John Anderson is the Head of Power and Project Finance for John Hancock, the US arm of Manulife Financial of Toronto, the second largest life insurer in North America.  His team manages a $12 billion portfolio of public bonds, private placement debt, and private equity investments.  In 2008, they invested $3 billion into the power industry and other infrastructure companies.  Hancock’s $3 billion renewable energy portfolio in the US includes wind, geothermal, biomass, solar hydro, and energy efficiency investments. 

Mr. Anderson has worked in the financing of the power industry since 1992, as an investor, as an arranger of financing, and as a financial advisor to power, energy, and environmental companies in both developed and developing markets.  Prior to joining John Hancock in 2001, Mr. Anderson worked in the New York and London offices of JP Morgan Chase, where he led teams that advised on or arranged more than US$8 billion in debt financing from the syndicated loan and bond markets. 

Mr. Anderson holds an MBA from Georgetown University, and a BA in Economics from The University of Chicago.  Mr. Anderson speaks French, Spanish, German, Russian, and Serbo-Croatian at an intermediate level, and would not be mistaken for a native speaker in any of these languages.