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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.

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.

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.

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.

Pushkar Kulkarni leads the Infrastructure practice for Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) for India. CPPIB is amongst the world’s Top Ten Pension funds with AUM of C$ 279 bn. As their first investment in India, CPPIB has made an investment of INR 20 bn. into L&T IDPL making it one of the largest Private Investment in the roads sector. Prior to CPPIB, Mr. Kulkarni has worked in several esteemed organizations including Serco, an Infrastructure Services company, he served as Managing Director for India. Efkon India a leader in ITS systems for Transport Infrastructure and Philips. He has represented the Bureau of India Standards at the ISO on several Intelligent Transport System expert committees.

Jatin is part of the management board of the Firm. He has extensive experience in urban infrastructure, conventional & renewable energy, roads, ports, airports, railways, power, and oil & gas sector in India and the sub-continent. Jatin has been consistently ranked in ‘Band 1’ by Chambers and Partners; ‘Leading Lawyer’ by Legal 500, IFLR1000 & Asialaw Profiles and ‘Thought Leader’ by WWL 2019. He has advised on several marquee transactions including privatisation of Delhi & Mumbai airports, re-gasification projects by IOC, PLL & others and Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India pipeline projects. Currently he is advising GMR Infrastructure on divestment of major shareholding (over USD 1 billion) in GMR Airports Ltd.

Anjali is Partner, Managing Director India. She joined 3i in 2007 from ICICI Bank where she was part of the project finance group. Anjali has more than 26 years of experience having worked in the areas of project financing, debt and equity syndication, restructuring and investment banking in her prior assignments at ICICI Bank, Asset Reconstruction Company (India) Ltd., KPMG and SBI Capital Markets. She holds an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and a Bachelor’s Degree in Science from Gujarat University.

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.

Ritesh, with about 20 years of experience, is the Head for Debt Capital Markets Business and Project Finance in HDFC Bank. The bank is now ranked # 2 on bond league table as per bloomberg and is leading arranger of loans for infrastructure projects. Prior to joining HDFC Bank, he has worked with Standard Chartered, Bank Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch & ICICI Bank and has vast experience across project finance, structured transactions, mezzanine financing & bonds market. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant and Certified Treasury Manager.

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.

Sidharath has leadership experience of over 32 years in infrastructure and financial services covering airports, renewable energy, real estate, oil and gas and investment banking. Sidharath spent the last decade in the airport sector and brings deep insight of the airport business and strategy. He was Executive Director at GMR Airports and was key in the expansion and value creation at GMR group's airport business. As part of his role he was responsible for successful bids of airports of Male, Crete, Cebu, Goa and Nagpur. He was also CEO-Airports with the Adani Group, leading the group's new airport business forward including setting up the initial team. More recently he lead as CEO of Acme Solar - a large Indian renewable energy company.

Mr. Pathak has over 3 decades of experience shared equally between the private sector and Government of India's IAS (Indian Administrative Service). He started his career in 1986 with a 4-year investment banking stint at ICICI and HSBC before joining the IAS. He re-joined the private sector in 2006, in IDFC. He returned to the ICICI group as Senior Director (Investments), ICICI Venture, investing private equity in infrastructure. He joined Larsen & Toubro in 2017.He has 360-degree experience in infrastructure finance and execution, having worked in private equity investing and fundraising, both national and global, project finance, project structuring, preparation and appraisal, and investment banking.

Hardik Shah joined KKR in 2018 and is a member of the Asia-Pacific Infrastructure team. Mr. Shah is responsible for infrastructure investments in India. Mr. Shah began his career at Macquarie Group in Sydney where he spent over 10 years across their Sydney and Mumbai offices and was involved in building their India infrastructure business. More recently, he led Brookfield’s India business in India and was responsible for building Brookfield’s team and presence. Mr. Shah has led ~USD4bn of transactions in India across various infrastructure sectors such as Telecom Towers, Toll Roads, Airports, Energy transportation and Renewable Energy. Mr. Shah holds a post graduate degree from S.P. Jain Institute of Mgmt & Research & is CFA charterholder.

For more than 30 years, Ben Zandi has been a driving force behind business turnarounds, mergers and acquisitions, commercial expansion and industry reinvention. Mr. Zandi takes an active role in re-imaging airport travel with pioneering technologies, retail concepts and new levels of customer experience. Ben has been on the leading edge of brand redevelopment, growth, and scalability in performance management. Ben was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Fraport USA, the North American division of Fraport Group, where the operations extended from Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Baltimore‐Washington to JetBlue’s Terminal 5 at JFK and the new $1.2 billion Nashville International Airport.

Amit has extensive entrepreneurial and leadership experience in Renewable Energy, Thermal Power and the Water/Wastewater sector driving growth, project execution, operational performance and change management. In the current role as Managing Director of Engie Solar for the India and Middle East Region, Amit manages a portfolio of 1GW of solar assets in India across 7 States and supports construction and engineering for other global markets. He is part of the several forums and is quite active in advocating in bringing about reforms in the power and more specifically in the Renewables sector. Amit holds a Bachelor’s in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University, USA and Master’s in Finance & Management from Cranfield University, UK.

Abhay Kumar Mishra is President, Transportation Business of Reliance Infrastructure looking after Roads, Highways, Airport and Metro businesses of R-Infra. He is also the CEO of Mumbai Metro One Pvt Ltd. He is a visionary business leader with 40 years of rich experience in Real Estate and Infrastructure Sector. A Harvard Business Alumni, he is a Civil Engineer by qualification and an Ex - member of prestigious Indian Railway Services of Engineers. He took voluntary retirement from Govt. of India after serving 23 years in Indian Railway. In 2013, Mr. Mishra joined Reliance and led its Metro business with great business acumen and astute leadership.He is now leading Transportation business of Reliance Infrastructure .

Mr Mishra is responsible for running CLP's business in India. He joined the CLP Group in 2002 and has over 20 years’ of experience in the power industry, both in India and internationally, mostly involved in project financing, investment appraisal, finance and accounting and general management. Mr Mishra is a Director of various subsidiary companies of the CLP Group. Before assuming the role of Managing Director of CLP India Private Ltd., Rajiv has held a variety of senior positions in the Power Industry viz. Deputy Managing Director/Chief Financial Officer of BLCP Power in Thailand, Finance Director of PowerGen India and Finance Director of LG Energy in Seoul, South Korea.

Isabel is the Regional Industry Director, Infrastructure and Natural Resources, Asia and Pacific, based in Singapore. For seven years prior to her current role, Isabel was the Regional Manager for PPP Transaction Advisory Services, initially for South Asia based in Delhi, and subsequently in Singapore as her mandate expanded to cover all Asia Pacific for the last four years. Isabel spent four years in IFC’s Subnational Finance unit where she worked in deal origination, structuring and supervision of debt and structured finance products in more than six countries in LAC. Before joining IFC, Isabel held various positions in World Bank operations in the urban sector in the Middle East and North Africa region, the water sector in Latin America,

Kailash is the President Corporate Finance and Deputy Chief Financial Officer at ReNew Power. He has more than 18 years of hands-on experience in corporate finance and investing. As part of ReNew, he has lead the cumulative debt raise in excess of US$5 billion. for the various projects of the Group and cumulative equity raise of US$ 1.5 billion from marquee investors.

André Clark began his career in the Pulp&Paper industry in 1995. He has 17 years of experience in Energy, Oil&Gas, Manufacturing, Logistics and Infrastructure areas. He was CEO of Acciona for Brazil, Bolivia, Uruguay and Paraguay. Now, Mr Clark is the President and CEO of Siemens Brazil, since November, 1st, 2017. He holds Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering from Universidade de São Paulo (USP) and MBA in Finance and Operations Management from New York University Stern School of Business.

Mr Souza has been with Vinci Partners since inception, and had been manager of FIP Brasil Energia while at Banco Pactual until 2009. At Vinci, Mr Souza was responsible for monitoring the investment in Equatorial Energia until 2015 and has served as board member of Celpa (Centrais Eletrica do Para), Cecrisa, and is still at the board of Grupo CBO. He holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Escola Federal de Engenharia de Itajubá (EFEI) and an MBA with a major in Corporate Finance and Accounting from University of Rochester, New York (Beta Gamma Sigma award).

Marcos Almeida is a Managing Partner and Head of South America for Brookfield’s Infrastructure Group, with responsibility for expanding Brookfield’s infrastructure business in the region. Mr. Almeida has more than 20 years of experience in finance and mergers & acquisitions. Prior to joining Brookfield in 2003, Mr. Almeida worked for an international consulting firm, where he advised the Brazilian government and private companies on the privatization process for various utility and telecom companies. Before that, he worked for large accounting firms in Brazil and Switzerland, and for a large bank in Germany. Mr. Almeida has a degree in economics from UFMG and an MBA from the University of São Paulo.

Mauricio Ossa Echeverri is president of the Odinsa Group. Previously, he worked as vice president for the Caribbean region and legal representative of Cementos Argos and as manager of Industrial Business and national manager of Marketing. He studied Business Administration and specialization in International Marketing at EAFIT University (Medellin). He also did the Advanced Management Program of the University of La Sabana (Bogotá) and the CEO's Management Program of the Kellogg School of Management (Illinois).

Lina Madrid is an Engineer, holds a MBA from the Technological Institute and Higher Education of Monterrey Mexico and Master in Finance from the School of Senior Management and Administration of Barcelona, ​​Spain. Has more than 10 years of experience in the financial sector and infrastructure. Former Director of Investments and Investor Services for Construcciones El Cóndor S.A. Ex-Manager of Segment Construction and Transportation in the Bancolombia Group. She currently works as Director of Infrastructure at AM SURA.

Mr. Mario Gabriel Budebo obtained his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. He obtained a masters degree and PhD, both in Economics, at UCLA. He is founder and CEO of Mexico Infrastructure Partners, a company that manages funds, aimed to the Energy and Infrastructure sectors in Mexico. Mr. Gabriel Budebo has made most of his professional career in the Mexican Government, designing public policies in several areas such as taxation, development banking, public finance, pension regulation and hydrocarbons. Mr. Gabriel was awarded with the National Banamex Prize on Economics, Tlacaélel Prize on Economic Consulting and received the Professional Merit Award from ITAM.

Nacido en Quito, Ecuador, el 26 de mayo de 1962. Es economista de la Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE) y realizó estudios de Maestría en Economía en el Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM).
En el Banco Central del Ecuador trabajó por 18 años y llegó a ocupar el cargo de Director General de Estudios luego de pasar por varias áreas de estudios y políticas. Fue también Subsecretario Técnico del Ministerio de Finanzas y Gerente Técnico de la Agencia de Garantía de Depósitos de Ecuador. En CAF, Banco de Desarrollo de América Latina ha colaborado en mercados financieros, la gestión programática, coordinador país para Venezuela, Representante Bolivia por 9 años y desde 2017 en México.

César Ramirez holds a MBA at the Kellog School of Management, MPA at the Kennedy School of Government Harvard. Has more than 20 years experience in investments. Former Managing Director of Petroperú, before starting in Credicorp worked as managing director at Trafigura Colombia, ING Funds, was Vice-president at AIC International Investments and held the position of investments specialist at IFC.

Ricardo is responsible for leading CPP Investments' activities in Infrastructure in Latin America, and has been overseeing investments in energy and infrastructure in Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Peru.

Prior to joining CPP Investments in 2015, Ricardo spent over 20 years covering the energy and infrastructure segments, including at Bank of America and Santander.

Ricardo holds a BS in Business Administration from Fundação Getúlio Vargas in São Paulo and an MBA from INSEAD (France).

He is on the boards of CESP and VTRM in Brazil, Grupo Costanera in Chile, IDEAL in Mexico, and TGP in Peru.

Country Director of ACCIONA Infraestructuras in Brazil, he is a Civil Engineer with an MBA in Business and Commercial Management. He began his career as a Construction Engineer at Andrade Gutierrez, where he worked for 17 years and was the Director of the Latin America Market, responding to the commercial and operational management of the company's projects in Argentina, Venezuela, Peru, among others. He also worked for 2 years as Executive Director for the Southern Cone region at Pentech, a multinational company of EPCenergy and industrial projects. At ACCIONA,with his strategic vision and experience in contract management, he is responsible for developing business in the areas of construction, concessions, industrial, water and services.

Teresa Vernaglia, CEO of BRK Ambiental, has served for more than 25 years in leadership positions in the Telecommunication and Energy sectors. Teresa worked for 16 years in the AES group and was President of AES Atimus and AES Brasil Institute. She started her career at NEC Brasil and before joining AES, was Director of Engineering and Operations at Nextel. Teresa Vernaglia holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of Sorocaba and an MBA in Business Management from the Instituto Técnico de Aeronáutica / ESPM.

Wilson Ferreira Jr is CEO of Eletrobras. He graduated in Electrical Engineering at the Engineering School of Mackenzie University, and in Business Administration at Mackenzie University. He holds a master's degree in Energy from USP and holds several specializations, among which Workplace Safety Engineering (Mackenzie University), Marketing (Getúlio Vargas Foundation) and Electric Power Distribution Management (Swedish Power Co.). At Cesp, he held several positions, including Chief Distribution Officer. He was CEO of RGE from, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bandeirante Energia S.A. and CEO of CPFL Paulista. In 2002, he became CEO of CPFL Energia and he was also the Chairman of Abradee and Abdib.

Mr. Zertuche has over 16 years of experience investing in Mexican real assets. He is former Vice-President of I2, the leading infrastructure investment manager in Mexico acquired by BlackRock in October, 2015. His prior experience is in investment banking, including M&A, debt and equity capital markets transactions, asset management, strategy and operations. Mr. Zertuche was a founder of Infraestructura Institucional ("I2") in 2010, and served as Chief Financial and Investment Officer since its inception in 2010. Prior to founding Infraestructura Institucional, Mr. Zertuche served as Chief Investment and Control Officer of Mexico Retail Properties ("MRP Group"), which he co-founded in October 2002.

He has worked within Santander’s Project Finance team since 2007, after 6 years working with KPMG, Alcoa and Bank BCN. In Santander, he is currently responsible for the Project Finance division, having been the Head of Power from 2011 to 2016. He has advised numerous infrastructure & power projects, including (i) HPP and SHP with a total installed capacity of over 7 GW; (ii) wind and solar power projects with installed capacity of over 7GW; (iii) thermal power plants with installed capacity of more than 2GW; (iv) highways, ports and PPPs. These projects represent an aggregated capex of about BRL 80 billion. Edson is graduated in Business Administration and holds an MPA from FGV.

Joined Neoenergia in 2004, as Regulation and Environment Officer, and was the CEO from 2012 to 2017. VP of the Board of Directors of the National System Operator, ONS. Board member of ABDIB. Participates in the National Steering Committee of Project Juntos. Was a member of the Social and Economical Development Council, CDES. With 35 years of experience, she held senior leadership positions at companies such as Chesf and Eletropaulo, was a consultant at National Economic Research Associates in Washington, DC. With a degree in Electrical Engineering from UFPE, and a master's degree from PUC-Rio, she was a visiting researcher at the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London.

Graduated in Economics from Universidad del Pacifico and Master of Management from J L Kellogg Graduate School Management - Northwestern University. He has management High Executive Development Programmes at Unidad de Piura. He has over 35 years of professional career, having had positions such as Managing Director for Indebtedness and Public Treasure at the Ministry of Economics and Finances; Presidente of the Risk Committee at Banco de la Nación; Finance Director at COFIDE; Finance Director, Acting Managing Director and Corporate Finance Director at Petroperu. Currently, he is President of the Board at COFIDE, the Peruvian Development Bank.

Fernando has 15+ years of broad experience in the infrastructure finance and development sector including his current leadership role as chief executive for a group of three regional airports in Chile. He has also served in an executive/board support capacity to the Board of Directors for the Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport PPP project in Santiago, with an aggregate of 18 million pax/year. He also has extensive background in executive and director roles for various airport developments in Latin America and the Caribbean with focus on airport privatization projects, PPP financing and airport administration, bridging public and private sector oversight. In Montego Bay, Jamaica, he served as Chief Financial Officer.

Master in Finance and Economist with management and technical experience in Corporate Finance, Business Development and M&A in the sectors of infrastructure, electricity and telecommunications. Gonzalo has been working at ISA since 2005, and is the Director of Business Development since 2010, leading ISA Group growth in both greenfield and brownfield projects across Latam region, including structuring of bidding processes and M&A.

Silvana Alcantara is the Communications, Institutional and Sustainability director at VLI. She holds a law degree from Universidade Paulista (UNIP), with post-graduate works from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Kellogg School and Harvard Business School. With over 20 years of experience at VLI and other organizations in the infrastructure sector, mainly dedicated to the regulatory and institutional relations fields, she acquired extensive expertise in strategy leadership, environmental management, social responsibility and communications, having developed crisis management and shared-value projects across a range of communities.

Carlos Cèsarman has experience in different fields of activity, playing a role in the planning and growth of the company. He has been involved in restructure, refinancing and entrepreneurship (star-ups). The main focus of his work is on creating value for the companies he has worked in. In 2002 he joined Grupo Tribasa and was an active part of the restructuring of the company; which at the time was in Chapter 11. In 2005 the company returned to the Mexican Stock Exchange as PINFRA, a promoter and developer of infrastructure projects. He is CFO of this company at this date.

Partner at Patria, responsible for the Infrastructure group’s investments and day to day activities. Prior to joining Patria, Mr. Pinto spent three years with Cargill. He was initially responsible for business development at Cargill in South America and later became a senior line executive, primarily responsible for one of Cargill’s businesses in Brazil. Prior to Cargill, he was with Bain & Company. Mr. Pinto advised leading local and multinational companies in connection with the design of growth strategies, business unit strategies, cost reduction and turnaround programs. Mr. Pinto earned a B.A. in Business Administration from Fundação Getúlio Vargas, a Certificate of Special Studies in Management from Harvard and an MBA from Insead.

President of AES Tietê since April 2016 and AES Brasil since 2018, with over 20 years of experience in the energy sector. Bachelor in mechanical engineering from the University of Pernambuco - Politécnica School with a master's degree in Energy, Environment and Water Resources from the University of Campinas and an MBA in finance from the University of Murcia - Spain. He has been with AES Brasil since 2002 and has also held the following roles: Vice President of Generation Operations; Operations and Maintenance Director of AES Tiete and AES Uruguaiana Empreendimentos S.A .; Engineering and Performance Manager at AES Cartagena - Spain. He is an asset management specialist certified by CFAM (AMCOUNCIL-Australia) and CMRP (SMRP- USA)

Since 2001 at the CPFL Group, before becoming CEO, Gustavo Estrella worked in the area of ​​financial planning and investor relations, as controller and for 6 years served as CFO. He holds a degree in Business Administration from Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ) and an MBA in Finance from IBMEC-RJ.

Mr Ardenghy is a career diplomat with extensive experience in private and public sector. He worked as diplomat in Washington, New York, Houston and Buenos Aires. He also held senior positions in the Brazilian Government in Brasilia and at the National Petroleum Agency – ANP. He also worked as Corporate Relations Manager at BG E&P Brasil, a British based oil & gas operator. During this period, he was a member of the Upstream Committee of the Brazilian Petroleum Institute (IBP) and Director of the American Chamber of Commerce of Rio de Janeiro. Currently working at Petrobras as executive board member with responsibilities to oversee communications, Social Responsibilities, Government Affairs, Safety, Health and Environment.