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GIIA reported significant progress on its global infrastructure agenda in March as its Members gathered in Berlin for the Association’s AGM. The AGM was the culmination of a big week for GIIA which included a high profile presence at the infrastructure sector’s major conference; the launch of a first of a kind report on the…
A Financing Roundtable to review barriers to bringing in private investment into infrastructure and how the UK Government might address these was attended by GIIA and a number of its member companies. The event, organised and chaired by the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC), heard about the importance of Government providing a strong narrative for its…
The UK remains an attractive market for international investment but that should not be taken for granted. That was the overall message to Rt Hon Dr Liam Fox MP when GIIA members were invited to a briefing with the Secretary of State for International Trade on Thursday 12 January. The International Trade Secretary heard from…
Claire Hobson has joined GIIA as its first Head of Policy and Public Affairs. Claire has over 20 years of international and domestic policy and regulatory experience in business-facing roles including in London at the Business Department and in Paris for UK Trade & Investment. She has delivered global trade & investment campaigns and supported…
GIIA’s CEO Andy Rose was called as an expert witness to give evidence to the Treasury Select Committee Inquiry into the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement 2016. The hearing, held on Tuesday 13th December, was one of a series of sessions to scrutinise the content of the Chancellor’s plans and looked at the prioritisation, deliverability and financing…
GIIA’s CEO Andy Rose joined a number of leading infrastructure experts speaking at the Financial Times European Infrastructure Summit on November 30th. Andy’s session followed an on stage interview with Lord Michael Heseltine, former Deputy Prime Minister, who spoke about the Brexit process and the uncertainties that surround this. President-elect Donald Trump’s infrastructure plan and…
Andy Rose spells out the importance of institutional investment for Britain to be truly ‘open for business’ in today’s edition of The Times. Click here to read the full article.
Global investors in infrastructure have a vital role to play in post-Brexit Britain. That was the message from Lord Hill to an audience of many of the world’s leading investment funds who met in the City of London on 5th October. In a fascinating personal insight into the politics and Politics of the forthcoming Brexit…
Jon Phillips joins as Director, Corporate Affairs with a brief to develop GIIA’s communications strategy and to extend its membership base and events programme. He was previously Communications Director for the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, a UK government agency established in 2005 to run the £3 billion a year nuclear clean-up programme. Prior to that, Jon…
LONDON — The Global Infrastructure Investor Association (GIIA) has today announced the appointment of Andy Rose as its first Chief Executive Officer. Mr Rose joins the GIIA from the UK Government’s Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) where he spent three years as Chief Executive. Mr Rose’s previous roles in government include Chief Executive of Infrastructure…
On Thursday, 24 September 2015 GIIA held its inaugural Management Board meeting and Member Seminar in London. The GIIA Board approved its first two-year business plan and budget, agreed a communications strategy and completed a number of other activities supporting the launch of the Association. After the Board meeting GIIA members and others convened at Fishmongers’ Hall…
With the help of Korn Ferry, GIIA begun a search to appoint its inaugural Chief Executive. The successful candidate will ideally have spent part of his/her recent career employed within a government, public sector or regulatory organisation, preferably in a financial services-oriented role. Experience as such within the infrastructure industry, whilst not a pre-requisite, would be…
