Ross Israel

Ross Israel has 28 years of experience in corporate finance and funds management with specialist skills in infrastructure, asset management, capital raisings, and mergers and acquisitions. Ross Israel co-founded QIC Global Infrastructure in early 2006. As head of global infrastructure, Ross provides overall leadership to the team, which currently manages 19 direct investments out of offices in Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, London, and New York. As a member of the QIC Global Infrastructure Investment Committee, Ross has overseen all of the team’s investments. In addition to his infrastructure responsibilities, Ross is also a member of QIC’s Executive Committee Management. From 2000 to 2005, Ross was with AMP Capital, where he co-led the creation of the Diversified Utility and Energy Trusts (DUET), serving as its chief operating officer, and was seconded into the management joint venture between AMP Capital and Macquarie Bank established prior to DUET’s listing on the ASX in August 2004. Before joining AMP Capital, Ross was with ABN AMRO and BZW in their Australian Infrastructure Corporate Advisory and London M&A teams, and with Ernst & Young in its Sydney Corporate Tax division. Ross is a director of Pacific Energy, an alternate director of CampusParc, and a member of the Advisory Board of Cornell University’s Program in Infrastructure Policy. He holds a Bachelor of Law and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Queensland.