Thierry Deau, Chairman and CEO, Meridiam
Thierry Déau is Chairman and CEO of Meridiam. He founded Meridiam, an independent investment firm specialising in the development, financing, and management of long-term and sustainable infrastructure projects in 2005, with the belief that the alignment of interests between the public and private sector can provide critical solutions to the collective needs of communities. Managing more than USD19 billion of assets, the firm has to date more than 100 projects under development, in construction, or in operation.
Thierry Deau, Chairman and CEO, Meridiam
Thierry Déau is Chairman and CEO of Meridiam. He founded Meridiam, an independent investment firm specialising in the development, financing, and management of long-term and sustainable infrastructure projects in 2005, with the belief that the alignment of interests between the public and private sector can provide critical solutions to the collective needs of communities. Managing more than USD19 billion of assets, the firm has to date more than 100 projects under development, in construction, or in operation.
Serge Lauper, Managing Director - Global Head of BlackRock Infrastructure Solutions, BlackRock
Serge Lauper has over 27 years of industry experience. He has been instrumental in growing the platform's unique capabilities and track record. He is the chair of the Global Infrastructure Solutions Investment Committee, a member of the Executive Committee for BlackRock Switzerland, and a director of several portfolio companies. He holds a Master in Industrial Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ) and a Master in Finance from the London Business School (LBS). He is a CAIA Charterholder and completed the INSEAD International Directors Programme (IDP).
Serge Lauper, Managing Director - Global Head of BlackRock Infrastructure Solutions, BlackRock
Serge Lauper has over 27 years of industry experience. He has been instrumental in growing the platform's unique capabilities and track record. He is the chair of the Global Infrastructure Solutions Investment Committee, a member of the Executive Committee for BlackRock Switzerland, and a director of several portfolio companies. He holds a Master in Industrial Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ) and a Master in Finance from the London Business School (LBS). He is a CAIA Charterholder and completed the INSEAD International Directors Programme (IDP).
Luis Castilla, CEO of Infrastructure, ACCIONA
Luis Castilla has been the CEO of Infrastructure at ACCIONA since January 2014. He is responsible for the Construction, Concessions, Water, and Urban Services businesses of the ACCIONA Group. With a presence in more than 40 countries, ACCIONA has earned turnover of over €5 billion in 2021. Luis is an MSC/MEng Civil Engineer from the Politécnica University of Madrid. He has been working for 38 years in the development, construction, and management of infrastructure.
Luis Castilla, CEO of Infrastructure, ACCIONA
Luis Castilla has been the CEO of Infrastructure at ACCIONA since January 2014. He is responsible for the Construction, Concessions, Water, and Urban Services businesses of the ACCIONA Group. With a presence in more than 40 countries, ACCIONA has earned turnover of over €5 billion in 2021. Luis is an MSC/MEng Civil Engineer from the Politécnica University of Madrid. He has been working for 38 years in the development, construction, and management of infrastructure.
Nicole Goh, Managing Director and Head, Infrastructure Asia ex-China, GIC Infrastructure
Nicole Goh joined GIC Infrastructure in 2008. As Head, Infrastructure Asia ex-China, she has investment coverage responsibility for opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region, with prior experience investing in the US and Europe. She represents GIC Infrastructure on the boards of its portfolio companies in the region.
Nicole has a BSc in Mathematics with Statistics for Finance from Imperial College London, and an MSc in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.
Nicole Goh, Managing Director and Head, Infrastructure Asia ex-China, GIC Infrastructure
Nicole Goh joined GIC Infrastructure in 2008. As Head, Infrastructure Asia ex-China, she has investment coverage responsibility for opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region, with prior experience investing in the US and Europe. She represents GIC Infrastructure on the boards of its portfolio companies in the region.
Nicole has a BSc in Mathematics with Statistics for Finance from Imperial College London, and an MSc in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.
Jan Walstrom, Senior Vice President, Office of Global Climate Response & ESG, Jacobs
Jan Walstrom is Senior Vice President, Office of Global Climate Response & ESG at Jacobs. She also leads the firm’s Enterprise Risk Management function.
Jan has been with Jacobs (formerly CH2M) for more than 30 years, holding multiple leadership positions and working with global government and commercial clients such as the US Environmental Protection Agency and the London 2012 Olympic Delivery Authority.
Jan Walstrom, Senior Vice President, Office of Global Climate Response & ESG, Jacobs
Jan Walstrom is Senior Vice President, Office of Global Climate Response & ESG at Jacobs. She also leads the firm’s Enterprise Risk Management function.
Jan has been with Jacobs (formerly CH2M) for more than 30 years, holding multiple leadership positions and working with global government and commercial clients such as the US Environmental Protection Agency and the London 2012 Olympic Delivery Authority.
Ettie Philitas, Executive Director, Head of Infrastructure Debt, J.P. Morgan Private Capital
Ettie Philitas is Head of Infrastructure Debt for J.P. Morgan Asset Management. He is also a member of the Infrastructure Debt Group’s Investment Committee and a Portfolio Manager for J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s Private Credit solutions. He was previously an Investment Director with Africa50’s Project Finance team where he originated and managed infrastructure investments across Africa. Prior to his role at Africa50, Ettie was an Associate with the Private Credit team at KKR. He has also worked with the Private Debt team at Muzinich & Co. and with the Leveraged Finance Origination & Restructuring group at Credit Suisse, where he advised clients on over USD19 billion of high-yield and leveraged loan financings. Ettie holds a B.A from Princeton University and an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Ettie Philitas, Executive Director, Head of Infrastructure Debt, J.P. Morgan Private Capital
Ettie Philitas is Head of Infrastructure Debt for J.P. Morgan Asset Management. He is also a member of the Infrastructure Debt Group’s Investment Committee and a Portfolio Manager for J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s Private Credit solutions. He was previously an Investment Director with Africa50’s Project Finance team where he originated and managed infrastructure investments across Africa. Prior to his role at Africa50, Ettie was an Associate with the Private Credit team at KKR. He has also worked with the Private Debt team at Muzinich & Co. and with the Leveraged Finance Origination & Restructuring group at Credit Suisse, where he advised clients on over USD19 billion of high-yield and leveraged loan financings. Ettie holds a B.A from Princeton University and an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Leong Wai Leng, Managing Director and Regional Head of Asia Pacific CDPQ Global, CDPQ Singapore
Leong Wai Leng is responsible for the regional management of CDPQ Global in Asia Pacific. She has over 30 years’ experience in finance and banking, including 13 years in China where she built a commercial banking business from the ground up. She has an extensive network in China and South-East Asia and has worked in both the buy and sell sides of the industry, in developed and developing markets. Her previous roles include Managing Director and Head of Business Management Unit at the Bank of Singapore, and Chairman and CEO of OCBC Bank (China). In 2010, she became the first banker from a non-Japanese Asian bank to win a Gold Magnolia Award, one of the highest recognitions from the Shanghai government.
Leong Wai Leng, Managing Director and Regional Head of Asia Pacific CDPQ Global, CDPQ Singapore
Leong Wai Leng is responsible for the regional management of CDPQ Global in Asia Pacific. She has over 30 years’ experience in finance and banking, including 13 years in China where she built a commercial banking business from the ground up. She has an extensive network in China and South-East Asia and has worked in both the buy and sell sides of the industry, in developed and developing markets. Her previous roles include Managing Director and Head of Business Management Unit at the Bank of Singapore, and Chairman and CEO of OCBC Bank (China). In 2010, she became the first banker from a non-Japanese Asian bank to win a Gold Magnolia Award, one of the highest recognitions from the Shanghai government.
Kuveshen Chetty, Head of CIB Portfolio Management & Analytics, Nedbank CIB
Kuveshen Chetty is passionate about risk management and its critical role in protecting and growing the financial services sector. As a prominent advocate of credit portfolio management in South Africa, he has first-hand experience of the need for greater understanding on the interplays of various risk types in effective financial resource management.?
With more than two decades’ experience, including several years spent establishing and optimising active credit portfolio management functions, Kuveshen brings significant experience and a global and regional network. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours in Finance), is a Member of the Institute of Financial Markets, a Certified Financial Risk Manager, and a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst. He is Head of Portfolio Management & Analytics at Nedbank CIB, Co-Director of the Johannesburg Chapter for the Global Association of Risk Professionals, and a Director at the International Association of Credit Portfolio Managers.
Kuveshen Chetty, Head of CIB Portfolio Management & Analytics, Nedbank CIB
Kuveshen Chetty is passionate about risk management and its critical role in protecting and growing the financial services sector. As a prominent advocate of credit portfolio management in South Africa, he has first-hand experience of the need for greater understanding on the interplays of various risk types in effective financial resource management.?
With more than two decades’ experience, including several years spent establishing and optimising active credit portfolio management functions, Kuveshen brings significant experience and a global and regional network. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours in Finance), is a Member of the Institute of Financial Markets, a Certified Financial Risk Manager, and a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst. He is Head of Portfolio Management & Analytics at Nedbank CIB, Co-Director of the Johannesburg Chapter for the Global Association of Risk Professionals, and a Director at the International Association of Credit Portfolio Managers.
Rémy Haimet, Managing Director, Société Générale, Global Banking & Advisory
Rémy Haimet has extensive experience in investment banking, including transaction origination, structuring, execution, and placement. He is a specialist in the design and implementation of highly customised, large-scale financing with large corporates across the world.
Rémy joined Société Générale in 1987, and has been Managing Director, Global Banking & Advisory since 2011. Remy is responsible for prudential regulation within the bank’s wholesale banking division. This includes following and analysing the constant stream of new regulations, participating in industry efforts to improve proposed regulations, ensuring adequate recognition of risk-mitigation structures (specialised lending and securitisation), and implementing new rules and internal cost allocation.
Rémy holds an MBA from HEC Paris.
Rémy Haimet, Managing Director, Société Générale, Global Banking & Advisory
Rémy Haimet has extensive experience in investment banking, including transaction origination, structuring, execution, and placement. He is a specialist in the design and implementation of highly customised, large-scale financing with large corporates across the world.
Rémy joined Société Générale in 1987, and has been Managing Director, Global Banking & Advisory since 2011. Remy is responsible for prudential regulation within the bank’s wholesale banking division. This includes following and analysing the constant stream of new regulations, participating in industry efforts to improve proposed regulations, ensuring adequate recognition of risk-mitigation structures (specialised lending and securitisation), and implementing new rules and internal cost allocation.
Rémy holds an MBA from HEC Paris.
Apler Kilic, Global Head of Project and Export Finance, Standard Chartered Bank
Alper Kilic joined Standard Chartered Bank in 2008 and has held various leadership roles including Regional Head of Corporate Finance, Europe, and Regional Head of Loan Syndications, Africa. With operations across eight continents, Alper oversees the provision of financial advisory and financing solutions to support clients on a wide range of infrastructure projects, as well as the delivery of export credit agency-backed financing across different geographies and industries.
Alper has long-established transaction experience in acquisition financing, structured loans, project finance, and loan syndications. He has extensive expertise working with multilateral agencies, development finance institutions, and export credit agencies, and has worked with clients across infrastructure, power, oil and gas, telecommunications, financial institutions, and the public sector.
Alper has an MBA from the University of Dallas and a BSc in Metallurgical Engineering and Material Science from the Middle East Technical University in Turkey.
Apler Kilic, Global Head of Project and Export Finance, Standard Chartered Bank
Alper Kilic joined Standard Chartered Bank in 2008 and has held various leadership roles including Regional Head of Corporate Finance, Europe, and Regional Head of Loan Syndications, Africa. With operations across eight continents, Alper oversees the provision of financial advisory and financing solutions to support clients on a wide range of infrastructure projects, as well as the delivery of export credit agency-backed financing across different geographies and industries.
Alper has long-established transaction experience in acquisition financing, structured loans, project finance, and loan syndications. He has extensive expertise working with multilateral agencies, development finance institutions, and export credit agencies, and has worked with clients across infrastructure, power, oil and gas, telecommunications, financial institutions, and the public sector.
Alper has an MBA from the University of Dallas and a BSc in Metallurgical Engineering and Material Science from the Middle East Technical University in Turkey.
Chris McHugh, Senior Advisor, International Association of Credit Portfolio Managers
Chris McHugh is a Senior Advisor to the International Association of Credit Portfolio Managers (IACPM) and also runs an independent consulting business. He was the founder and Director of the Centre for Sustainable Finance at The London Institute of Banking & Finance and a faculty member lecturing on derivatives, risk management, and sustainability.
Chris has more than 30 years’ experience in financial markets, structuring and trading fixed income derivatives across a range of asset classes. His principal interests relate to development and sustainable finance and the interaction of public and private sector financial markets, in particular the mobilisation of private capital in support of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Chris holds a PhD from Southampton University, an MBA from London Business School, and an MA from Cambridge University.
Chris McHugh, Senior Advisor, International Association of Credit Portfolio Managers
Chris McHugh is a Senior Advisor to the International Association of Credit Portfolio Managers (IACPM) and also runs an independent consulting business. He was the founder and Director of the Centre for Sustainable Finance at The London Institute of Banking & Finance and a faculty member lecturing on derivatives, risk management, and sustainability.
Chris has more than 30 years’ experience in financial markets, structuring and trading fixed income derivatives across a range of asset classes. His principal interests relate to development and sustainable finance and the interaction of public and private sector financial markets, in particular the mobilisation of private capital in support of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Chris holds a PhD from Southampton University, an MBA from London Business School, and an MA from Cambridge University.
Ettie Philitas, Executive Director, Head of Infrastructure Debt, J.P. Morgan Private Capital
Ettie Philitas is Head of Infrastructure Debt for J.P. Morgan Asset Management. He is also a member of the Infrastructure Debt Group’s Investment Committee and a Portfolio Manager for J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s Private Credit solutions. He was previously an Investment Director with Africa50’s Project Finance team where he originated and managed infrastructure investments across Africa. Prior to his role at Africa50, Ettie was an Associate with the Private Credit team at KKR. He has also worked with the Private Debt team at Muzinich & Co. and with the Leveraged Finance Origination & Restructuring group at Credit Suisse, where he advised clients on over USD19 billion of high-yield and leveraged loan financings. Ettie holds a B.A from Princeton University and an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Ettie Philitas, Executive Director, Head of Infrastructure Debt, J.P. Morgan Private Capital
Ettie Philitas is Head of Infrastructure Debt for J.P. Morgan Asset Management. He is also a member of the Infrastructure Debt Group’s Investment Committee and a Portfolio Manager for J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s Private Credit solutions. He was previously an Investment Director with Africa50’s Project Finance team where he originated and managed infrastructure investments across Africa. Prior to his role at Africa50, Ettie was an Associate with the Private Credit team at KKR. He has also worked with the Private Debt team at Muzinich & Co. and with the Leveraged Finance Origination & Restructuring group at Credit Suisse, where he advised clients on over USD19 billion of high-yield and leveraged loan financings. Ettie holds a B.A from Princeton University and an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Goh Yang Miang, Dean's Chair at the College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Goh Yang Miang, Dean's Chair at the College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Armando Ortuño-Padilla, Professor of Infrastructure, Spatial Planning and Environment at University of Alicante, Spain
Armando Ortuño-Padilla, Professor of Infrastructure, Spatial Planning and Environment at University of Alicante, Spain
Michael Buhler, Professor of Construction Business Management at the University of Applied Sciences in Constance, Germany
Michael Buhler, Professor of Construction Business Management at the University of Applied Sciences in Constance, Germany
Ibrahim S Odeh, Founding Director, Global Leaders in Construction Management Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at Columbia University, USA
Ibrahim S Odeh, Founding Director, Global Leaders in Construction Management Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at Columbia University, USA
Sherena Hussain, Faculty member at the Brookfield Centre in Real Estate and Infrastructure at the Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada
Sherena Hussain, Faculty member at the Brookfield Centre in Real Estate and Infrastructure at the Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada
Victor Chuan Chen, Professor of Construction and Project Management and Director of the Research Center for Infrastructure Financing and Operation at the Business School, Sichuan University, China
Victor Chuan Chen, Professor of Construction and Project Management and Director of the Research Center for Infrastructure Financing and Operation at the Business School, Sichuan University, China
D’Maris Coffman PhD FRHistS FSA FRGS PFHEA, Professor of Economics and Finance of the Built Environment at The Bartlett, University College London, UK
D’Maris Coffman PhD FRHistS FSA FRGS PFHEA, Professor of Economics and Finance of the Built Environment at The Bartlett, University College London, UK
Jennifer Whyte, Professor in the School of Project Management, Faculty of Engineering and Director of the John Grill Institute for Project Leadership at the University of Sydney, Australia
Jennifer Whyte, Professor in the School of Project Management, Faculty of Engineering and Director of the John Grill Institute for Project Leadership at the University of Sydney, Australia
Carter Casady, Research Engineer in the Center for Sustainable Development and Global Competitiveness at Stanford University, USA
Carter Casady, Research Engineer in the Center for Sustainable Development and Global Competitiveness at Stanford University, USA
Clemens Kielhauser, Research Associate and Lecturer at Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Clemens Kielhauser, Research Associate and Lecturer at Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Veronica Vecchi, Scientific Director, Associate Professor of Practice di Government, Health and Not for Profit, SDA Bocconi School of Management, Italy
Veronica Vecchi, Scientific Director, Associate Professor of Practice di Government, Health and Not for Profit, SDA Bocconi School of Management, Italy
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