Helena Coles serves as Non-Executive Independent Director of the Company. Ms Helena is a Chartered Financial Analyst with over 20 years’ fund management experience in Asian and emerging markets equities and has expertise in investment trusts and environmental, social and governance issues. She is currently the independent investment adviser to the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust and was a co-founder and board member of Rexiter Capital Management, a specialist emerging markets and Asian asset management company. She has also worked with Fidelity International’s Sustainable Investing team, at the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulatory Authority and as a consultant to Edison Investment Research.