Global Head of Real Assets, Natixis

Biography

Olivier Delay is Global Head of Real Assets, covering the Infrastructure, Aviation and Real Estate & Hospitality sectors. Olivier began his career in 1992 at Crédit Lyonnais London where he worked as Agent on the Eurotunnel transaction. In 1994, he joined the Infrastructure Project Finance department in Paris. In 2001, he became part of Calyon’s North American Project Finance team in New York where he successively headed up the Project Bonds and the Long-Term Asset Securitization teams. He joined the Natixis New York Debt Platform team in 2008 and became Head of Project Finance for the Americas Platform in 2011. In 2013, he was appointed Head of Aviation, Export & Infrastructure Finance in the Americas Platform. In 2015, Olivier Delay was appointed Global Head of Aviation, Export & Infrastructure Finance. Since March 2018, he has been Global Head of Real Assets. Olivier Delay, 49, graduated from the EDHEC business school and the London School of Economics. Natixis has notably led all the main offshore wind infrastructure financings in Europe such as Merkur (offshore the German North Sea), Beatrice and Galloper (offshore United-Kingdom).