Lucy Chege, General Manager, Infrastructure Finance Energy, Environment & PPP’s, DBSA

Lucy is currently General Manager, Infrastructure Finance Energy, Environment & PPP’s at the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA). She is primarily responsible for leading origination activities, structuring and managing relationships with key clients.

Lucy has over 15 years of combined experience in infrastructure project finance and Public Private Partnerships (PPPs). She has led DBSA’s team in originating and executing several energy projects which have won international awards and added more than 2500MW of power to the South African National Grid. Lucy is also the recipient of the Green Future Leadership Awards in 2016 and 2017.

She has also originated and led several teams in the structuring and execution of landmark lead arranging mandates for transactions in various sectors including energy, telecommunications, PPPs, health and transport.

Lucy has an MBA in Finance from Manchester Business School. She has also completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.