Event: In-conversation with the Global Infrastructure Hub

The Global Infrastructure Hub was one of the key outcomes from the Brisbane G20 Summit and is Australia’s first opportunity to host a multilateral institution. On 3 August 2016 please join us for a conversation between Global Infrastructure Hub CEO Chris Heathcote and Tristram Sainsbury, Research Fellow and Project Director, G20 Studies Centre about some of the Hub’s successes so far in its short history, and the challenges that it faces in growing the global pipeline of quality, bankable infrastructure projects.

Chris Heathcote was appointed CEO of the Global Infrastructure Hub in June 2015. He has extensive international experience with large infrastructure projects. Previously, Chris was a Director of Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets in the United Kingdom. His additional, recent, private sector experience includes positions held with WestLB AG and Lloyds Banking Group. During his time with these companies, Chris was involved in infrastructure projects in the United States, Europe, Turkey, China, the Ivory Coast and Australia.

Chris also served as head of project finance at Partnerships UK (a joint UK Treasury and privately-owned company, which promoted the Private Finance Initiative and Public Private Partnerships (PPP)), with a focus on major infrastructure projects including the Wembley National Stadium and London Underground. He has also advised the Brazilian Government on preparing and executing a PPP program, and co-authored of the UK Government White Paper “Meeting the Investment Challenge” while working in the UK Treasury. Chris also structured major road projects in Israel and South Africa.

Chris was also a founding partner of Hyder Infrastructure Investors in the mid-1990s, one of the early infrastructure equity funds. The fund was involved in financing of projects including Melbourne City Link, the Asian Infrastructure Fund and many United Kingdom public infrastructure projects funded with private capital.