Recognising the role of infrastructure in growth, job creation, and productivity, the G20 established the GI Hub in 2014 as a knowledge-sharing hub with a mandate to work between governments, the private sector, development banks, and other international organisations to help implement the G20’s infrastructure agenda.

The GI Hub was established in Sydney, Australia as a global entity, independent of commercial objectives and intent on the mission of supporting the G20 to drive an ambitious agenda on sustainable, resilient, and inclusive infrastructure through action-oriented programs.

In our first four-year mandate, we completed major initiatives that quantified the global infrastructure financing gap, defined the infrastructure enabling environments of countries worldwide and recommended improvements, and published landmark guides to best practice in several areas of infrastructure development. In 2018, the G20 extended the GI Hub’s mandate, and in 2019 the GI Hub opened its second office in Toronto, Canada. In 2021, the G20 again extended the GI Hub's mandate.

Since 2018, the GI Hub has transformed from a start-up entity to a small, strong, and nimble organisation that is a central source of knowledge on leading practice, innovation, and market trends for the infrastructure community as well as being a respected G20 advisor and participant.

At the G20, we are closely involved at the political and technical levels with the Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors, the Finance Deputies, and the Infrastructure Working Group. In this capacity, we support G20 Presidencies’ infrastructure initiatives and provide the G20 with continuous data, inputs, advice, and monitoring of its priorities and initiatives – like the Roadmap to Infrastructure as an Asset Class and the G20 Quality Infrastructure Investment Principles.

In our capacity as a knowledge-sharing hub, we collaborate across the public and private sectors to push for necessary reforms and provide data, insights, and knowledge. Our work is used by an audience of policymakers, financiers, regulators, and decisionmakers to shape the enabling environment for infrastructure and by practitioners who plan, procure, develop, deliver, operate, and maintain infrastructure. We also help build capacity at the national, subnational, and individual levels. All our resources are freely available and accessible.

G20 documents establishing the GI Hub

We are committed to diversity and inclusivity.

The GI Hub is committed to the power and value of diversity of thought, perspective, experience, unique qualities, attributes, and skills which can only be harnessed if diversity is encouraged and full inclusion is genuinely promoted and supported.

We are committed to environmental sustainability.

The GI Hub aims to support the development of environmental sustainability and resilient infrastructure and to take all reasonable measures to limit the impact of our operations on the environment and steward our
resources in a responsible manner.

Board of Directors

The Board is responsible for the operational oversight of the GI Hub, and for the governance requirements of Australian law. Directors are appointed in accordance with the Corporations Act and the GI Hub constitution. The Board comprises representatives from the Ministries of Finance or Treasuries of the GI Hub’s major funding partners Australia and Canada, plus a representative of the G20 Presidency Troika from the Ministry of Finance or Treasury of the immediate past-presidency country. Additionally, there are independent directors, chosen for their experience and skills in managing entities of this nature and agreed in consultation with G20 countries. 

Audit and Risk Committee of the Board of Directors

In 2015 our Board of Directors established an Audit and Risk Committee (ARC) to provide assurance and assistance to the Board on our risk, control, and compliance framework as well as the Board's external accountability responsibilities. The ARC is directly responsible and accountable to the Board for reviewing the appropriateness of the Board’s financial reporting, performance reporting, system of risk oversight and management, and system of internal control for the GI Hub. 

The ARC is appointed by the Board and currently includes the GI Hub’s independent directors and KPMG (the GI Hub’s independent auditor). 

Strategic Council

The Strategic Council sits separately from the Board, and is focused primarily on the alignment of the GI Hub's strategy and activities with the G20 infrastructure agenda and G20 Presidency priorities. The Strategic Council was created in 2019 by the GI Hub Board to provide a formal mechanism for interested G20 members to provide meaningful guidance and feedback on GI Hub activities at an early stage outside the context of G20 Finance Track meetings. The Strategic Council currently comprises representatives from 17 G20 member and guest economies, as well as a representative of the multilateral development banks – usually the Chair of the Infrastructure Collaboration Platform - and the OECD. The Board members of the GI Hub also participate in the Strategic Council as observers, to ensure a strong two-way flow of information between the bodies.  

Countries represented on the Strategic Council are Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico (Observer), Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa (Observer), Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States.

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