Aberdeen Japan Investment Trust PLC

Karen Brade was appointed a director on 1 May 2013 and assumed the Chair in July 2018. She has over 20 years of investment experience in a range of sectors and markets. She began her career at Citibank, working on various multi-national project finance transactions. She was an investment principal at the Commonwealth Development Corporation (later Actis), a leading emerging markets private equity firm, where she directed equity and debt investing, portfolio management, fund raising and investor development including India, South Asia and China. Since 2005 she has been an adviser to hedge funds, family offices and private equity houses. She is Chair of Keystone Investment Trust PLC and a non-executive director of Augmentum Fintech plc and Crown Place VCT.

Claire Boyle was appointed as an independent non-executive director of the Company with effect from 1 February 2019. She qualified as a chartered accountant with Coopers & Lybrand in 1993 and has over 13 years' experience working in equity investment management running portfolios over a wide range of sectors for international corporate, Government, State and retail clients, including unit and investment trusts. She was a Partner at Oxburgh Partners LLP with responsibility for their European Equity Hedge Fund. Prior to that she was a European Equity Fund Manager at American Express Asset Management, where her role included both portfolio management and business development. She started her investment career with Robert Fleming Investment Management.

Kevin Pakenham was appointed a director on 1 August 2007. He had a long career in banking and asset management and has held senior management positions in the global asset management industry over many years. He co-founded and is currently a director of Pakenham Partners, which provides corporate finance advice to the asset management industry. He is a former managing director of Jefferies International and CEO of John Govett & Co, including under its ownership by Allied Irish Banks and managing director of F&C Management.

Sir David Warren was appointed on 1 December 2015. He had a career in the British Diplomatic Service of over 35 years concentrating on East Asia following his initial Japanese language training, including three postings to Tokyo, and culminating in four and a half years as British Ambassador to Japan from 2008 to 2012. He is an Associate Fellow of the Asia Programme of the Royal Institute of International Affairs.