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The GI Hub's Richard Timbs gave an overview on infrastructure development in Latin American countries at the Latin American Infrastructure Forum 2017 held in Melbourne, Australia yesterday. Mr Timbs also spoke on the function of the Hub's Project Pipeline, and it's potential to help countries secure private sector interest for their infrastructure projects.

The GI Hub has launched a new online tool, InfraCompass. What is InfraCompass and how can it help governments? The GI Hub's Chief Executive Officer, Chris Heathcote, explains.

The G20’s Global Infrastructure Hub has welcomed the Australian Government’s commitment in the 2017 Budget to building more infrastructure across Australia.

Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank President Mr Jin Liqun met Global Infrastructure Hub Chief Executive Officer Chris Heathcote at the GI Hub’s Sydney office on April 3, where both parties provided briefings on their key work. Discussion focused on the GI Hub’s report undertaken for the G20 on the role of Multilateral Development Banks in “crowding-in” private finance for public infrastructure, which was released earlier this year. The GI Hub has already been in discussions with the AIIB on the recommendations in the report.

Global Infrastructure Hub Chief Executive Officer Chris Heathcote says quality public infrastructure can promote greater affluence and spark global growth. Mr Heathcote told a Public-Private Partnership Seminar in Athens that “infrastructure changes lives and changes economies”.

The GI Hub presented at the China Public-Private Partnerships Center's International Symposium on the Good Practices of China's PP held in Beijing. The GI Hub's Richard Timbs gave a presentation on global PPP trends, while the Hub's Mark Moseley moderated a session on PPP Risk Allocation at the session held on May 18, 2017. As well, the Chinese version of the Hub's PPP Risk Allocation tool, Allocating Risks in PPP Contracts, was launched.

The Global Infrastructure Hub and the China Public-Private Partnerships Centre (CPPPC) have today launched a Mandarin translation of the GI Hub’s report on Allocating Risks in PPP Contracts.

The Global Infrastructure Hub is today launching its new online tool, InfraCompass, to guide governments on how to create the best conditions for infrastructure delivery. Find the tool at: infracompass.gihub.org

The GI Hub has signed a MoU with the Global Infrastructure Connectivity Alliance (GICA). GICA, which was launched by the G20, aims to enhance cooperation and synergies of existing and future global infrastructure and trade facilitation programs seeking to improve connectivity within, between and among countries.

Half of all global infrastructure investment will be needed in Asia from now until 2040, major new analysis by the Global Infrastructure Hub shows. And while so much of the region’s infrastructure growth has been in China, the focus will shift to South and South East Asian countries where infrastructure gaps remain very substantial.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Global Infrastructure Hub (GI Hub) and the Black Sea Trade and Development Bank (BSTDB) has been signed at the BSTDB headquarters in Thessaloniki, Greece.

As part of its leading practices mandate, the GI Hub is developing a set of annotated risk allocation matrices for PPP transactions, in a variety of sectors.

GI Hub Chief Executive Officer Chris Heathcote addressed the Business Council for International Understanding at a lunch hosted by Australia’s Ambassador to the US Joe Hockey in Washington DC recently.

Global infrastructure needs and Public-Private Partnerships were discussed when the Foreign Correspondents’ Association of Australia met the GI Hub today.

Mark Moseley, the GI Hub’s Senior Director for Legal Frameworks and Procurement Policies gave a presentation at a seminar on Future Ready: Sustainable Cities – Indonesia Infrastructure in Focus held in Jakarta, Indonesia on 7 March 2017.