Alastair D. Newton

Mr. Alastair D.
Newton is Senior Political Analyst at Nomura International Plc, Chairman-Supervisory Board at ADC African Development Corp.
AG, Council Member at Royal Institute of International Affairs and Member-Global Agenda Council at World Economic Forum.
He is on the Board of Directors at Altira ADC Management GmbH.
He has been a Senior Political Analyst since October 2008, having first joined Lehman Brothers International in that capacity in August 2005.
As such, he is responsible for identifying, tracking and analysing political events worldwide which are likely to have an impact on financial markets.
Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, he spent 20 years as a career diplomat with the British Diplomatic Service.
He served in sub-Saharan Africa, Paris (at the OECD) and the United States.
In London, he worked in intelligence c-ordination (including during the 1990/91 Gulf War), policy planning and economic relations, as well as running the Prime Minister’s G7/8 team from 1998 to 2000.
He was on secondment from the Diplomatic Service to Lehman Brothers from 2000 to 2002.
In addition to his work at Nomura, Mr. Newton is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of the Middle East, African Development Corporation’s Advisory Board, Altira ADC Management GMBH, Beetle Capital Partner’s Advisory Panel, Lisbon Council’s Climate Change Action Group, Practitioners’ Advisory Board of the journal Global Policy, and Bournemouth University Business School Advisory Board.