Mon, 30 June 2025 | 10:45 – 13:30
Conference Room Ground Floor

Workshop #5: Meeting the Challenge of Funding the Primary Road Network
This three-hour workshop will identify and compile information and practices to funding alternatives to develop and/or to operate and maintain critical infrastructure such as bridges, tunnels and turnpikes. The Workshop will contain both presentations and interactive dialogue introducing facilitators to provoke the presenters and the audience to view the pros and cons of various funding mechanisms. Various approaches in project finance involving public or private partners, congestion pricing to promote reliability and efficient use of the transport system, distance-based pricing to address declining motor fuel tax revenue, traffic safety considerations, financing decisions contributing towards net zero emissions goals to meet the global climate imperative.  The Workshop will dive into aspects of how concessionaires and the public sector can work together on network-wide safety to better address global road traffic safety.

Moderator: Bill Halkias – CEO & Managing Director, New Attica Tollway Concession Co.
Speakers:

  • Belen Marcos – President, Vinci Highways,
    Global trends in highway Concessions 
  • Thanos Babanikas – Senior Banking & Finance Executive | Infrastructure, Energy & Digital Finance Expert
    The Modern Infrastructure Playbook: Debt, Equity, and the Role of Institutional Investors
  • James Hofmann – CEO & Executive Director, North Texas Tollway Authority, Dallas
    P3’s squared – the Dallas / Fort Worth story (public-public and public-private partnerships)
  • Kostas Papadopoulos – Senior Advisor, Meridiam
    Advantages of private finance structures for public infrastructure
  • Emmanouil Moustakas – General Director of Business Development, GEK TERNA
    Profit-Driven Mobility: Aligning Investor Interests with the Future of Traffic Management
  • Dimitrios Papatheodorou – Head of High Yield Infrastructure Debt Investments, HSBC Global Asset Management
    The case for High Yield financing in infrastructure: An opportunity for Equity Sponsors and Investors
  • Andrew Watson – Senior Consultant, Keystone Law, London, UK
    Financing and the transition towards net zero