Tim Lester
Executive Chair
Jameson Boyce Partners
Executive Chair
Jameson Boyce Partners
Tim Lester is the Executive Chair of Australian based Asia Pacific consulting and advisory firm, Jameson Boyce Partners. As a chair, director, leader, legal counsel and adviser Tim has stand-out expertise and insight derived from over 30 years of Australian, regional and global experience across Japan, Australia, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom. He is an expert in bilateral relations between Australia and Japan and fluent in Japanese. Supporting the value he brings to the AJBCC, Tim has led and advised on some of the largest and most complex projects and transactions in the region. He has particularly deep experience across the energy, green energy and resources sectors, including supporting companies and guiding and advising boards on important strategic investments and transactions (including their funding) as well as providing advice and guidance on strategic direction, risk, good governance and positioning organisations in responses to changes in the regulatory and policy environments across Australia and the region. Tim’s expertise and experience is also built on his many years of chairing industry bodies and not for profit organisations (as well sitting on their boards)- such as the ANZCCJ, the Australia Japan Foundation, the UWA Business School Board and its Ambassadorial Council and many others, his long history of working across Sydney, Perth and Tokyo and advising and supporting Governments (and their agencies) in Australia, in Japan and the region on trade and investment initiatives and policy. Tim is also currently Chair of the AJBCC’s Clean Energy Transition Advisory Committee.