Macquarie Asset Management has hired Gabriele Duesberg as a managing director to support its energy transition infrastructure capabilities across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (Emea).
Duesberg will across sectors including electrification of transport, waste management, and biofuels. She will also assist in the decarbonisation of the firm’s utilities investments across Emea.
She joins from JP Morgan where she spent 16 years heading up investment banking activities in the Emea region, including transactions across renewable energy, power, and utilities.
Macquarie AM senior managing director Gordon Parsons said: “Infrastructure will have a vital role to play as governments, industry, and consumers seek to reduce their carbon emissions and use our planet’s finite resources more efficiently.
“We hope to harness Gabriele’s many years of expertise in the region’s infrastructure sector to help tackle these important challenges and identify new opportunities for our investment partners.”
The firm manages funds holding investments in 39 infrastructure and real assets businesses across the Emea, totalling more than £53 billion in assets.
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