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Conference:
Day 1
09 Sept 9am - 5pm
Day 2
10 Sept 9am - 5pm
Workshops: Workshop dates
Pre conference Workshop A
08 Sept 9am - 4pm
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Meet the speakers of Infrastructure Investment World Asia
Chief Investment Officer,
Meat Industry Employees' Superannuation Fund
Jon Addison is the CIO of the Meat Industry Employees Superannuation Fund (MIESF). Prior to taking this part time role Jon was the Fund’s CEO. Jon joined MIESF in June of 1999 and is responsible for the overall management of the Fund.
Jon has over 30 years in the investment management industry, including wide experience in superannuation.
Prior to his appointment to MIESF, Jon was a Director and Asset Consultant within the Corporate Finance section of PricewaterhouseCoopers and in this role was responsible for establishing an investment consulting practice with clients ranging from superannuation funds to insurance funds and funds managers. Prior to that, Jon was Manager Investment Consultant at Sedgwick Noble Lowndes.
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Head of Infrastructure Asia,
ABP Investments Asia Ltd
Hans-Martin Aerts is the Senior Portfolio Manager, Asian Infrastructure of APG Investments Asia Limited. He moved to Hong Kong in early 2007 and is responsible for managing the infrastructure investments in Asia.
He joined APG Investments in the Netherlands in 2001 and has since worked in the area of infrastructure, structured finance and global equities.
Hans-Martin is a CFA charterholder, and holds a degree in Economics from the Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
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Mr George Alvarez joined ChinaTel Group, Inc (OTCBB: CHTL) Board of Directors on April 1st of this year as Chief Executive Officer.
As ChinaTel Group embarks on its campaibn to pursue investment opportunities in the wireless telecommunication industry in the People's Republic of China (PRC), the Board has endorsed Mr. Alvarex's vision, industry experience and leadership. ChinaTel is confident that he will ensure that corporate plans to build and operate a 3.5GHz Wireless broadband system in up to 29 cities across the PRC with future strategies for Argentina and Peru.
Mr Alvarez most recently held the position of Co-Managing Director and Founder of Trussnet USA, Inc.
Mr Alvarez has over twenty years of Telecommunication and construction experience and prior to his tneture at Trussnet, he was Co-Founder, President, Chief Operating Officer and a Director of VelociTel, Inc. (a telecommunications architecture, engineering and construction company) until 2001. In this capacity, Mr Alvarez was involved with the netwrok design and build-out of over 20,000 wireless facilities in the United States and abroad.
In 1993, Mr, Alvarez helped TrussGroup in its beginnings. A licensed contractor in the stat of Arizona, Mr Alvarez's experience in Engineering has served as a catalyst to on-time and under budget delivery of development and construction projects worldwide. Mr Alvarez graduated with Honours from Airco Technical University, in Fullerton, California, and earned his AA degree from Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California.
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Director - PSIF I, Infrastructure Finance Division 1,
Asian Development Bank
Michael Barrow is Director for ADB’s private sector infrastructure operations in South Asia, the Central Asian Republics and the Caucuses. He joined ADB in July 2003.
Prior to joining ADB, Mr. Barrow was Senior Vice President in the Structured Finance Department of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. in Singapore. He also worked for the Deutsche Bank group over the course of 15 years in London, Tokyo and Singapore, lastly as both Director of Project Finance and Transportation.
Mr. Barrow has had extensive experience in project financing, public-private partnerships, privatization advisory, and corporate restructuring in Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East, and has covered most sectors including power, water, oil and gas, transportation, telecommunications and manufacturing.
Whilst with ADB, and before becoming director, Mr. Barrow raised three separate financings for Afghanistan’s leading mobile telecommunications company, amongst the first, and certainly the largest, such financings in the country for many decades. He has also led the limited recourse financing of Pakistan’s first independent hydropower project, the financing of the recently-privatized Karachi Electricity Supply Corporation and of a gas-fired IPP in Pakistan. He is currently overseeing some twenty private infrastructure financings in some ten countries.
Before joining ADB, Mr. Barrow managed financings for projects throughout Asia including power projects in Indonesia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand; oil & gas sector projects in China, Indonesia, Taiwan, and Thailand, transportation projects in South Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand, water projects in Indonesia and the Philippines, telecommunication projects in Indonesia and India and pulp & paper financings in Indonesia and Korea, amongst others.
Mr. Barrow has an MA in Oriental Studies from Oxford University.
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CFA
Principal,
Ennis Knupp Associates
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Male, born in July 1962, Party member, Master Degree
Work Experience
Feb., 2009 to present Director of the Administrative Committee of Yunlong Model Zone in Zhuzhou
Dec., 2009 to present Vice mayor of Zhuzhou
Apr., 2003 to present SG of Zhuzhou Municipal People’s Government,
Director of General Office of Zhuzhou Municipal People’s Government,
Secretary of Party Leadership Group of Zhuzhou Government
Jan., 2001 to Apr., 2003 Deputy SG of Zhuzhou Municipal People’s Government
Apr., 1996 to Jan, 2001 Deputy Director of Policy Research Office of the CPC Zhuzhou
Education
Jul., 2003 to Sep., 2005 on-the-job postgraduate major in Public Management Administration at National University of Defense Technology
Dec., 2005 MBA
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Executive Vice President, Operations,
United Engineers
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CEO,
Brunei Economic Development Board (BEDB)
Mr. Vincent Cheong assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer of The Brunei Economic
Development Board (BEDB) since 15 Oct 2007. The BEDB is a statutory body which was
established on 26 November 2001. BEDB’S mission is to contribute to Brunei Darussalam’s success as a land of opportunity for its people and all investors. The BEDB will focus on creating new value-added economic activities and promoting investments in industries that will
bring new knowledge, new markets and new employment opportunities for Brunei. These
include industries in downstream oil and gas, energy, halal processing, education, infocommunications technology, etc.
Prior to joining the BEDB, Mr. Cheong was the General Manager, Business Development in Hexagon Development Advisors Pte Ltd in Singapore, which provides project advisory and
management services for energy-related projects to government and private enterprises.
Between July 2003 and April 2006, Mr. Cheong was Regional Director, North Asia (based in Tokyo) in the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) responsible for attracting visitors from Japan and Korea to Singapore. Whilst in the STB, he was holding the concurrent appointment of Director, Corporate Planning, in charge of Plans, Analysis and Integration, Research & Statistics and Information Knowledge Management.
He was also Deputy General Manager in SembCorp Gas Pte Ltd, Singapore’s first importer of natural gas, after seven years with the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) from
November 1995 – October 2002. He held various appointments in EDB, including Head of Strategic Planning, Centre Director in EDB’s Tokyo office and Assistant Head of Chemicals Group.
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Mr Cho was appointed as Group Chief Investment Officer and Executive Vice President in December 2008. He is responsible for the Group’s finance activities covering: reporting to the board, shareholders and Singapore Stock Exchange (SGX), budgeting, tax, internal controls, ERP systems and interfacing with auditors and investors. As Investment Head, he oversees projects in infrastructure, used oil recycling and energy, setting up of business trusts, project finance, divestitures as well as managing Hyflux’s investments in JVs and alliances.
Mr Cho joined Hyflux in 2007 as Group Treasurer and Investment Director. In December 2007, Mr Cho successfully led the IPO of Hyflux Water Trust (HWT) on the SGX - the first pure play water business trust to be listed in Singapore.
He has 15 years experience in international finance with MNCs in the US and Singapore, in the areas of financial reporting and budgeting, investor relations, tax, corporate finance, M&A, business analysis, investments, treasury and credit management, project finance, financial risk management and financial planning.
Mr Cho is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), holds a Master's degree in Applied Finance from the National University of Singapore and Bachelor of Accountancy (Honours) from the Nanyang Technological University. He is a qualified member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (UK).
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Managing Director & Co Head,
RREEF Infrastructure Asia Pacific
John Dorrian is a Managing Director of Deutsche Bank AG, Head of RREEF Alternative Investments Australia and Head of RREEF Infrastructure Investments, Asia Pacific. RREEF is the alternative investment management division of Deutsche Asset Management, a member of the Deutsche Bank Group.
He is an Executive Director of Deutsche Asset Management (Australia) Limited and a non executive director of a number of Australian companies including, Australia Pacific Airports Corporation Limited, the Spark Infrastructure Group, CitiPower, Powercor and ETSA Utilities, Northern Gas Networks Holdings Limited (UK) and the Port of Geelong. A Fellow of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, he holds a B.A. in financial management from Macquarie University in Sydney.
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Managing Director, Head of Emerging Asia Economic & Sovereign Research,
JP Morgan
Mr. Fernandez serves as JPMorgan’s Head of Emerging Asia Research team.
Before joining JPMorgan in January 1998, Mr. Fernandez spent five years as a professor of economics at the Johns Hopkins University International Studies School where he taught international macroeconomics. He was named Professor of the Year in 1996.
Earlier, he served as an Economist in the Council of Economic Advisers in the administration of U.S. President George Bush. In 1987, he joined the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in its OECD economic research department and in the foreign exchange intervention group.
Mr. Fernandez has a B.A. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and received a Doctorate in Economics from Princeton University where, as a National Science Foundation fellow, he wrote his dissertation under Ben S. Bernanke.
In addition to his work at JPMorgan, Mr. Fernandez is on the Advisory Board of Singapore Management University’s School of Economics and Social Sciences.
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Global Head of Economics,
Macquarie Bank Limited
Richard Gibbs is Chief Economist and Head of Economics for the Macquarie Group Limited. He has worked for Macquarie for the past 15 years and is responsible for the formulation and presentation of the Group’s economic scenarios and forecasts for Australia, New Zealand, Asia and the major industrial economies. He also acts as a specialist adviser to several of the Group’s major corporate and infrastructure clients.
Richard is widely recognised as one of Australia’s leading global analysts and policy commentators. In the 2005, 2006 and 2007 Greenwich surveys of institutional investors, Richard and his team were ranked number one for Australian economic and market research by investors in the US, the United Kingdom/Europe and Asia. In Australia, the team is also ranked number one by major institutional and pension fund investors.
He also provides regular briefings to the Australia-China Business Council (ACBC) and frequently delivers the ACBC’s China Economic Updates. Richard regularly provides commentary on economic and business developments in Australasia and East Asia for CNN, CNBC Asia and BBC World. Richard also acts as Consultant Chief Economist to the Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank in the United Arab Emirates and the Middle East region.
Richard holds a Masters degree in Economics and Finance and a Masters degree in Business Administration as well as a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment. He is also a Trustee of the Committee for the Economic Development of Australia (CEDA), member of the executive committee of the Australian Business Economists and a member of the advisory board for the Centre for Middle Eastern and Central Asian studies at the Australian National University. Richard is also a member of the Board of Youth Off The Streets and is Chairman of the Board Development Committee.
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Assistant Vice President, , Private Infrastructure,
Partners Group (UK) Limited
Benjamin Haan is responsible for the assessment of all infrastructure fund and direct investments in the Asia-Pacific region for Partners Group. He has been a member of the private infrastructure investments team at Partners Group since 2007 and relocated to Sydney from Switzerland in 2008.
Prior to joining Partners Group, he was a manager at Accenture where he worked for seven years on a number of consulting projects for clients such as BAA, British Telecom, Unilever, Sandvik, UBS and the Australian Tax Office. He holds an MBA (High Distinction) from Monash Business School and a bachelor’s degree in business (distinction) from the Queensland University of Technology.
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Mr / Sh. Gajendra Haldea,
Adviser on Infrastructure, Planning Commission,
Government of India.
Gajendra Haldea graduated in Economics and Law at the University of Rajasthan and joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1973. He later went for a Fellowship at the London School of Economics.
Among a wide array of assignments, he has spent 10 years with the Union Finance Ministry where he was last posted as Joint Secretary (Infrastructure) until November 1998. From 2000 to 2003, he was Chief Adviser and Head of the Centre for Infrastructure and Regulation at the National Council for Applied Economic Research, New Delhi. From 2004 onwards, he is Adviser to Deputy Chairman and Principal Adviser (Infrastructure) at Planning Commission
The combination of law, economics and finance coupled with his extensive experience in several sectors of the economy have placed him in a unique position for contributing to the evolution of the framework and policies for privatisation of infrastructure services.
His work in the power sector, particularly in the evaluation and approval of Power Purchase Agreements in India is widely recognised. He reviewed and improved upon a number of high-profile private power projects seeking Central Government support. This led to tariff reduction, and also limited the risks to the exchequer, besides establishing norms and principles for private power projects throughout the country.
While serving in the Finance Ministry, he drafted the Foreign Exchange Management Bill that has since been enacted by the Parliament. The new law mandates full convertibility on current account and enables phased transition towards capital account convertibility.
While in the Ministry of Finance, he was responsible for infrastructure sectors, exchange control, economic relations with the Americas, Project Monitoring Unit and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) portfolio. He was closely involved in policy formulation and implementation relating to infrastructure sectors. He also made significant improvements to the ADB portfolio in India including a sharp increase in disbursement ratios reaching a record 30 percent plus.
In his different assignments over the years, he has been responsible for dealing with the World Bank, Asian Development Bank and various bilateral developmental agencies such as USAID, CIDA, JICA, etc. and has formulated and negotiated several infrastructure projects with these agencies.
He has served on the Boards of National Thermal Power Corporation, Indian Railways Finance Corporation, Central Bank of India, Bank of India, and Andrew Yule and Company besides being a member of several committees on infrastructure. He is currently on the Board of the Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation Ltd.
He has presented several reports of far-reaching significance, particularly in the area of privatisation of infrastructure services. He was a member of several Expert Committees/ Steering Committees at the national level dealing with energy, infrastructure and competition. He was a member of the Expert Group constituted by Government of India under the chairmanship of Dr. Rakesh Mohan on commercialisation of infrastructure. He was also a member of the Expert Group constituted by Government of India on reform and restructuring of the power sector. The Group was constituted following a resolution of the Chief Ministers’ Conference on power reforms, presided by the Prime Minister in March 2001. Mr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia chaired the Expert Group.
He drafted the Electricity Bill, 2001 for the Government of India as a part of the restructuring and modernisation of electricity industry in India. The Bill was evolved in consultation with stakeholders as well as international and national experts, and is widely regarded as a comprehensive and modern legislation. The said draft Bill, as modified by the Power Ministry, was enacted by the Parliament in 2003.
He was chairperson of the Expert Group set up by the Government of Punjab for restructuring and reform of the power sector. He was also Advisor (Power reforms) to the Government of Punjab, besides being a member of the Punjab Infrastructure Development Board chaired by the Chief Minister of Punjab.
He was also Advisor (Power reforms and restructuring) to the Government of Assam which had initiated power reforms with assistance from the Asian Development Bank. He is the author of the Assam Electricity Bill that was passed by the State Legislative Assembly on April 8, 2003.
He was Advisor (Power reforms) to the Government of Rajasthan. He also advised the Government of Rajasthan on commercialisation of infrastructure services and drafted the model framework for privatization of state highways.
He advised the Government of Chhattisgarh on the legal and policy framework for BOT road projects. He was on the board of the Chhattisgarh Infrastructure Development Corporation (CIDC) chaired by the Chief Minister. He was also the Advisor to Government of Punjab on Public Private Partnerships for State Highway projects. In that capacity, he was responsible for structuring road projects in the State.
He drafted, in 1998, a Model Concession Agreement (MCA) for award of national highway projects on BOT basis. The MCA forms the basis of several BOT projects that have since been awarded by NHAI, including the Jaipur-Kishangarh highway and the Delhi- Gurgaon expressway. Several States have also relied on the MCA.
His book “Indian Highways: A framework for commercialization” was released in October 2000. The concession framework contained in this book has formed the basis of several BOT projects in India. An updated version of the MCA drafted by him has since been adopted by the Government for Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) in national highway projects. He has also authored Model Concession Agreements for PPPs in Metro Rail Projects, Airports, Ports, Railway Stations, State Highways and Operation & Maintenance of Highways. He has also authored a Model Procurement-cum-Maintenance Agreement for Locomotives. He also led the effort to streamline and standardise the bidding processes and documents.
His current responsibilities in the Planning Commission include reform of the infrastructure sectors. He also heads the Secretariat for the Committee on Infrastructure (CoI), which was constituted under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister with the objectives of initiating policies that would ensure time-bound creation of world class infrastructure. He was also a member of various Inter-Ministerial Committees that were constituted in furtherance of the objectives of CoI. In this capacity, he has made vital contribution in the evolution of policy frameworks across several infrastructure sectors. Prominent among them include the modernisation of Delhi and Mumbai Airports, privatisation of container train operations, appraisal and approval procedure for PPP projects and financing of infrastructure projects.
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Michael Halford is a partner in the Private Funds Group of SJ Berwin LLP. Michael specialises in the area of infrastructure and private equity investment fund structuring. He acts for managers and investors covering a wide range of funds, incentive schemes and co-investment arrangements. Michael acts for a wide range of investment houses including PAI Partners, 3i, Macquarie, First State, Pantheon, Apax, Capital Dynamics, Invesco, BNP Paribas, Electra and Patron. He has developed a particular specialism in acting for infrastructure funds acting for many of the major houses on their direct funds and fund of funds.
Michael was included in the 2008 Financial News 100 Rising Stars in the world of finance and is recognised in Chambers as a leading adviser in Private Equity Funds. He is also listed in the "Guide to the World’s Leading Investment Funds’ Lawyers"
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Managing Director, Head of Infrastructure,
JP Morgan
Philip Jackson, managing director, is Chief Executive of J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s Asia Infrastructure Investments. Philip has 28 years experience in infrastructure investment and corporate finance both as a banker and originally as a lawyer in the City of London. Since 1980 he has been heavily involved with energy and infrastructure projects and companies including power, water and gas, rail, toll roads and other social infrastructure. He has advised on government privatizations in 10 countries and has been involved in asset acquisitions, valuations and divestments of infrastructure assets throughout Asia both at the greenfield and operating levels, for publicly listed and privately owned companies. Philip is a member of JPMAM’s Asian Business Management Committee. He read law at Cambridge University.
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Head of Structured Finance Asia Pacific,
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
Rajeev Kannan is Head of Structured Finance Asia Pacific team of SMBC and specializes in project and structured finance. He is based in Singapore and covers transactions across the Asia Pacific region. Rajeev has advised clients and arranged debt across various sectors including Oil & Gas, Power, Petrochemicals, Transportation, Shipping, Aviation and Urban Infrastructure. Rajeev has been with SMBC for over 10 years and is currently responsible for a team of over 45 persons across the region. Prior to SMBC, Rajeev worked for ICICI Bank in Mumbai.
Rajeev has a mechanical engineering degree and is a MBA degree holder.
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Managing Director,
Morgan Stanley
Deven Karnik is a Managing Director based in Hong Kong at Morgan Stanley Infrastructure
("MSI") . With over 19 years of experience in the industry, Deven has broad experience in
acquisitions across a range of infrastructure sectors including electricity, water, gas, airports and telecom.
During his career, Deven has participated in several key industry trends, including the
privatization wave of Asian infrastructure assets, the rationalization of global infrastructure
portfolios by strategic investors and the direct investment into infrastructure assets by pension
and other infrastructure funds. Deven has acted for both financial and strategic infrastructure
investors including some of the major pension funds as well as the largest utility companies
operating in Europe and Asia.
Prior to joining Morgan Stanley in May 2009, Deven spent 11 years with Dresdner Kleinwort
based in London, Hong Kong and Mumbai, most recently as a Managing Director and head of
the Asia power and utility business. During his time with Dresdner Kleinwort, Deven
accumulated experience in infrastructure M&A in Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific.
While based in Asia, Deven advised on several notable power transactions including the sale of interests in Meiya Power Company in China, CBK Hydro in the Philippines, and Powergen's
Asia Pacific generation portfolio. In India, he advised state governments of Orissa and Haryana on the privatization of electricity distribution companies, the Steel Authority of India on the sale of its captive power plants, the Government of India on the global depositary receipt offerings of VSNL and GAIL and the Tata Group on the sale of its cement companies. In Thailand, Deven has advised the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand on the privatization of Ratchaburi Electricity Generating Company.
Outside of Asia, Deven advised on several UK infrastructure transactions, including the
acquisition of regional gas networks of South of England and Scotland, and the sale of AES's
interests in the Medway power plant. He has also led several landmark water transactions
including the acquisition of Esval, AdV, Essbio and ANSM water utilities in Chile, and the sale
of AWG's water business in the Czech Republic.
Prior to joining Dresdner Kleinwort, Deven was employed by Jardine Fleming in Mumbai.
Deven is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and a
graduate of Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics in Mumbai.
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Deputy General Director,
State Capital Investment Corporation, SCIC
Le Song Lai is currently the Deputy General Director of the State Capital Investment Corporation (SCIC) – a newly established strategic investment arm of the Vietnamese Government. Joining SCIC from the first days of its operations in August 2006, Mr. Lai is responsible for new investment projects, legal affairs, partnership development, IT and strategic planning.
Lai has 10 years experience as an insurance regulator including three years acting as a Deputy Insurance Commissioner. In his regulatory capacity, Lai was mostly responsible for legal and licensing issues.
Before joining the Ministry of Finance in 1996, he has practiced as a local lawyer for Freshfields Hanoi Branch. He has bachelor degrees in Law and Finance-Banking and a LL.M degree from the University of Cambridge.
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Principal, Senior investment manager (alternative),
Horizon21
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Asia Managing Partner,
SJ Berwin LLP
Daniel Liew is the Asia Managing Partner of SJ Berwin LLP. Daniel’s legal practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate, private equity, infrastructure funds, strategic alliances, joint ventures in China, Hong Kong and other parts of East Asia. Daniel has advised clients in equity capital markets and project finance transactions. The transactions and projects that Daniel has advised on over the last two decades are primarily in the infrastructure, power, water, telecommunications, energy, natural resources and steel industries.
Daniel is recognised as a Leading Lawyer by Asia Pacific Legal 500 and recommended for infrastructure, energy, power, water and telecommunications transactions. Asia Pacific Legal 500 commented on him as follows: “Extremely able partner Daniel Liew…offer[s] clients a wealth of experience advising sponsors and financiers on infrastructure projects, particularly in the energy and telecom sectors”. Daniel is named a Leading Expert by International Financial Law Review’s Guide to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms. He is recognised as one of the World's Leading Energy and Natural Resources Lawyers and named one of the World's Leading Project Finance Lawyers by International Financial Law Review and Euromoney.
Daniel is admitted to practice law in England and Hong Kong. Apart from legal qualifications, legal expertise and extensive legal practice experience, he holds a MBA degree. Daniel is completely bilingual in English and Mandarin Chinese; and he is also fluent in Bahasa Malaysia and Bahasa Indonesia.
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Former Managing Director, Head of Infrastructure Investment,
China Ping An Trust & Investment Co., Ltd.
Joseph Lim is Managing Director and Head of Infrastructure Investment of China Ping An Trust & Investment Co., Ltd. He built and manages a team of 18 professionals engaged in the development and management of investments in the infrastructure sector for China Ping An Group’s insurance and other funds, whose infrastructure investments now exceed USD 1.5 billion equivalent, and is spread across the toll-road, water, energy and rail industries. Based in China for Ping An since 2006, Mr. Lim has over 15 years' experience in infrastructure sector investment, financing, PPP’s, and restructurings in Asia, including China, South Korea, Hong Kong, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, India and Indonesia. Prior to Ping An, he was Calyon’s Director and Head of Infrastructure Asia where he worked for over 13 years in the bank's branches in Hong Kong, Singapore and Thailand. Mr. Lim graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration (Honors, Dean’s Distinction).
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Section chief, Public-Private-Parterships Taskforce,
Public Construction Commission
Education
MSc, Construction Economics and Management, University College London, University of London (2005/09)
MSc, Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei, Taiwan(1997/06)
Expertise
Major infrastructure planning and evaluation
Public Private Partnerships
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Senior Investment Manager,
Swedfund International AB
Ulf Linders is Regional Manager Asia and Renewables of Sweden's Development Finance Institution for investments in emerging markets.
Ulf Linders has extensive experience from various business sectors in many countries. Earlier appointments include President of ABB Leasing GmbH, Mannheim;
Vice President ABB Europe Ltd, Brussels; Senior Banker at European Bank/EBRD, London as well as facilitator for OEM production originated in China.
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Principal Urban Development Specialist,
ADB
Michael Lindfield is an economist/ financial analyst with over twenty years experience in international development. He is currently a Principal Urban Development Specialist with ADB's Regional and Sustainable Development Department, Special Initiatives Group, and has primary responsibility for urban sector activities within the Department. He has been involved in several large urban renewal, urban infrastructure and regional development projects in both Indonesia and the Philippines.
Prior to joining the ADB, he worked as Head of the Housing Department of the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies in the Netherlands and as Deputy Director/ Senior Research Fellow, in the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute at the Queensland University of Technology. During that time, he has worked as a consultant for the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and the United Nations, as well as for private sector and government agencies, in India, Thailand, Indonesia Malaysia, the Philippines, SriLanka, Bangladesh, Vietnam, China and Fiji as well as in a number of African, Middle East and Latin American countries. He has also had experience of working with Commonwealth, State and local governments in Australia.
His fields of expertise are urban renewal, local government finance, regional economic development and infrastructure finance. He has a Bachelors degree in Architecture from Sydney University and a Masters degree in Commerce from the University of New South Wales in Australia. He obtained his PhD in Economics, which focused on risk assessment for private sector finance of infrastructure provision, from Erasmus University in the Netherlands.
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Managing Director,
Infrastructure Finance Corporation Ltd
Mr. Lufkin has been active as an entrepreneur in international investments since 1981, when he was appointed by HSBC as Managing Director and Chairman of its new asset management subsidiaries Marine Midland (C.I.) Ltd. and Intercurrency Fund Limited. From 1985-9, he ran Hopwood Investments Limited, a Jersey-based equity hedge fund active in UK and US takeovers and special situations, and advised US banks including Boston Safe (now Mellon Trust), Fleet Norstar, State Street, and First Union on securities trading and processing systems.
In 1989, he founded Boston-based Global Proxy Services Corporation (GPSC), which grew rapidly to represent many major investors including CalPERS, CalSTRS, OMERS, the pension funds of the World Bank, United Nations, IBM and many other major corporations, JP Morgan Investment Management, S G Warburg, Morgan Stanley Trust Company, Bank of Ireland, GT Global, Citibank, Cedel Bank, Bank of New York, Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., inter alia as legal proxy and governance advisor in dealings with listed investee companies worldwide. By 1996, GPSC held voting rights over more than $200BN in listed equities in 53 countries for more than 1,200 institutional accounts. Following Mr. Lufkin’s sale of GPSC’s institutional proxy business to Automated Data Processing (NYSE:ADP) in 1997, GPSC acted as international proxy solicitor to listed corporations including San Miguel (Philippines), Unicredito (Italy), and several major Japanese companies.
He has been a consultant to the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Manila since 1998, working on privatizations, private equity and infrastructure funds, trust funds and other financing vehicles. He was lead consultant on establishment of the Asia Pacific Carbon Fund, a $150M fund for European governments to meet their emission reduction obligations under the Kyoto Protocol, and acted for ADB as advisor to the Government of China (NDRC & MOF) on the creation of its new $ multi-billion China CDM Fund and management entity. Since 2006, he has been associated with the Cities Development Initiative for Asia (CDIA), the flagship urban infrastructure program of the ADB and the governments of Germany, Sweden and Spain.
Mr. Lufkin is also founder and Director of Infrastructure Finance Corporation Limited (IFCL), and co-founder and Director of INEX Infrastructure Exchange Limited. INEX is an innovative web-based portal and transaction processing platform, partnering in Asia with ADB to bring improved market infrastructure to the infrastructure market.
He is the co-author of Market Survey of Subnational Finance in Asia and the Pacific, (ADB, Manila 2008), and author/editor of International Corporate Governance (Euromoney Books: 1st edition 1991 & 2nd edition 2004) and wrote "Models for Development of Shari'a-Compliant Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds", published in Islamic Asset Management, (Euromoney Books 2004), as well as numerous articles on corporate governance and international finance for Global Investor, Global Custodian, and other publications, and has been featured widely over the years in the international financial press.
A Yale graduate (BA 1976), Mr. Lufkin worked at Sotheby's and at Christie's in London and New York before entering banking. He also served several terms on various international committees of the Republican National Committee in Washington and worked with the US Treasury department on bilateral investment and corporate governance aspects of the US-Japan Strategic Impediments Initiative (SII) talks in 1990-91. He enjoys horses, dogs, music, books and antique cars, and lives in Manila.
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Asia Chief Economist,
Societe Generale
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Robert is a Singapore-based Partner of Actis, one of the leading private equity investors in emerging markets with over US$7.6bn in funds under management. Prior to joining Actis in April 2008, Robert spent over ten years in Hong Kong investment banking with Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, Societe Generale and most recently with UBS where he was responsible for their power & utilities business in Asia. Before coming to Asia, Robert was employed in senior roles within the UK energy industry – as Head of Corporate Strategy for British Energy, as Head of Marketing & Business Planning for Scottish Hydro-Electric and he started his working career with an eleven year period working for BP Oil, latterly as the CEO of a downstream subsidiary in England. Robert has a BSc Hons in Applied Chemistry from the University of Strathclyde and an MBA from Strathclyde Graduate Business School.”
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Chief Executive Officer,
GMR International
Ranjit Murugason is the Chief Executive Officer of GMR International, the international business division of the GMR Group. A major global infrastructure company, with interests in airports, power generation, toll roads and urban infrastructure, the GMR Group is the world’s fourth largest private airport operator with 35 million passengers per annum, and one of the largest power generation companies with close to 9,000MW in operation and 8,000MW under development. Headquartered in London, GMR International has regional offices in Istanbul (for Middle East & North Africa) and Singapore (for South East Asia), to oversee the management of existing assets, including Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen International Airport, major global power operator and developer InterGen (based in Amsterdam and Boston) and the future global expansion of the GMR Group.
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CEO, Invest in Vietnam,
Vietnam Investment Network Corp.
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Managing Director,
IDFC Project Equity Company
Vikram is an investment professional with over 17 years of experience in private
equity and finance both in India and Europe.
He is currently an MD with IDFC Project Equity Company, set up in 2007, as the
manager of the US$ 1.25 billion ‘India Infrastructure Fund’ ("IIF"). IIF invests equity
in core infrastructure projects in India, in the energy, utilities, transportation and
telecommunication sectors. IIF aims to generate long term yield-based income in
addition to capital gains.
Prior to joining IDFC, Vikram held a senior and active investment role from 1999-
2007 in the telecom team of ABN Amro Capital in Amsterdam. Over this period, his
group was involved in the investment and management of equity participations
(expansion stakes and in LBO) in 17 investments across nine countries. Vikram has
worked on, amongst others, landmark investments in the German and Polish cable
TV sector, in the Bulgarian, Czech and Dutch wireless space, and in some Brazilian
and Benelux-wide fiber rollouts.
Prior to ABN Amro Capital, Vikram worked for six years with ANZ Grindlays Bank in
India.
Vikram completed his MBA from INSEAD (France) and holds an honours degree in
commerce from the Shriram College of Commerce in Delhi University
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Executive Director & Chief Economist, Greater China,
Morgan Stanley
Mr. Qing Wang is the Chief Economist for Greater China. Qing joined Morgan Stanley in May 2007 from Bank of America where he was the Head of Economics & Strategy for Greater China. Prior to that, Mr. Wang spent six years as an economist with the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. covering member countries in Asia, Eastern Europe, and Middle East. He was also actively involved in strengthening and implementing IMF’s surveillance policy framework.
Mr. Wang holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Maryland at College Park, USA with concentrations in international economics and public finance. He also holds a B.A. in Economics and an M.A. in Macroeconomic Management from Renmin University of China.
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Chief Economist and Strategist,
CITIC Ka Wah Bank
Dr. Qun Liao is currently working as Senior Vice President, Chief Economist/Strategist for China Banking at CITIC Ka Wah Bank, engaging in macroeconomic analysis, industry studies and market research as well as the strategy & planning for the Bank’s China business. Dr. Liao worked at Standard Chartered Bank as Senior Economist during De. 1995 - July. 2002, and at the State Planning Commission of China as Senior Economist and Division Chief of the Economic Forecasting Division during 1984-1991. He received the PhD in Economics from the University of Oxford in 1997.
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Head of Infrastructure,
New Zealand Superannuation Fund
David Rae is a Senior Analyst Research, Private Markets, for the Guardians of New Zealand Superannuation (Guardians). He is involved in reviewing the private market investment activities of the New Zealand Superannuation Fund. This includes analysis of investment opportunities, developing the Fund’s analytic investment framework and monitoring our investment managers.
Prior to joining the Guardians in December 2007, David was Head of the European Union/Ireland Country Desk at the OECD in Paris. He has additional experience at the OECD as the Head of the Sweden/Denmark Country Desk, Economist on Canada/New Zealand Country Desk, and as a Macroeconomic Analyst. Prior to that, David was an Economist at The National Bank of New Zealand and at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. He holds a Master of Science in Economics from the London School of Economics and Bachelor of Social Science (with honours) in Physics and Economics from the University of Waikato.
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Founder & Chief Executive Officer,
C change Investments
Prior to founding C Change Investments in 2008, Dr. Read served as Chief Investment Officer for America’s largest pension fund, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS). During his tenure, he redirected the portfolio toward burgeoning international and natural resources opportunities, introduced its Commodities and Infrastructure investment programs, re-established and enhanced its Forestland investment program, and established its clean technology and environmental investment efforts as the leader among institutional investors all while producing superior returns among public pension plans. Dr. Read also introduced “Principles and Practices for Hedge Fund Investors” (www.amaicmte.org) in 2008 as Chairman of the Investors’ Committee for the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets intended to establish best, accepted, and common practices for healthy investment in hedge funds for a broad spectrum of investors.
Prior to CalPERS, Dr. Read served as Deputy Chief Investment Officer for Deutsche (Bank) Asset Management (Americas) and Scudder Investments and also served as Head of Quantitative Investing, Product Design, Risk Management, and Commodities Investing at OppenheimerFunds. He also held senior investment, portfolio management, and economist positions at Prudential, CNA Insurance, and First Chicago. Over a twenty-five year career, Dr. Read introduced many retail and institutional investors to productive investment in commodities through the highly successful and first commodities-based mutual fund (the Oppenheimer Real Asset Fund) and played a leading role in the development of effective investment geared toward natural resources, clean technologies, and the environment.
Dr. Read is a founder of the P8 Group of the world’s eight largest pension systems coordinating towards scalable green investment solutions and has provided critical testimony to institutional investors, the press, state legislators, federal regulators, the US Treasury, the US Congress, the US Senate, and the United Nations on how to invest effectively while protecting and enhancing the environment. He was recognized by SmartMoney in 2007 in its Power 30 list of the most influential people in business and finance and by Institutional Investor in 2008 as #35 on its list of the 75 most effective chief executives.
He received his undergraduate degree in Statistics and his M.B.A. in Finance and International Business both from the University of Chicago where he was one of eight in his M.B.A. graduating class of 630 to receive Honors. He received his masters degree in Economics and his doctorate in Political Economy from Stanford University. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (C.F.A.), a Chartered Life Underwriter (C.L.U.), and a Chartered Financial Consultant (Ch.F.C.). He serves as a board member of the UK-based Hedge Fund Standards Board and the environmental foundation ERTHNXT. Dr. Read is married to Dr. Andrea Read who directs the Newforest Institute dedicated to land restoration and community-based forestry. They have three children and live in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Brooks, Maine.
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Director - General,
National Economic Development Authority
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CEO,
Aedas Architects Ltd
David has over 21 years of experience as an architect in Hong Kong and Asia. As Aedas Asia CEO, David has often been at the forefront in establishing new links in international markets including China, North and South Asia, India and the Middle East and more recently in Europe and the Americas. Also as a Global Board Director, his forward-looking business strategies have consistently created numerous opportunities for Aedas in various sectors and markets, not only generating significant commissions and he also strategically forges strategic alliances with Government Agencies, Developers and Engineering partners around the world. David continues to be involved in some of the larger projects by Aedas with an emphasis on rail and air transportation and infrastructure, significant recent projects include the North Satellite Terminal of the Hong Kong International Airport; the design of more than 10 stations and 3 depots for MTRC Hong Kong, 12 MRT stations and 1 depot of Downtown Line Phase 1 and another 4 stations of Downtown Line Phase 3 in Singapore; 4 stations of Delhi Metro, 47 stations and 2 depots of the Dubai Metro.
David believes good design should be a given with any Aedas project; the real challenge is now very much in designing ever more sustainable buildings.
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Executive Director, Macquarie Infrastructure Management,
Macquarie Capital Funds
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Co-Head of Asian Infrastructure,
AMP Capital Investors
Mr Anoop Seth spearheads AMP Capital’s infrastructure investments in Asia, and is Co-Head of the AMP Capital Asian Giants Infrastructure Fund. He joined AMP Capital Investors in 2007 from ABN AMRO, where he was Executive Director responsible for public sector businesses in India. A key achievement was his role in advising the Government of India during the privatisation of the Mumbai and Delhi airports – India’s largest privatisation to date. Mr Seth has previously worked as Vice President with Bechtel Enterprises, focussing on equity investment opportunities in a range of infrastructure sectors – airports, power, rail and water both within India and the UK. As Vice President Finance of Reliance Industries, Mr Seth was a senior member of the financing team for the US$4 billion integrated petrochemical and infrastructure complex at Jamnagar. Mr Seth has also been Chief Financial Officer of Infrastructure Development Finance Corporation (IDFC), India’s premier infrastructure financing company. Mr Seth holds a MMS (Finance) degree from Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani. As well as English, Mr Seth is also proficient in Hindi and Punjabi.
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Joint Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer,
JSW Infrastructure Ltd
CAPT. BVJK SHARMA, a Master Mariner, joined JSW, A US$4 BILLION GROUP in 2003, as JOINT MANAGING DIRECTOR & CEO - INFRASTRUCTURE and is one of the key men behind the phenomenal success of the Group.
JSW Infrastructure is setting up Mega Greenfield ports on the Eastern and the Western coasts of India and overseas as well. In addition to the development of Maritime infrastructure the company is spearheading into the development of Special Economic Zones, ship building and ship repair, Inland Water Transport facilities and Road/Rail connectivity from plants/mines to ports at various locations in India & abroad under his leadership. Apart from this he is also the chairman for the Coal mining business in Mozambique.
Under his aegis, JSW Infrastructure ltd. has successfully commissioned 7.5mtpa modern mechanized import bulk terminal in Goa. He is presently steering a 30MTPA Greenfield multi cargo port in Jaigarh towards the successful commissioning of its phase one in mid-2009.
Prior to JSW he was associated with Mundra Port from the inception of its first berth till the commissioning of its container terminal and with Essar Steel as In-charge for port and shipping operations.
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Joint Managing Director,
Srei Infrastructure Finance Ltd
Mr. Saud Siddique assumed the position of Joint Managing Director of Srei Infrastructure Finance Limited (Srei) on April 1, 2009. He has been a Director on the Board of Srei since 2007. He spearheads Srei’s infrastructure activities, including project finance, venture capital, and other growth initiatives. Mr. Siddique has more than 25 years of investment and operating company experience in the infrastructure sector globally. Previously, he worked with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank, for more than 16 years.
While at the IFC in Washington D.C., Mr. Siddique led several investment transactions in the field of project finance, and structured debt and equity investments in the infrastructure sectors in high growth markets such as India, China, Bangladesh, and other countries in Asia and Latin America regions. He was in charge of IFC’s investment in Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC) in India. He has also been in charge of IFC’s investment in the first infrastructure fund for emerging markets, and the first mezzanine fund for infrastructure in Asia. Mr. Siddique has experience in various infrastructure sectors such as power, water, shipping, aviation, roads, renewable energy, logistics, etc. From 2004-2007, he was based out of Hong Kong, and was the head of business development for infrastructure projects in the East Asia and Pacific regions for IFC.
Mr. Siddique has also worked with the Swiss Bank Corporation in New York, where he was responsible for structured finance, leveraged buyouts, leveraged leasing, asset securitization transactions, and investments in municipal infrastructure projects, all in the U.S. He was also in charge of investments in a California-based start-up airline, and one of the first waste-to-energy conversion projects in the U.S.
Mr. Siddique also served as the CEO and Board Member of a publicly listed water infrastructure fund in Singapore. He had the overall responsibility for the fund’s investment performance, operational strategy, portfolio management, and investor relations. He successfully led the global institutional investor placement effort and IPO listing of the fund on the Mainboard Singapore Stock Exchange. He was a member of the top management of Hyflux Ltd. in Singapore, one of the leading water infrastructure companies globally. He was the Chairman of the Board of 11 water project companies in China.
Mr. Siddique holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from the University of Maryland, U.S.A., and an MBA from Cornell University, U.S.A.
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President & CEO,
IDFC Project Equity Company
Mr. M. K. Sinha – Mr. Sinha is the President & CEO of IDFC Project Equity. He has over
18 years of experience in private equity, project finance, corporate finance and
investment banking. Prior to IDFC, MK worked with GE Commercial Finance for over
10 yrs in various roles across U.S.A., London, Hong Kong, Singapore and India. He is a
Mechanical Engineer from IIT Kharagpur and an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad.
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Deputy Minister, Infrastructure & Regional Development,
The National Committee for the Acceleration of Infrastructure Provision (KKPPI)
Dr Susantono is the Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Regional Development at the Office of the Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs, the Republic of Indonesia. Beside in the government, he is also the President of Indonesia Transport Society; Vice President of East Asia Society of Transportation Studies (EASTS) based in Tokyo, Japan; and member of Board of Trustee of the Southsouth North Foundation in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Dr. Bambang Susantono holds a Bachelor in Civil Engineering from the Bandung Institute of Technology, a Master of Science in Civil Engineering (MSCE) in Transportation Engineering, a Master of City and Regional Planning (MCP), and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), all from the University of California at Berkeley. He teaches at the Graduate Program of Civil Engineering at the University of Indonesia.
Dr. Susantono wrote several books and articles both in Indonesia and in English. His area of research and interest is in infrastructure planning and transportation engineering.
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Director, Company No.508 ,
The Civil Engineering Construction Corporation No.5
Main business professions of company: construction of civil engineering, industry, irrigation, hydroelectric works. To produce and supply construction materials, To repair construction equipment and mechanical products. To invest, construct and trade in infrastructures of industrial zone, resident and urban resident areas and real estate.
Profession: Electric Engineer
Graduated: Polytechnic University of Hồ Chí Minh City
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Head of Debt Capital Market, Asia,
ANZ
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Chief Investment Officer,
Capital Innovations
Michael is the Chief Investment Officer of Capital Innovations. He is responsible for managing all of the firm’s investment activities and chairing the firm's Investment Committee. In addition, Michael serves on several advisory boards on behalf of Capital Innovations and its clients.
Michael is a frequently quoted expert on the infrastructure industry, both in the print and broadcast media. He has been quoted extensively and has served as a resource in Dow Jones Publications, Investments Pensions Europe, The Economist, Pension and Investments and numerous industry journals. In addition, Michael has appeared on dozens of conference panels and speaking engagements as an Infrastructure Industry expert. His forthcoming book entitled, “The Handbook of Infrastructure Investing” will be published by Wiley publications in Autumn 2009.
Prior to founding Capital Innovations, Michael was a Managing Director at an $18 billion dollar private equity firm where he was involved in the direct investment, co-investment and asset management businesses. He began his career 18 years ago with Lehman Brothers working on quantitative analysis of fixed income securities.
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Senior Advisor,
National Economic and Social Development Board
Dr. Porametee Vimolsiri is a senior advisor to Office of the National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB), in the Office of the Prime Minister, a position equivalent to the Deputy Secretary General level.
He graduated from Chulalongkorn University with the Bachelor Degree in Economics. He completed his Masters Degree in International Affairs from Columbia University, New York, USA and a Ph.D in Economics from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
His responsibility at NESDB is to oversee the Macroeconomic Office, the National Account Office, and the International Economic Policy and Cooperation Office. Concurrently, he is a board member of the Neighbouring Countries Economic Development Cooperation Agency (Public Organization), Thailand Productivity Institute, Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand (MRTA) and Halal Science Center. He is also a board member of the Thailand Economic Association and frequently gives lectures at various academic institutions in Thailand.
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Minister,
Ministry of Planning & Investment
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Mr Christoph von Waldersee,
Managing Director, The Sustainonomics Group,
Asia Water Development Corporation Limited
Active in China since 1984 and based there now for almost 10 years, Christoph Waldersee brings a broad sector and country based knowledge, experience and contacts in the public, environmental, financial and infrastructure sectors and in particular the water sector.
A multilateral development finance specialist, and former executive of German development bank DEG, now part of KfW, he later led a major EU environmental project in China (2000-2003). Today, Christoph continues to advise Chinese cities regarding finance of infrastructure and sustainable urban development through government funded development programmes.
Throughout the past 20 years he has been working with companies and government institutions in China as in other countries structuring BOT/TOT finance for the water sector, energy and energy efficiency projects, for the industrial and infrastructure sector, related technology transfer and more recently CDM projects, including relevant joint venture contracts, now also including Vietnam.
Christoph is a founding partner of three China-based infrastructure investment and advisory partnerships, two of which are foreign-domestic joint ventures focused on making investments in the Chinese water sector (water supply and highly energy efficient wastewater treatment).
Christoph is co-founder and joint Managing Director of AWDC, the Asia Water Development Corporation Ltd. (HK).
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Principal , Asia,
Pantheon Capital
Alex focuses on infrastructure, venture and growth equity. Most recently, Alex was a Director at Citi Private Bank with a focus working with financial sponsors including private equity and venture funds. He previously spent nine years as a partner at Boston Capital Ventures where he sourced, structured and managed investments in the areas of business process outsourcing and distribution as well as the areas of information, hospitality and transportation services. Prior to working for Boston Capital Ventures, he served as Commercial Manager Eastern China for the Fednav Group, as well as in management positions for Cathay Pacific Airways and Dragonair in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Jakarta. Alex has a BA from Yale University and an MBA from Columbia Business School. Alex speaks Mandarin and is based in Hong Kong.
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President,
Pan-China Construction Group
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Adviser (Public Private Partnership), Governance & Institutional Development Division ,
Commonwealth Secretariat
HK Yong is the Adviser (PPP & Corporate Governance), the Commonwealth Secretariat, London, providing advisory and capacity-building support to the 54 member countries. He holds a B.Eng (Hons) in Civil and Structural Engineering (UK), an MBA (UK), and a Diploma in Corporate Treasury (UK), and a PG Diploma in Islamic Studies from the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilisation (IIUM), KL . He also qualified as a Chartered Accountant (England and Wales) and attended Harvard University Privatisation course.
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Managing Director, Head of Special Investments Department,
China Investment Corporation
Mr. ZHOU Yuan is head of Alternative Asset Investment Department of China Investment Corporation. Mr. Zhou started his career in finance and investing in 1988 at State Street Bank in Boston, where he served as Vice President and Director of Research until 1994. After that, he was UBS' senior-most banker in China between 1994 and 1998. In 1998, Mr. Zhou took a senior position at Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd. He left the bourse operator in 2000 and since then has held executive positions at a number of organizations. Prior to joining CIC, Mr. Zhou was Executive Vice Chairman of Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange.
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Principal,
BAZO Investments (Asia) Ltd.
Xiaoping, principal of BAZO, has over 22 years of urban and real estate development related experience of which 12 focused on the China’s market. Since year 2000, Xiaoping has been leading BAZO in advising 20 China’s cities governments in over 1,350 square kilometers urban development and large scale infrastructure projects.
He is a frequent speaker at international conferences on topics of China’s investment opportunities. His book “Creative China City” sets new standards for urban development by emphasizing a balance process of positioning – planning – promoting – financing.
Xiaoping graduated from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute (USA) with a professional degree in Architecture. He also serves as the vice secretary general of the China Commercial Real Estate Association. He has taught at the China Pudong Executive Leadership Academy where aspiring city mayors learn urban development theory; and at the Harvard GSD Executive Program for institutional investors on China investment.
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