The Carlyle Group has appointed Brian Wilson as a senior advisor to the Asia buyout team. Wilson is based in Sydney.

Wilson is currently chairman of Australia’s Foreign Investment Review Board, Chancellor of the University of Technology Sydney, a non-executive director of Bell Financial Group and a member of the Payments System Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia.

As a senior advisor, Wilson will advise the Carlyle team and portfolio company executives on key trends, support investment due diligence and serve on portfolio company boards. He becomes part of a group of 30 senior business executives who have been engaged as consultants to help Carlyle invest wisely and create value across a range of industries.

Wilson has more than 30 years of financial markets experience. He served as a managing director of Lazard, having co-founded the firm’s Australian operations in 2004. Prior to joining Lazard, he was a vice‐chairman of Citigroup Australia. During his investment banking career, he advised on more than 60 public company takeovers and reconstructions, including cross-border transactions involving North American, European and Asian companies across a range of industries.

Carlyle has a strong track record of investing across the Asia Pacific region. In total, Carlyle has invested more than US$17 billion of equity in 225 transactions in the Asia Pacific region and close to US$2 billion of equity in 8 transactions in Australia as of June 30, 2016.