Infrastructure and Energy

The Centennial Group offers world-class expertise as well as high-level experience and contacts in strategy and policy formulation in energy, infrastructure and urban development in emerging markets. It excels particularly in issues related to private sector participation in the major energy and infrastructure sectors, financing of such projects, urban and municipal development policy and financing.

Infrastructure Development

Its principals have conceived, led and managed World Bank and Asian Development Bank strategy, policy and lending programs for infrastructure development in Asia, Europe, the Mediterranean, Sub-Sahara Africa and the Middle East. They have also advised a number of major international companies interested in investing in emerging markets.

Between them, they have direct understanding of infrastructure needs, host country policies and institutions in over 30 countries, including: China, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Vietnam in Asia; the Baltic Republics, Bosnia, Hungary, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, and Russia, in Europe; Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, and the Balkans in the Mediterranean; Egypt and Jordan in the Middle East; Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa in Sub-Sahara Africa; and Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Uruguay in Latin America.

The Group's principals have been directly involved in, and were responsible for infrastructure development strategy and policies at the regional, national and sector levels (including in power, gas and oil, transport, water supply and sanitation, municipal and urban infrastructure).

One of the principals led the World Bank initiative in the mid-1990s to promote private sector participation in infrastructure in Asia. Another principal directed the Bank's worldwide strategy and initiatives in infrastructure programs. Recent programs and projects involving Centennial Group principals include:

• Advising a major Asian financial institution on its proposal to set up a large debt and quasi-debt fund to finance infrastructure projects throughout East and South Asia.
• Leading a World Bank-sponsored program to formulate a strategy and program to accelerate private investments in infrastructure in Africa
• Coordinating an Asian Development Bank effort to formulate a new institutional approach and strategy to support transport sector development throughout Asia.
• Assessing, for the Asian Development Bank, prospects for and strategy towards sub-national initiatives to finance infrastructure programs at the state level
• Advising a number of private companies interested in investing outside their home countries and assisting them in identifying and negotiating with potential strategic partners to enter new markets.