Official Event Advisory Panel - Australian Infrastructure Finance Summit 2014
Quest Events would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank the panel members below who are contributing their valuable time and expertise to ensure the conference agenda is timely and relevant for all stakeholders in infrastructure finance and development.
Geoff Haley
Global Executive Chairman
International Project Finance Association
Geoff is the founder and chairman of IPFA, the largest independent not for profit project finance trade association in the world.
He is a Solicitor with an LL.B from University of London, an MBA from Henley Business School and a Diploma in Marketing from the Charted Institute of Marketing.
Originally a construction lawyer, he has specialised in project finance and Public Private Partnerships since 1985. He has specialist experience in large and complex projects in transportation, energy, water treatment, healthcare and education. Projects include Channel Tunnel, Channel Tunnel Rail Link, DBFO Roads, PFI government hospitals and accommodation; overseas projects in Dubai, Jordan, West Africa, Ukraine, Georgia, China and US.
He is a trustee of First Initiative Resource Strategy and Technology - an Oxford based charity. He is non-executive director of Quantum and visiting Professor to Metropolitan University. He lectures extensively on project finance and designs and delivers a range of training courses for governments, public sector bodies and private companies.
Roger Black
Executive Director
Infrastructure Association of Queensland
Roger has been active in the financial and commercial advisory services sector for many years and he has worked with a a wide variety of clients in both the public and private sectors. Those clients have been in Southern Africa,the UK, the US and in Australia where he has been active in the infrastructure sector for the past 14 years.
His transaction advisory experience includes a strong focus on infrastructure project analysis, business case development, project procurement and procurement options analysis (including PPP and PFI, alliance and traditional procurement options), project and corporate finance, financial modelling and the development, evaluation and delivery of social and economic infrastructure projects.
Keith Orchison
Director
Coolibah Pty Ltd
Keith has been involved in Australian resources and industry policy issues management and communications for 34 years. He has been a communicator for 55 years, starting as a journalist in South Africa in 1959 and emigrating to Australia in 1970. He served for four years in the 1970s as public affairs manager of Associated Pulp & Paper Mills Limited and for three years as head of public relations at La Trobe University, Melbourne. He was chief executive of what is now APPEA for 11 years and of the Electricity Supply Association of Australia for 12 years. From 2003 to 2007 he chaired the energy committee of the Critical Infrastructure Advisory Council for the Howard government. He has also been chairman of the Australian Industry Greenhouse Network and of the CSIRO Energy Technology Advisory Committee. Today he runs his own energy advisory business as Coolibah Pty Ltd and is publisher of the blog “This is Power” and of the Coolibah monthly newsletter. He is also the editor of the “OnPower” website and yearbook and he contributes a commentary on energy issues regularly to “Business Spectator.” He was editor of the “Powering Australia” yearbook from 2007 to 2012. Keith is also engaged in the organisation and chairing of a series of energy outlook conferences. He was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2004 and in 2012 was recipient of AusIMM’s Sir Willis Connolly Memorial Medal for outstanding communication about the mining and resources sectors.
Stuart Wilson
Director of Strategy
Water Services Association of Australia
Stuart Wilson is an economist who has held a variety of senior policy positions in the public and private sectors specialising in infrastructure issues.
He is the Deputy Executive Director for the Water Services Association of Australia (WSAA). WSAA is the peak body for the Australian urban water industry. Its members supply services to over $20 million customers.
Before joining WSAA he was as Principle Economist and Manager, Regulatory Strategy and Pricing for seven years at Sydney Water – Australia’s largest water utility.
Prior to that he held a variety of economic policy and research positions in the Australian Commonwealth Public Service. These include positions at the Productivity Commission and its predecessors and the Commonwealth Department of Finance. He has also worked in private consulting.
Jon Stanford
Director
Insight Economics
Since taking up a career as a consultant in the mid-1990s, Jon Stanford has developed a strong practice in economics and policy issues related to climate change, energy, the resources sector, industry development and defence. In this period, Jon was a Director of the Allen Consulting Group for over ten years before leaving to establish a new firm, Insight Economics, with four other consultants. From 2006-09 Jon was a Partner with Deloitte and helped to establish their new economics practice. Throughout his consulting career, Jon has worked closely with two economic modelling agencies: the Centre of Policy Studies at Monash University and, for energy market modelling, McLennan Magasanik Associates. Before becoming a consultant, Jon Stanford had a significant career with the Australian Public Service working in areas that involved economics and public policy. His final position was as a Division Head in the Prime Minister’s Department.
Peter Love
John Curtin Distinguished Professor
Department of Civil Engineering, Curtin University
Dr Peter Love is a John Curtin Distinguished Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Curtin University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Surveyors, and a recipient of numerous national and international awards such as the Scopus Young Australian Researcher of the year. Peter acts as visiting professor and external examiner to a number of Universities in Australia, Hong Kong, South Africa, South Korea, and United Kingdom. His research focuses on improving the performance and productivity of infrastructure projects by designing and developing innovative management and technological solutions. Peter currently has a number Australian Research Council funded grants that are examining ways to better deliver infrastructure such as a Public Private Partnerships life-cycle performance measurement framework, cost and schedule performance models, rework reduction and containment techniques, and Building Information Modelling implementation strategies. In 2013, Peter was awarded a Higher Doctorate of Science (D.Sc.) for his substantial, original and distinguished contributions to the field of construction and engineering management.