KKR, a global investment firm with offices in New York City and worldwide, is beefing up its global climate investing strategy with key appointments, the firm announced.
Charlie Gailliot has joined the firm as a co-head for the firm’s global climate strategy. Emmanual Lagarrigue and Neil Arora, who already were with KKR, have been named to the firm’s climate strategy team to guide its infrastructure investing platform.
“Since the launch of the KKR infrastructure platform 15 years ago, we have invested billions into renewable energy and climate solutions,” Raj Agrawal, a partner and head of global infrastructure, said in a statement. “However, transitioning to a low-carbon economy at the pace and scale needed requires trillions of dollars in investment, and we are still seeing a significant gap in climate funding. By forming a dedicated climate leadership team, we can sharpen our focus on the deployment and scaling of net-zero solutions and accelerate the transition of higher-emitting assets.”
Gailliot is the newest member of the infrastructure team. He joined KKR a partner and global co-head of KKR Climate within the firm’s infrastructure business. Prior to KKR he had a 20-year career as a private markets investor at Goldman Sachs, where he most recently served as a partner and head of the energy transition and the diversified industrials investment teams, KKR said.
Arora, who is based in Singapore, joined KKR in 2022 as a partner on the Infrastructure team. Previously, he was with Macquarie, where he was the head of the firm’s Green Investment Group for Asia-Pacific where he focused on renewable energy asset development. He also held a number of senior roles across multiple markets during his more than 20-year career at Macquarie. Most recently, he was head of Macquarie’s Green Investment Group for Asia-Pacific leading a pan-Asia team with a focus on renewable energy asset development.
Lagarrigue joined KKR in 2022 and is a partner and global co-head of KKR Climate within the firm's Infrastructure business. Prior to joining KKR, he was an executive committee member at Schneider Electric, where he led the transformation of the company into a leader in energy management infrastructure, industrial software and sustainability services.
KKR has committed more than $40 billion to sustainability-focused investments, including more than $30 billion to climate and environmental sustainability investments since 2010, the firm said.