Talking Global Infrastructure

In the fifth instalment of Talking Global Infrastructure, GIIA CEO Lawrence Slade talks industrial strategies, nationalisation and Sunderland FC with the UK Labour Party's Shadow Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds MP.

Unpacking Labour's vision for infrastructure, Jonathan provides an insight into party plans for improving investor confidence in the UK, an industrial strategy for catalysing investment and working closely with the business community to achieve Net Zero.

In the fourth episode of Talking Global Infrastructure, GIIA's CEO Lawrence Slade discusses the current opportunities and headwinds facing global infrastructure investors,  including; inflationary pressures, increased ESG considerations and rising government debt levels with with Plenary Group's CIO Paul Crowe. 

In the third instalment of Talking Global Infrastructure, GIIA's CEO Lawrence Slade and guests David Quam, GIIA's Washington Representative and Tom Curtin, Program Director for Infrastructure at National Governors Association, dissect the present situation in the United States infrastructure landscape. Lawrence, David and Tom discuss how the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) will have an impact long term and how to deliver more and better infrastructure, at a faster rate, through partnership between States and Cities and private investors.

In the second episode of GIIA’s new podcast: Talking Global Infrastructure, Deputy CEO & Director of Corporate Affairs, Jon Phillips discusses the Regulating for Investment Report produced in partnership with Flint Global, alongside Mark Caines, who is a Partner in Flint Global's regulation and competition practice.

The net-zero vision of the UK with affordable, high-quality and resilient infrastructure that is capable of meeting society’s expectations in the 21st century is one we all share. But we will not get there without a programme of urgent policy and regulatory reform. In the report, GIIA makes recommendations for an overhaul of the policy and regulatory framework in order to meet societal and climate challenges and incentivise investment in a way that is efficient and affordable over the long-term.

In this first episode of Talking Global Infrastructure, GIIA CEO Lawrence Slade discusses the highlights of the GIIA Global Asset Database in partnership with EY, recent and future trends in infrastructure investment and the positive social and economic impacts GIIA member investments deliver across 6 continents and 70 countries.

Guests this episode are Udit Gandhi, a Partner in EY’s Transaction Advisory Services Practice and Mike Parker, EY’s Americas Infrastructure Leader.