Alan Jury

From 2004 to 2010, Alan was a senior writer with The Australian Financial Review, including writing the paper’s prestigious Chanticleer column for three years. From 2010 to 2013 he was a Director, Corporate Communications with FTI Consulting before leaving to take up a position as Executive Vice President Corporate Affairs for specialty chemicals producer Lynas Corporation. Alan had previously held a similar position with multinational gaming group Aristocrat Leisure (2002-2003).

Prior to that, Alan spent almost 20 years working variously in equities research, sales and corporate advisory roles, principally with Macquarie Group. His research responsibilities included transportation, durable and non-durable consumer products, and conglomerates. Alan worked on equity capital markets transactions for companies in the transportation, media and financial services industries, as well as on M&A transactions involving mining, media, transport and consumer products companies.

Alan’s early career included credit research with Dun & Bradstreet and financial journalism with Australian Consolidated Press and John Fairfax & Sons. He was a staff writer for Australian Business and BRW magazines, a regular columnist for Asian Finance (monthly) and the Sydney Morning Herald (weekly), and a contributor to Forbes and Euromoney.