Having spent the first half of this week in Miami at IJ LatAm 2025, it was too good an opportunity not to record a couple of podcasts with government delegates to drill down into plans for investments into infrastructure and energy.

IJGlobal editorial director Angus Leslie Melville sits down with Pablo Cevallo – Ecuador’s secretary for public-private partnerships – to hear about plans to drive investments into infrastructure and energy.

The podcast runs for almost 19 minutes and takes the listener through an extensive list of plans the Ecuador has in its pipeline for the coming years.

This latest episode can be accessed on Spotify (embedded above) as well as through Apple Podcasts and on the Amazon service. It is also hosted across a slew of other platforms, open access on all of them.

Pablo (pictured right on stage at IJ LatAm 2025) speaks openly about the government's intentions to drive a pipeline of investments with support from international developers and the lending community for a range of ambitious plans, launching the podcast with a view on legislation.

Given recent experiences when droughts impacted the national ability to generate electricity – at the peak of the crisis able only to supply power for 10 hours in the day – from its hydropower plants, Ecuador is prioritising this for investment.

This is the second time that Ecuador has featured on an IJGlobal podcast with the last one having been recorded in July 2023 at the Inter American Development Bank conference – PPP Americas – in Panama.

That episode focused on the Ecuadorian PPP scene with guests Gustavo Camacho, under-secretary for fiscal policy at Ecuador’s ministry of finance, and Israel Berruzueta, external legal counsel for PPPs for the ministry of finance.

Tune in to this latest episode to hear about everything from hydropower through to transport, hydrogen, geothermal and recently announced aspirations to champion nuclear energy.