Alex is Head of Infrastructure Debt at Aberdeen, with overall responsibility for the team's strategies in sourcing, underwriting and managing debt investments across a full range of infrastructure sectors. Aberdeen invests in both social and economic infrastructure across clean energy, transport, social infrastructure, utilities and digital assets. The team manages funds principally on behalf of insurance and pension institutions and invests both in developed and to a growing extent in emerging markets. Alex joined Aberdeen in 2015 after prior roles in the financial guarantee industry and in investment banking in London, with periods also spent in New York and Singapore. Alex has a MA degree in Classics from Oxford, where he studied civilisations with a strong track record in building infrastructure such as roads, bridges, aqueducts, sewage, concrete and arches, public buildings, urban planning, ports and lighthouses, and communications; as well as developing democratic principles, comprehensive legal systems, coinage and banking.