AMP Capital Investors has appointed Boe Pahari, former ABN AMRO executive, to the newly created role of head of infrastructure Asia Pacific.

Pahari will support AMP Capital's continued expansion into Asia.

Pahari will lead a team of investment professionals in Sydney, Mumbai, Singapore and Beijing with a brief to further expand investment activities in Australia and the Asia Pacific.

He has over 20 years experience in the financial services industry.

He started his career at Citigroup in Sydney and subsequently worked for more than 13 years with ABN AMRO based in Singapore, Amsterdam, New York and London.

During this period Pahari worked in regional and global positions including regional CFO Asia Pacific, head of infrastructure Capital Americas, global head of integrated finance/infrastructure capital and global head structured capital.

Having led principal and advisory teams across Asia, Europe and North America Pahari has been involved with the creation and development of a number of businesses in ABN AMRO.

Pahari is currently based in London and has been leading Foreshore Global Capital.

Pahari is admitted as a solicitor in Sydney and holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Law from the University of New South Wales and Master of Laws in International Business and Tax from the University of Sydney.

He starts with AMP Capital on Monday 22 March.

AMP Capital Investors has been investing in Asian infrastructure since 1994. It now manages in excess of $96.9 billion in funds under management with more than $4.4 billion invested in infrastructure investments in Australia, New Zealand, Asia and Europe as at 31 December 2009.