Alastair Irvine

Alastair is an Investment Director at Jupiter Fund Managers; he writes extensively on macroeconomics and geopolitics.

He began his career in 1985 at stockbroker Laurie, Milbank & Co followed by over 20 years in equity research, including being a top-rated analyst and Deputy Head of Equity Research for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Merrill Lynch. Later, he was a Principal, Partner and Head of Portfolio Management at Triple Point LLP, a fund management house specialising in Venture Capital Trusts and Enterprise Investment Schemes.

Alastair is currently a trustee and the treasurer of the RAF Benevolent Fund where he chairs the Finance, Audit and Investments Committee.

He is a former trustee of the Air Training Corps General Purposes Fund and a former trustee and chairman of Meningitis Now, and previously Meningitis Trust (2009-18).

Alastair contracted HIB meningitis as a child, resulting in deafness and permanent tinnitus.