Prior to taking up his current role at Aramco, he held the title of Global FX Business Manager at UniCredit. Alastair spent half of his 28 year long career serving as part of Italian banking service provider and was promoted thrice during his 14 year-long tenure with the firm. He started out in the firm as part of Corporate Liability Solutions which dealt with FX & Rates and was then promoted to serve as member of Solutions Structuring team within the FX & Rates division itself. He was then promoted to the role of Deputy Head of FX Structuring which he held for nearly 7 years during which he was relocated to firm’s office in Milan making it his first post outside of the UK in his career until that point. While he spent the majority of his career serving in FX departments of various firms, he initially started out as an executive dealing in Fixed Income Research at Lehman Brothers.
Wooler began his career in financial services industry while still pursuing his Bachelor’s degree in banking and international finance from London City University. He has holds an MBA degree from SDA Bocconi/Wharton School which was a special course focusing on General Finance and Intensive General Management. Post his term with Lehman Brothers, he joined Natwest Global Financial Markets where he served in capacity of FX Exotic Options Structurer and remained at the firm for four years. After parting ways with Natwest, He joined Deutsche Bank AG and served as member of its Corporate Liability team based out of the bank’s London office for five years with each of his role showing signs of successful track record during his tenure. In his new role with the petroleum giant, Wooler is expected to be responsible for analysis, monitoring and hedging of FX market risks while also handling additional tasks such as assessing market exposures, performing quantitative and qualitative analysis on positions and risks of the respective portfolios and reporting his findings to risk management team.