Advisory board

Gershon Cohen is a Fund Principal of Lloyds Bank European Infrastructure Partners LP, a green-field infrastructure fund focussed on Continental Europe, and he is also Chief Executive Officer of the Infrastructure Fund’s platform at Lloyds Bank.

Duncan is the head of the Infrastructure research team. He advises clients on all aspects of their infrastructure programme, including setting a strategy that best fits with the client’s goals, the selection of manager to populate strategies and the monitoring of individual managers and infrastructure portfolios, while he is also responsible for the management of the research process for the asset class.

John grew up in North Dakota in the United States and has been a journalist and writer since 1997.

Peter has been with Lloyds Banking Group since joining the securitisation team at HBOS in 2004.  He currently works in the Asset Backed Solutions team within the Capital Markets business and has specific responsibility for infrastructure assets.

Gavin joined USS in 2011 as Senior Investment Manager with responsibility for sourcing, evaluating and monitoring co-investments within the infrastructure portfolio.  Gavin reports to Mike Powell, Head of Alternative Assets and is a voting member of the Alternatives Investment Committee. Gavin has worked in the infrastructure sector in the UK and Australia for fifteen years.

Ali is the Head of Capital Markets at Mubadala and joined from Goldman Sachs in January 2009. His career at Goldman Sachs spanned from Debt Capital Markets Origination and Bond Syndications to Mergers & Acquisitions. Ali holds an MSc in Aerospace Engineering from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

Ian Nolan is an economist by academic training, and qualified as an accountant with Arthur Andersen in London before making his career in private equity at 3i, from 1987 to 2011.

Barrie Stevens is Head of the International Futures Programme (IFP) at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).