Elisabeth was appointed to the Board as Chair on 18 December 2017. She has 40 years’ experience in the asset management industry, having started her career in Edinburgh in the 1980s, then moving to Hong Kong in 1992 where she remained until 2008, latterly in the role of Managing Director and Country Head of Schroder Investment Management (Hong Kong) Limited. She is a Non-Executive Director of Allianz Technology Trust PLC and BlackRock World Mining Trust plc, and Chair of JPMorgan Global Emerging Markets Income Trust plc and a former Chair of the Association of Investment Companies (AIC). She is resident in the UK.