Matthew Harris is one of five Founding Partners of Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) and a Senior Managing Director at BlackRock. Matt has been intimately involved in GIP’s investment, management and strategic activities since its formation in 2006. He is a member of GIP’s Investment Committees across its fund complex and a member of GIP’s Portfolio and Valuation Committees. Matt is Chairperson of both the GIP Transition Fund and its accompanying Investment Committee. He is also a member of the Board of Directors and the Investment Committee of Decarbonization Partners, a joint venture between BlackRock and Temasek. Matt is a member of the Board of Directors of GE Vernova.

GIP is an independent infrastructure fund manager that combines deep industry expertise and relationships with industrial best practice operational management. GIP was founded in 2006 to invest in high quality infrastructure assets and businesses in the energy, transportation, water and waste and digital sectors, each an area in which GIP has a depth of experience and longstanding relationships.

Prior to the formation of GIP, Matt was Co-Head of the Global Energy Group at Credit Suisse First Boston, where he succeeded Adebayo Ogunlesi, and served as Head of the EMEA Emerging Markets Group. Previously, he served as Co-Head of Americas Mergers and Acquisitions. Before joining Credit Suisse First Boston, he was a senior member of the Mergers and Acquisitions Group at Kidder Peabody & Co. Incorporated.

Matt holds a B.A. in Political Science (cum laude) from the University of California at Los Angeles. He serves as Chairperson of the Advisory Board of the Columbia University Center for Global Energy Policy, is a member of the Columbia University Climate School Advisory Board and the UCLA College of Social Sciences Dean’s Advisory Board and is a member of the Board of Directors of Pioneer Works and the World Wildlife Fund.