Appointed January 2022/ Chair of the Board from July 2024

Sarah is an investment professional with over thirty years’ experience. Originally working for Save and Prosper Group and WI Carr (Overseas) Ltd, she joined Threadneedle Asset Management (now Columbia Threadneedle) in 1983. She held various positions there, including ten years as Chief Investment Officer before retiring in 2011. She was a non-Exec Director of F&C Investment Trust and Janus Henderson Group PLC and was Chair of JPMorgan Emerging Markets Investment Trust until 2022. Since 2011 Sarah has been a member of the Prince’s Trust Women Supporting Women Group.

Appointed April 2018/ Senior INED and NRC Chair from November 2023

Vi is an international business consultant based in Melbourne Australia, with extensive experience across a diverse range of senior management roles and non-executive directorships in the private sector, public sector (trade diplomacy) and not-for-profit / university sector. She came back in 1993 to establish the ANZ Bank’s greenfield operations in Vietnam. She later served as Australia’s Senior Trade Commissioner to Vietnam until 1999. In 2000 she established a consultancy firm specialising in the provision of strategic advice to companies operating in emerging markets, helping them to navigate the complex political, cultural and regulatory environment in Asia. Concurrently until 2021, she was the co-founder and Executive Director of The Alliance for Safe Children, a US not-for-profit corporation with a global mission to reduce the rising toll of child mortality arising from preventable injuries in Asia by advocating and raising funds for prevention program with governments and institutional donors.

Appointed May 2019/ RMC Chair from November 2023

Entela holds a PhD in Financial Asset Management and Engineering from Swiss Finance and Banking Institute, a postgraduate degree from Linacre College, Oxford and MPhil from IUHEI, Geneva, Switzerland. She has served as Adjunct Associate Professor at Department of Finance, HKUST Business School, Finance Department in Hong Kong for more than 16 years. Alongside teaching, she has been acting as a consultant for Sustainable and Climate Investing since 2007. She has done extensive academic and industry work on asset pricing as well as the value of climate risk on company financial performance for leading financial institutions. She is also the founder and CEO of Intensel, a global-award winning (COP28) company on AI and Climate Solutions leveraging ML/Deep Learning , geospatial and satellite data for mapping climate-related financial risk. She sits on various pro-bono boards in Hong Kong and the Philippines. As a financial professional she worked in the Investment bank and hedge fund industry including analyst in UBS (2007, HK), Longitude Investment SA (1999, Switzerland) and a Director in Security and Exchange Commission (1997, Albania), before moving into an academic, consultancy and entrepreneurship role. Given the wealth of expertise spanning across academia and industry, she has acquired a comprehensive experience in strategy, risk management, financial statements, accounting policies, practices, and governance. She is a frequent speaker in large conference from The Economist to CLSA Forum etc.

Appointed July 2021/ ACC Chair from November 2023

Suk Ling currently serves as General Counsel for Marsh McLennan Asia, a global professional services firm with business in risk management, insurance and investment advising.  In this role, she looks after legal and compliance at Marsh and Mercer in Asia.

Appointed October 2023/ MEC Chair from July 2024

Mr. Cade is an investment professional with over 25 years’ experience in investment companies. He was among the leading analysts throughout his career at Numis Securities, Winterflood Securities, HSBC and Merrill Lynch. He joined the City following an MBA, having previously worked for a consultancy firm and as an economist in the UK government. He is currently a non-executive director of Temple Bar Investment Trust, a member of the investment committee of the Rank Foundation charity, and an independent consultant to interactive investor.

Appointed May 1995

Born in Britain, Dominic is a graduate in Law and Sociology from Exeter University. After spells in finance in London and Hong Kong, he has spent the past 30 years at the head of Dragon Capital, Vietnam’s largest private asset manager. He was appointed OBE by the British Queen in 2006, and received a Labour medal from the Vietnamese President in 2014. In business, Dominic is an active promoter of financial market development, good governance and sustainability, with a particular focus on Natural Capital, that in 2019 led to the endowment of the Dragon Chair in Biodiversity Economics at Exeter University. Privately, his interests range from Vietnamese art – to biodiversity and eliminating the illegal trade in wildlife.

Appointed February 2024

Le Anh Tuan, MA of Corporate Finance from the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, commenced his career in Internal Auditor & Planning Dept in a Singaporean FMCG Co. for the period from 2003 to 2006. Tuan joined Dragon Capital in 2006 as Senior Analyst focusing on property and agri-fishery sectors, and was promoted to Deputy Portfolio Manager of VEIL in 2010. In May 2013, Tuan moved to a SMA mandate for an European Sovereign Wealth Fund as Deputy Portfolio Manager. In 2016, Tuan was further promoted to the sole Portfolio Manager of the SMA, demonstrating exemplary growth not only as a portfolio manager but also in his leadership acumen. Since February 2024, Tuan became VEIL’s Lead Portfolio Manager.