Juan Paez built his career in Latin American energy and infrastructure investing before joining Climate Fund Managers, trained as an engineer from Universidad de los Andes with an MBA from London Business School, and went on to open CFM's Bogotá office and lead its first investments in Colombia, including the firm's first regional exit with Pétalo del Norte de Santander I. He talks about his work in practical terms—using 20-year fund horizons to look past any single political administration, backing projects from early development through construction with a dedicated pool of capital, and focusing on bringing more investment into markets that don't currently have enough to make a real difference.
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Climate Fund Managers began as a joint venture between Dutch development bank FMO and South African infrastructure investor Sanlam InfraWorks, and it finances infrastructure projects through their entire lifecycle—covering development, construction, and refinancing—rather than only funding projects once they're already running. The firm builds country-specific platforms such as GAIA in Africa and SDG Namibia One, and its projects tend to be hard infrastructure like water systems, waste-to-energy plants, renewable power, and green ammonia facilities in emerging markets, rather than software or other light-asset climate businesses.
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