Christopher Clement-Davies

International Legal and Policy Expert for Energy, Infrastructure and PPPs

Christopher Clement-Davies is a dual-qualified barrister and solicitor in the United Kingdom, as well as a qualified financial adviser and trader in the City of London. He is an international legal and policy adviser and consultant, widely recognised for his expertise in public-private partnerships (PPPs) and regulatory reform in the infrastructure and energy sectors.

Over a distinguished career spanning more than 30 years, principally based in the City of London, he has combined practice as both a lawyer and an investment banker. He worked for nearly 25 years as a transactions lawyer at four leading international law firms (Linklaters, Dentons, Vinson & Elkins and Norton Rose Fulbright) and was a partner and team leader at three of them. He also served for several years as a director and banker at one of London’s pre-eminent investment banks, S.G. Warburg (now UBS). He now divides his time between the practice of law and venture capital/entrepreneurship, and sits on the Boards of a range of young ventures.

Throughout his career, he has specialised in energy and infrastructure projects and transactions, project finance, PPPs and privatisations. He has advised on deals across the globe, in both emerging and developed markets, with an aggregate value running into the tens of billions of US dollars, and has received widespread recognition for his work. His experience includes over 40 PPP and IPP projects, together with numerous assignments advising on reforms to legal and policy frameworks for PPPs and similar developments. He has worked with governments, banks, financial institutions, sponsors, investors, funds and contractors, including institutions such as the United Nations, the World Bank, the EBRD, IFC, ADB, IADB, AfDB, EIB and other leading international financial institutions. He has supported UNECE’s activities in the PPP field for the past 20 years.

Christopher is a member of the Middle Temple (Harmsworth Major Entrance Exhibition) and of the Law Society of England & Wales. He holds a degree in Modern History from the University of Oxford (BA (Hons)/MA) and law degrees from the University of Westminster and the Inns of Court School of Law. At Oxford, he served as Vice-President of the Oxford Union Debating Society and won the Lloyd’s Bank Inter-Varsities Debating Competition. At the Middle Temple, he was awarded the Colombos Public International Law Prize and won both the Inns of Court Mooting Competition and the Reid Shield Debating Competition.

He has chaired and lectured at numerous conferences and seminars worldwide, and has published more than 100 articles, editorials and studies in his fields of specialisation, including several major PPP-related studies for the EBRD. He has been a member of the International Bar Association, the International Project Finance Association, the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, and the Editorial Board of the International Energy Law Review, which he edited for 10 years. He has also served as a special adviser on PPPs to UNCITRAL and to the Camdessus World Water Panel. He is Vice-Chair Emeritus of the Bureau of the UNECE Working Party on Public-Private Partnerships and served as Project Leader and principal author of the EBRD/UNECE Model PPP Law (published 2022). He was also co-author of the EBRD’s comprehensive Legal Guide to PPPs.