Let me introduce myself
30+ years and 40+ countries, I’m a New Zealander committed to making a difference at home and internationally. My purpose is to inspire people to lift their gaze toward a better future. I do this mostly, but not always, through infrastructure.
The employers I have been privileged to serve
The World Bank | Washington DC
Lead Infrastructure Finance Specialist in Washington DC within the Infrastructure Vice Presidency.
New Zealand Government
– Chief Advisor, Strategy and Finance at the Infrastructure Commission
– General Manager, Infrastructure at the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority
University of Canterbury | New Zealand
Adjunct Senior Fellow delivering infrastructure finance lectures in the Master of Engineering Management programme.
New Zealand | Recovery
New Zealand/ Canterbury Earthquakes – led the infrastructure team during the strategy development phase of the New Zealand government’s recovery response following a series of earthquakes throughout 2010 – 2012.
Macquarie Bank | Sydney
Associate Director in the Asset & Infrastructure Group’s energy team.
HSBC | London, Hong Kong & Thailand
Project Finance Director in the project finance team of HSBC Investment Bank Asia.
Morgan Grenfell & Co. | London
Financial modeller on the International Department’s Soviet and East European desk.
Whats on your mind?
Whats on your mind?
Maybe you’ve got a complex infrastructure financing challenge. You need someone who’s totally on your side to help find a way through. Someone diplomatic, capable, creative and collaborative…
…Or maybe your organisation is looking decades ahead and you need someone to work alongside you to help frame your futures thinking…
…Or maybe your team wants to build its infrastructure financing capability and needs a technical safe pair of hands…
…Or maybe you have something else in mind?
Some ways I can help
Infrastructure Finance
Specialising in developing financial strategies at a project, sectoral and national level.
Foresight
Research based application of futures and foresight techniques to help identify and steer toward preferred futures.
Education
Helping organisations with infrastructure financial literacy, especially in commercial financing approaches.
The experience I have gained to help you now
A showcase of some of the challenging assignments where I have helped others to succeed.
New Zealand | Strategy
New Zealand/ Infrastructure Strategy – contributing towards a draft 30-year infrastructure strategy aimed at improving New Zealanders’ long-term wellbeing. See www.infracom.govt.nz for more.
Croatia | Transport
Croatia/ Modernization and Restructuring of the Roads Sector Project – while at the World Bank, co-led the team restructuring the road sector and optimising up to EUR 4 billion of road sector debt that had become a sovereign debt challenge.
Ukraine | Energy
Ukraine/Gas Supply Security Facility – while at the World Bank, co-led the development of a first-of-kind IBRD trade finance guarantee to help the state gas utility, Naftogaz, import crucially needed gas through a collaboration with the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
New Zealand | Recovery
New Zealand/ Canterbury Earthquakes – led the infrastructure team during the strategy development phase of the New Zealand government’s recovery response following a series of earthquakes throughout 2010 – 2012.
Lao PDR | Energy
Lao PDR/ Nam Theun 2 – Financial Advisor to the Government of Laos on the financing of the 1074 MW Nam Theun 2 Hydro-electric Project. See www.namtheun2.com for more.
New Zealand | Water
New Zealand/ Central Plains Water Limited – Board member during the capital rasing for Central Plains Water, which is the largest irrigation scheme in the South Island. The Scheme currently supplies irrigation to approximately 45,000 hectares.
Tanzania | Energy
Tanzania/ TANESCO – Appointed by the World Bank to lead the development of a long term financing plan for the Tanzanian Electricity Supply Company. The project resulted in significant strengthening of the utility’s financial position at the time.
Photo credit: Zeynep Gokalp on Unsplash
Tuvalu | Electricity
Tuvalu/ Tuvalu Electricity Corporation (TEC) – Led the economic and financial review of TEC’s operations and rates analysis, with funding from the Pacific Islands Geoscience Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC). See https://www.tectuvalu.tv/ for more.
Indonesia | Multi-Sector
Indonesia/ BAPPENAS – Assisting PA Consulting under a World Bank appointment to develop the Public-Private Partnership Central Unit (P3CU).
Photo credit: Adli Wahid on Unsplash
Solomon Is. | Electricity
Solomon Islands/ Solomon Power – Led the economic and financial review of SP’s base tariff and operations, with funding from the Pacific Islands Geoscience Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC). See solomonpower.com.sb for more.
Tonga | Strategy
Tonga/ National Infrastructure Investment Plan – appointed by the Pacific Regional Infrastructure Facility (PRIF) to assist in the development of a practical infrastructure plan for Tonga, which became a model for other Pacific nations.
Philippines | Electricity
Philippines/ Transco – Appointed by the World Bank to conduct an assessment of previous bidding and prospects for the concessioning of the national grid company, Transco.
Photo credit: AR on Unsplash
Micronesia | Multi-Sector
Micronesia/ Pohnpei Utilities Corporation (PUC) – Appointed by the Pacific Islands Geoscience Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC) to lead the economic and financial review of PUC’s operations and tariffs.
Bulgaria | Water & Waste
Bulgaria/ Sofiyska Voda. Appointed by the International Arbitral Centre of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber to act as the Financial Member of a three member Concession Dispute Resolution Board regarding Sofia’s water and wastewater concession.
Photo credit: Valeri Terziyski on Unsplash.
Thailand | Transport
Thailand/ Don Muang Tollway (Uttaraphimuk Elevated Tollway) – while at HSBC Investment Bank Asia, led the team acting as financial advisor to the concession company negotiating revised terms and restructuring the debt package.
Photo credit: Dan Freeman on Unsplash.
Korea | Transport
Korea/ KTX High Speed Rail System – Coordinated HSBC’s USD 205 million participation in the USD 2,400 million core system financing of the Seoul to Pusan high speed rail link. The system uses French TGV technology for the first time outside France.
Recent thinking
I write here as often as I can to help make a social contribution and provoke thought.
I welcome hearing yours
Contact
Information
Richard MacGeorge
MacGeorge & Co. Limited
NZBN: 9429049135145
G14/1 Clyde Quay Wharf
Te Aro
Wellington 6011
New Zealand
Phone: Tel +64 21 533 242
