• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
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  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Brendan Duval

Glenfarne Energy Transition

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Brendan Duval is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Glenfarne Energy Transition, with over 25 years of experience in global infrastructure. Brendan founded Glenfarne Energy Transition's parent company, Glenfarne Group, in 2011 and remains responsible for the strategic direction of the company. He leads a management team with over $20 billion of transactional experience and also maintains the role as an active executive chairman and CEO for its operating entities.

Since founding Glenfarne Group, Mr. Duval has led the company toward significant growth raising more than $5 billion of capital since 2015 and successfully completing 15 mergers and acquisitions over the same time period.

Prior to his current leadership position, Mr. Duval had a long career at Macquarie Group, from 1998 to 2011. He helped launch the North and South American business for Macquarie’s infrastructure franchise in 2000. He served as a Senior Managing Director of Macquarie Capital in New York from 2007 to 2011 and was a founding member of Macquarie Capital’s U.S. Management Committee. Mr. Duval is also the former CEO of a number of Macquarie’s direct investment infrastructure businesses. Mr. Duval holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Focus Robotics) and a Bachelor of Commerce (Major in Accounting, Minor in Economics), both from the Australian National University. He completed a number of his Robotics electives at The Pennsylvania State University in preparation for his senior thesis on robotic control.

Sessions With Brendan Duval

Tuesday, 19 March

  • 11:50am - 12:40pm (CST) / 19/mar/2024 04:50 pm - 19/mar/2024 05:40 pm

    Growing Weight of Private Capital Across Energy

    Finance & Investment/Trading & Risk Management

    Private capital has played an outsized and impactful role in energy transition investing over the past two years. Scaled-up energy transition opportunities emerged at the very moment private capital came to dominate financial deal flow, creating a huge opportunity for private equity and debt firms to deploy long-term investments into the future direction of the energy economy. Will this trend continue? Will private market investors dominate the cleantech-led energy economy? What clean energy technologies are private capital looking at now?