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Appointed to the Board in September 2021 and Chairman in December 2024, Mark’s background is in fund management spending nineteen years with Schroders plc with various roles including Emerging Markets Fund Manager and Global Head of Research. He left Schroders in 2009 to manage a rural estate and farming business in Northumberland and was formerly President of the Country Land & Business Association. He has served on the board of several investment trusts since leaving Schroders and is currently on the investment committee of the Leverhulme Trust.

Appointed to the Board in November 2021, Isabel has over twenty five years of global experience investing equity in infrastructure, including the AIG Asian Infrastructure Fund, the ABN AMRO Global Infrastructure Fund and the Asia Pacific investment business of John Laing plc. More recently, Isabel was a board member of an infrastructure fund manager backed by UK pension funds and of passenger champions for Heathrow Airport and UK public transport. She is currently a non-executive director of Schroder Oriental Income Fund Limited and Gresham House Energy Storage Fund plc. Isabel is a graduate of the Ohio State University with a masters from Harvard University and an MBA from the University of Chicago. Isabel is UEM’s Senior Independent Director.

Appointed to the Board in October 2019, Eric has many years of experience in financial services having spent most of his career in merchant and commercial banking, latterly as a senior executive at Lloyds Banking Group. He has extensive experience as a non-executive director and audit and risk committee chair in the financial services sector covering banking, investment management, insurance and pensions. For twelve years, he was chair of the investment committee of the £25bn Lloyds Bank Pension Scheme as well as having been chair of the audit and risk committee of a substantial investment management group. Currently he chairs or is a deputy chair of the trustee board of three pension schemes with combined assets of some £2.3bn. Eric is a chartered accountant with an MBA from London Business School and is chairman of UEM’s Audit & Risk Committee.

Appointed to the Board of UEM in September 2024, Nadya has over 25 years’ emerging and frontier markets experience as a long term investor and governance specialist. She spent 13 years with the Capital Group as a portfolio manager and analyst with a focus on global emerging markets. Prior to that she was a portfolio manager at Invesco Asset Management investing in public and private equity. She is currently a non executive director of Hansa Investment Company and Barings Emerging EMEA Opportunities plc as well as unlisted SICAVs in Luxembourg, managed by abrdn and M&G. She has an MBA from INSEAD.