INTERVIEW In which Southeast Asian markets is that harmony particularly strong? It’s a diverse region that has common features but also differences in lan-guage, politics, religion, and economy. In markets like Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia, there’s strong protectionism that gives priority to local com-panies or makes tendering very hard for foreign companies. Some of them have government agreements that favor Japanese, Chinese, and Korean companies. Others that are more open, like Hong Kong and Singapore, are monopolized by the Chinese and you can only enter in partnership with them. But we’re here. Singapore was our springboard, we have projects in Hong Kong, and the Philippines is the jewel in the crown where major milestones spell enormous opportunities in a country with 7,000 islands —the Island of Luzon alone has 70 million inhabitants —that needs railways, bridges, tunnels, airports, highways, and drinking water, and where the new government is fostering the transition to renewables because there’s an abundance of sun and wind. We’re also exploring markets like Vietnam and the huge Indonesian market, but we’re doing it project by project, partner by partner, and customer by customer. If that’s today, what do you expect to see in the future, in 10 or 20 years? I see the integration of all of our businesses and the relocation of pro-fessionals with years of experience in the company, which will give us maturity. We’re undergoing a similar process to when we established ourselves in Australia in 2010, which led to gradual but solid, firmly rooted success. I’d like all of the seeds we’re sowing with some of our outstanding professionals to take root, to see recognition of a sustain-able, multinational, multicultural brand with which anyone, in any country, can identify, one that’s inclusive and attracts young talent. And I’d like to stay here to be part of that adventure. THE DOOR TO ONE MILESTONE IS OPENED BY ANOTHER MILESTONE Camba highlights a key feature of Asian business culture: “proof of concept, an already operational project that acts as a calling card.” Cebu Bridge, for instance, which is the biggest in the Philippines and was built under a single government at the height of the pandemic, becomes proof of eligibility to bid for the major Manila Bay Bridge project. Putatan Water Treatment Plant, also in the Philippines, “was a huge engineering challenge which gave us a reputation as water technology experts” and explains the awarding of the contract for a new plant, Putatan 2. Other pro-jects such as the Malolos Railway—the Asian Development Bank’s first investment in the Philippines—could have that same catalyst effect, “as will the Tseung Kwan desalination mega-plant in Hong Kong, a place where that service has enormous poten-tial.” Other milestones on the horizon include renewable energy throughout the region, following the acquisition of a 50% stake in leading wind energy developer The Blue Circle in Singapore.