Aberdeen New India Investment Trust PLC

Mr Askari began his career as an investment banker in the City of London in 1975 at S.G. Warburg & Co. Ltd (now UBS) and has subsequently worked, as Managing Director, in JP Morgan Chase Investment Bank in HongKong and in Barclays Capital (previously BZW) in Tokyo and London. Most recently, he was at Old Mutual plc, London as a member of the Executive Committee responsible for Old Mutual’s operations in the U.K., Europe and Asia-Pacific. He is a director of Lloyd George Indian Ocean Fund, Hong Kong.

Rachel Beagles worked in financial markets, primarily in equity research and sales from 1990 until 2003. She was co-head of the Pan European Banks Equity Research and Sales Team and a Managing Director of Corporate and Investment Banking Group Division at Deutsche Bank AG from 2000 to 2003.

She is a non-executive director of Blackrock Emerging Europe plc, Schroder UK Mid Cap Fund plc,Gresham House plc and chairman of Securities Trust of Scotland plc.

Mr Hughes joined the Board on 7 September 2016. He is a Director of T. Bailey Asset Management Limited and acting investment consultant to various family offices and charities. He was a Director of Baring Asset Management Limited from 1998, and Chief Investment Officer from 2000, until his retirement in 2007. Prior to this, he was Managing Director of Barclays Capital (previously BZW) and Chairman of the Board of pension trustees. Before ‘Big Bang’ he was a Partner at stockbrokers de Zoete and Bevan.

Mr Hughes is a director of JPMorgan Mid Cap Investment Trust plc.

Appointed a Director on 26 September 2013, Stephen became Chairman of the Audit Committee on 11 September 2014. He is Head of European and US equities at British Steel Pension Fund, responsible for the day to day management of the Fund's Europe ex-UK and US equity portfolios. He is a Chartered Accountant. He was formerly a non-executive director of Global Special Opportunities Trust Plc. He was formerly Director and Head of European Equities at Foreign & Colonial Investment Management, Manager of Foreign & Colonial Eurotrust PLC and Deputy Manager of the Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust Plc. Prior to joining Foreign & Colonial in 1985, he held positions at Hill Samuel Asset Management, Phillips & Drew and Price Waterhouse. Stephen is a non-executive director of Blackrock Frontiers Investment Trust plc, JP Morgan European Smaller Companies Trust plc and Polar Capital Technology Trust plc.