IJGlobal ESG Awards 2025 – APAC judges
We are delighted today to announce the Asia Pacific judging panel for the IJGlobal ESG Awards 2025 which meets next week to deliberate submissions.
This is especially important this year as we are celebrating the results with an event in Singapore. The ESG awards agenda is:
- London – 9 October
- Singapore – 19 November
The panel meets for Judgment Day on 23 July to debate and vote (in secret) on submissions – assessing ALL awards that will be presented… from transactions and company winners (recusals where needed) through to rising stars and lifetime achievements.
For the transaction and company awards, these reflect market developments from over the course of the judging period that runs from 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025.
IJGlobal takes immense pride in our judging process and the peer-review nature of all our awards which (we believe) make them the most impactful in the infra/energy community. We are unaware of any other title in this sector that goes to such lengths to achieve this level of impartiality.
The APAC panel comprises:
- Remi Degelcke – HSBC
- Tim Fourteau – White & Case
- Shilpa Gulrajani – DBS
- Scott Lovell – A&O Shearman
- Jean Monson – MUFG
- Jennifer Tay – PwC
Remi Degelcke
HSBC
Remi is a French national with historic roots in infrastructure finance across European Middle East and Africa… but having been operating around the Asia Pacific region since the summer of 2013.
His banking career launched in the troubled market of 2007 at HSBC in London and saw him rise the ranks to associate director by mid-2013 when he relocated to Hong Kong.
Since then, he has continued to rise within the bank, working for a stretch in Kuala Lumpur before settling in Singapore where – earlier this year – he was promoted to managing director, head of infrastructure finance for Southeast Asia.
He has more than 18 years of experience in advising and arranging infrastructure debt financing at HSBC and has successfully executed landmark transactions across the power, renewable, energy, transport, digital and social infrastructure sectors.
Prior to joining HSBC, Remi worked for 5 years at Thales UK during which he had significant involvement in a number of key UK defence public-private partnerships.
Tim Fourteau
White & Case
A US national and established infrastructure lawyer, Tim has been operating across the Asia Pacific region since 2011 – and for the last near 6 years as a partner at White & Case.
Tim has a primary focus on advising equity and debt investors, helping them navigate complex investments in infrastructure projects.
In particular, he has a strong focus advising on power, energy and digital infrastructure projects in Asia Pacific – including working on data centre projects.
He specialises in project development and finance, and also has extensive experience on M&A and structured corporate financing transactions.
He has lived in Singapore, New York City, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, London, Brussels and Paris – but since 2011 has called Singapore home.
Tim has extensive experience advising numerous organisations that range from leading Japanese companies and financial institutions and their foreign affiliates on their energy and infrastructure investments throughout the APAC region.
He serves as an adjunct professor at the Sorbonne University Law School – Asia where he has been teaching a seminar on finance transactions since 2012.
Prior to joining the White & Case team, Tim served as counsel at Latham & Watkins… his first role in Singapore that he left to join W&C.
Before that, he launched his legal career in New York with his final role in the Big Apple having been at Freshfields.
Shilpa Gulrajani
DBS
Late last year, Shilpa changed roles to take on the challenge of serving as head of sustainable finance in the institutional banking group for Singapore-based financial services group DBS Bank.
In this role, she has responsibility for leading DBS Bank’s sustainable finance business franchise and engagement in the region, driving ESG business origination, advisory and financing solutions to enable corporates and institutions to transition to a Net Zero pathway.
Shilpa joined DBS in October 2024 from BNP Paribas where she had amassed considerable experience from a career at the French lender that started in the summer of 2004.
She started at BNP in business development and by 2014 had been promoted to lead the BD team for investment banking across the APAC region. A year later, that transitioned to leading the regional BD and strategy for the French bank.
Her final role at BNP – before changing shops to DBS – was to serve as head of corporate development and sustainability for the institution across the entire region.
Prior to joining BNP, Shilpa worked for 2 years at Citigroup in a business development role.
Scott Lovell
A&O Shearman
Scott is a dyed-in-the-wool A&O Shearman lawyer who hails from the Allen & Overy stable, rather than from Shearman & Sterling – the 2 firms merged last year (2024).
An Australian national, Scott has had international exposure over the course of his career having worked in London, Amsterdam, Tokyo and Sydney… before settling in the Singapore office.
He started off his career in London before relocating to Tokyo and when he attained senior associate worked across practices in Sydney, Tokyo and Singapore.
However, since late 2014 he has been operating out of Singapore where he was promoted to partner in May 2018.
Scott has significant experience in a wide range of projects and financings, with a particular focus on the power and infrastructure industries.
Jean Monson
MUFG
An established figure in the Aisa Pacific banking community, Jean traces her career back to the solid foundations of a legal training, having started work in London as a lawyer at Freshfields.
From those early days in law, Jean swiftly transitioned to the other side of the table to work as a debt originator on the Barclays Capital debt capital markets team… first in London and then relocating to Singapore (2012-18).
By the start of 2019, she had switched to MUFG where she has since built an impressive career joining as a project finance director with a key focus on ESG and – earlier this year – being promoted to head of infra PF for Asia.
When it comes to banking, Jean’s primary focus is the origination and execution of project finance lending and advisory in the renewable and infrastructure sectors, as well as ESG finance.
Jean is an experienced UK-qualified lawyer and investment banker having advised clients in the UK and the Asia Pacific regions over the last 14 years.
She has executed financing transactions in the international debt capital markets – both loans and bonds – and worked on numerous award-winning transactions in PF and ESG.
Jean is considered a thought leader in renewable energy and ESG and has garnered a degree of fame as a regular podcaster for MUFG.
Jennifer Tay
PwC
A deeply established figure in the Asia Pacific infrastructure scene, Jennifer is a well-known figure to many and has risen over the years to take on the role of APAC infrastructure leader at PwC.
In addition to serving at PwC as regional infra leader, Jennifer also leads the consultancy’s Singapore infrastructure advisory practice.
She is a partner in the firm’s deals advisory practice and has around 20 years of experience in infrastructure – particularly in large scale financial transactions and strategic advisory, supporting both public and private sectors across the Asia regions.
Jennifer’s sector expertise includes transport, power and energy, and telecoms.
She has worked in large infrastructure companies in Singapore (in the power, transport and telecoms sectors) where her main roles were in strategic and financial planning, acquisitions, divestment, bond issues and IPO.
Jennifer worked directly with senior management (CEOs and CFOs) of these companies in deciding strategic directions for their portfolio assets, and on their execution.
For a spell – April 2014 to September 2017 – Jennifer stepped away from PwC to serve as director of finance at Singtel where, particularly noteworthy, she led the NetLink NBN Trust IPO in summer of her final year there.
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