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Julia Prescot, Partner, Meridiam Infrastructure Managers
Julia has extensive experience of investing, advising on and funding infrastructure projects around the globe after spending more 20 years in the project finance arena. She has been part of Meridiam Infrastructure since its inception in 2005 and is now the Chief Strategy Officer of Meridiam Infrastructure Managers, a fund with €1.2bn under management and focused exclusively on Public Private Partnership (PPP) investments in Europe and North America through dedicated fund vehicles.
Prior to her involvement with Meridiam, Julia was Head of Eurozone Infrastructure Finance at Halifax Bank of Scotland, Head of Project Advisory at Charterhouse Bank and Head of Project Finance at Hill Samuel Bank. She has been involved in advising Governments on major projects such as the Channel Tunnel Rail Link in the UK, the Budapest Metro and M3 motorway in Hungary and the Thessaloniki Metro in Greece as well as advising a series of private sector bidders for project finance and PPP projects in Western and Eastern Europe and South America. She has also been involved in investing in and providing funding for the A28 and A41 motorways in France, the privatization of ENA in Spain, London Underground PPP – ‘Tubelines’, the NATS privatization and a number of other PPP transport and social accommodation programmes across Europe.
About Meridiam
Founded in 2005, Meridiam Infrastructure is a long term independent investment firm specialized in the development, financing, and management of public infrastructure projects (25 years). With more than 50 investment professionals and asset managers across offices in Paris, New York and Toronto, Meridiam is the leading investor in public infrastructures in Europe and North America. With nearly €2.8 billion of assets under its management, the firm has to date invested in 22 projects and received the Global Infrastructure Fund of the Year award in 2011. Meridiam has obtained an ISO 9001-certification for its responsible investment process in January 2012. www.meridiam.com.
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