Matt Harris is a founding partner of Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) and is based in New York. Matt’s responsibilities include strategic relationships and transactions for GIP as well as global energy industry investment activities including crude oil and refined product, natural gas, electricity including renewables, LNG, petrochemicals and metals, and mining. He is a member of the Executive Committee of GIP and of its Investment and Portfolio Valuation Committees. Matt has been intimately involved in GIP’s investment, management, and strategic activities since its formation in 2006. As a leader in infrastructure investment, Matt has worked on over 150 transactions during his career, aggregating investments in excess of $250 billion in the United States, Canada and Mexico, Europe, Russia, the Middle East, and Australasia. Matt holds a B.A. in Political Science (cum laude) from the University of California at Los Angeles. He serves as Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Columbia University Center for Global Energy Policy, is a member of the UCLA College of Social Sciences Dean’s Advisory Board, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Whole Health Institute and the World Wildlife Fund.