GIIA is delighted to announce a new partnership with Euromoney Learning that will bring a range of in-person and virtual classroom style learning opportunities at discounted rates for GIIA members, including a soon to be launched Masterclass in Infrastructure and Project Finance. Euromoney Learning has been working with the world’s financial community for decades, delivering…
GIIA’s Annual Highlights 2021 documents the progress the Association has made in the past 12 months on behalf of our members around the World
GIIA’s Net Zero Conference, held on September 29th, brought together a range of expert voices including investors, policy makers and leading thinkers in the sector to look at the challenges and opportunities facing infrastructure investors. We were delighted to welcome more than 150 guests, both in person and joining virtually, for this event. A recording…
GIIA welcomes the appointment of Chris Grigg as the new Chair of the UK Infrastructure Bank. The Bank will have an important role to play in leveraging much needed private investment to UK infrastructure to support the Government’s Net Zero and Levelling Up agenda. GIIA also welcomes the good level of engagement from Mr Grigg…
On March 24th, GIIA hosted an event to look at the US Infrastructure Agenda, which attracted more than 200 registrations.
As part of GIIA’s engagement with the UK Government, we recently hosted a virtual round table meeting with Financial Secretary to the Treasury Rt Hon Jesse Norman MP and a number of our investor members to discuss the need to resolve the mechanisms through which government can access private investment to enable the delivery of…
Helpful steps taken by the Competition and Markets Authority in their provisional findings on the review of water price controls Lawrence Slade, Chief Executive, GIIA said: “It is important that regulation ensures that consumers across the country pay a fair price for their utilities, whilst at the same time making sure that the UK is…
GIIA was pleased to contribute to the CBI’s new report titled ‘Investing in Infrastructure – Sourcing the Finance to Build Back Better’. We welcome the acknowledgement of the vital role that private investment plays in delivering the modern, efficient and socially responsible infrastructure needed for future generations and the 13 recommendations the report makes. In…
A new Ipsos MORI survey into MP’s attitudes towards UK infrastructure reinforces the need for increased investment and the important role of the private sector in its delivery, echoing much of the sentiment expressed in the 2019 GIIA/Ipsos MORI Global Infrastructure Index. All UK MPs interviewed agreed that investing in infrastructure is vital to Britain’s…
GIIA’s Emerging Leaders in Infrastructure Investment network were pleased to hold their inaugural meeting last week, welcoming Founder and Managing Partner of Global Infrastructure Partners Mr Adebayo Ogunlesi to speak about his own career and take questions from members. Attendees were able to hear first-hand about the career path that Bayo took, after initially practising…
GIIA has published the following response to Brad Cornell’s opinion piece in The Financial Times (16th July, 2020) titled ‘The ESG concept has been overhyped and oversold’. Infrastructure investors increasingly believe that key to their commercial success is a focus on the principles of ESG investing, to manage risk, improve the performance of assets under…
GIIA hosted the first of a planned series of meetings between international investors and Lord Grimstone of Boscobel, Minister of State for Investment on June 24th. More than a dozen international investors gathered on a virtual roundtable with the Minister and senior officials from the Department for International Trade to discuss the important role that…