Alasdair MacLeod is Executive Chairman of the Macdoch Group (https://www.macdoch.com), a private investment company with offices in London and Sydney.
In Australia, his Macdoch Ag Group comprises a group of innovative businesses striving to show how a resilient agricultural sector builds natural capital and contributes to global climate solutions. These operations include beef cattle, wool growing and cropping, with experienced successful practitioners working to scale up its approach by working hand in hand with farmers and farm communities across thousands of hectares. The Group employs agri-tech, applied R&D, and empirical data to demonstrate how livestock are an indispensable part of resilient farming systems.
Alasdair is Chair is of the Macdoch Foundation, a philanthropic body whose work includes a ground-breaking farming analysis and community engagement project called Farming for the Future (https://farmingforthefuture.org.au/). He also chairs Soils for Life, a not-for-profit entity focussed on encouraging greater uptake of regenerative farming ideas (https://soilsforlife.org.au).