The focus of our work is helping people act. We collaborate with the public and private sectors, acting as a knowledge sharing hub, to produce data, insights, knowledge tools, and programs that inform both policy and infrastructure delivery. These resources help decisionmakers, policymakers, and practitioners create positive impacts through infrastructure.
The GI Hub is a not-for-profit organisation created by the Group of Twenty (G20) to advance its infrastructure agenda.
The G20 is the premier forum for international economic cooperation, bringing together the leaders of developed and developing countries from every continent. Collectively, G20 members represent around 80% of the world’s economic output, two-thirds of global population, and three quarters of international trade. Representatives from G20 countries gather multiple times each year to discuss financial and socioeconomic issues.
The GI Hub participates in relevant G20 forums and discussions related to infrastructure, and delivers work contributing to the G20 infrastructure agenda.
The GI Hub is a not-for-profit organisation created by the Group of Twenty (G20) to advance its infrastructure agenda.
The G20 is the premier forum for international economic cooperation, bringing together the leaders of developed and developing countries from every continent. Collectively, G20 members represent around 80% of the world’s economic output, two-thirds of global population, and three quarters of international trade. Representatives from G20 countries gather multiple times each year to discuss financial and socioeconomic issues.
The GI Hub participates in relevant G20 forums and discussions related to infrastructure, and delivers work contributing to the G20 infrastructure agenda.
The GI Hub has received or currently receives funding on a voluntary basis from the following G20 member and non-member countries.
Recognising the role of infrastructure in growth, job creation, and productivity, the G20 established the GI Hub in 2014 as a knowledge-sharing hub with a mandate to work between governments, the private sector, development banks, and other international organisations to help implement the G20’s infrastructure agenda.
The GI Hub was established in Sydney, Australia as a global entity, independent of commercial objectives and intent on the mission of supporting the G20 to drive an ambitious agenda on sustainable, resilient, and inclusive infrastructure through action-oriented programs.
In our first four-year mandate, we completed major initiatives that quantified the global infrastructure financing gap, defined the infrastructure enabling environments of countries worldwide and recommended improvements, and published landmark guides to best practice in several areas of infrastructure development. In 2018, the G20 extended the GI Hub’s mandate, and in 2019 the GI Hub opened its second office in Toronto, Canada. In 2021, the G20 again extended the GI Hub's mandate.
Since 2018, the GI Hub has transformed from a start-up entity to a small, strong, and nimble organisation that is a central source of knowledge on leading practice, innovation, and market trends for the infrastructure community as well as being a respected G20 advisor and participant.
At the G20, we are closely involved at the political and technical levels with the Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors, the Finance Deputies, and the Infrastructure Working Group. In this capacity, we support G20 Presidencies’ infrastructure initiatives and provide the G20 with continuous data, inputs, advice, and monitoring of its priorities and initiatives – like the Roadmap to Infrastructure as an Asset Class and the G20 Quality Infrastructure Investment Principles.
In our capacity as a knowledge-sharing hub, we collaborate across the public and private sectors to push for necessary reforms and provide data, insights, and knowledge. Our work is used by an audience of policymakers, financiers, regulators, and decisionmakers to shape the enabling environment for infrastructure and by practitioners who plan, procure, develop, deliver, operate, and maintain infrastructure. We also help build capacity at the national, subnational, and individual levels. All our resources are freely available and accessible.