Alan McCormick is Chairman of the Legatum Institute Foundation and Partner and Managing Director of the Legatum Group, a private global investment firm with a 30-year history of allocating capital to businesses and markets in transition. Mr McCormick provides leadership across Legatum’s various divisions which include a deep-value public equity fund, a private equity fund focused on investing in for-profit enterprises with a social impact and the firm’s philanthropic endeavours. Mr McCormick was one of the founders of the Legatum Institute and one of the original authors of the Legatum Prosperity Index™, the Institute’s flagship publication. In addition, Mr McCormick also serves on the board of the Freedom Fund whose mission is to accelerate the demise of slavery. Mr McCormick was formerly part of a special situations team at Sovereign Global Investment, a predecessor organisation to Legatum, and previous to that was a Vice President of Marketing for J.P. Morgan.