About Us

Overview

Infrastructure Asia supports Asia’s social and economic growth through infrastructure development.

Singapore is home to an established ecosystem of public sector agencies and private sector firms that include developers, engineering, procurement and construction companies, professional services firms, financial institutions, and multilateral development banks.

With our understanding of regional markets and our own development experience, Singapore is well-placed to serve Asia’s infrastructure needs and unlock the region’s infrastructure potential.

We enable good-fit solutions from companies and institutions in addressable infrastructure sub-segments in Asia, catalysing project development, financing and execution opportunities to meet the region’s growing needs.

We match-make organisations that are domain experts in their respective fields with regional governments, firms and multilateral development banks. At the same time, we bring various industry stakeholders across the value chain together to explore project opportunities in Asia.

We are set up by Enterprise Singapore and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).

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What we do

Connecting Partners

We connect Asian governments with the relevant domain expert (sub-segment champions) amongst developers, professional services and technical and financing solutions to meet the specific needs of each project.

Building Capabilities

We bring in parties with the requisite expertise to help our partners bridge knowledge gaps and uplift capabilities in project development, financing and implementation.

Advisory

We provide expertise on project scoping and conceptual structuring to improve the viability and success of projects.

Our Focus

Overview

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) estimates that developing Asia will need to invest US$1.7 trillion annually in infrastructure until 2030 to maintain its growth momentum, tackle poverty and respond to climate change.

Infrastructure Asia looks at power, transport, urban and smart cities, and water and sanitation projects. Further, given the increasing need to ensure sustainable growth as well as deal with the impacts of climate change, Infrastructure Asia also works towards advancing sustainable infrastructure in the region.

Sustainable infrastructure

Sustainable infrastructure refers to the designing, building, and operating of structural elements in ways that do not diminish the social, economic and ecological processes required to maintain human equity, diversity, and the functionality of natural systems. Renewable energy projects, including floating solar panels, are some of the sustainable infrastructure projects that we look at.

The definitions of the focus sectors are as follows:

The process

A successful infrastructure project requires effective planning, coordination and implementation among multiple stakeholders from start to end. Figure 1 below illustrates the key stages undertaken by real economy service providers and financiers in the life cycle and value chain of an infrastructure project.

Figure 1: Illustrative life cycle of an infrastructure project

Our Network

Singapore has a comprehensive infrastructure ecosystem which includes developers, financiers, professional services, and other supporting services. With our understanding of regional markets and our own development experience, Singapore is well-placed to serve Asia's infrastructure needs and unlock the region's infrastructure potential to support Asia's economic and social growth. As a government facilitation office, we can also leverage on our strong connections with regional counterparts.

Here is a brief glimpse into our network:

Management

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Seth Tan

Executive Director

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Kow Juan Tiang

Deputy Executive Director

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Lavan Thiru

Deputy Executive Director

Seth Tan

Executive Director

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Seth is the Executive Director of Infrastructure Asia, which is a project facilitation office under the Singapore government. Set up by Enterprise Singapore and the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the office aims to harness the network and collective capabilities of public sector agencies and private sector firms, and partner stakeholders across the region to meet Asia’s infrastructure needs. Prior to his role as head of the Infrastructure Asia office, he has helmed leadership roles in DBS Bank, BNP Paribas, Standard Bank, and Babcock & Brown, and was based overseas in China, Australia, Hong Kong. Over his 23 years involvement in the infrastructure sector, he has worked on various opportunities across various infrastructure sub-segments.

Kow Juan Tiang

Deputy Executive Director

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Prior to this appointment, Juan Tiang was Coordinating Group Director for the Environment and Infrastructure Solutions Group of International Enterprise (IE) Singapore for six years. He assisted Singapore-based companies from the environment and infrastructure solutions industries with their ventures into strategic high growth markets such as China, India, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Middle East. His focus sectors include water and waste management, and renewables and conventional energy. He also champions the export of urban solutions to markets currently undergoing high urbanisation development.

Lavan Thiru

Deputy Executive Director

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Lavan is a Deputy Executive Director at Infrastructure Asia. Prior to his appointment, Lavan held various leadership roles at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (“MAS”). He was most recently based in the MAS New York Representative Office where he was the Chief Representative for four years. Lavan has been actively involved in various initiatives on infrastructure financing and financial market development in the MAS. He spent over a year at Clifford Capital, a specialist provider of structured finance solutions.