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Investing in infrastructure
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Infrastructure is at the heart of the
Chinese G20 agenda
The GI Hub's tool for risk assessment
will help to guide governments
Christopher
Heathcote
CEO
Global
Infrastructure Hub
Christopher Heathcote is the Chief
Executive Officer of the Global
Infrastructure Hub, mandated by
the G20’s 2014 Brisbane Summit
to grow the global pipeline of
infrastructure projects. His career
began in the private sector in the
1990s as a founding partner of
Hyder Infrastructure Investors
and adviser on many international
public-private partnerships
(PPPs). Towards the end of the
1990s, he moved to Partnerships
UK, a PPP project set up by the
UK Treasury to advise the public
sector in procuring infrastructure
programmes. He returned to the
private sector in 2006.
GI Hub: providing
concrete support
for China’s G20
The Global Infrastructure Hub will help the G20 work towards
long-term impact by growing the global pipeline,
writes Christopher Heathcote
@gi_hub
globalinfrastructurehub.org
The global economy faces
low growth, an estimated
infrastructure deficit of up to $20
trillion by 2030 and low interest
rates, which are compressing
margins and driving a search for higher
yielding assets.
Infrastructure is at the heart of the
Chinese G20 agenda. The GI Hub, with its
mandate to grow the global pipeline of
potential infrastructure projects, has worked
closely to support the Chinese presidency.
At their most recent meeting in July in
Chengdu, G20 finance ministers and central
bank governors welcomed the GI Hub’s
online, interactive tool for risk assessment
in public-private partnerships (PPPs). This
tool will help to guide governments to
better allocate risk in PPP projects, a key
barrier to the private sector investing in an
infrastructure project.
The finance ministers also asked the GI
Hub “to work with the MDBs (multilateral
development banks) to assess internal
134 G20 China: The Hangzhou Summit • September 2016 G7G20.com