Vincent Connor is Head of Asia Pacific and also Head of Office in Hong Kong. He specialises in contentious construction law, providing clients with strategic advice during projects and representing them in arbitration & litigation. In addition to his strong reputation for advocacy, Vincent has considerable experience of Adjudication under Security of Payment legislation. Currently, he is advising on a HK$250 million civil engineering arbitration case in Hong Kong, complex claims on a light rail project in Singapore and significant financial issues arising from a power plant project in Vietnam.

Thomas Barrett is the Director responsible for the EIB’s Structured Finance and Advisory Activities throughout the European Union. He is currently also the Director of the EIB’s Centres of Expertise on Trans-European Networks (TENs) and Public Private Partnerships (PPPs); on Energy and Environment and on the Knowledge Economy / Lisbon Agenda. Thomas was previously EIB Director for North Western Europe before which he was responsible for project financing of the aerospace; oil and gas and satellite telecommunication sectors. He was also, inter alia, a member of TENs Policy Groups led by Commissioners Van Miert, Christophersen, Kinnock and De Palacio. He was Chairman of European Industry PPP Task Force on the Galileo GPS satellite navigation project and also a member of the UK Government’s Steering Group on Partnerships UK (PUK/PFI).

Edmund O’Sullivan is Chairman of MEED Events, the conferences and networking division of MEED, the Middle East business intelligence service provider. An economist and a business person, O’Sullivan has been observing developments in the Middle East region since 1979 and was previously editor and publishing director of MEED. His career has also encompassed business development work in Russia and consultancy projects in southern Africa for the Brenthurst Foundation, which focuses on developing economic strategies for Africa. O’Sullivan has also acted as a consultant for a host of blue-chip international firms operating in the Middle East. His work in broadcasting includes frequent contributions to radio and television about Middle East issues. The second edition of his book The New Gulf, a modern history of Arabia, is due to be published by the end of 2010.

Federico Patiño was born in Mexico City and studied at the Law School of the National University of Mexico (UNAM). He specialized in development banking at The World Bank Development Banking Institute in Washington DC and worked in Mexico’s development bank Nacional Financiera (Nafinsa) for 28 years from 1980 to 2008. There he occupied different positions as, Deputy General Director of Credit, Deputy General Director of Treasury, Deputy General Director of Development and Deputy General Director, Investment Banking. In May 2007, he was appointed Deputy General Director in Investment Banking and Corporate Financing at Banco Nacional de Comercio Exterior (BANCOMEXT), having maintained his position in Nafinsa at the same time. He was responsible for the creation of the Corporacion Mexicana de Inversiones de Capital (CMIC); Coordinator of the initial public offering process for the government’s position in the Mexican airport groups; responsible for structuring the finance for the Terminal 2 for Mexico City’s International Airport; and the selling process of the FARAC’s first package of toll roads. In 2008, Mr. Patiño was appointed Investment Banking Director of Banobras, in charge of The Mexican Infrastructure Fund.

Peter Luchetti is a founding Partner and leads TRC’s Business & Investment Development Group. His experience includes advisory and capital-raising roles covering a wide range of transactions in the transportation, social infrastructure, water & waste, energy and communications sectors. Prior to forming TRC, Peter was Managing Director and Global Head of Project & Structured Finance for Bank of America. In this role he was responsible for a 140-person team transacting in over 30 countries on the origination and execution of project and structured finance, advisory and capital-raising activities. Prior to assuming leadership of the Project & Structured Finance Group, Peter started and ran Bank of America’s first distressed loan trading desk and also worked for J. Aron Goldman Sachs. He received a BA in economics from Hobart & William Smith Colleges and an MA in economics from Duke University. He also serves as a Board member of the Bay Area Council Economic Institute.

Lord Birt has been an adviser to Terra Firma since 2005, and has been involved in several of its portfolio companies - as Chairman of, successively - WRG, Infinis and Maltby Capital, the holding company of EMI. He is also a non-executive director of both PayPal Europe and Eutelsat. In addition, Lord Birt has also been an adviser to McKinsey, and currently advises Capgemini. He was the Director General of the BBC from 1992- 2000, and Strategy Adviser to the then UK Chancellor Gordon Brown from 2000-2005.

Paul Finch is the chairman of UK government’s Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE). He is a Programme Director of the World Architecture Festival, and editorial director of the Architectural Review and Architects’ Journal. Previously, Finch has worked as a journalist at the Estates Times (1976-1983), Building Design (1983-94), Architects’ Journal (1994-1999) and the Architectural Review (2005-2009). He has also served as joint editor, Planning in London since 1994.

David Livesley joined Crossrail as Chief of Staff in August 2008. He is a member of Crossrail’s Executive Committee and, as well as managing governance within this extremely large and complex infrastructure project, he manages working relationships with Crossrail’s two sponsors. Livesley was previously Director, Acquisitions and Divestments, at AEA Technology plc, where his involvement with the rail industry began by building a rail business through negotiating the acquisitions of a number of rail consultancies.

Julia Prescott has an extensive background in project funding, having acted as an investor, adviser both to Governments and to the private sector and provider of debt and junior funding in respect of a large number of PPP projects around the globe. Prescott’s past roles have included Head of Project Finance at Hill Samuel in London, Co-Head of Project Advisory at Charterhouse Bank to Senior Director and Head of Eurozone Infrastructure Finance at Bank of Scotland. In 2005, she moved to work on the development and realisation of Meridiam, where she is a Partner and a Member of the Board of Meridiam Infrastructure Managers.

Tim Stone is Partner at KPMG’s Corporate Finance practice. He is Chairman and founder of KPMG’s Global Infrastructure and Projects Group and is the Expert Chair, Office for Nuclear Development and Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change and also to the Chief Secretary to the Treasury. As part of this work, he has undertaken a review of the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate and has led the work to develop the guidance for the Waste & Decommissioning of new nuclear power stations. He also advises the ministers on the 2050 program and on other large energy projects. He is also an expert non-Executive member of the board of the European Investment Bank and was a founder member of the CBI’s Public Services Strategy Board and was Chairman of IFSL’s PPP Export Group.

Joseph P. Pavona is the Director of Michigan’s Office for Public-Private Partnerships. A 25-year veteran with Michigan state government, he has extensive knowledge and experience in all aspects of US government operations including procurement, finance, budgeting, accounting, intra-governmental support services and real estate. In his current role, Pavona oversees the daily operation of Michigan’s Office for Public- Private Partnerships and ensures that PPPs are strategically considered as Michigan explores its business options. He began his career with Michigan state government in the Department of Management & Budget where he held several managerial positions, with the last five years as the state’s property management director, during a 15-year stay.

Stephen E. Schlickman became the Executive Director of the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) of Northeastern Illinois on October 1, 2005, charged with oversight, financial assistance and planning coordination for the region’s transit operating agencies - the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), Metra and Pace. Schlickman has more than 30 years of transportation experience and has been involved in every federal and Illinois highway and transit program reauthorisation since 1982. Prior to being named RTA Executive Director, Schlickman operated his own consulting practice providing financial, project policy, and legislative advice to clients involved in all modes of surface transportation, as well as for water and urban park infrastructure activities. In 2005, Schlickman advised Macquarie Bank in their successful US$1.8 billion bid with Cintra for the concession for Chicago Skyway bridge toll facility.

Sean T. Connaughton is the Secretary of Transportation for the Commonwealth of Virginia serving in the cabinet of Governor Bob McDonnell. Prior to joining the McDonnell administration, Connaughton served as Corporate Vice President, Government Affairs for the American Bureau of Shipping, one of the world’s leading ship and marine classification societies. He was named U.S. Maritime Administrator by President George W. Bush in 2006. As Maritime Administrator, he was head of the Maritime Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, and responsible for the daily management of that agency and its promotional programs for the marine transportation industry. This included advising and assisting the Secretary of Transportation on commercial maritime matters, operation of over 50 ships in the Ready Reserve Force, supervision of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, oversight of the six State Maritime Academies, and administration of various shipyard and cargo programs. Connaughton was appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate.

Doreen M. Frasca is the President and Principal of Frasca & Associates which she formed in 1997, to provide advisory and strategic consulting services for airports and airport tenants, including airlines and concessionaires. She spent the previous 20 years of her career on Wall Street, initially at Dillon, Read & Co. Inc., on the municipal bond trading desk as a dollar bond trader, and then at Merrill Lynch & Co., where she spent 15 years in the Public Finance Division, ultimately heading the Airports and Transportation Group. Frasca specialises in the structuring and financing of airport, airport access and other transportation related projects. Throughout her career, Frasca has assisted her clients in evaluating the financial feasibility of project financings, structuring financing plans, and accessing the taxable and tax-exempt markets. She has financed in excess of $12 billion in projects for US airports as well as innovative financial products such as swaps and GICs. She was appointed by Mayor Bloomberg in 2004 to the Board of the NYC Off-Track Betting Corporation. In May 2008, she was appointed by the Governor to the Board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Manuel Jimenez Aguilar is the Structured Finance Director for Latin America in Abengoa. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and an MBA from Universidad de Sevilla, with 10 years of experience in Abengoa and seven years in the Power sector in Latin America.

Hernando Graña has been a Member of the Board of Directors at Graña y Montero SA since August of 1994. He joined the business development division of Graña y Montero in 1977, rising to General Manager in 1992 before taking his current position in the boardroom. Graña has also been the first vice-president of CAPECO (Peruvian Construction Chamber) since 2007 and holds positions of the board of several Peruvian companies. He is an Industrial Engineer with a Post Graduate Degree in Mining Engineering from the University of Minnesota, USA.

Miguel Angel Martinez Parra represented IDEAL, a private investment firm created in Mexico in June 2005 through a spin-off from Grupo Financiero Inbursa with a capital of close to US$900 million, on the Infrastructure100 judging panel. IDEAL is listed on the Mexican Stock Exchange since September 2005, with the purpose of becoming an institutional company and provide information to investors. Over the past five years, the company has gathered a team of successful engineers, who have furthered the company’s objectives in different infrastructure sectors such as - Roads, Water Treatment, Energy, Health and Education among others.

Ana Karina Esteves De Souza was admitted to legal practice in 1999 in São Paulo, Brazil. She is a member of the Brazilian Bar Association, New York State Bar, Brazil Lawyers Association, Brazilian Institute for Energy Law and International Bar Association. She was earlier associated with Dewey Ballantine LLP, New York (2005-2006). De Souza currently offers legal advice on Infrastructure, Project Finance, Transportation, Energy, Oil and Gas sectors. She has authored/co-authored several research papers, industry reports and articles and is active on the Infrastructure speaking circuit.

Keiran Travers has been recently appointed General Manager of ELP Muddy Boots who are a Brisbane based consultancy that provides project management, environmental and training services to the mining, resources and infrastructure areas. He was previously a Senior Project Advisor with the management consulting team at Aurecon. Travers holds a MBA from the University of Queensland and also has qualifications in environmental management. He has worked in a variety of industries including infrastructure projects (toll roads, education), waste management and government projects.

Wilfred Lau is a Director of Arup and an Executive of Arup’s Global Consulting Practice. He was the Chairman of the Association of Consulting Engineers of Hong Kong (2005 – 2006) and member of Infrastructure Development Advisory Committee of Hong Kong Trade Development Council (2006 – 2010). He leads Arup’s Consulting Practice in East Asia Region and is the Chief Executive of Arup Vietnam.

Boe Pahari has over twenty years experience in the banking industry. He started his banking career at Citigroup in Sydney and subsequently worked for more than 13 years with ABN AMRO based in Singapore, Amsterdam, New York and London. During this period, Pahari worked in regional and global positions, including Regional CFO for Asia Pacific, Global Head of Strategy and M&A, Global Head of Proprietary Structuring Group, Head of Emerging Growth Markets, Head of Infrastructure Capital, Americas, Global Head of Integrated Finance/Infrastructure Capital, Global Head of Special Situations and Distressed Capital and Global Head Structured Capital. Subsequently, at RBS, Pahari was appointed Global co- Head Principal Strategies.

David Roseman is the global head of Infrastructure & Utilities Advisory team at Macquarie Capital Group Ltd. He joined Macquarie’s then Project and Structured Finance Group in 1992. Prior to his current role, Roseman was the Australasian head of the Infrastructure and Utilities Advisory business. He also initiated the development of Macquarie’s infrastructure business in the US where he later served as head of the New York office of the group. Over a long and successful career with Macquarie, Roseman has worked on financing infrastructure projects in Asia, Australia, North America and Europe. Thus far, he has completed transactions with a value in excess of $80 billion.

William M. Dachs is currently the Head of the PPP Unit at National Treasury in South Africa and is one of the Unit's founding members. He was appointed to his current position in March 2005. Between 2007 and 2009 he worked for the World Bank as a senior finance specialist focusing on infrastructure finance in Central and East Asia. During this time he was involved in the Bank's new municipal Financial Intermediary Loan programme and PPP programme advisory work. He is a civil engineer and also has a degree in law. Prior to joining Treasury in 2000, he worked as a consulting civil engineer in transport and water related projects in the Eastern Cape and Western Cape.

David Yaw joined Halcrow in 2002, and in April 2007 was appointed Halcrow's Regional Managing Director for the Middle East based in Dubai. Established in the Gulf for over 55 years, Halcrow currently employs some 1500 staff in 13 countries across the region, generating annual revenue of £125 million in 2009, representing around 25 per cent of the company's worldwide income. In his current role, Yaw undertakes relationship management with senior representatives of clients and business partners. He leads the Regional Management Team, which includes Directors responsible for the firm's operations in urban and transport planning; coastal and maritime; property; transportation including aviation, highways and bridges; water and power; and business support services including HR, finance and accounting, and IT.

Ralph J. Henderson is the Managing Director of the Infrastructure Division of KEO-International Consultants. He is responsible for all KEO-Infrastructure operations in the Persian Gulf and Internationally. He has over 30 years experience in design and engineering management, working in both client and consultant roles, with a wide range of experience in project development from feasibility studies through detailed design to construction. Henderson is a Chartered Civil Engineer and started his professional career in the UK before moving on to projects in Europe. He has spent the last 8 years in Gulf Region, working in Qatar and now in Abu Dhabi.

Shaun Killa worked for Munnick Visser and Stefan Antoni Architects before moving to Dubai and joining Atkins in 1998 as part of the team on the Burj Al Arab. From 2000 he became Head of Architecture and later Design Director for Atkins Dubai. He has won several commissions such as the 21st Century Tower (2000-2003), Chelsea Tower (2001-2004), Dubai Flower Centre (2001-2005),The Millennium Tower (2003-2006), Al Mas Tower (2005-2008) to name a few, which assisted in expanding the office from 60 to over 500 staff. His design specialisation in large projects and high-rise towers and his passion for sustainable design has led him to design the world's first large scale integration of wind turbines on a building for the Bahrain World Trade Centre (2003-2007).