Yuko Watanabe Shah

Managing Director at I Squared Capital

Speaker

Yuko Watanabe Shah is a Managing Director at I Squared Capital, an independent global infrastructure investor with $60 billion in assets under management. She leads the firm’s investor relations activities in Japan and has played a central role in building its relationships with Japanese institutional investors and corporate partners.

Since joining I Squared in 2015, Yuko has worked with portfolio companies across the renewable energy, utility and transportation sectors in Asia, including Amplus Solar and Cube Highways in India. She also launched Hexa Energy Services, an energy storage business supporting Japan’s renewable energy transition.

Before I Squared, Yuko spent 15 years at Mitsubishi Corporation, most recently as a risk assessment officer covering utilities and infrastructure for the Investment Advisory Committee of Mitsubishi’s Board, and as a member of the Global Environmental and Infrastructure business group’s investment committee. Earlier in her career, she worked on solid waste and water treatment projects for the Hong Kong and Singapore governments and on water resource initiatives linked to Mitsubishi’s investment in Manila Water Company. She also helped establish Japan’s bilateral carbon credit trading mechanism.

Yuko holds an MBA from the Wharton School and a Bachelor of Economics from Doshisha University.