Scott Charlton is the Chief Executive Officer of Sydney Airport, one of Australia’s largest and most important infrastructure assets with more than 44 million passengers annually. An engineer by training, Scott joined Sydney Airport in December 2023.

Scott has more than 25 years of experience in developing, funding, constructing, and operating infrastructure assets, working with some of the sector’s leading ASX-listed corporations.

Prior to joining Sydney Airport, Scott was Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Transurban from 2012, a leading infrastructure company with operations in Australia and North America.

From 2010 to 2012 Scott was Chief Operating Officer for Lend Lease’s global operations, and from 2007 to 2009 he was Chief Financial Officer at Leighton Holdings, having joined the company in 2002 with responsibility for mergers/acquisitions, investments, treasury, tax, balance sheet and Private Partnership Projects.

Scott has also spent 11 years in investment banking with eight years at Deutsche Bank culminating in the role of Managing Director, Head of Transport and Infrastructure – Asia Pacific based in Hong Kong. Previously he was Managing Director, Head of Project Finance for Deutsche Bank in Australia and involved in many of the privatisations and private partnerships in Australia during the 1990s.