The IJGlobal Podcast

As we put the finishing touches to preparations for our glorious “Miami Conference” – IJ LatAm 25 – the Infra Dig focus turns once again to the Latin American infrastructure market.

IJGlobal editorial director Angus Leslie Melville talks to Aitor Alava – managing director and LatAm head of infrastructure and energy finance at Natixis – about the regional lending environment.

Aitor talks openly about the LatAm market, identifying opportunity as this market ticks up in activity and everyone braces for the Miami Conference which is being hosted at 1 Hotel Sout Beach from 10-12 March.

As IJGlobal builds momentum towards “The Miami Conference” – IJ LatAm 2025 – the Infra Dig podcast turns its focus on equity engagement in infrastructure and energy across Latin America.

IJGlobal editorial director Angus Leslie Melville talks to Susana Lopez, an investment director at Climate Fund Managers (CFM), about the regional market.
Susana – who will be speaking on a panel at IJ LatAm which runs from 10-12 March (2025) and is being staged at 1 Hotel South Beach, Miami – gives her view of the market in a far-reaching conversation.

The Nordics have long been a haven for infrastructure, attracting investors from all over globe. Now, with energy transition ramping up, the region is becoming even more popular, with local infra managers benefitting from this trend.

Lisa Botter, head of content for M&A and funds at IJInvestor (an IJGlobal service), speaks with CapMan’s Pia Kall, chief executive, and Ville Poukka, managing partner.

The Nordic infrastructure investor in April reached final close on its second infrastructure fund. In this 29 minute podcast Pia and Ville take the listener through the success of the fund and their outlook for infrastructure investing across the region.

Tune in for a compelling podcast on infrastructure fund management in an exciting region.

Here at IJGlobal we love to bring you podcasts on the most interesting developments on technology and innovation across the panoply of infrastructure assets classes – and this one’s a cracker.

Well, to be fair, it’s not an actual “cracker”, this is an interview with Richard Butland, co-founder and chief executive of Highview Power, where we are discussing the UK’s first commercial-scale liquid air energy storage plant in Carrington, Manchester.

Having this summer concluded the financing of its demonstrator in the north of England and with plans for another one in the UK progressing nicely, Highview has big plans... on an international level.

Tune in for the latest Infra Dig podcast on an exciting energy storage innovation that's been a long time in the brewing, but is now going places.

Having spent the first half of this week in Miami at IJ LatAm 2025, it was too good an opportunity not to record a couple of podcasts with government delegates.

IJGlobal editorial director Angus Leslie Melville sits down with Pablo Cevallos – Ecuador’s secretary for public-private partnerships – to hear about plans to drive investments into infrastructure and energy.

Pablo speaks openly about the government's intentions to drive a pipeline of investments with support from international developers and the lending community for a range of ambitious plans.

Tune in to this latest episode to hear about everything from hydropower through to transport, hydrogen, geothermal and recently announced aspirations to champion nuclear energy.