Lim Hng Kiang Minister for Trade and Industry Singapore Lim Hng Kiang is Minister for Trade and Industry of the Republic of Singapore. He is also
Deputy Chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and a Board Director of
the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC). Mr Lim assumed his current
post in 2004, and has served in a number of other government positions, including Minister in
the Prime Minister’s Office (2003-2004), Second Minister for Finance (1998-2004), Minister
of Health (1999-2003), and Minister of National Development (1995-1999). He joined the
civil service in 1986, beginning his career in the Ministry of Defence, after graduating from
the Kennedy School at Harvard University with a Masters in Public Administration and from
Cambridge University with First Class Honours (Distinction) in Engineering. | |
Vivek Aggarwal Managing Director Madhya Pradesh Road Development Corporation Vivek Aggarwal is Managing
Director of Madhya Pradesh Road Development Corporation (MPRDC) and Secretary
to the Chief Minister, Government of Madhya Pradesh. Since joining MPRDC, Mr
Aggarwal has developed new models of PPP, including the Deemed Shadow Fee Model,
Annuity plus Toll Model, Modified Annuity Model and the Operation, Maintenance
& Tolling model. He has also undertaken innovative projects such as the
Integrated Border Check Posts, and developed the Accident Response &
Traffic Management System. Mr Aggarwal was formerly Managing Director of MP
Agriculture Marketing Board and MP Warehousing & Logistics Corporation, | |
Bertrand Badré Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer World Bank Group As Managing Director and World Bank Group Chief Financial Officer, Bertrand Badré is
responsible for the collective financial and risk management strategies of the World Bank
Group and for each of the institutions that make up the group. He represents the Group at
the G20 and on the Financial Stability Board. Mr Badré also oversees the Information and
Technology Solutions Vice Presidency. Prior to joining the World Bank in March 2013, Mr
Badré served as Group Chief Financial Officer at Société Générale, Group Chief Financial
Officer of Crédit Agricole, and Managing Director of Lazard in Paris, responsible for the
Financial Services Group. In 2003, he was invited to join President Chirac’s diplomatic team
and was closely involved in the preparation of the G8 summit in Evian. In 2002, he was a
member of the World Panel on Financing Water Infrastructure, a panel of financial experts
to assess ways of attracting resources to the water field, chaired by Michel Camdessus. Mr
Badré has served in the French Ministry of Finance (1995 to 1999), and has been a Director
on a number of boards, including the Supervisory Board of Eurazeo, Haulotte Group,
various boards of the leading French regional daily Newspaper Group Ouest France, and
subsidiaries of Crédit Agricole and Sociéte Générale. Mr Badré is a graduate of Ecole
Nationale d'Administration and Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. He also studied history
at Paris Sorbonne University, and graduated from the Paris business school at Hautes
Études Commerciales. | |
Laurence Carter Director Public-Private Partnerships Transaction Advisory Department, IFC Laurence Carter is the Director of the Public-Private Partnerships Transaction Advisory Department of
the IFC. The Department provides advice to governments on structuring and bidding out public private
partnerships for infrastructure services, including both physical and social infrastructure. Mr Carter joined
IFC in 1993 and has held positions in Corporate Planning, the Central and Eastern Europe department
and the Small and Medium Enterprises Department. Prior to joining IFC, Mr Carter worked for 10 years
as an economist in Botswana, Malawi, Swaziland and the south Atlantic island of St Helena. He holds a
degree in economics from the University of Cambridge, UK, and the University of London, as well as the
CFA. | |
Tan Cheng Guan Executive Vice President & Head Group Business Development & Commercial Sembcorp Industries Ltd. Tan Cheng Guan is responsible both for business development and for driving the expansion of
Sembcorp Industries’ energy and water businesses globally. Mr Tan joined Sembcorp in 1990,
bringing with him a broad range of experience in strategy, business and project development
within the utilities industry. He pioneered the early development of the Group’s utilities business
on Jurong Island and drove the business’ expansion into China, the UK, the Middle East and India.
He also led Sembcorp’s acquisition of Cascal’s global municipal water business. Previously, Mr Tan
was managing director of Vopak China, based in Shanghai (2004 to 2007), and prior to that, he
spent 12 years in engineering and project management for the oil and gas sector at Brown & Root
Far East, working in London, Kuala Lumpur and Miri, Sarawak. Mr Tan holds a Bachelor of Civil
Engineering (Hons) from the University of Liverpool, UK and completed the Advanced Management
Programme at Harvard Business School. | |
Karin Finkelston Vice President Asia Pacific, IFC Karin Finkelston serves as IFC’s first Vice President for Asia Pacific. Her responsibilities include
overseeing IFC’s investment and advisory programmes as well as maintaining relationships with key
government and private sector partners in the region. Prior to her appointment as Vice President, Ms
Finkelston was IFC’s Director for East Asia and Pacific. Ms Finkelston joined IFC in 1996 and was
appointed Country Manager for China and Mongolia in 2000. Prior to joining IFC, Ms Finkelston was a
Vice President at Manufacturers Hanover Trust in New York and Hong Kong, and also a Manager at
KPMG Consulting in Hanoi. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor’s degree in
English Literature from Dartmouth College. | |
Anita George Director Infrastructure and Natural Resources, IFC, World Bank Group Anita Marangoly George is the Director for Infrastructure and Natural Resources at IFC, the
private sector arm of the World Bank Group. Ms George joined the World Bank in 1991 as a
Young Professional and worked on infrastructure in Europe and Central Asia. She then moved to
Siemens and headed Siemens Financial Services in India covering the Telecom, Power and
Transportation sectors. In 2000 Ms George joined the Global Infrastructure Department of
IFC in Washington DC as Principal Investment Officer. She has implemented infrastructure
transactions in Latin America, Africa and Asia. Ms George has a dual Master’s degree in
Business Administration and Economic Policy from Boston University, US. | |
James Harris Global Head of Infrastructure and Managing Partner Hogan Lovells Lee & Lee James Harris is Hogan Lovells' Global Head of Infrastructure and leads the
Infrastructure, Energy, Resources and Projects practice for Asia. Recognised as a
leading project finance and PPP lawyer by several independent industry publications,
Mr Harris has more than 27 years of experience advising on infrastructure projects
across a broad spectrum of industry sectors in Asia, the Middle East, the UK and
Australia. He is Chairman (Asia) of the International Project Finance Association and
a founding member of the APLMA Project Finance Committee. | |
Alistair Higgins Head of Structured Bonds ING Bank As Head of Structured Bonds
at ING Bank, Alistair Higgins is responsible for the origination of energy and
infrastructure mandates involving institutional investor funding sources. This
involves working closely with specialist product teams on the structuring and
execution of mandates in | |
Ede Jorge Ijjasz Vasquez Director Sustainable Development, Latin America and Caribbean Region, World Bank Ede Jorge Ijjasz Vasquez is the Director for Sustainable Development for the World Bank’s Latin
America and Caribbean region, covering infrastructure, environment and climate change, social
development, agriculture and rural development, disaster risk management, and urban development.
Prior to this position, Mr Ijjasz spent four years in the Beijing office as Sector Manager of the
Sustainable Development Unit for China and Mongolia. Between 2004 and 2007, he managed
the Water and Sanitation and the Energy Sector Management Assistance progammes, two of the
longest-running global trust-funded partnership programmes administered by the World Bank,
with more than 150 staff across 25 countries in Africa, South Asia, East Asia and Latin America.
Before this, Mr Ijjasz was leader of the Corporate Environment Strategy Implementation Team
and acting sector manager of the central Environment Department in charge of World Bank
environmental policies and global programmes. He has also worked for the World Bank as a water
and sanitation specialist and environmental specialist. Prior to joining the World Bank, Mr Ijjasz was
a Senior Associate with ICF Kaiser International, where he provided technical and policy advisory
services to the US Environmental Protection Agency on pollution issues, and led the preparation of
environmental impact assessments of large infrastructure projects in Latin America and the US. Mr
Ijjasz is also currently a lecturer in the Environmental Science and Policy Master’s programme at
Johns Hopkins University. He has a PhD and MSc from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in
Civil and Environmental Engineering, with a specialisation in hydrology and water resources. | |
Thomas Jacquot Senior Director Corporate & Government Ratings, Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services Thomas Jacquot is a Senior Director within the Corporate & Government Ratings group of Standard & Poor’s
Ratings Services. Based in Sydney, Mr Jacquot primarily covers companies in the infrastructure, utilities, and
project finance / public-private partnership (PPP) markets in Australia and New Zealand, and has regional
responsibilities for all companies in the transportation infrastructure sector (airports, ports, roads and rail)
in Asia-Pacific. Mr Jacquot’s responsibilities also include the analysis and evaluation of hybrid instruments
for corporations in the Asia-Pacific region. Before joining Standard & Poor’s in 2010, Mr Jacquot spent
approximately 12 years in various origination and structuring roles in the project finance market, both in
London and Sydney. He holds an engineering degree from Ecole Centrale de Lille in France. | |
Patrick Jenkins Financial Editor and Assistant Editor Financial Times Patrick Jenkins was appointed Financial Editor and Assistant Editor at the Financial Times in January 2014. In this role, Mr Jenkins shapes the FT’s overall financial coverage, with a focus on financial services and investment. He works closely with the editors of Markets, Lex, FT Money, FTfm and the financial services team. He also contributes to leader-writing and comment, while continuing to write for the Inside Finance column. Before becoming Financial Editor, Mr Jenkins had been the FT’s Banking Editor since June 2009, leading the 10-strong global financial services reporting team. Prior to this post he was Companies editor, editor of International Company News and Frankfurt correspondent. Mr Jenkins joined the FT Group in 1996 as editor of the newsletter FT world insurance report, before becoming UK companies reporter in 2000. | |
Noburu Kato Director and General Manager, Investment Banking Department Asia Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Noburu Kato joined Sumitomo Bank in 1985 and is currently Director and General Manager of the Investment Banking Department, Asia at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation in Singapore. The Department covers a broad range of structured products, including project finance, aircraft finance, LBOs, property finance, new products/business development, and credit distribution activities. Mr Kato has over 22 years’ experience in structured finance, mainly in project finance, and has worked in New York, Hong Kong, London, Tokyo and Singapore. He has structured and closed numerous project finance transactions across a broad range of sectors and countries. In 2013, Mr Kato was a member of the Infrastructure Sub-Committee established under the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s Capital Market Committee. He is on the Board of Directors of Clifford Capital as a non-executive director. He has a degree in Social Science from International Christian University in Tokyo.
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Suneet K. Maheshwari Group Executive Vice President L&T Finance Holdings Suneet K. Maheshwari is Group Executive Vice President, L&T Finance Holdings Ltd, which is
promoted by engineering and construction conglomerate Larsen & Toubro Limited (L&T). Mr
Maheshwari has 33 years of experience in India in infrastructure financing, corporate finance,
investment banking and private equity, as well as in the infrastructure and energy sectors. He has
set up new strategic business units with a P&L responsibility in rapid growth or greenfield start up
situations on four occasions – and has expertise in locating, attracting, building and leading teams.
Prior to his role at L&T Finance Holdings, Mr Maheshwari was Founder Managing Director & Chief
Executive of L&T Infrastructure Finance Co Ltd, a Public Finance Institution and non-bank financial
company with a book size of about USD 3 billion. He remains a director of this company, and also
serves as a director for L&T Infra Investment Partners Advisory Pvt Ltd; L&T FinCorp Ltd; L&T
Housing Finance Ltd; L&T Infra Debt Fund Ltd; and Feedback Infra Pvt Ltd. He is also currently
a member of the National Council on Infrastructure at the Confederation of Indian Industry. Mr
Maheshwari has held several positions at industry bodies and government task force, and since 1991
he has been closely involved with various infrastructure sector reforms and PPP initiatives. He has a
Bachelor in Science from Bombay University and an MBA from the Symbiosis Institute of Business
Management, Pune University. He has also completed training programs in strategy and operations
management and restructuring of financial institutions and banks at Harvard Business School. | |
Kai Nargolwala Chairman Clifford Capital Kai S. Nargolwala is
the Chairman of Clifford Capital Pte Ltd, a company supported by the | |
Mark Rathbone Partner, Advisory Asia Pacific Capital Projects & Infrastructure Leader PwC Singapore Mark Rathbone is a PwC partner and leader of the firm’s Asia Pacific Capital Projects & Infrastructure (CP&I)
practice, with lead responsibility for the CP&I team in Singapore. He advises clients on a range of transactions
across the Infrastructure, Project Finance and the PPP market, including transactions in energy (gas /oil
storage), power and renewables, defence, health, accommodation, transport and sports sectors, as well as
secondary market transactions and debt raising. Mr Rathbone is a specialist in advising clients delivering large
infrastructure transactions that straddle the complex interface between public and private sectors. He has been
integral to the development of project structures, tariff mechanisms, risk allocation and the related funding
solutions for large infrastructure transactions, while also leading the development and negotiation of PPP,
joint venture and concession type contracts. Among his accomplishments, Mr Rathbone has led the advisory
teams on a number of Award Winning transactions – Singapore Sports Hub PPP, ITE College West PPP and
Fujairah Oil Terminal; as well as a broad range of projects including numerous IPP commercial reviews, toll
road divestments and the acquisition of a minority stake in a Chinese Port. Prior to joining the Singapore office,
he was with the PwC Project Finance Group in the UK, where he advised on a number of social infrastructure
transactions in the defence and health sectors. Before that he worked in the Audit and Business Advisory
Services business of PwC in the UK. Mr Rathbone holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from University of
Stellenbosch. | |
Sinthya Roesly CEO Indonesia Infrastructure Guarantee Fund (IIGF) Sinthya Roesly is the Chief Executive Officer of the Indonesia Infrastructure Guarantee Fund (IIGF), an institution whose mission is to support the acceleration of infrastructure development in Indonesia executed under public-private partnership (PPP) schemes, by providing guarantees against infrastructure project risks related to government actions or inactions. Previously, Ms Roesly worked for 19 years at PT PLN (Persero), a state-owned electricity company, with responsibilities ranging from corporate finance and fund raising to corporate planning and strategy, power system operations and power project construction. Ms Roesly has an MBA from Monash University, Australia, an MEngSc in Power Systems from the University of New South Wales, Australia, and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Indonesia.
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Anne Skovbro Director, Finance Administration City of Copenhagen Anne Skovbro was appointed Director of Finance
Administration, City of | |
Lakshmi Venkatachalam Vice-President Private Sector and Cofinancing Operations, Asian Development Bank Lakshmi Venkatachalam is the Vice-President (Private Sector and Cofinancing Operations) of Asian
Development Bank (ADB). She assumed office in June 2010. Ms Venkatachalam leads ADB's initiatives
in Private Sector and Cofinancing activities. Under its long-term Strategy 2020 Framework, ADB's
activities in private sector development and private sector operations are targeted to reach 50% of its
annual operations by 2020. Strategy 2020 also envisages a significant increase in ADB's partnership-
based cofinancing activities by 2020. Ms Venkatachalam will lead ADB's efforts in assisting development-
oriented private sector projects in the region, with a clear focus on challenging sectors and regions,
as well as in building and strengthening cofinancing partnerships with various official and commercial
cofinanciers with a view to mobilising investment capital for the region. Ms Venkatachalam has over 30
years’ experience in senior management positions. Prior to joining ADB she was the Director General
of Shipping and Ex-Officio Additional Secretary for India's Ministry of Shipping. Before that she was
Principal Secretary to the Government of Karnataka, overseeing, at different periods, the departments
of Commerce and Industry; Urban Development: Planning, Program Implementation, Economics and
Statistics. Other previous posts include Chairperson of the Coffee Board of India, Commissioner of the
Bangalore Development Authority, Director of India's Ministry of Steel, and Managing Director of the State
Cooperative Marketing Federation in Karnataka. Ms Venkatachalam, a national of India, holds an MA in
Economics and an MBA from Boston University USA, and an MA in English from Jadavpur University in
Calcutta, India. | |
Walter Winrow Managing Director, Global Project and Infrastructure Finance Moody’s Investors Service Walter Winrow is Managing Director of Moody’s
Global Project and Infrastructure Finance Group. This is a dedicated team which
conducts cross-disciplinary analysis incorporating elements of Moody’s
expertise in corporate, project and public finance to provide ratings for
infrastructure and project financings, as well as for water, gas and electric
utilities. In this role, Mr Winrow is responsible for ensuring Moody’s globally
consistent and transparent methodological approach to assessing credit risk. Before
joining Moody’s, Mr Winrow held positions as Managing Partner of Infrastructure
Capital Partners, and President and Chief Operating Officer of Poseidon
Resources Corporation. Prior to co-founding Poseidon Resources, Mr Winrow worked
for the energy, industrial and infrastructure project financing businesses at
GE Capital Corporation and held a series of positions at General Electric,
serving industrial and utility clients in the US and globally. He has served on
the Board of Directors of various industry and community service organisations,
including as Chairman of the Credit Rating Agency Industry Association, the
Atlantis Water Fund, the National Council for Public-Private Partnerships, the
California Foundation for the Environment and the Economy, the San Diego County
Taxpayers Association, the local Boys & Girls Club, and the US Conference
of Mayors Business Council, as well as the Advisory Board of its Urban Water
Council. Mr Winrow holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from | |
Kim Yin Wong Group CEO Singapore Power Wong Kim Yin has been Group CEO of Singapore Power Ltd since January 2012. Prior to this, he was
Senior Managing Director of Investment at Temasek Holdings (Pte) Ltd and was responsible for investments
in the energy, transportation and industrial sectors. Mr Wong has over 10 years' experience in investment
management. Prior to joining Temasek in 2004, he worked for The AES Corporation, a power company listed
on the New York Stock Exchange, and was responsible for merger and acquisition and project development
across Asia Pacific. He is currently the Chairman of SP PowerAssets Ltd and a Director of SP Services Ltd.
He has been a Non-Executive Director of CITIC Resources Holdings Ltd since 2008. Mr Wong holds an MBA
from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. | |
John Scott Younger Director Nusantara Infrastructure John Scott Younger is a recognised leader in infrastructure development across Asia, having held a
range of senior academic, consulting and business development roles in Hong Kong, Thailand and
Indonesia over the past 33 years. He currently serves as Director of PT Nusantara Infrastructure Tbk,
a public listed company in Indonesia, and as Commissioner for the East Bali Poverty Project, a model
in sustainable development. Dr Younger is also President Commissioner of Glendale Partners, a
leading infrastructure, natural resources, renewable energy and consulting firm based in Jakarta,
Indonesia. In addition, he is Chairman of the EuroCham Working Group on Infrastructure, and Senior
Vice-Chairman and the International Business Chamber, with a particular remit to report on
infrastructure. He is a current member of the Eurocham Board and former Member of the Board of the
British Chamber of Commerce (1196-2004 and 2010-2012). Dr Younger has served as project
manager and consultant in many World Bank and ADB funded road and water sector programs, and
was Team Leader for the UK and World Bank funded, award winning Master’s Degree program in
Highway and Transport Engineering at the Institute of Technology Bandung, 1986-93. He has
published many papers in the field of infrastructure and is a regular speaker at conferences and on
discussion panels. He is also a regular columnist of the regional business magazine Globe Asia, a
writer for Forbes, an Honorary Research Fellow of Glasgow University and Fellow of the Linnean
Society. His paper on “Sustainable Development-East Bali Poverty Project” was awarded the 2013
Overseas Prize by the Institution of Civil Engineers. Dr Younger holds degrees in Engineering from
Glasgow, UC Berkeley and Hong Kong. In 2003 he was awarded an OBE for services to civil
engineering and British business interests in Indonesia. | |