Joseph Philipsz
HEAD OF ORGANIZATION - THREE SEAS FUND, AMBER INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED, LONDONJoe has over thirty years experience in the infrastructure sector.
Before joining Amber in 2020, he was at Dalmore Capital from 2014. He completed their successful bid to finance the £4.2 billion Tideway Tunnel (a £440 million investment for Dalmore’s funds). He was a director of the holding company of the Tideway Tunnel. In March 2016, he completed the £355 million acquisition of a 49% stake in the Clyde wind farm from SSE plc by a UK pension fund and specialist renewables investor. In March 2017, he completed Dalmore’s investment of £400 million in Cadent Gas as part of a consortium which acquired 61% of National Grid Gas Distribution. In December 2017, he completed Dalmore’s acquisition of a 7.5% interest in Anglian Water Group, one of the largest UK water companies. In June 2018, he completed Dalmore’s acquisition, alongside the West Midlands Pension Fund, of a 49% interest in EDF’s UK wind farms (550MW). He was involved in Dalmore’s acquisition of the Cory Riverside waste to energy facility in July 2018 in particular in respect of the energy aspects of that transaction.
At Amber he is responsible for origination for the Three Seas Initiative Investment Fund. The Three Seas Initiative Investment Fund is focussed on greenfield investments in infrastructure in the region. It focusses on investment in three sectors: Energy, Transport and Digital. The fund has raised €560m of capital to date from Poland, Romania, Estonia and Latvia and this is expected to increase substantially as other countries make investments.
He read jurisprudence at Oriel College, Oxford.
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Friday 09 October
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MOBILISING PRIVATE ENTERPRISE & INVESTMENT: USING DISRUPTION TO REDEFINE THE REGION’S GROWTH PARADIGM
- Ignacio Jaquotot
- Joseph Philipsz
- Markus Kaune
- Tamara Perko
- Vazil Hudák
The call is open to react to the national Recovery and Resilience Plans, as put forth earlier from the viewpoints of key economic actors, with an emphasis on private enterprise, investment and their leading role in buttressing the recovery from the ground-up. Are the plans presented fit to not only jumpstart the European economy but also strategically place it on the path to long-term economic prosperity? How can different actors adapt for more resilience and position themselves for success in the post-pandemic world?