Investment Committee
Representation
Gregor Paterson-Jones is an expert member of a number of large global and smaller regional fund investment committees. In this capacity, he assists these investors in making responsible and commercial investment decisions on live transactions, which in most cases address sustainable development goals in a commercial manner. Browse through his case studies below.
Investment Committee
Representation
Gregor Paterson-Jones is an expert member of a number of large global and smaller regional fund investment committees. In this capacity, he assists these investors in making responsible and commercial investment decisions on live transactions, which in most cases address sustainable development goals in a commercial manner. Browse through his case studies below.
Case Studies
EFSI
The European Fund for Strategic Investment is the major pillar of the European Union’s investment plan for Europe. It uses an EU and EIB guarantee to allow the latter to invest in a broad spectrum of infrastructure, SME, banking and fund of fund investments. As such it is the biggest Infrastructure fund structure globally. Since inception in 2015, it has invested in over EUR50 billions of underlying projects and companies, split between SME’s (30%), R&D (22%), Energy (20%), digital (11%) and transport (9%), with social impact and efficiency investments making up the remainder.
UNCDF
UNCDF is the UN’s capital investment agency for the world’s 47 least developed countries (LDCs). With its capital mandate and instruments, UNCDF designs finance models to unlock private resources and to reduce poverty and support local economic development. The UNCDF is trying to reach pockets of poverty, where available resources for development are scarcest; where market failures are most pronounced; and where benefits from national growth tend to leave people excluded. UNCDF is involved in advocacy, advisory services and investments. Gregor sits on the Impact Investment Committee, which makes commercial lending decisions on borrowing propositions from SME’s in countries like Myanmar, Cambodia, Tanzania, Benin, and Burkina Faso.
Mergence
Mergence is a full service listed and unlisted equity and debt house that specializes in investing funds on behalf of institutional and pension fund clients. It is based in Cape Town, South Africa. Mergence is a 100% black-owned, organically grown, South African asset manager, who was the most active non-bank players in the earlier investment activity into the renewable energy sector experienced in South Africa. Mergence now has three Infrastructure facilities targeting respectively; senior debt, equity and mezzanine positions in attractive Infrastructure assets, as well as numerous projects in the Southern African market.
Green Investment Bank & UK Climate Investments
Gregor was previously the Managing Director of the UK Green Investment Bank (UK GIB). The GIB was an institution created by a UK Act of Parliament, which in three short years has grown into a global leader in the Green Infrastructure investment sector. Initially allocated £3.8bn, it successfully concluded over 70 individual investments in clean energy infrastructures in the UK from £10m in transactions in Public Lighting to £270m in investments in offshore wind farms. The UK GIB has subsequently been privatized through a sale to Macquarie Bank and renamed the Green Investment Group. While MD, Gregor also sat on the UKCI Investment Committee. UK Climate Investments is a joint venture company between the government department BEIS and the GIB with a funding commitment of £200m focusing on equity and quasi-equity investments in renewable energy and energy efficiency in South Africa, East Africa and India.
Coalition for Green Capital
The Coalition for Green Capital (CGC), a non-profit, is a leading expert and advisor on Green Banks and related clean energy finance and deployment entities. The Coalition for Green Capital’s (CGC) mission is to drive greater clean energy investment into existing and new markets, in the United States and in developing countries with the goal of creating a 100% clean energy platform. To realize this goal, CGC incubates local clean energy finance organizations – often called Green Banks – and structures public, private and mission-driven capital for investment through those organizations. A large network of local clean energy finance organizations can access hard-to-reach projects, expand clean energy equity, and provide a scalable model for a thriving network for clean energy investment. CGC, a 501c3 non-profit, is the leading expert and implementer of Green Banks, with a decade of work around the world that has led to over $2 billion of clean energy investment.
Gregor is Chairman of the Investment Committee for SEACEF
SEACEF is designed to play a catalytic role in reducing and removing many of the key early-stage barriers that stall or prevent successful clean energy projects and businesses. By placing development risk capital into innovative, high-impact clean energy opportunities, SEACEF intends to have a leveraged impact to accelerate Southeast Asia’s clean energy transition. SEACEF is currently active in Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
SEACEF is focused on the scale-out of globally proven technologies and business models such as solar, wind, and energy storage (on-grid and behind the meter), plus other business models that accelerate the low carbon transition – such as transmission infrastructure, demand side management technology, and e-mobility.
North Macedonia Innovation Fund
Gregor is member of the Investment Committee for the North Macedonian Innovation Fund - appointed through a competitive process originally advertised in the Economist.
The mission of the Fund for Innovation and Technological Development is to encourage and support innovation activities in micro, small and medium-size enterprises (MSMEs) in order to achieve more dynamic technological development based on knowledge transfer, development research and on innovations that contribute to job creation, and to economic growth and development, while simultaneously improving the business environment for the development of competitive capabilities of companies. The priorities and objectives are to improve access to financial support for innovation and technological development and to promote and encourage innovation activities in North Macedonia.
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