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30 / GOVERNANCE / THE EDINBURGH INVESTMENT TRUST PLC
THE DIRECTORS
All Directors are non-executive and considered independent. The Directors
of the Company who were in office during the year and up to the date of
signing the financial statements were:
ELISABETH STHEEMAN
Chair of the Board
AIDAN LISSER
Senior Independent Director
ANNABEL TAGOE-BANNERMAN
Non-Executive Director
Date of appointment:
23 May 2019, became Chair on
21 July 2022
Date of appointment:
27 May 2022, SID from 19 July 2023
Date of appointment:
7 February 2023
Committees:
Committees:
Committees:
M Management Engagement
M Management Engagement
M Management Engagement
N Nomination Chair
N Nomination
N Nomination
A Audit
A Audit
A Audit
Elisabeth is currently an independent
member of the board of US REIT W.P.
Carey Inc and Deloitte LLP and an
External Member of the Audit and Risk
Committee of The Asian Infrastructure
Investment Bank. She is also Vice
President of the Council of the
German British Chamber of Industry
and Commerce. Previously, she was
an External member of the Financial
Policy Committee and Financial Market
Infrastructure Board and a senior
advisor to the Bank of England’s
Prudential Regulation Authority. She
was also a member of the Supervisory
Board of Aareal Bank AG, Alstria AG
and a member of the Council of the
London School of Economics.
Aidan is the Chair of JPMorgan
Emerging Markets Investment Trust
plc, a non-executive director of
Henderson International Income Trust
plc and a board member of Chapter
Zero UK, an organisation to assist nonexecutive directors with the impact of
climate change. He is also a marketing
ambassador for the
Association
of Investment Companies. He was
formerly chief marketing officer and
subsequently head of strategy for
Investec Wealth & Investment. Before
this he held senior marketing roles
at Allianz Global Investors, Standard
Chartered Bank and Unilever.
Annabel has considerable experience in
senior roles within quoted UK operating
companies within the retail, leisure,
food and beverage sectors. Annabel is
currently Group General Counsel and
Company Secretary of Bakkavor Group
plc, the FTSE 250 listed producer
of freshly prepared food, where she
also chairs the Diversity & Inclusion
Forum. She was previously at Britvic
plc and formerly General Counsel and
a member of the Executive Committee
of Ladbrokes plc. Prior to this Annabel
trained and practised as a solicitor
at SJ Berwin LLP (now King & Wood
Mallesons).
