Team Members

Alistair Smith was most recently Head of Real Estate at Border to Coast Pensions Partnership, an FCA Pensions Investment Management company, the current chapter of a 32-year Professional Real Estate Investment, Development and Asset Management career. Under his leadership at Border to Coast he led the structuring, commitment and regulatory approvals and team and supplier operation model required to launched, and now manage, c £2.9Bn of Global (Indirect) and UK (Direct) Core fund propositions

Previously he was Head of Property Investment Management at Aberdeen Standard Investments. His professional real estate and business experience covers consultative, private equity, institutional and banking sectors through multiple economic cycles, across all asset types and international markets. His experience further includes significant acquisition & merger, organisational strategy, business process, data and change and service supplier selection and performance management. Alistair graduated BSc Land Economics and is a senior member and Chair of Professional Competence Assessment Panels for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. He is a former Treasurer of the Royal Company of Merchants of the City of Edinburgh; a former Governor of the Erskine Stewarts Melville Schools, former Member of Court and Estates Committee at Edinburgh University and a reserve forces officer (Royal Artillery).