We help countries in both developed and emerging markets across Europe, Africa and the Americas. By creating new and essential infrastructure and replacing ageing services, we hope to improve the quality of people’s lives. Founded in Paris in 2005, we now have ten offices and cc. 400 employees around the world, and our assets have created over 264,000 direct and indirect jobs (learn more).

We believe we can make a bigger impact if we share our knowledge and experience with academic institutions, non-profit groups, entrepreneurs and investors.

We are particularly keen to be involved in initiatives that support sustainable development goals at a grassroots level. In 2015 we established our corporate endowment fund that further strengthens our ability to support impactful assets on gender equality and biodiversity.

Our academic partnerships include:

• Collaborating with universities around the world, including École des Ponts ParisTech
• Founding the Research Chair in Equity Investment in Infrastructure with the EDHEC-Risk Institute , supporting the creation of a benchmark for infrastructure (EDHEC Infra) and new prudential rules
• Backing the Toulouse School of Economics’ research programme devoted to long-term sustainability and investment

Entrepreneurship and youth engagement support includes:

• Working with the Entrepreneurs de la Cité Foundation since 2008 on its valuable work fighting exclusion of disadvantaged communities in France
• Backing the ADOS association to help develop career opportunities for young people from the disadvantaged neighbourhoods of Paris
• Identifying and increasing the potential of inclusive leaders with associations including Empow’Her , Bond’Innov , Ashoka

Other initiatives include:

• The Africa Infrastructure Fellowship Program (AIFP), a public-private initiative developed by the Global Infrastructure Hub (GI Hub) and Meridiam with the support of the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, the AIFP is a unique public-private initiative designed to upskill African government infrastructure specialists and enable them to facilitate increased investment in a pipeline of new sustainable infrastructure developments. Partners of the program include the International Finance Corporation, MIGA (World Bank Group), the French Development Agency, Société Générale, the African Legal Support Facility, Colas, among many others.

• The FAST-Infra Group (FIG), an initiative conceived collectively by the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI), HSBC, the OECD, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the World Bank Group’s Global Infrastructure Platform (GIF) in 2022 and that aims to provide solutions for mobilising finance on a large scale to accelerate the development of sustainable infrastructure around the world. To promote concrete and inclusive solutions to bridge the current investment gap in sustainable infrastructure, the FAST-Infra Group is focusing on three strategic solutions:

               – Certify the sustainability of infrastructure projects with the FAST-Infra Sustainable Infrastructure Label®.

              – Increase the volume of bankable projects via the FAST-Infra Platform

              – Accelerate innovation in the field of sustainable infrastructure with FAST-Infra Beyond.

         Meridiam is a founding member of FIG.

• Meridiam initiated the Long-Term Infrastructure Investor Association (LTIIA) with a group of global institutional investors, to form an industry association for long-term investing in infrastructure. This independent organization, led by investors, aims at increasing the knowledge base to encourage quality sustainable investment in infrastructure. A key component includes sharing and promoting ESG best practices between investors.