadership.

Christian Fingerle is a Senior Managing Director at StepStone Group where he serves as a member of the infrastructure and real assets investment committee.
Prior to joining StepStone, he was Chief Investment Officer Infrastructure and member of the management board at Allianz Capital Partners where he was responsible for building a significant direct and indirect infrastructure investment program for Allianz and third-party clients.
Over the years he held various non-executive directorships and currently serves as non-executive director at Scotia Gas Networks Limited.
He received his Master of Economics (Dipl.-Volkswirt) from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and his PhD (Dr. rer. pol.) from Technische Universität München.

StepStone Group

StepStone Group Inc. (Nasdaq: STEP) is a global private markets investment firm focused on providing customized investment solutions and advisory, data and administrative services to its clients. As of September 30, 2023, StepStone was responsible for approximately $659 billion of total capital, including $146 billion of assets under management. StepStone’s clients include some of the world’s largest public and private defined benefit and defined contribution pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and insurance companies, as well as prominent endowments, foundations, family offices and private wealth clients, which include high-net-worth and mass affluent individuals. StepStone partners with its clients to develop and build private market portfolios designed to meet their specific objectives across the private equity, infrastructure, private debt and real estate asset classes.

Mark has been the Head of Infrastructure for Aware Super since he joined in May 2014” to “Mark is the Head of Infrastructure at Aware Super and has been leading the Infrastructure Sector since he joined in May 2014. He is responsible for overall sector performance, strategy setting, origination, implementation, ongoing asset and portfolio management, team leadership and stakeholder relationships in relation to Aware Super’s global A$17.5 billion infrastructure portfolio. This coverage includes infrastructure and infrastructure-like direct and managed investments.

Prior to Aware Super, Mark was a Project Director at Leighton Contractors responsible for direct equity investments in construction ＆ PPP projects and consortium project leadership. Mark has also been a senior member of the infrastructure team at ABN AMRO and subsequently Babcock ＆ Brown where he was responsible for origination and execution of direct equity and debt investments, ongoing asset management, financial advisory, structuring ＆ arranging roles in Sydney, San Francisco and New York. Mark has also undertaken investment banking roles at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi and Chase Manhattan Bank covering infrastructure financial advisory, international debt capital markets, foreign exchange and interest rate derivatives.

Aware Super

Aware Super is one of Australia’s top-performing and largest industry super funds with a core objective of delivering the strongest risk-adjusted returns for the 1.1 million members of our Fund. Our Australian and London-based investment teams currently manage A$160 billion AUM on behalf of our members with a projected growth target of A$250 billion AUM.

As one of the top 50 institutional investors globally, we typically take an active management approach across alternative assets, including infrastructure, real estate and private equity, and additionally allocate to liquid markets.

Returns for our A$17.5 billion infrastructure portfolio are driven by a globally-diversified program which captures global trends in demography, sustainability and technology. It also has an execution focus on direct investments and ongoing active asset management.

Gergely Horvath joined the European Investment Bank in 2017 and is responsible for investments in infrastructure and climate funds outside the European Union within EIB Global. Gergely’s primary focus is on private equity funds targeting infrastructure, renewable energy, energy efficiency and cold chain solutions. He is Advisory Committee member of several funds.

Prior to joining EIB, Gergely held various roles with John Laing, Amey Investments (Ferrovial Group), NIBC and Commerzbank across Europe. He holds a Master of Economic Science degree from the Budapest University of Economic Sciences.

European Investment Bank

EIB is the lending arm of the European Union, the biggest multilateral financial institution in the world and one of the largest providers of climate finance. EIB Global supports people and companies in all corners of the world. Set up at the beginning of 2022, EIB Global is dedicated to development finance, climate action, innovative investments and sustainable living. EIB Global increases the impact of development finance and will mobilise billions each year

Mamoun Jamai is a senior member of the Infrastructure Department at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (“ADIA”), where he is responsible for developing and implementing investment strategy for Digital Infrastructure, globally. Previously, he was responsible for European origination and coverage across infrastructure sectors and as such served on the Board of numerous infrastructure businesses including Tank & Rast and Anglian Water Group.

Mamoun presently sits on the Board of a number of Digital Infrastructure businesses across fiber, data centers and towers. Mamoun also previously served on the board of Cellnex Telecom.
Prior to joining ADIA in 2008, he served as a member of the Industrials team at Bank of America in London.
Mamoun Jamai holds a Master’s degree in Finance from HEC Paris.

ADIA

ADIA is a globally diversified public institution established by the Government of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi as an independent investment institution. ADIA, together with its subsidiaries, invests in more than two dozen asset classes and sub-categories including, through the Infrastructure Department, investments in infrastructure.

The Infrastructure Department was created in 2007 to build and manage a global portfolio of infrastructure investments with a core focus on assets with strong market-leading positions and relatively stable cash flows, including data centers, towers and fiber, in addition to other transport, utilities and energy infrastructure.

Pushkar Kulkarni is an electronics engineer with an MBA with over 25 years of experience in the infrastructure sector. His leadership experience has been across the value chain of infrastructure; technology, operations, M&A and finally as an investor. Prior to joining CPP Investments where he currently leads infrastructure investments for India, he held leadership positions at SERCO and within the Strabag group in India. He has represented India at the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) on several technical committees responsible for communication standards in road & transport infrastructure.

CPP Investments

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments™) is a professional investment management organization that manages the Fund in the best interest of the more than 21 million contributors and beneficiaries of the Canada Pension Plan. In order to build diversified portfolios of assets, investments are made around the world in public equities, private equities, real estate, infrastructure and fixed income. Headquartered in Toronto, with offices in Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Mumbai, New York City, San Francisco, São Paulo and Sydney, CPP Investments is governed and managed independently of the Canada Pension Plan and at arm’s length from governments. At September 30,2023, the Fund totaled C$576 billion.

Angenika Kunne has over 15 years of experience in corporate advisory and investing across infrastructure, renewable energy and energy transition. As Head of Infrastructure Equity at Aviva Investors she is responsible for the continued growth of its Infrastructure Equity platform across the UK and Europe, including portfolio management and asset origination activities for its Climate Transition Real Assets Fund.

Angenika previously co-headed the investment team at White Summit Capital, a private equity real assets investor specialising in the energy transition, decarbonisation and sustainability. Prior to this, she was co-leading the European investment team at John Laing, with a focus on the mid-market, renewables, and energy infrastructure. She also spent more than 11 years at Macquarie Capital, latterly as Senior Vice President, focussing on a range of sectors including digital infrastructure and PPPs.

Aviva Investors

Aviva Investors is one of Europe’s largest real assets investment managers with over €48bn in AUM as of December 2023 and 165+ specialists across 5 locations. With ca.€13bn in infrastructure AUM across solar, wind, energy from waste, energy centres, fibre/broadband, EV charging and biogas assets across the UK and Europe, Aviva Investors’ diverse capabilities enable us to offer investors sustainability-focused solutions aligned to various client outcomes. ESG considerations influence every aspect of the investment lifecycle and are fully integrated into our investment processes. Our ambition is to achieve net zero across our real asset investments by 2040.

Louisa is a Founding Partner of Astrid Advisors, a leading independent advisor and placement agent specialising in infrastructure, the energy transition, and the path towards decarbonisation. Louisa has worked in capital raising and investment management for over two decades and prior to setting up Astrid Advisors, was co-Head of European Distribution for AMP Capital raising a series of fund vintages for their private infrastructure equity and debt platforms. Louisa began her career in hedge funds and spent many years fundraising across a range of strategies for Moore Capital and GLG Partners. In 2019, Louisa was named in the Infrastructure Investors’ inaugural Rainmaker Top 20 list. She has a Bachelor of Science (1st Class) in Psychology from University College London.

Astrid Advisors

Astrid Advisors is an advisor and placement agent covering infrastructure, the energy transition and real assets investments focused on sustainability and the path towards net zero. We partner with GPs in their capital raising of equity and debt strategies, primary funds, secondaries and co-invests. Founded in 2019, the Astrid team have a proven partnership and track record of fundraising in infrastructure and private credit and are recognised in the GP and LP community as specialist thought leaders and fundraisers in infrastructure and the energy transition, as well as more recent trends in sustainable food production, agriculture, and natural capital. Our philosophy is to partner with a select group of managers who we believe have the potential to be outstanding and differentiated in their field, and to bring our extensive network, expertise and energy to achieving their fundraising goals.

Carlo Maddalena is a Senior Portfolio Manager in the APG Infrastructure team, being responsible for the origination and execution of new investments across the infrastructure sector. In addition to investing activities, Carlo is/was a board member of portfolio companies such as DRIVECO, Stockholm Exergi, Brisa, 2i Rete Gas, Exolum, Brussels Airport, Alpha Trains and Smart City Infrastructure Fund.

Prior to joining APG in 2016, Carlo worked at Patrizia, Marguerite Fund and Antin Infrastructure Partners. He holds a Master of Science in International Management (CEMS-MIM) from Bocconi University.

APG Asset Management

As the largest pension provider in the Netherlands APG looks after the pensions of 4.8 million participants. APG provides executive consultancy, asset management, pension administration, pension communication and employer services. We work for pension funds and employers in the sectors of education, government, construction, cleaning, housing associations, sheltered employment organizations, medical specialists, and architects. APG manages approximately €567 billion (December 2023) in pension assets. With approximately 3,000 employees we work from Heerlen, Amsterdam, Brussels, New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai and Beijing.

APG has been an active infrastructure investor since 2004, with a portfolio of approximately €26 billion (December 2023) and managing more than 50 direct stakes in portfolio companies. APG’s investments include assets within energy and utilities, telecommunications, social and transport infrastructure.

Erica Noda is a Principal Investment Officer at the International Finance Corporation “IFC” (World Bank Group) where she leads investments and sector investment strategy in the Digital Infrastructure space, with focus on business with global sponsors and clients. As the Global TMT / Digital Infrastructure Sector Lead for Europe, Global Clients and New Business, she leads investments in telecom operators, towers, broadband infrastructure and services, data centers and adjacent technology space. Prior to her roles as global lead, Erica led IFC’s TMT investments in Latin America investing across the capital structure from minority equity and mezzanine investments to corporate and project financing. Prior to joining IFC, Erica worked at Macquarie Capital in New York and Mexico in the Infrastructure & Energy team and JP Morgan EMEA Equity Research team in London. Erica holds a BSc. in Economics from University College London (“UCL”) and MSc. from the London School of Economics.

International Finance Corporation (World Bank Group)

The International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group, is the largest global development institution focused exclusively on the private sector. IFC has been investing in the private sector in emerging markets for over 60 years as a pioneer in impact investing. IFC has over US$70 billion in committed portfolio with exposure in over 125 countries across a wide range of industries and sectors. IFC deploys strategic capital in emerging markets to bring sustainable solutions to scale, to build successful business environment to create opportunity for all. IFC mobilizes and work with partners sharing the purpose to create opportunity where it’s needed most.

Jon was appointed CEO in January 2023 having joined GIIA in 2016 to lead on communications strategy, public affairs and membership growth as Corporate Affairs Director and Deputy CEO. Between 2005 and 2016 he was Communications Director for the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, a UK government agency established to run the £3bn a year nuclear clean-up programme. Prior to that, Jon spent 12 years at airport operator BAA Heathrow, where he led the communications campaign for the £4.2bn T5 project.

Global Infrastructure Investor Association (GIIA)

The Global Infrastructure Investor Association (GIIA) is the membership body for the world’s leading institutional investors in infrastructure and advisors to the sector. Our members are responsible for more than $2.0tn of infrastructure assets under management across 70 countries. GIIA’s investor member base is diverse – ranging from fund managers and pension funds, to insurers, corporate investors and sovereign wealth funds.

Anand Rajagopal leads Sustainability Strategy and ESG integration efforts for Shareholder Assets and Private Markets investments. The asset classes covered within his remit span various types of public markets debt as well as private market investments such as Infrastructure debt and equity, private credit/private placements, commercial real estate debt and equity, structured solutions and transition finance opportunities including blended finance efforts (involving DFIs/MDBs/ECAs etc.).

Before Phoenix Group, Anand served as the Head of Public Annuity Asset Origination at Aviva (2019-2022) where he led portfolio construction and investment strategy for public assets including the development of the business’s ESG and Franchise risk framework and its integration in credit/investment processes, new asset class launches and related asset manager research.

Prior to insurance asset management, Anand had worked for ~10 years in public- and private-credit investment and portfolio management/monitoring mandates at BlackRock (London) and Goldman Sachs (New York) covering asset classes such as RMBS, CMBS, Auto/Whole Loan ABS, Sovereigns/SSAs, EMD, Energy/Infra-Project Finance, CRE loans and Shipping/Aviation debt.

Chandra is a Sydney based former lawyer and now an advisor in business and capital strategy to multi-national companies involved in infrastructure development, clean energy, industrial real estate and technology. Chandra is also the CEO of Beyond Advisory, a strategic advisory and investment company, which delivers growth through cross-border, strategic and capital initiatives to bring the best of breed operators and investors together to develop the economic potential of an asset. Chandra has a strong network of Sovereign Wealth Funds, Government Pension Funds and private equity funds around the world. In addition to Chandra’s appointment as an advisor to the Corporate Chairman, Strategy & Finance, GMR Group, his firm is also mandated on initiatives involving strategic partnerships within their discrete portfolio of assets with world class companies. GMR Group is a Delhi headquartered infrastructure major with interests in Airports, Energy, Highways and Urban Infrastructure sectors in India and with significant projects outside of India as well. With a balance sheet of assets of around USD 10 billion, GMR Group has a strong track record for developing and operating major assets.

GMR Infrastructure

GMR Group is a leading global infrastructure conglomerate with expertise in designing, building, and operating airports. It also has a significant presence in energy, transportation, and urban infrastructure sectors.
GMR Airports is the largest private airport operator in Asia and 2nd largest in the world with an annual passenger handling capacity of over 189 million. GMR Airports operates the iconic Delhi Airport, which is the largest and fastest-growing airport in India. It also runs Hyderabad Airport, a pioneering greenfield airport known for several technological innovations. The company is currently developing and operating several regional and international airports across India, Indonesia, Philippines and Crete. In addition, GMR Airports has significant business in businesses within the airport ecosystem, namely development of an Aerotropolis, MRO, Duty Free, F&B, etc.

GMR’s energy businesses have an installed capacity of over 3,000 MW capacity. With a significant focus on green energy, the company is working towards creating a more sustainable environment by harnessing the power of wind, water, and sun for energy generation. It has a balanced mix in its energy generation portfolio. Around 1,000 MW of clean energy projects of GMR are under various stages of development in India and Nepal.

The Transportation and Urban Infrastructure division focuses on surface transport projects including Roads, Railways, and Airstrips/ Runways in both DBFOT (under GMR Highways) and EPC (under GIL – EPC) segments. The Group has four operating highway assets spanning over 1,824 lane kilometres.

Katya is an experienced investment professional who has been successfully originating, leading and managing equity investments across various infrastructure sectors for over 19 years. She is currently a Portfolio Manager at Aware Super, the third largest superannuation fund in Australia. Based in London, she is helping develop and grow Aware Super’s infrastructure investment platform in the UK and Europe. Prior to joining Aware Super, she served as an Investment Director at one of the UK’s Local Government Pension Schemes, LPPI, overseeing its £3.0 billion portfolio of infrastructure fund, co-investments and direct investments. She was responsible for the origination, execution and management of the infrastructure portfolio and is tasked with leading deal teams through all stages of the investment process.

Prior to joining LPPI, Katya spent over 10 years working for Balfour Beatty Investments, the international infrastructure development and investment company. She has also worked at Bank of America Investment Bank in London and a boutique infrastructure advisory firm in the US.

Aware Super

Aware Super is one of Australia’s top-performing and largest industry super funds with a core objective of delivering the strongest risk-adjusted returns for the 1.1 million members of our Fund. Our Australian and London-based investment teams currently manage A$160 billion AUM on behalf of our members with a projected growth target of A$250 billion AUM.

As one of the top 50 institutional investors globally, we typically take an active management approach across alternative assets, including infrastructure, real estate and private equity, and additionally allocate to liquid markets.

Returns for our A$17.5 billion infrastructure portfolio are driven by a globally-diversified program which captures global trends in demography, sustainability and technology. It also has an execution focus on direct investments and ongoing active asset management.

Markus is Principal Fixed Income for the Dutch fiduciary manager MN and is responsible for the selection and monitoring of MN’s internal external fixed income managers. Within fixed income, his focus is mainly on public and private corporate credit, residential mortgages and infrastructure debt. On behalf of MN’s clients, he sits in various investment committee. Markus has more than 25 years of experience in the financial industry. Prior to joining MN in 2008, he worked as Corporate Treasurer of Koninklijke Wegener NV. In the early part of his career, he worked in various international treasury functions and as an auditor with Deloitte. Markus graduated in 1995 from Maastricht University with a degree in economics and business administration. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1997 and as Chartered Treasurer in 2000. He has completed the Pension Executive program at Nyenrode University.

MN

MN is one of the largest pension administrators and asset managers of and for Dutch pension funds. MN works as an extension of pension fund boards and social partners and offer its clients an integrated pension proposition with advice, asset management, communication and administration. It differs from most providers of fiduciary management as it is an organization without a profit motive MN conducts integral asset management for nine Dutch institutional clients with total assets of more than EUR 175 billion. MN has inhouse investment teams as well as externally managed portfolios in liquid and illiquid asset classes. Within the infra space, MN invests on behalf of its clients in infrastructure debt and equity.

Alex is a senior portfolio manager for global private debt at Allianz Global Investors. Prior to joining Allianz Global Investors in 2021, Alex was part of Allianz Investment Management where he oversaw Allianz’s private debt portfolio with a focus on infrastructure and real estate debt. Previous work experience includes roles as an investment manager for a fixed income insurance portfolio at Allianz as well as postings with Allianz Global Investors and PIMCO in Asia and the US, respectively.

Laurens-Jan is a Senior Portfolio Manager in APG’s European infrastructure team leading the digital infrastructure efforts in Europe and is responsible for sourcing, executing and performing asset management of infrastructure equity investments. He led the acquisition and setup of Glaspoort (APG-KPN FTTH JV) and Swiatłowód Inwestycje (APG-Orange Poland FTTH JV) and has led the expansion of these platforms since. Furthermore, he holds non-executive board positions in Glaspoort, Swiatłowód Inwestycje, Open Tower Company (the leading telecom tower company in the Netherlands) and TDF (the leading telecom infrastructure platform in France). Before joining APG, Laurens-Jan worked for NWB Bank as VP establishing and leading their infrastructure finance franchise. Prior to this, Laurens-Jan worked for NIBC Bank as an Associate in the Infrastructure and Renewables team.

APG AM

APG Asset Management is the world’s largest independent pension fund manager with pension assets of c.€550bn (as of Dec-2023), representing over 30,000 employers and 4.5m participants in the Netherlands, with offices in Amsterdam, Heerlen, New York and Hong Kong. On behalf of its clients (all of which are Dutch pension funds), APG has been an active infrastructure investor since 2004, investing c.€25bn to date and managing c.50 direct stakes in various infrastructure portfolio companies. APG’s investments include assets within energy and utilities, telecommunications, and transport infrastructure.

Jakub has over of 20 years of experience in executive and senior managerial roles within complex transactions / operations, supervising diverse teams and managing highly challenging assignments within international environment. A catalyst for successful transformations and international business development initiatives worldwide.

Currently, Jakub is Climate and Sustainable Leader’s in the Czech Republic Chairman and founder; the open non-profit organization consolidates the most active and environmentally responsible organization in Czechia.
He began his career at Accenture, subsequently he became Head of Restructuring within RWE and furthermore he moved to more commercial role and became Head of Gas Business Development, linked to major gas infrastructure projects at that time, such as Nabucco gas pipeline and LNG projects. Major part of his career he spent at EPH where was responsible for acquisition of major energy and infrastructure assets in Europe totaling over 10bn enterprise value (such as Vattenfall lignite in Germany, Enel assets in Slovakia, E.ON assets in Italy etc.). Last few years he spent as Investment Director at KKCG.

Mark Weisdorf Associates focuses on private market infrastructure and real assets investment strategies. Mark is Investment Committee chair of Zurich-based Swiss pension plan cooperative, IST3 Infrastruktur Global; and Senior Advisor to Seraya Partners based in Singapore. In addition to strategic consulting services, since 2015, Mark has facilitated over $5 billion of renewable energy, digital, FttH, transportation and other infrastructure investments and financings.

As Global CIO and CEO based in NYC, Mark established JPMorgan’s Infrastructure Investments platform in 2005 growing it to $10 billion AUM by 2014. Prior to 2004, Mark was Head of Private Markets at the CPP Investment Board in Toronto, where he developed and implemented Private Equity, Venture, Real Estate and Infrastructure investment strategies, and established strategic partnerships, totaling $7 billion.

Prior to 2000, Mark was a senior investment banker and executive in Toronto, at HSBC Canada (Deputy CEO), CIBC World Markets, and Merrill Lynch Canada. Mark is a CPA, CA, CFA and CBV; served on the Board of the ILPA, and was founding Chair of its Research, Benchmarking & Standards Committee. Mark is a past President of the University of Toronto Alumni Association, where he obtained a B. Comm.

Mark Weisdorf Associates, LLC

Mark Weisdorf Associates specializes in identifying, developing and implementing alternative investment strategies, generating attractive asymmetric risk-adjusted returns. MWA provides strategic consulting services, and also works with institutional investors, investment management firms, and corporations, on specific investment opportunities. Past clients include Actis Power, Arjun Infrastructure Partners, Brookfield Asset Management, Climate Innovation Capital, China Construction America, Crane Capital, Global Infrastructure Partners, Hydrogen Equity Partners, Investment Management Corporation of Ontario, IST Investment Foundations, JCM Power, JP Morgan Asset Management, Macquarie Capital, National Treasury Management Agency of Ireland, Ontario Pension Board, Partners Group, and Teck Resources Limited.

Simon joined the PRI in 2018 and leads the organisation’s work on real assets. He works with real assets investors to support their understanding and implementation of responsible investment, including on issues such as climate change, human rights, and biodiversity.

Prior to joining the PRI, Simon worked for over 10 years at Control Risks, where he led a team providing political and social risk advisory support to investors and corporate clients in Latin America. This included carrying out due diligence for major investments and projects in the region, and developing appropriate social and governance risk management frameworks.

Simon holds a MSc in Latin American Politics from the University of London (Institute for the Study of the Americas) and a BA in Modern Languages (French and Spanish) from the University of Bristol.

PRI

The PRI is the world’s leading proponent of responsible investment. It works to understand the investment implications of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors and to support its international network of investor signatories in incorporating these factors into their investment and ownership decisions. The PRI acts in the long-term interests of its signatories, of the financial markets and economies in which they operate and ultimately of the environment and society as a whole. The PRI is truly independent. It encourages investors to use responsible investment to enhance returns and better manage risks, but does not operate for its own profit; it engages with global policymakers but is not associated with any government; it is supported by, but not part of, the United Nations.

Jonathan is a Partner at PMP in charge of the Global Datacenter, Cloud & Software Practices as well as the Private Equity Practice. He mainly advises infrastructure investors and Private Equity firms.

Jonathan started his career in Investment Banking at ABN Amro Corporate Finance in Paris and NYC and then worked 10 years at Orange in NYC and Paris in Corporate Dev roles and then VP M&A. Afterwards, he was successively the Head of M&A of 3 corporates: VimpelCom / Veon (#7 largest telco in the world) in Amsterdam, Cegid (#3 SaaS seller in France, owned by Silver Lake and KKR) and Carrefour (#2 largest retailer in the world). He closed more than 60+ deals in his career as a principal throughout the globe.

Jonathan has been a panellist in many TMT conferences in Europe and in the US and he graduated from HEC Paris business school and a JD from Paris I Sorbonne.

PMP Strategy

Founded 20 years ago, PMP Strategy is a strategy consulting firm with 150+ consultants between Paris, London, New York, Seattle, Montréal, Toronto, Brussels, Madrid, Casablanca. PMP Strategy advises both corporates and investors (through CDD, CVDD and value creation post acquisition) on their growth and transformation strategy. PMP has been involved in more than 200+ transactions in the last 5 years throughout the world.
PMP is positioned as a multi-specialist firm with a strong focus on infrastructures such as telecom (towers, fibre, and datacenters), transport (rail, road and aviation), energy and social infrastructures (schools, retirement houses, clinics….). PMP Strategy also addresses the Tech, FIG, and healthcare industries.

Müjde Zeynel is an international infrastructure professional with experience in the private and public markets spanning climate smart capital investment planning and management, upstream pipeline development, PPP transaction advisory and capital raising. She is currently the Origination and Business Development Principal at CCN Group. Her work covers deals in Eastern Europe, Turkey, the Middle East and the Central Asian region.

Prior to joining CCN Group, Müjde has had a multifaceted career with institutional infrastructure investors and governments across developed and developing markets. Mujde was a Senior Advisor at the Istanbul PPP Centre of Excellence and an Infrastructure Advisor as part of the World Bank/EU funded 'Sustainable Cities' Program. Prior to that, Mujde has held various roles at the G-20 initiative Global Infrastructure Hub, AMP Capital and more broadly AMP Limited.

Mujde holds a Master’s degree in East Asian Studies from Columbia University, which she earned as a Fulbright scholar, and a Bachelor's Degree of International Relations from TU-Dresden in Germany.

CCN Group

CCN Group is a forefront developer, institutional real asset investor, and long-term manager of sustainable assets across G-20 countries and emerging markets. The firm developed and financed some landmark projects such as Baku Heydar Aliyev Cultural Center, primary building for cultural programs designed by Zaha Hadid, and Ankara Bilkent City Hospital, Europe’s biggest hospital. CCN employs over 6000 people serving the needs of clients globally.

Eugene Zhuchenko has over 20 years of infrastructure experience. Prior to founding ETORE Advisory, he was the CEO of Long Term Infrastructure Investors Association, managed an infrastructure portfolio at APG Asset Management, led M&A projects at APM Terminals and provided transport and energy advisory services at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Eugene has been a board member in several private equity infrastructure companies in Europe and North America. He is a Chartered Certified Accountant and holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

ETORE Advisory works with institutions, fund managers and asset companies to unlock new opportunities in infrastructure investing. With tailored solutions such as collaborative investing, we help our clients excel where markets are less efficient and success is linked to innovation.