Andrew Barr
Andrew Barr
Speaker
Head of Financial Institutions

Miller Insurance Services

United Kingdom
Uxolo: Development Finance

Pathways to Progress: Empowering Infrastructure Projects in Developing and Emerging Markets

Lena Bertilsson
Head of Business Area Large Corporates,
EKN - The Swedish Export Credit Agency
Bessem Soua
Manager of Sub-Saharan Africa & Europe,
ICIEC - The Islamic Corporation for the Insurance of Investment and Export Credit
Thomas Baum
Executive - Head of Division Underwriting & Risk Management,
Euler Hermes
Moderator
Andrew Barr
Head of Financial Institutions,
Miller Insurance Services

This panel explores how ECAs, DFIs, private market insurers, commercial banks, and project developers can collaborate to unlock critical infrastructure projects in emerging markets. We will focus on innovative financing solutions, practical approaches to overcoming barriers to financial close, and mobilising private capital through blended finance and new partnership models. We highlight the role of insurance and reinsurance in syndications and liquidity provision. Concluding with an assessment of the growing convergence between export, project, and development finance asset classes - and what this means for future deal structuring and collaboration across the ecosystem.