Alastair Campbell

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Mr. Alastair Campbell serves as Managing Director, Vantage GreenX at Vantage Capital. He is a director of Vantage GreenX and a member of the Fund's Investment Committee. His primary responsibility is the assessment, structuring, execution and post-transaction monitoring of senior debt lent to projects in the sustainable energy space, with a primary focus on the Renewable Energy IPP (REIPP) Procurement Program being run by South Africa's department of Energy. He joined Vantage GreenX in January 2014. Prior to joining Vantage GreenX, Alastair headed up the renewable energy finance team within Standard Bank. He has successfully overseen the funding of more than R15.5bn of debt to 15 wind and solar projects in bid dates 1 and 2 of the REIPP procurement program. Alastair is a South African qualified Chartered Accountant. He completed his articles at Deloitte in Johannesburg in 1995 and then moved to the UK. After a year at NatWest Markets, Alastair joined Standard Bank London where he worked in the Project Finance team on Infrastructure and Power sector transaction across the African continent in a diverse range of countries including Mali, Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, Cote d'Ivoire, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, Swaziland and South Africa. In 2003, Alastair moved back to South Africa where he joined Standard Bank's Corporate and Investment Banking division with principal responsibility for the development of projects in the power sector. This role has involved both lending to and advising clients across sub-Saharan Africa. Most notably, he was the lead adviser to Anglo American on the development of its 450MW - R10bn (US$1.2bn) Khanyisa waste coal project being developed near Witbank, and the 1500MW - R53bn (US$4.5bn) Hydro Mphanda Nkuwa project being devloped 60km downstream from Cahora Bassa in Mozambique. Prior to that, he led the advisory team taking Vale through its pre-feasibility and bankable-feasibility studies on the Moatize Mine in Mozambique.