Rob Jauncey is a Nonresident Fellow at the Lowy Institute, with a background in Pacific and international development issues.

As the inaugural chief investment officer of the Australian Infrastructure Financing Facility for the Pacific from 2019 to 2023, Rob built a A$1.5 billion portfolio of sovereign and private sector investments across the region. Prior to that, Rob spent almost 20 years with the multilateral banks. As the Asian Development Bank regional director based in Suva from 2014 to 2018, Rob ensured ADB became Fiji’s largest external financier and secured the first Green Climate Fund grant for the Pacific. Coordinating the World Bank’s engagement across a range of Pacific countries from 2009 to 2014, Rob mobilised a significant increase in financing for Samoa, Tonga and Vanuatu, as well as the first bank funding for Kiribati, RMI and Tuvalu. From 2000 to 2009, Rob worked at the World Bank in Washington DC coordinating engagement with the Western Balkan countries and as an advisor to the Managing Director.

Rob started his career in AusAID in 1990, managing programs in PNG and the Pacific, as First Secretary at the Australian embassy in Lao PDR, and in a variety of corporate policy roles.