Jon Marius Hønsi

Head of Global Relations at Gaia Fund Managers

Speaker

Jon Marius Hønsi is Head of Global Relations at Gaia Fund Managers, a Cape Town-based infrastructure and climate investment manager established in 2012.

Based between Norway and South Africa, Marius leads Gaia’s institutional investor engagement across Europe, the Nordics, Africa, and selected Asian markets. He works at the intersection of pension funds, insurers, sovereign institutions, development finance institutions, family offices, and private market investors, helping mobilise long-term capital towards sustainable infrastructure opportunities across emerging and frontier markets.

Prior to joining Gaia, Marius spent 17 years with DNB Markets, one of the leading Nordic investment banks, followed by senior business development and investor relations roles spanning asset management, private markets, and infrastructure investing. Throughout his career, he has focused on building trusted partnerships between institutional investors and investment platforms operating across Africa and Asia.

Gaia provides responsible investors with access to renewable energy, digital infrastructure, commercial and industrial energy solutions, transport, clean water facilities, and sustainable agriculture opportunities across Southern Africa through both listed and unlisted private market vehicles.

Marius is closely involved in the development and capital raising efforts of the Gaia Africa Climate Fund, a Luxembourg-domiciled Article 9 infrastructure fund pioneering a secondary market platform for operational renewable energy infrastructure across Sub-Saharan Africa. By providing developers with sustainable exit pathways, the strategy aims to recycle capital into new greenfield projects while supporting the broader scaling of Africa’s clean energy transition.

The fund is also designed to mobilise African institutional capital through African stock exchange listings, creating a bridge between international investors and domestic capital markets. For investors, the strategy offers exposure to operational infrastructure assets with long-term contracted cash flows, portfolio diversification benefits, and access to one of the world's fastest-growing energy transition markets.Marius is a frequent participant and speaker at international infrastructure, climate finance, and private capital forums, with a particular interest in the role of private markets in accelerating Africa’s energy transition, infrastructure development, and the mobilisation of institutional capital across the continent.