She is currently the Managing Director and Chief Executive
Officer of ARM Harith Infrastructure Fund Managers (Armhif), a joint venture
between Asset & Resource Management Company Ltd (ARM), a Nigerian
institutional investor with US$2.3 billion of assets under management and
Harith General Partners (Pty) Ltd (Harith), a South African infrastructure fund
manager with over US$1 billion under management. Armhif was the first equity
infrastructure fund to be licensed by the Nigerian Securities and Exchange Commission
under its recent infrastructure fund rules.
Gbadegesin was on the founding team to establish the Africa
Finance Corporation (AFC), a pan African DFI with US$6 billion under
management, where she led several of AFC’s investments in the sectors of power,
transport, industrials and telecommunications infrastructure.
Tariye has served on boards of several large scale
infrastructure projects in Africa, Amandi IPP a 200MW dual fuel combine cycle
power plant in Ghana, 2016 IJG Deal of the Year, Main One Cable Company, a
Pan-African sub-sea and ICT company, and has served on the board of Cabeolica
S.A, a Cabo Verdean wind power IPP and an IFC-ranked top 10 PPP project in
sub-Saharan Africa.
Gbadegesin is the Co-Chair, VCMI Steering Committee. With
voluntary carbon markets poised to grow exponentially this decade, the
Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative (VCMI) aims to help ensure that
credibility concerns are addressed so that these markets fulfill their
potential to support the goals of the Paris Agreement.
VCMI will do this by working on a number of critical gaps in
voluntary carbon market integrity – building solid foundations as the market
scales. VCMI aims to support private sector climate action by developing
guidance on the use of carbon credits and transparent claims, and promoting
multi-stakeholder engagement and partnerships so that this translates into
meaningful action on the ground.
VCMI will also support countries to access high-quality climate finance, working with governments and the United Nations Development Programme to establish VCM Access Strategies, a project to channel private finance from high-integrity voluntary carbon markets towards national climate priorities.
As co-chair of the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity
Initiative (VCMI), Tariye believes that there is significant untapped potential
within Africa to take the lead on deploying finance to create a greener future
for the continent, while helping tackle the global climate crisis.
For her, Africa’s potential in the supply of high-quality
carbon credits is vast. “Ghana, Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo are
just a handful of countries that have proactively sought to build and scale
their domestic carbon markets.” She said.
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