Ashley Blows, Senior Strategic Advisor, Local Authorities

Ashley has over thirty years’ experience in the project and infrastructure finance sectors and has led transactions as financial adviser, equity investor, lender and M&A adviser in the transportation, water, waste, social infrastructure / PPP, midstream, and power and renewables sectors. Ashley started his infrastructure career at NatWest in the early-1990s before taking roles heading various sector and geographical teams at Dexia, Assured Guaranty, Depfa, and, latterly, Natixis for whom he worked for almost fifteen years and held various senior roles including heading Infrastructure Finance, EMEA, with teams in London, Madrid, Milan and Dubai; Infrastructure Fund Coverage; and the Bank’s activities across all business lines in the transport, environment & social infrastructure sectors.

From mid-2023 Ashley provided consultancy services to various clients in the project finance / infrastructure sector before joining the National Wealth Fund in November 2025 as one of our original Senior Strategic Advisers to Local Authorities supporting some our large regional authority clients.  Since March 2026 he has also been Co-Head of Advisory.