Vanessa Donegan was appointed as a Director on 17 October 2019. Vanessa is a non-executive director of Fidelity China Special Situations plc, Herald Investment Management Ltd, JP Morgan Indian Investment Trust plc and State Street Global Advisors Luxembourg SICAV. She has 37 years of fund management experience investing institutional and retail portfolios in Asian stock markets, including single country China and India funds. She was Head of the Asia Pacific desk at Threadneedle Investments and then Head of Asia Pacific Equities, EMEA region at Columbia Threadneedle for a combined total of twenty-one years. She has extensive experience of marketing funds to retail and institutional clients across the globe.