President & Chairman of the Board of the EABC; Chairman Central Rand Gold Limited; Chairman Indochina Gateway Capital Limited; Director Great Barrier Reef Foundation; former Vice Chairman & Managing Director Goldman Sachs JBWere; former Director Film Finance Corporation; former Member Financial Sector Advisory Council reporting to the Federal Treasurer

Alastair Walton is a career investment banker who retired in 2006 as Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Goldman Sachs JBWere, the Australian affiliate of the Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

He is currently Chairman of Central Rand Gold Limited (CRG), a holding company for a group of companies engaged in gold mining and exploration in Johannesburg, South Africa. CRG has a primary listing on the main board of the London Stock Exchange and a secondary listing on the JSE Securities Exchange.

He is also Chairman of Indochina Gateway Capital Limited which focuses on private equity investments in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.

Prior to joining Goldman Sachs in Australia in 2001 he worked with Credit Suisse First Boston for 14 years in Tokyo, New York, Melbourne, Sydney, London and lastly Hong Kong, as Head of Investment Banking for Non-Japan Asia.

Alastair has a Masters of Business Administration from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, where he was a Dean's Scholar, a Bachelor of Economics (with specialisation in accounting) from the Australian National University, and is a Chartered Accountant.