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The Global Infrastructure Hub (GI Hub) has announced the formation of a Technical Working Group of global infrastructure, finance, and climate experts to provide strategic advice to the G20 and GI Hub on a forthcoming framework that will offer new recommendations for scaling up private sector investment in sustainable infrastructure.

GI Hub Chief Executive Officer Chris Heathcote addressed the Business Council for International Understanding at a lunch hosted by Australia’s Ambassador to the US Joe Hockey in Washington DC recently.

Global Infrastructure Hub is pleased to announce that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The memorandum reflects our organisations’ shared intentions to explore opportunities for cooperation and collaboration, and increase the effectiveness and efficiency of work programs through knowledge sharing, consultation and advice.

The GI Hub's Director of Knowledge Mobilisation, Sam Barr, has been featured on the Competitive Contractor podcast with host Shivendra Kumar.

On 12 July 2018 the GI Hub’s COO, Mark Moseley, joined a webinar panel on blockchain and its applications for infrastructure, hosted by the International Project Finance Association (IPFA). Blockchain is the technology that underpins Bitcoin and other similar ‘cryptoassets’, such as Ethereum and Ripple. Its potential, and the recent volatility of cryptoassets, has made the technology one of the most hyped and misunderstood technologies in the market.

The GI Hub's Richard Timbs gave an overview on infrastructure development in Latin American countries at the Latin American Infrastructure Forum 2017 held in Melbourne, Australia yesterday. Mr Timbs also spoke on the function of the Hub's Project Pipeline, and it's potential to help countries secure private sector interest for their infrastructure projects.

Global infrastructure needs and Public-Private Partnerships were discussed when the Foreign Correspondents’ Association of Australia met the GI Hub today.

The GI Hub hosted a global webinar on risk allocation in PPPs with Norton Rose Fulbright and IPFA last week. The webinar was extremely well attended and saw active participation from public sector and private sector participants from around the world.

The G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors have welcomed the launch of a new, interactive online risk allocation tool, the Global Infrastructure Hub’s (GI Hub) Annotated Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Risk Allocation Matrices. The Risk Allocation Matrices tool, developed by the GI Hub in partnership with global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright, has been designed to assist developing economies better assess potential infrastructure investment risk.

We are delighted to have been awarded the 2021 Culture Transformation Award from Human Synergistics at their Annual Culture Conference on 8 September 2021.