Chris Holmes

Chris Holmes is an infrastructure investor at Foresight Group, where he has been identified as a Partner and Co-Head of Infrastructure. Foresight describes itself as an investment manager founded in 1984, active across private and public markets, with real assets, private equity and Foresight Capital Management divisions.

Holmes joined Foresight in 2019 when Foresight acquired the advisory mandate for John Laing Environmental Assets Group, now Foresight Environmental Infrastructure. The deal transferred the JLEN team from John Laing Capital Management to Foresight; Holmes and Chris Tanner, then co-heads of JLEN, became Foresight Group partners.

Before Foresight, Holmes worked at John Laing Capital Management as a Director, where he co-led investment advisory services for JLEN. Earlier, he was Managing Director and Head of the Waste & Bioenergy team at Green Investment Group, formerly the UK Green Investment Bank, where he was responsible for more than £0.5 billion of investment across 18 waste and biomass assets. He also served as Head of Capital Markets in the Infrastructure and Renewables team at NIBC, with responsibility for UK debt origination and advisory in those sectors.

Holmes has more than 20 years of infrastructure experience spanning PFI/PPP, economic infrastructure, renewables and infrastructure financing. He holds a BA (Hons) in Business Economics from the University of Durham.

• Focuses on environmental infrastructure that supports the transition to a low-carbon economy, mitigates climate change, or uses natural and waste resources more efficiently.
• Looks for assets with long-term, predictable cash flows, often partially or wholly inflation-linked, supported by long-term contracts, stable regulation, or established technologies with operating track records.
• In green hydrogen, Holmes has stated that “hydrogen [has] a key role in decarbonising heavy transport, industry, and other hard-to-abate sectors of the economy.”
• For hydrogen development, he emphasizes trust, early stakeholder engagement, public-private collaboration, community education, visible economic benefits, and public-facing offtakers that can help make the case for end use.
• Foresight’s infrastructure strategy invests across energy, digital infrastructure, sustainable transport, waste processing, social accommodation, water and controlled-environment food production.