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The Vallorii Infrastructure Forum

An invitation-only day for senior leaders from utilities, investors, regulators and government.

Next Forum: Wednesday 8 September 2027 · Rhodes House, Oxford

The 2026 Forum: four sessions

  1. MACRO

    Infrastructure Risk in a New World Order

  2. BUILD

    Governing and Financing Infrastructure Delivery

  3. RESILIENCE

    Maintaining a System Under Pressure

  4. VALUATION

    The Future of Infrastructure Valuation

Speakers

Government

  • Torsten Bell

    Minister for Pensions
  • Dame Julia Black

    Defra

Regulators

  • Tim Jarvis

    Ofgem
  • Martin Crouch

    Ofwat
  • Dr Karen Croxson

    CMA

Utilities and industry

  • Suleman Alli

    UKPN
  • Sir Alex Chisholm

    EDF UK
  • Dame Dawn Childs

    nLighten
  • Jeremy Palmer

    PhysicsX

Investors and finance

  • Jeremy Taylor

    Lazard Asset Management
  • Andrew Truscott

    John Laing
  • Susana Leith-Smith

    Macquarie Asset Management
  • Iain Smedley

    Barclays
  • Max Fieguth

    IFM Investors
  • James Gordon

    KKR
  • Odile Renaud-Basso

    European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
  • Richard Nourse

    Schroders Capital Infrastructure

Academia

  • Professor Cameron Hepburn

    University of Oxford
  • Professor Sir Dieter Helm

    University of Oxford

Voices from the Forum

  • Richard Nourse at the Vallorii Infrastructure Forum 2026

    The honesty has particularly struck me from the discussions.

    Richard Nourse

    Chair, Schroders Capital Infrastructure

  • Susana Leith-Smith at the Vallorii Infrastructure Forum 2026

    It's great to hear some lively debate, people challenging each other.

    Susana Leith-Smith

    Head of Capital Markets EMEA, Macquarie Asset Management

  • Dame Dawn Childs at the Vallorii Infrastructure Forum 2026

    It enables you to engage to just further that debate and discussion to get the critical national infrastructure in the UK right.

    Dame Dawn Childs

    Chief Executive Officer, Nlighten

  • Sir Alex Chisholm at the Vallorii Infrastructure Forum 2026

    Very interested to find ways to do infrastructure build-out in the UK at lower cost in a more sustainable way.

    Sir Alex Chisholm

    Chair, EDF UK

Who was in the room

Participating organizations

  • EDF
  • KKR
  • Schroders Greencoat
  • Infracapital
  • National Grid
  • Cadent
  • Macquarie
  • Lazard Asset Management
  • Utility Regulator
  • European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
  • Last Mile
  • Energy Networks Association
  • Ancala
  • Covalis Capital
  • UK Power Networks
  • Rothschild & Co
  • IFM Investors
  • SSE
  • Ofwat

Be in the room on 8 September 2027