INVESTMENT COMMITTEE

The Investment Committee assumes certain delegated responsibilities from the Management Board, including the technical and financial assessment of individual projects.
Dirk Roos

Dirk Roos

Dirk heads a team of sector specialists dedicated to energy efficiency and small-scale renewable energy at the European Investment Bank (EIB), providing advisory and due diligence services to the bank’s operations globally.

Previously he worked in the bank’s renewable energy and energy efficiency (RE/EE) equity investment team and has performed the techno-economic appraisal of several RE/EE project finance and private equity operations, including the Global Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Fund.

Before joining EIB, Dirk spent 10 years working for an international environmental engineering consultancy in Brussels and 2 years with UNDP in South Africa. Born in Belgium, he holds civil/mining engineering degrees from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Flanders and IFP School in Paris, as well as an EMBA degree from Cambridge University, UK.

Geoff Sinclair

Geoff is responsible for all of Camco’s fund advisory and management activities, including the delivery of their existing mandates, which focus on supporting the development of – and providing finance for – renewable energy projects in sub-Saharan Africa.

He joined Camco in 2015 after 10 years working for Standard Bank, during which time he built and led the bank’s multi-award-winning international climate finance business and team. Geoff has completed transactions on over 1GW of renewable energy and energy efficiency projects across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas, and has experience across a wide range of technologies and financing structures in both the primary and secondary markets.

He previously worked for the New Zealand Treasury, successfully founded a start-up and is Chairman of UK renewables fund, CO2 Sense. He has an MBA from London Business School and a Bachelor of Commerce (First Class Honours) from the University of Melbourne.

Head and shoulders photo of REPP Investment Committee member, Gail Warrander

Gail Warrander

Gail leads the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office’s Just Energy Transition work in South Africa, managing the IPG and overseeing programming.

Previously, she worked as a commercial lawyer in London before moving to the Balkans, where she ran a consulting firm and established a mineral mining company. She then joined DFID/FCDO, where she played a key role in climate finance, setting up two major private equity funds, mobilising over USD2bn, and supporting projects like Get FiT Uganda and BNEF Climatescope. Gail has also led sustainable economic development projects in East Africa and Nigeria.

Gail is a Sloan Fellow MSc from London Business School and has a EuroLLB from Bristol University.