Helena Anderson

Helena co-founded Ikigai Group after two years at the UK Department for International Trade, where she was head of energy capital investment and responsible for shaping Government policy-aligned, private sector-led, energy and integrated energy, transport and regeneration projects, businesses, and technologies such that they became bankable and attracted international investment into those opportunities, working on an X-Government and local authority basis.

Before joining the Government, Helena had 10 years of experience as a project finance lawyer at Herbert Smith Freehills, advising on renewables, oil & gas, telecoms, and infrastructure in EMEA. She was recognized by Legal 500 2016 as a leading lawyer in renewable energy projects and as an industry expert in managing environmental and social risk lending under the Equator Principles.