Nicola Saporiti (Nico) has almost 25 years of professional experience working in different functions in the water sector: as a technical consultant advising regulated water utilities in the UK on water distribution and leakage management projects, as investor in water concessions in Europe, Latin America and Southern Africa, as a multilateral lender, working for the World Bank’s Latin America urban team, and – for the last 15 years – as lead transaction advisor and water-sector specialist for IFC.
He holds an MBA from IMD, a Certificate in Financial Engineering from the Swiss Finance Institute and is a graduate in Civil (Water) Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano University, in Italy.