Andrew joined TXF’s inaugural conference on Infrastructure and Energy Finance in ASEAN, held at the Suntec convention centre in Singapore on 27 February 2018. He moderated the session on Project Financing Mix: Blending Sustainable Financing Solutions where he was joined by the IFC’s Nonito Bernardo and Standard & Poor’s Abhishek Dangra. They focussed on what needs to […]

The Economic Times sponsored the second ABLC in KL on 29 – 30 November 2017. Ministers from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Cambodia spoke but the core of the agenda and most of the delegates were from India and Malaysia. Speakers included Malaysia’s PM Najib Razak and Minister for International Trade and Industry Mustapa Mohamed; India’s Minister […]

Andrew joined a panel at Infrastructure Investor’s HK summit on 15 November 2017  to discuss dynamic changes in the infrastructure sector and to assess what are the risks and opportunities for existing and future investments? SG’s Head of Infrastructure Finance, Asia Pacific, Gavin Munro moderated; GIC’s CIO Eng Seng Ang, the IFC’s Head of Infrastructure […]

Andrew attended the Financial Times’ Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank summit in HK on 1 November, hosted by the FT’s Asia editor Jamil Anderlini and the AIIB’s President Jin Liqun (pictured). It was a grand event because it had a grand story to tell. The AIIB was established by China, of course, and has been seen […]

Infrastructure investors – and pretty much everyone else – need a stable political environment. Recent referenda have caused the chaos that they have because they lacked basic rules of engagement, as Andrew pointed out in a letter to the South China Morning Post.

Andrew moderated the session on Access to Infrastructure Finance at the TXF Asia conference in Hong Kong on 11 – 12 October. He was joined by Pranav Chandna, Director of Global Project Development & Structured Finance at Philips Capital in India; Allard Nooy, CEO of InfraCo Asia; and Frederic Pergay, VP Business Development for Asia […]

Andrew’s longstanding scepticism about the Hong Kong – Zhuhai – Macau bridge when interviewed for Asiamoney magazine – Macau bets on a bridge – was echoed by business leaders there who said that smaller projects would be more helpful if the SAR was to diversify away from its core business.

Herman Melville may have recognised this white whale, a maritime white elephant if you will, but he would also have noted the lack of any obsession in pursuing it. Yes, this is the HK$8.2 billion cruise terminal which opened in 2013 on the old runway at Kai Tak which is not being used much, is […]

Last week, outgoing HK Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying led a tour of government officials and their advisors around the Greater Bay Area. The GBA is a scheme endorsed by Premier Li Keqiang in his annual work report last month to improve integration between the two Special Administrative Regions of HK and Macao and nine other […]

In a couple of months, Hong Kong will commemorate twenty years as a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China. There is much to celebrate in that Beijing did not make an example of the old colony as some feared at the time, indeed it has drip fed us various privileges with varying degrees […]

Interviewed for A Plus magazine on the impact of Trump on Hong Kong, Andrew predicted that its professionals would be needed even more, whether it was to interpret China – US trade relations or to facilitate China’s One Belt and Road outreach as China redoubled efforts to show that it could actually deliver on projects in its […]