Manuel leads on the CoST Latin America strategy, identifying opportunities for CoST within the region and providing technical support and advice to the region’s country managers and multi-stakeholder groups. Manuel …
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Christiaan (Chrik) Poortman
Chrik previously chaired the CoST Board from 2011 to 2025. In addition to his role with CoST, he was Senior Adviser at Transparency International, the global coalition against corruption. Until 2010, Chrik …
Melina San Martín
Melina oversees programme implementation and strategic planning, leading on monitoring and evaluation to ensure high-quality programming and measurable impact across CoST members and global partners. She coordinates strategic partnerships, grant …
G20 working to close the infrastructure financing gap
CoST Executive Director Petter Matthews reports from a recent ‘Infrastructure Financing Seminar’ organised by the G20 Infrastructure Working Group1 and reflects on the challenges of mobilising private investment in public …
Will 2018-19 infrastructure budget address stakeholder concerns?
“The transport and works sector budget allocation for 2018/19 has gained a slight increment to 21.4% from 20.8% in 2016/17, could this be the long awaited answer to our concerns …
Lauren Pemberton-Nelson
Lauren heads up Engineers Against Poverty and CoST, The Infrastructure Transparency Initiative’s communication channels, leading on output across the website, newsletter, social media, resources and more. Lauren has almost a …