Alexander Johnston (appointed in 2005) is an external member of the Finance Committee and chairman of the North West Cambridge Project Board of Cambridge University, senior adviser to a corporate advisory firm Lilja & Co AG and a member of the Thames Estuary Steering Group. He was until 2003 a Managing Director at Lazard, London, where he worked in corporate and project finance, mainly in electricity, rail and utility industries, in the UK and in Europe. He has also been Chairman of BMS Associates Limited, a reinsurance broker.