Alastair Morrison

Alastair has over 40 years experience in private equity, principally in emerging markets. He is currently an independent director and external IC member at Mekong Capital (Vietnam) and was previously a senior adviser to Carlyle’s Sub-Saharan Africa Fund.He is also an independent director of Australian listed mining company, Aeris Resources Ltd.Alastair was a founding director and global co-head of Standard Chartered Bank’s private equity business and latterly vice-chairman of Standard Chartered Principal Finance. These roles included hiring and training teams across Asia, Africa and the Middle East, as well as sitting on investment committees.He has a particular interest in strengthening Investment Committee processes, raising due diligence standards and developing teams.For 20 years until 2002 he worked at 3i Group plc, latterly as director of the South-East Asia team.Alastair holds a MA in politics, philosophy and economics and an MPhil in Management Studies, both from Oxford University.