Lucy Heintz

During her university years, the thrill of adventure led her off on trips to Kenya, Zimbabwe, India, Latin America, Vietnam and Thailand. She was already studying politics, philosophy and economics and, naturally, gravitated to courses on emerging markets and international relations. Though she pondered a career in development, Lucy eventually decided that financing the private sector was the best alternative. She left her job as an emerging market local currency derivatives trader at UBS Warburg to do an MBA at INSEAD, with the intention of refocusing her career on commercial development in the emerging markets. It proved to be the right decision, when she was hired by CDC in 2001. Lucy was a Business Development Director at Globeleq Ltd from 2002, where she focused on African projects, until she joined Actis in 2007. She currently has responsibility for energy in the Americas and for specialist expertise in Renewables globally. To this day, she’s caught up in the thrill of having adventures: meeting management teams and visiting remote power projects; unexpected interactions and local experiences; being part of the human development and wealth creation story in the most dynamic economies in the world.