Charlie Gailliot joined KKR as a co-head for the firm’s global climate strategy, rounding out a leadership team focused on climate-related investments as part of KKR’s infrastructure platform.
Gailliot, who is based in New York, joined Emmanuel Lagarrigue, global climate co-head at KKR, who is also based in New York, and Neil Arora, who leads the strategy in Asia and is based in Singapore.
“Since the launch of the KKR infrastructure platform 15 years ago, we have invested billions into renewable energy and climate solutions,” Raj Agrawal, partner and head of global infrastructure at KKR, said. “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 — leveraging Charlie, Emmanuel and Neil’s decades of expertise — we can sharpen our focus on the deployment and scaling of net-zero solutions and accelerate the transition of higher-emitting assets.”
Gailliot joined KKR after 20 years 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.
Prior to joining KKR, Lagarrigue was an executive committee member at Schneider Electric, where he led the transformation of the company into an energy management infrastructure, industrial software and sustainability services company.
Arora joined KKR from Macquarie, where he was the head of the firm’s green investment group for the Asia-Pacific region with a focus on renewable energy asset development.
