Paradigm Change Capital Partners LLP

Industry Participation and Press Coverage

2016

    November

    • Dima Rifai, PCCP CEO, chaired the CEO's panel at Dii's Desert Energy Leadership Summit in Dubai, deliberating barriers to market, innovation and disruption, capital availability, subsidies and the growth of off-grid and mini-grids

      [Link to Page]

    October

    • Dima Rifai, PCCP CEO, was a judge on Climate-KIC's Venture Competition 2016 panel, determining the two finalists amongst top 10 cleantech companies in the UK to go onto the European finals

      [Link to Page]

    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, presented on technology innovation and disruption effects on current and future infrastructure assets, at an Indepen Forum panel in London

    June

    • Dima Rifai, PCCP CEO, was a contributor to Africa Technology Business Forum’s panel on ‘Cleantech Energy Opportunities and Trends’, addressing key technological and business model innovations emerging in the Africa cleantech sectors and identifying some of their key players

      [Link to Conference]

    May

    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, chaired a panel discussion on 'Asset Class Renewables: Attractive Investments for Institutional Investors and Family Offices' at the New Energy Investor Summit in Zurich

      [Link to Conference]

    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, contributed to San Francisco’s Mercatus Inc. Webinar on ‘Lessons from the Yieldco Meltdown’ addressing successful and not so successful attempts at lowering the cost of capital for renewables deployment

      [Link to Conference]

2015

    December

    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, was a key contributor at a roundtable discussing technology's role in Africa's development, with particular emphasis on disruptors in the fintech and cleantech sectors, at The Global African Investment Summit in London

      [Link to Conference]

    September

    • Dima Rifai, PCCP CEO, was a judge on Climate-KIC's Venture Competition 2015 panel, determining the two finalists amongst top 9 cleantech companies in the UK to go onto the European finals

      [Link to Page]

    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, was a key contributor at REFF Europe to a panel discussion on 'What game changing business models or key innovations are occurring in distributed energy today? What has prevented our Amazon or Google equivalent from emerging?' in Amsterdam

      [Link to Conference]

    July

    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, spoke at Yieldcon '15 in London, focussing on private financing alternatives to public yieldcos and latest innovations in financing models

      [Link to Conference]

    June

    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, was a key contributor to a panel on 'The Cleantech and Renewable Energy Infrastructure Market - Key Challenges and Solutions for Investors', arranged by the Global Investors Infrastructure Summit in London

      [Link to Conference]

    March

    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, contributed to a panel on ‘Green Entrepreneurship and the Potential to Grow the Green Economy in London’ at the Green Means Business Event hosted by the London Sustainable Development Commission 

    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, spoke on the panel regarding Cost of Capital in a post Subsidy World at the Solar Finance & Investment Conference in London

      [Link to Conference]

    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, contributed to a panel discussion on the ‘The impacts of Changing Regulation on Financing and Equity Investment’ at DLA Piper’s European Energy Forum

    February

    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, was a key contributor to an Energy Finance for Growth Investor Panel, at the Energy Finance For Growth world-class executive education programme for entrepreneurs, investors and corporate leaders, arranged in collaboration with Imperial College, Harvard Business School and MIT

      [Link to Conference]

2014

    September

    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, presented on ‘Future Investments: Opportunities and Risks in Energy’ to a large audience of Danish Pension Funds at Life & Pension 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark

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    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, is interviewed in an exclusive ‘fireside chat’ by Ben Backwell, editor of Recharge Magazine at an event hosted by Women’s Infrastructure Network and Deloitte, regarding Opportunities, Challenges and Leadership in the renewable energy industry

    June

    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, spoke about ‘Opening The Capital Markets To Align With Infrastructure Investor’s Portfolios’ at the Global Infrastructure Investor’s Summit in London

      [Link to Conference]

    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, spoke on one of two panels for the day, addressing pulling various climate finance initiatives together, as part of the high level Clean Energy Finance Summit at St. James's Palace State Apartments, co-hosted by Minister Greg Barker and His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales 

    April

    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, participated in a panel on ‘The key to success: how can MENA countries attract investment on a massive scale?’ at Climate Parliament’s International parliamentary hearing on Legislation for a Sustainable Energy Revolution in Hammamet, Tunisia

      [Link to Conference]

    January

    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, attended and contributed to the Recharge Thought Leader’s Summit in Holmenkollen, Norway

      [Link to Conference]

    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, contributed to a roundtable on Renewable Jobs, Renewable Growth, Renewable Energy hosted by ten Ministers from the House of Commons and Lords at the House of Commons, London 

2013

    December

    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, contributed to the exclusive Global Energy Debate on CNBC International, which concluded previous brainstorm sessions held this year in London, Bangkok and New Delhi

      [Link to Live Presentation]

    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, participated in a discussion panel about ‘Infrastructure Investment in the UK – Alignment of Interests: Bridging the Gap between Infrastructure Stakeholders’ at the UK Infrastructure Conference and Expo in London

      [Link to Conference]

    November

    • Dima Rifai, CEO of PCCP, chaired a high-level, CEO’s lunch with top industry leaders, planning how to de-risk offshore wind to attract more liquidity and lower cost of capital

      [Link to Lunch Page]

    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, chaired the finance track at EWEA Offshore 2013 in Frankfurt, the world's largest offshore wind energy conference and exhibition

      [Link to Conference]

    September

    • Dima Rifai, CEO of PCCP, participated in a discussion panel on ‘Increasing the role of institutional investors in renewable energy financing’ at the 15th Renewable Energy Finance Forum in London

      [Link to Conference]

    June

    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, spoke about ‘New Sources of Financing Beyond Bank Debt’ at the Global Wind Power Finance & Risk Conference in London

      [Link to Conference]

    May

    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, contributed to a panel discussion on ‘Opportunities in the renewable sector’ at the OECD Euromoney Infrastructure Summit in Paris

      [Link to Conference]

    • Dima Rifai, CEO of PCCP spoke regarding ‘Are operating wind farms attractive investment assets?’ for the webinar held ahead of the 4th Global Wind Power Finance & Risk conference in London

      [Link to Conference]

    April

    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, was invited by KSA’s KACARE to chair the panel on ‘Financing the Renewable Industrial Base in Saudi Arabia’ at the Saudi Sustainable Energy Symposium: Value Localization Series in Riyadh  

      [Link to Conference]

    March

    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, contributed to a panel discussion regarding ‘The Economics of the Supergrid’ at Supergrid 2013 in Brussels 

      [Link to Conference]

    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, chaired a panel discussion on ‘Institutional Investor’s Risk Management’ at Clean Energy and Finance Development 2013 in London 

      [Link to Conference]

    February

    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, was a key participant in an Institutional Investor round table on ‘Institutional Investor feedback regarding EU 2030 decarbonisation targets’ at EWEA 2013 in Vienna

      [Link to Conference]

2012

    December

    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, chaired a panel on Mergers and Acquisitions in the wind industry. Panellists discussed the topic of ‘Are mergers and partnerships the way forward to de-risking large offshore wind projects?’ at OffRen World Summit in London

      [Link to Conference]

    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, contributed to an OECD high-level roundtable on ‘The Role of Institutional Investors in Mobilising Long-Term Green Infrastructure Investment’ at UNFCCC Eighteenth Conference of the Parties (COP 18) in Doha

      [Link to Conference]

    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, contributed to a CPI-EDF high-level official side event, on ‘Global Climate Finance 2012: Mobilising the Private Sector for Effective Financing’ at UNFCCC Eighteenth Conference of the Parties (COP 18) in Doha

      [Link to Conference]

    November

    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, spoke on ‘Matching Expectations: Investor’s Panel’ at CIF Private Sector Forum in Istanbul

      [Link to Conference]

    September

    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, spoke on the topic of ‘Innovative new Vehicles for attracting Institutional Investor Capital’. Ms Rifai elaborated on the various sources of capital, their ability to bear risk and possible scalable models for renewables funding at the Renewable Energy Finance Forum in London

      [Link to Conference]

    June

    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, participated in a discussion panel on ‘Imagining a sustainable society: the role of financial services in the future of infrastructure and energy’ at a CityUK debate in London

      [Link to Conference]

    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, elaborated on ‘Everything you ever wanted to know about being a responsible investor in infrastructure’ at PRI in Person in Rio de Janeiro

      [Link to Conference]

    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, presented on the topic of ‘Innovative Sources of Capital’. She focused on how to find new sources and vehicles for attracting debt and equity capital to renewable energy projects at the Global Infrastructure and Finance Summit in Barcelona

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    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, spoke about ‘Innovative New Vehicles and New Sources of Capital for Wind Power’ at Global Wind Power Finance & Investment in London

      [Link to Conference]

    May

    • PCCP was quoted in an article in Alta Assets titled 'Green growth gathers pace'

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    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, chaired a panel discussing ‘Accessing capital markets for debt‘, focused on innovation, capital sources and identifying the appropriate vehicles for investors at European Power & Renewable Finance Conference in Berlin

      [Link to Conference]

    April

    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, spoke about 'Commercial Benefits of Setting up a Green Investment Bank' to an audience of country regulators exploring setting up national green banks, at the CEN Regional Seminar in Prague

    March

    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, contributed to a panel discussion on ‘Where are the new sources of capital coming from and which are the most cost effective?’ at Clean Energy Finance Development (CEFD) in London

      [Link to Conference]

    February

    • PCCP is quoted in Infrastructure Journal's article on 'time for alternative sources of capital'

[Link to article]

    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, presented on ‘How the Green Investment Bank can ‘crowd in’ institutional investment into green infrastructure’ at the UK Infrastructure Investment and Financing Summit in London

      [Link to Conference]

    January

    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, chaired a panel focused on ‘Innovation in Future Energy Financial Products and Services’ across debt and equity at the World Future Energy Summit 2012 in Abu Dhabi

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2011

    December

    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, contributed to an Environmental CEOs' panel on ‘Life after Fukushima’ at the World Infrastructure Summit in Paris

      [Link to Conference]

    November

    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, spoke on ‘How can the Renewable Energy Sector Attract more non-recourse debt finance?’ at the Infrastructure Investors Forum Europe 2011in London

      [Link to Conference]

    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, presented on ‘Green bonds’ at Climate Finance in London

      [Link to Conference]

    September

    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, spoke on ‘Policy risk – Setting the record straight’ at the 13th REFF Conference in London

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    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, presented on the ‘Latest developments in debt financing and refinancing’ at the 9th Annual UK Infrastructure Financing & Investment Summit in London

      [Link to Conference]

    August

    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, was interviewed for Inspiratia’s article on ‘When trade winds blow’

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    January

    • PCCP CEO, Dima Rifai, chaired a session on Innovation in Renewable Energy Finance at the World Future Energy Summit 2011 in Abu Dhabi

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