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Alastair Elliott Forsyth (1932-2020) was born in Hong Kong, attended school in the UK and took his degree at Keble College, Oxford University. After some years in industry (United Steel Companies and the General Electric Company), he joined the London merchant bank J. Henry Schroder Wagg & Co. Ltd in 1971. From 1976 to 1982 he lived in Caracas as the regional representative for the Schroder Group. He was appointed a director of J. Henry Schroder Wagg in 1982, and in 1984 was made Director responsible for Latin America. In 1992 he retired as a director of Schroders and established his own advisory company, Consultores Asociados Sur Americanos (C.A.S.A.), specialising in financial aspects of Latin American development. He acted as an adviser to Schroders until 1996. He served as chair of the Anglo-Colombian Society, vice-chairman of the Argentine-British Conference and secretary of the South Atlantic Council.
[Biography derived from: 'Argentina: foreign relations and the new foreign policy agenda' edited by edited by
Colin M. Lewis and Celia Szusterman (University of London, Institute of Latin American Studies, Occasional Papers No. 14, 1996)]