PARTICIPANTS Thomas Foucoin


Senior debt origination manager, infrastructure Pension Insurance Corporation


Infrastructure-focused Thomas sources, structures and executes private debt transac- tions for PIC. This has seen him work on deals involving renewable energy, utilities, healthcare and education. He joined the insurer in 2018 from Moody’s, where he was part of the infrastructure team.


Florence Taj


Equity portfolio manager MFS Investment Management


Florence Taj specialises in listed equities and is responsible for portfolio construction, risk control and cash management at MFS Investment Management. Taj joined MFS as a research analyst in 1999 and has held several senior positions since, including launching the firm’s Global Listed Infrastructure strategy in 2017, for which she has portfolio manage- ment responsibilities. Before joining MFS, Taj was a senior consultant at Renaissance Solutions.


Michael Ebner Managing director, head of sustainable infrastructure


KGAL Investment Management


Michael Ebner has held several senior real asset positions since joining KGAL Invest- ment Management around 25 years ago. He was appointed a managing director in 2015 with responsibility for the firm’s sustain- able infrastructure interests. Ebner has also held roles at Dresdner Bank and Bayerische Vereinsbank.


Catherine Lloyd


Principal, global infrastructure Mercer


Jean-Francis Dusch Chief investment officer, infrastructure debt Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management


Jean-Francis Dusch has led the infrastructure debt platform at Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management since its inception in 2014. He joined the asset manager 10 years earlier as co-head of project finance. He then took charge of the structured finance team before becoming head of global infrastructure and structured finance. Dusch started his career at Bouygues Construction in 1992, where he worked in project finance until joining UBS in 1998, where he was involved in European infrastructure, energy and telecoms pro- jects. He has also been a director at Citi and WestLB, covering infrastructure and TMT in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.


Catherine Lloyd sources, assesses and monitors infrastructure assets for Mercer’s discretionary investment products. She also advises institutional investors in Europe on their allocations to the asset class. Before joining Mercer in 2019, Lloyd worked for EISER Infrastructure Partners and provided transaction execution services to a sover- eign-funded Sub-Saharan Africa Renewable Energy fund. She has worked in infrastructure since the late 1990s, starting her career with Westpac in Australia before moving to ABN AMRO, where she held risk management roles in Sydney, Amsterdam and London.


Lewis Vanstone Investment director Railpen


Lewis Vanstone has been responsible for Railpen’s infrastructure assets since 2019, overseeing investments in wind power, biomass and smart metering. Vanstone, who has a 13-year track record of investing in infrastructure, is also deputy portfolio man- ager of Railpen’s Long-term Income Fund and managers its Growth Infrastructure portfolio. He has also focused on infrastructure at Foresight, PwC and for SSE on the sale of its non-core infrastructure assets.


Katya Romashkan Investment director, infrastructure Local Pensions Partnership Investments


Katya Romashkan is responsible for the origi- nation, execution and management of the local government pension pool’s infrastruc- ture investments, leading the team through all stages of the investment process. Prior to joining LPPI, she spent 10 years working for construction group Balfour Beatty Invest- ments and three years at a US infrastructure boutique.


Simon Whistler Head of real assets


UN Principles for Responsible Investment


For the past four years, Simon Whistler has led the PRI’s work on real assets. He sup- ports asset owners to integrate responsible investing into their processes. His work has included developing guidance for real assets on implementing the recommendations of the Taskforce for Climate-related Financial Disclosures.


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