The main on-ground meeting of leaders active in the Indian infrastructure and energy market
The 3rd edition of annual India GRI Infra & Energy 2022 will return in October in New Delhi. The event will unite the most senior infrastructure investors, developers, operators, lenders and advisers active in India for a day of candid, behind-closed-door discussions and high-level networking.
Unlike a typical conference, GRI meetings have no speakers or presentations. Instead, decision makers join informal and collegial discussions in which everyone participates. Reconnect with your peers, forge new business partnerships and continue the conversation afterward.
The 3rd edition of the India GRI Infra & Energy 2022 meeting in New Delhi aims to:
Discuss themes in an informal format, in which everyone can participate and interact
Share solutions to the most common challenges of the emerging markets
Build new business opportunities with global investors
Debate strategic topics to define the future of the infrastructure sectors
Connect yourself with peers and meet new partners
Opening Keynote, 10:30 - 11:45
Investor Perspective
Optimism in infrastructure growth story?
What paradigm changes are expected on how the industry and economy functions?
What is the investor appetite for the infrastructure sector post pandemic disruption? Is it the right time to enter and continue growing in India's infrastructure and energy markets?
What adjustments are needed to enhance the score on institutional stability, regulatory clarity, efficient judicial redress and mechanisms to guarantee better conditions to investors?
How can FDI unlock the growth of renewables capacity and development of transportation related projects in India?
Mr. Alvaro Santos Higuera is Director of Indus Concessions India Pvt Ltd. and CFO of ROADIS SBU ASIA. Previously, he was Financial Director of Isolux Infrastructure in India, in charge of highways, roads and photovoltaic plants. Before this, he was Head of International Financing department for Isolux Group, being responsible for structure financing for projects in Mexico, US and India. Prior to this, Mr. Alvaro Santos was Head of Project Finance Spain and Portugal with Depfa Bank. He started his career working in BNP Paribas in several departments (M&A; Project Finance and Leverage Finance). Alvaro received a Master in Finance from Georgetown University and he studied Business Administration at Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ICADE).
Managing Director & Head of Investments, India & Middle EastBrookfield Advisors India Private Ltd.
India
Arpit Agrawal is responsible for Brookfield’s infrastructure investment initiatives in India. He joined Brookfield in 2016 in the Mumbai office. Prior to joining Brookfield, Arpit spent 7 years with Morgan Stanley’s infrastructure fund business where he was involved in transactions across renewable energy, transportation and utilities sectors. Arpit holds an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology.
Sandeep Upadhyay joined Centrum Capital Limited in June 2008 and is currently serving as Managing Director of Infrastructure Practise at Centrum Capital Limited. As a senior Coverage Banker he is responsible for covering the Stressed asset resolution apart from leading Investment Banking initiatives across core sectors like Transportation, Logistics, Energy & Utilities space.He is an alumnus from XLRI, Jamshedpur besides holding a Post Graduate Degree in Project Management specialising in Infrastructure sector. He has over sixteen years of extensive experience in raising Private Equity, Project Finance and advising Government & established private sector clients on M&A, Stressed asset resolution and Bidding initiatives.
Head - Infrastructure Fund BusinessEdelweiss Infra Yield Plus Fund
India
Mr. Subahoo Chordia is currently the head of the Infrastructure Fund and Executive Vice President in Edelweiss. Since joining Edelweiss in 2007, Mr. Chordia has helped the firm start and build a successful Infrastructure practice through innovation and various initiatives. He has conceptualized and pioneered setting up of First Infrastructure Yield Plus Alternate Investment Fund in India within Edelweiss with an objective to meet the requirement of large base of investors. He has worked extensively across all sectors viz. Renewables, Transmission, Roads & Highways, Airports, Waste & Water, Thermal Power, Hydro power, EPC, etc. and has relationship with over 100+ Infrastructure companies in India.
Manish is Partner and Leader for Transport and Logistics Sector in PwC’s Advisory services vertical. He has over 23 years of experience across the various segments of transport and logistic with both services providers and infrastructure developers.
Baldeo Purushartha
Joint SecretaryDepartment of Economic Affairs
India
He Joined the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in 2002. Before joining as Joint Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Government of India, he served as Secretary, Lokpal and Divisional Commissioner, Jalandhar, Punjab from 08/2018 to 01/2020. He also served in various field and secretariat positions in the Government of Punjab and Government of India. Among the posts he has held are Private Secretary to Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs; Director, Industries and Commerce Department, Punjab; Director, Technical Education and Industrial Training, Punjab, Commissioner, NRI, Punjab and Special Secretary, Expenditure, Punjab.
Jyoti Agarwal
IndiGrid
India
Pawan Kant
CEOIndInfravit Trust
India
Mr. Kant is an Infrastructure & engineering professional with nearly 30 years industry experience in Core Infrastructure, construction, Real Estate sectors. He has worked with reputed organizations such as Great Eastern Shipping Co Ltd, Hindustan Construction Company Ltd, Sembcorp Construction and Engineers (Singapore), the Tata Group. He has worked across functions such as Project Financing & Structuring, Strategic Planning, Project Execution, Operations, Commercial and Contracts, Tendering and Business development. He has worked in India, Middle East and Singapore on large infrastructure projects such as Roads, Industrial park, SEZs, Power Transmission, Condominium projects, Townships, etc.
Santosh Janakiram is a partner in and head of Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas’ Infrastructure and Project Finance Group. He has rich experience in banking, projects, project financing, structured financing, acquisition financing and private equity and represents developers, sponsors, lenders and contractors in infrastructure and project finance transactions. He is also involved in various infrastructure sectors, including energy, transportation and mining. Chambers and Partners have since 2009 considered Santosh a Leading Lawyer in India in the Projects, Infrastructure & Energy sector. He has been named a Highly Regarded Lawyer in Banking,
Kuljit is a Partner & Head of EY India Infrastructure Investment Banking team
Kuljit joined Ernst & Young in 2001 and is based out of New Delhi Office in India.
Prior to joining EY, Kuljit had worked for around 7 years in SBI Capital Markets and was responsible for debt appraisals, debt and equity raises and advisory in infrastructure.
Educational Background includes B.Com (Honours), University of Delhi (1992) and Master Finance & Control, University of Delhi (1994). He attended two weeks training programme in Harvard University on International Privatisation Experience in Infrastructure Projects.
Vineetha MG is one of the founding partners of Samvād Partners and is based out of Mumbai. She has more than 15 years’ experience in advising clients on private equity investments, cross- border and domestic M&A, and banking and financing transactions. She is recommended and ranked in Chambers& Partners Asia Pacific, Legal 500 and Global Law Experts. She was awarded by the Acquisition International Global “Most Influential Women in Private Equity Investment 2018 ” - India. She is included in “The A List - India’s Top 100 Lawyers”, based on extensive research conducted by India Business Law Journal. (IBLJ 2018) and has been recognized by Insight Success magazine as “The Top 10 Powerful Lawyers in 2018”.
Ameya Khandge is Partner, Trilegal, and part of the banking and finance group. His experience in this area includes project finance, structured finance, restructuring, leveraged finance, syndicate finance, domestic and cross border financing.
Amit Nain
Assistant Vice PresidentMarsh India
India
Ansgar Fischer
Director, M&AAviAlliance GmbH
Germany
Ansgar is a Director in AviAlliance’s M&A department and leads the business development efforts in South East Asia. Prior to this, he led the master planning section of the Technical Services department. With more than 20 years' professional experience, Ansgar has led many international and multi-disciplinary airport acquisition teams. He has also acted as adviser to internal and external clients, providing an expert perspective and outstanding hands-on airport experience. Ansgar is a civil engineer by education and joined the company in 1994. He worked for all AviAlliance airports as well as on a number of airport projects including Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, New York LaGuardia, Mumbai, Bangalore, Bucharest, Geneva, among others.
Anurag Dwivedi
PartnerShardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co
India
Aparna Ravi
PartnerSamvad Partners
India
Bruce Crane
Managing Director - Infrastructure APACOTPP - Singapore
Singapore
As Managing Director at OTPP Infrastructure, Bruce is responsible for leading infrastructure-related efforts in APAC and is based in Singapore. He was previously based in New York, and was responsible for sourcing and leading investment opportunities in the transportation and power-related infrastructure markets in the Americas. His asset management experiences included Chicago Skyway, GNL Quintero S.A and Midland Cogeneration Venture. Prior to joining OMERS Infrastructure, Bruce spent 10 years with UBS and Morgan Stanley, providing investment banking advisory services, and four years with Foster Wheeler as a field engineer. Bruce holds a B.A.Sc. (Civil Engineering) from Lehigh University, and an MBA from Columbia University.
Chirdeep Bagga
Director, Infrastructure, South AsiaCDPQ
India
Chirdeep Bagga is Director – Infrastructure, South Asia with CDPQ since 2018 and has about 14 years of experience in the infrastructure sector. Prior to joining CDPQ, Chirdeep worked with JP Morgan’s Asian Infrastructure investment team in Mumbai. Previously, Chirdeep has worked with the IDFC Infrastructure Fund, Macquarie Capital and Strategic Decisions Group across diverse roles ranging from investments and asset management, corporate finance and management consulting. Chirdeep is an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
Deepak Malhotra
Director, Infrastructure, South AsiaCDPQ
India
Deepak Malhotra is Sr. Director, Infrastructure, South Asia at Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ). He has over 18 years of experience across all facets of infrastructure. Before joining CDPQ, Mr. Malhotra worked with International Finance Corporation (IFC), World Bank Group, where he led many debt and equity investments in the infrastructure sector. Prior to IFC, Mr. Malhotra worked with one of the leading credit rating agencies in India and in the shipping industry. Mr. Malhotra holds a Bachelors Degree from Delhi University and an MBA from Vanderbilt University.
Dibyanshu Sinha
PartnerKhaitan & Co.
India
Ekta Bahl
PartnerSamvad Partners
Gagan Deep Bakshi
Executive Vice PresidentMEL - Mytrah Energy India
India
Jafar Alam
PartnerTrilegal
India
Jafar Alam is Partner, Trilegal and a member of the dispute resolution practice group. He is an Advocate-on-record of the Supreme Court of India and regularly appears before tribunals, High Courts and the Supreme Court in regulatory and commercial litigation and arbitration cases.
Jawad Qasim
Head of Investment Banking - MENAItaú BBA
UAE
Jawad manages Itau’s platform in MENA running the investment banking arm, responsible for SWFs & large firms interested in LatAM. He also advises LatAm companies on raising capital & building partnerships with MENA clients. He was part of the team that advised EBX Group on Mubadala’s USD 2bn preferred equity investment. Jawad formally worked for Dubai International Capital & was involved in the buyout of Doncasters Group & Travelodge Hotels. He led the execution & structuring of over $3 billion PIPE into HSBC Holdings, EADS, Sony Corporation & ICICI Bank. Jawad has a BCom degree from McGill University & is a CFA Charterholder.
Josep Quiles Perez
CEOIsadak
India
Josep started his career as Controller in Siemens & continued to Sandoz, where he joined as a Financial Manager and later as the CFO & Executive Committee member. He worked in a consultancy firm as Partner in Strategy & Business mgmt. In 2000, he was the Finance & Administration Director with an American company - ITW group. In 2005, he joined Abertis in Corporate Finance dept - he managed Abertis Finance BV in the Netherlands & participated in financing the growth of Abertis through syndicate loans, private placements & bonds. As Head of International Finance, supported the financing activities of the business units & lead the financing of projects in Europe, USA, South America, Australia & India. In 2017, moved to India as Country Head.
Kam Jandu
CCO - Budapest AirportAviAlliance GmbH
Hungary
Having joined Budapest Airport as Executive Director for Aviation in 2009, Kam Jandu was promoted to the position of Chief Commercial Officer in 2013. In this role Kam holds responsibility for all passenger and business related commercial and marketing activities with the aviation and retail community. Prior to joining Budapest Airport, Kam worked in the airline industry for over 10 years with bmi in London and also Star Alliance GmbH in Frankfurt in a variety of senior sales and marketing roles. With a decade of previous experience in the car rental industry with global players Hertz and Budget, Kam has developed a career in the travel sector.
Kapil Maheshwari
CEOHinduja Renewables
India
Kapil is presently CEO at Hinduja Renewables and heading the Hinduja Group initiatives in Renewable domain. He is responsible to develop the business from scratch with P&L responsibility. His role in HRPL is to develop and execute business growth strategies and team. He is awarded with “ Best Renewables Energy CEO India-2018” from Global CEO Excellence Awards, 40 under 40, Power 100 Business Leaders in Renewables in India and many more.
Luis Villalobos
Partner & MD Business DevelopmentMIP EXI
Mexico
Mohit Chopra
Partner - DealsPwC
India
Mohit is a Partner in PwC's Deals practice in India. Over the last 20 years, he has been involved in advising and assisting both corporate and financial investors in their transaction needs. Mohit has significant experience of leading multi-stream due diligence engagements in the infrastructure sector for pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, private equity and distressed funds. Over the last several years he has been involved in multiple transactions in Roads, Airport, Renewables, Port, Power & Utility and Logistic sectors.
Mudit Parashar
Chief Financial OfficerDalmia Bharat Group
India
Mudit Parashar has been with GVK for over 6 years. His role focuses on fund raising, M&A and Corporate Development and he has been actively involved in the group’s Airport business. Prior to joining GVK, Mudit spent over 13 years in Corporate Finance and Private Equity, primarily in Resources and Infrastructure sectors. His earlier roles were at Ernst & Young (EY), one of India’s leading M&A advisory firms, and at SUN Group, a leading principal investor and private equity fund manager in emerging markets. At EY, Mudit was a Partner in the firm’s M&A advisory practice. At SUN Group, he was responsible for SUN’s investments in the metals & mining sector globally. Mudit has done his Bachelors in Economics and Masters in Business Economics
Neeraj Sanghi
CEOHighway Concessions One
India
Neeraj has over 30 years experience in managing oil&gas & infra sector. He worked on development of LNG receiving terminal project at Hazira, Gujarat at Essar (1994-98). He developed 3 projects at Total India(1998 - 2010) viz. LNG terminal at Mumbai (project didn’t take off), LPG Cavern Project at Visakhapatnam(as CEO) & Hazira Port sub concession project at Ahmedabad. As CEO-Essar Concessions, he looked after Essar’s entry into infra business viz. road, water, airports, pipelines, etc. Currently, he is CEO-Highway Concessions One(HC1), road platform of Global Infrastructure Partners India. HC1 operates seven projects acquired by India Infrastructure Fund. He is also founder President of HOA(India), an industry body for road investors.
Nipun Khanna
Assistant Manager - M&APwC
India
Nishant Parikh
PartnerTrilegal
India
Nishant Parikh is Partner, Trilegal and serves as a board member of the firm. He also heads the corporate practice. He has extensive experience in the areas of restructuring, corporate mergers and acquisitions, and equity and mezzanine investments.
Pallavi Bedi
PartnerL&L Partners Law Offices
India
Ms. Pallavi Bedi, Partner at L&L Partners, specializes in Projects & Project Finance. She focuses on Oil & Gas, Power, Renewable Energy, Mining & Project Financing, and other Infrastructure Projects. She advises on Power projects (Conventional & Renewable Energy), LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) Projects (incl. LNG sale & purchase agreements), Mining projects (incl. mining agreements & offtake agreements), upstream developments (incl. Production Sharing Contracts & Joint Operating Agreements). She also advises clients on multiple Project Finance deals, Concession Agreements, gas sale & purchase agreements, power purchase agreement, off take agreements, Engineering, Procurement & Commissioning contracts, and Operations & Maintenance contracts.
Pawan Singh
Head -Transportation & Electronics3M India Limited
India
Prerna Mehndiratta
Partner, Tax and RegulatoryPwC
India
Prerna has over 15 years’ professional experience in Corporate and International Tax, regulatory matters and corporate restructuring matters relating to domestic clients and international clients in a wide range of industries, with a special focus on companies in the infrastructure sector.Her core focus areas include transaction advisory services such as investment structuring, deal support, business model analysis, tax due diligence for private equity and pension funds, structuring of cross-border transactions, and corporate re-structuring. Prerna holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
Raghavendra Rao
Investment DirectorROADIS
India
Rakesh Singh
Group Head - Investment BankingHDFC Bank
India
Mr. Rakesh K. Singh is Group Head - Investment Banking, Private Banking, Capital Markets and Financial Institutions at HDFC Bank. Mr. Singh joined the bank in 2011 and has been instrumental in setting up the Investment Banking and Project Finance business for HDFC Bank. The Bank is now ranked #2 in INR Bonds by Bloomberg for CY 2015, 2016, 2017 & 2018 and is amongst the Top 10 BookRunner in IPO Markets as per PRIME League Tables. The Private Banking business has further strengthened under his leadership and now manages assets close to Rs. 100,000 crores across over 18,000 families in India and overseas. In the Euromoney survey for 2017-18, HDFC Bank was ranked #1 Private Bank in the High Networth clients' category.
Ruchi Sikri Malhotra
Senior Manager, Client & Market Develop.Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co
India
Sachin Pant
President-Advisory BusinessSREI
India
Sachin has 23 years of long career stint in areas of Business Planning, Private Investments, Project Development, PPP, Marketing, Partner Search & Business Development in Infra, Industrial Development & RE segment. He has closely worked with Government & Private Sector world. He has been actively involved in new business initiatives, geographical expansions & investor relationships. His engagement has been quite active in developmental initiatives in Africa & prospecting business partnerships from China,HK,Malaysia, Singapore & Russia. He is a graduate in Civil Engineering with masters in in Environment Planning & Business Management.presently President with SREI Infrastructure Finance Ltd, looking after Infra & Advisory business.
Sachin Sharma
Associate DirectorFitch Rating - India
India
Sanjeev Aggarwal
Partner, DealsPwC
India
Sanjeev Kumar Lohia
Managing Director & CEOIRSDC
India
Sanjeev Kumar Lohia (IRSE-1987) has more than 32 years of experience in the transport and urban development sectors especially in Urban, Rail and bus based transportation systems. He is presently MD &CEO of the Indian Railway Stations Development Corporation (IRSDC) leading the world’s largest Transit Oriented Development (TOD) and PPP programme. He has successfully awarded the first PPP project and first EPC project of Station redevelopment in the country and has been pioneer in partnering with State Govts for joint development of Railway stations.
Satnam Singh
Strategic Business PartnerAurum Equity Partners
India
Saurabh Bakliwal
Partner & DirectorThe Boston Consulting Group
India
Saurabh Bakliwal is a Partner and Director at the Delhi office of The Boston Consulting Group. He work extensively in the Infrastructure sector in both Public and Private sectors. Within transportation infrastructure he has very deep experience covering more than ports, 10+ airports, extensive work with Road Ministry and Departments across topics ranging from Operations excellence, Commercial excellence, PPP design and acceleration, Infrastructure master planning and techno commercial assessment amongst others. He also has worked extensively in the SEZ / Industrial Park / Multi modal Logistics network development and has helped client acceleration Commercialization of these parks.
Serbjeet Kohli
Director and India Office LeaderSteer
India
A qualified project manager and transport economist with 15 years’ experience, specialising in strategic transport modelling, transport economics and demand and revenue forecasting. Serbjeet is currently the Director of Steer India, an award-winning consultancy firm who provide advice to a global pool of clients including governments, financiers, developers and transport operators. His role is to offer the same high level of service to clients in India and in the wider South Asian region as Steer does for the rest of the world. At Steer, he supports both public and private sector organisations to invest in transport projects across the globe.
Shagoofa Rashid Khan
PartnerNIIF
India
Shagoofa is Partner and Head-Funds, Investments and Advisory. She has 22 years of post-qualification experience across structuring funds, managed accounts, fund documentation, private equity, acquisitions / exits / restructuring / joint ventures and strategic initiatives, international taxation and planning, corporate & commercial laws, business advisory, compliance and ethics advisory, audit and finance. She was in-house counsel, for 10 years, with leading Indian corporate houses.
She has been recognised as Leading Individual by Legal 500 APAC and Distinguished Practitioner by AsiaLaw. She was named in India’s Top 100 Women in Finance by AIWMI (2020) and in Top 20 Emerging Legal Leaders:India by RSG (2019)
Shefali Juneja
Former Joint SecretaryMinistry of Civil Aviation - India
India
Shyam Sundar
Managing DirectorMorgan Stanley
India
S.G. Shyam Sundar is a Managing Director with Morgan Stanley Infrastructure (“MSI”), one of the world’s leading infrastructure investing platforms. He has over 21 years of experience in India’s infrastructure sector. Prior to joining MSI, Shyam was one of the founding members of IDFC Private Equity (now IDFC Alternatives), a leading investment manager in India. At IDFC, Shyam led 16 investments in a range of infrastructure sectors such as power, telecom, oil & gas, roads, seaports, airports, shipping, and logistics, with 13 exits including three successful IPOs. Previously, Shyam was with the infrastructure group of ICICI Bank and also worked with ICICI Securities, at that time ICICI’s investment banking joint venture with JP Morgan.
Sudhakar Mallya
Senior Associate, InfrastructureCPPIB
India
Suresh Subudhi
Managing Director & Senior PartnerThe Boston Consulting Group
India
Suresh Subudhi is a Partner and Director at the Mumbai office of The Boston Consulting Group. He is the Global Leader of Infrastructure sector and part of the Industrial Goods and Public Sector practice leadership team. Suresh has worked with clients in infrastructure and building materials industry on a variety of assignments including strategy, policy making, PPP, large project management, digital and organization transformation. He obtained his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering.
V. R. Neelakantan
Partner, Projects & Project FinanceShardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co
India
Neel has advised on transactions in various sectors including transport, oil & gas and urban infrastructure and has also been extensively involved in advising on government projects and PPP transactions. He was a key member of the team that advised on financing for Cairn India (Project Finance Deal of the Year 2010 by IFLR), the gas sale and gas transportation arrangements in relation to Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India pipeline project (Energy Deal of the Year by Asian Lawyer) and Indian Oil’s long term LNG sale and purchase agreements from the United States ( IBLJ's India Deal of the Year 2014), among other marquee transactions. He has been recognised for ‘Projects, Infra & Energy’ by Chambers and Partners APAC 2019-20
Varun Sachar
Managing DirectorAsun Solar Power
India
Varuna Khattri
Associate, InfrastructureCPPIB
India
Ved Dudeja
Vice ChairmanRailway Land Development Authority of India
India
Venkatesh Prasad
PartnerJSA Law
India
Venkatesh is part of the leadership team of JSA in the infrastructure, transportation and energy space. He practices corporate and civil law with a focus on advising/representing clients on domestic and cross border investments, mergers and acquisitions, entry strategies, transaction structuring, joint venture, technology transfer and private equity funding especially in transportation, energy infrastructure, automotive and Make in India-related initiatives. Venkatesh’s role in these transactions has included negotiations, drafting, complex structuring, rendering strategic advice and interacting with foreign law firms, investment banks and financial advisors.Venkatesh has an LLM from New York University (NYU).
Vishnu Sudarsan
PartnerJSA Law
India
Vishnu’s practice covers diverse areas of Corporate Commercial and Regulatory & Policy. He focuses on advising clients across different verticals viz, Energy (Power), Communications (Telecommunications & Broadcasting), Transport (Surface Transport including Railways & Metro systems), and Urban Infrastructure. In these verticals, he advises clients on multiple issues such as Corporate transactions (M&A), Projects, Regulatory & Restructuring, and Public Private Partnerships.
Yaduvendra Mathur
Former Additional SecretaryNITI Aayog
India
Schedule
Wednesday, October 12th 2022
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08:00am - 06:00pm
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10:30am - 11:45am
Investor Perspective
Optimism in infrastructure growth story?
What paradigm changes are expected on how the industry and economy functions?
What is the investor appetite for the infrastructure sector post pandemic disruption? Is it the right time to enter and continue growing in India's infrastructure and energy markets?
What adjustments are needed to enhance the score on institutional stability, regulatory clarity, efficient judicial redress and mechanisms to guarantee better conditions to investors?
How can FDI unlock the growth of renewables capacity and development of transportation related projects in India?
12:15pm - 01:15pm
GATI Shakti
A pipe dream towards seamless multimodal transport?
What steps can be taken to bridge the gap between macro-planning and micro-implementation of GATI SHAKTI?
How are the investors and operators gearing up to facilitate GATI SHAKTI?
What realistic impact can be expected on logistic cost?
What paradigm changes are expected on how the industry and economy functions?
Infrastructure Investment Trusts (InvITs)
A mature market?
What reforms are desirable to attract big-ticket investments in stressed assets?
Has the improved regulatory transparency (through IBC, etc.) helped generate investor interest?
How has the investor profile changed over the last few years?
Are AIFs the way forward?
02:30pm - 03:30pm
ESG in Perspective
A mainstay in corporate financial planning?
How is the ESG framework evolving in India?
What is required to be at the forefront in corporate governance?
How awareness, strategy and transparency can catalyse ESG issues and adequately foster resilient infrastructure in the country?
What are the key challenges to detonate climate resilient infrastructure in India?
04:00pm - 05:00pm
Large scale capacity expansion in Airports
Strong fundamentals or future bubble?
What are the preferred funding models for the sector?
Was 100 percent FDI in Noida an exception or a preferred route?
Is clubbing of big & small airports in India a viable option?
Are PPPs the way forward?
Pathway to Net Zero
Is there a collective sense of urgency?
Is India getting ready for a complete disruption towards renewable and cleaner energy?
What bold measures are needed given the development priorities of the country?
How is the matrix changing with hydrogen, batteries, nuclear energy?
What are the opportunities for partnerships with other countries? What are the opportunities for developers and investors?
What is the overall impact on infrastructure and energy sectors?
05:30pm - 06:30pm
Review of National Monetization Pipeline
Hits and Misses
What are the investor/concessionaire sentiments about NMP?
What is needed to ensure proper execution and desired results?
How can NMP use innovative mechanisms and technologies in operating, maintaining and augmenting assets to detonate sustainable and resilient projects?
What has been the Year 1 performance/experience?
During the event the following safety measures will be implemented:
The use of a face mask is mandatory at all times, except when consuming food and beverages
Participants must sanitize their hands regularly (antibacterial hand sanitizer available at the hotel)
Avoid handshakes
Maintain the assigned distance between seats
Meet our exclusive format
GRI has no speakers, no presentations. Instead, you have a selection of closed-door discussions where everyone can participate.
Much like a conversation in your own living room, the dynamic environment allows you to engage with your peers in an informal and collegial setting.
We preserve this traditional format even in our on-line meetings.
Snapshots from our last 2 editions
Bruce Crane (OMERS Infrastructur...
Hans-Martin Aerts (APG Asset Man...
Jawad Qasim (Itaú BBA)
Mudit Parashar (GVK Airport Deve...
Mukesh Gupta (Railway Board of I...
Networking during the second day...
Rajesh Sharma (National Highways...
Shefali Juneja (Ministry of Civi...
Sidharath Kapur (GMR Airports Li...
Varun Sachar (Asun Solar Power)
Global investors discussion duri...
Josep Quiles Perez (Isadak)
See what participants have to say
“GRI Club has an effective platform for both strategic players and investors to meet and exchange views. The organised meetings and forums are always current and relevant. The network is blossoming within India and beyond”
Chin Hau joined the GIC Infrastructure Group in 2008 and currently has lead coverage responsibility for the Emerging Markets. Prior to joining GIC, Chin Hau was an Investment Manager at Pulsar Energy Capital where he invested in projects across the energy sector in Europe and the Americas. Before Pulsar, Chin Hau was a member of the Infrastructure advisory team at Credit Suisse covering a range of projects in transport, logistics and aerospace. He began his career at Singapore Power where he managed natural gas pipeline projects. Chin Hau has a MEng degree from Imperial College London and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
“GRI Club in India is a great initiative to bring together investors and developers in the infrastructure market to discuss long-term solutions that will enhance institutional investments and quality of infrastructure in India; we can expect this forum to become an important medium to voice opinions and provide proactive and practical solutions to many challenges.”
Saurabh Agarwal is the Managing Director, Infrastructure, spearheading CDPQ’s infrastructure investment efforts in South Asia, based in New Delhi, India. He is responsible for strategy development, sourcing, evaluating, executing and managing high-quality investments, as well as developing long-term partner relationships in the region. Saurabh has 19+ years of experience in financial and technology sectors. At CDPQ, he leads CDPQ’s investments across sectors including utilities, renewables, transportation, telecom and social.
Trilegal is one of the leading law firms in India, providing innovative and quality legal services across the spectrum of corporate law. With over 400 lawyers spread across Bengaluru, Delhi, Gurugram and Mumbai, the Firm consistently advises many of the world’s leading corporations, financial institutions, and fund houses on their complex and first-to-market transactions. Trilegal has been recognised as the ‘Law Firm of the Decade’ at the RSG Grow India Awards.
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas is India’s leading law firm with global reputation of being trusted advisors to its clients. Tracing its professional lineage to 1917, cam was founded to continue the legacy of Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co. The Firm advises a large and diverse set of clients, including domestic and foreign commercial enterprises, financial institutions, private equity funds, venture capital funds, start-ups, government and regulatory bodies.
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Mr. Alvaro Santos Higuera is Director of Indus Concessions India Pvt Ltd. and CFO of ROADIS SBU ASIA. Previously, he was Financial Director of Isolux Infrastructure in India, in charge of highways, roads and photovoltaic plants. Before this, he was Head of International Financing department for Isolux Group, being responsible for structure financing for projects in Mexico, US and India. Prior to this, Mr. Alvaro Santos was Head of Project Finance Spain and Portugal with Depfa Bank. He started his career working in BNP Paribas in several departments (M&A; Project Finance and Leverage Finance). Alvaro received a Master in Finance from Georgetown University and he studied Business Administration at Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ICADE).
Ameya Khandge is Partner, Trilegal, and part of the banking and finance group. His experience in this area includes project finance, structured finance, restructuring, leveraged finance, syndicate finance, domestic and cross border financing.
Amit Nain
Assistant Vice PresidentMarsh India
India
Ansgar Fischer
Director, M&AAviAlliance GmbH
Germany
Ansgar is a Director in AviAlliance’s M&A department and leads the business development efforts in South East Asia. Prior to this, he led the master planning section of the Technical Services department. With more than 20 years' professional experience, Ansgar has led many international and multi-disciplinary airport acquisition teams. He has also acted as adviser to internal and external clients, providing an expert perspective and outstanding hands-on airport experience. Ansgar is a civil engineer by education and joined the company in 1994. He worked for all AviAlliance airports as well as on a number of airport projects including Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, New York LaGuardia, Mumbai, Bangalore, Bucharest, Geneva, among others.
Anurag Dwivedi
PartnerShardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co
India
Aparna Ravi
PartnerSamvad Partners
India
Arpit Agrawal
Managing Director & Head of Investments, India & Middle EastBrookfield Advisors India Private Ltd.
India
Arpit Agrawal is responsible for Brookfield’s infrastructure investment initiatives in India. He joined Brookfield in 2016 in the Mumbai office. Prior to joining Brookfield, Arpit spent 7 years with Morgan Stanley’s infrastructure fund business where he was involved in transactions across renewable energy, transportation and utilities sectors. Arpit holds an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology.
He Joined the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in 2002. Before joining as Joint Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Government of India, he served as Secretary, Lokpal and Divisional Commissioner, Jalandhar, Punjab from 08/2018 to 01/2020. He also served in various field and secretariat positions in the Government of Punjab and Government of India. Among the posts he has held are Private Secretary to Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs; Director, Industries and Commerce Department, Punjab; Director, Technical Education and Industrial Training, Punjab, Commissioner, NRI, Punjab and Special Secretary, Expenditure, Punjab.
Bruce Crane
Managing Director - Infrastructure APACOTPP - Singapore
Singapore
As Managing Director at OTPP Infrastructure, Bruce is responsible for leading infrastructure-related efforts in APAC and is based in Singapore. He was previously based in New York, and was responsible for sourcing and leading investment opportunities in the transportation and power-related infrastructure markets in the Americas. His asset management experiences included Chicago Skyway, GNL Quintero S.A and Midland Cogeneration Venture. Prior to joining OMERS Infrastructure, Bruce spent 10 years with UBS and Morgan Stanley, providing investment banking advisory services, and four years with Foster Wheeler as a field engineer. Bruce holds a B.A.Sc. (Civil Engineering) from Lehigh University, and an MBA from Columbia University.
Chirdeep Bagga
Director, Infrastructure, South AsiaCDPQ
India
Chirdeep Bagga is Director – Infrastructure, South Asia with CDPQ since 2018 and has about 14 years of experience in the infrastructure sector. Prior to joining CDPQ, Chirdeep worked with JP Morgan’s Asian Infrastructure investment team in Mumbai. Previously, Chirdeep has worked with the IDFC Infrastructure Fund, Macquarie Capital and Strategic Decisions Group across diverse roles ranging from investments and asset management, corporate finance and management consulting. Chirdeep is an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
