PRESS RELEASE – Wednesday September 18th, 2019 Global Infrastructure Investor Association (GIIA) has announced the appointment of Lawrence Slade as its new Chief Executive. Lawrence, currently Chief Executive of Energy UK, will start his new role at GIIA on 1st January 2020 succeeding Andrew Rose who announced at the Association’s Annual General Meeting in March…
GIIA has joined the US National Governors’ Association Advisory Panel on Infrastructure which was launched at the recent 2019 NGA Summer Meeting held in Salt Lake City. During the Summer Meeting incoming Chairman, Governor Larry Hogan (MD), announced a year-long initiative ‘Infrastructure: Foundation for Success’ aimed at helping Governors and State leaders solve State’s infrastructure…
Global infrastructure investors are exposed to a broad range of economic, geo-political, technological and societal risks that impact investment strategies both for today and into the future. GIIA, in partnership with Associate Member Marsh & McLennan, is holding a series of roundtables looking at global risks for infrastructure investors. The first such event was held…
GIIA, in partnership with Aquila Capital, recently hosted an investor roundtable looking at the ongoing Energy Transition in Europe. As 2020 draws closer, and with it the European Commission’s Renewable Energy Directive deadline for Member States to increase renewable energy levels to 20%, investors across Europe are responding to both opportunities and challenges from this…
GIIA is pleased to be a Supporting Association for the Infrastructure Investor Global Summit taking place in Berlin from March 18th to 21st. GIIA will be welcoming up to 200 senior investors and guests to its Annual Reception, kindly hosted by Allianz Capital Partners. We look forward to seeing both new and familiar faces from…
U.S. Governors and GIIA members met in Santa Fe, New Mexico at the National Governors Association (NGA) Summer Meeting in July to progress discussions about the benefits of private capital to help Governors achieve their aspirations for state infrastructure projects. The programme was the result of more than 12 months of discussions with the NGA…
Many of the leading investors in UK infrastructure joined an exclusive GIIA investor roundtable with Graham Stuart, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for International Trade and Mark Slaughter, Director General for Investment at Lancaster House. The event was arranged to discuss investor sentiment in the UK infrastructure sector and the importance of the…
GIIA, the membership body for the leading private investors in infrastructure, welcomes the release of the UK’s first ever National Infrastructure Assessment which sets out the country’s future infrastructure needs across a range of sectors, over the next thirty years. Significantly, the National Infrastructure Commission report draws much needed attention to the important role of…
The Global Infrastructure Investor Association (GIIA) has added eight new members in the first quarter of 2018, along with three new staff to its London-based executive team. GIIA, a membership organisation established in 2015 to promote the role of private investment in infrastructure and improve dialogue between the private sector and government, has now grown…