Date of Appointment
3 September 2018

Committees
Member of the Nominations Committee, Management Engagement Committee and Audit Committee

Skills and Experience
Tim qualified as a Chartered Accountant and has worked in Australia, Hong Kong and China, where he was co-founder of one of the first private equity groups in the country. He later ran Goldman Sachs China’s distressed investment business in Beijing. He co-founded another business to originate UN carbon offsets from GHG emission reduction projects. Tim is Visiting Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge. He mediates in dispute resolution cases where issues have arisen between Chinese and foreign investors and he was a member of the Strategic Advisory Board of Braemar Ventures, a New York venture capital fund focused on energy efficiency technologies. He has written four books, including Mr China and Chinese Rules.

External Appointments
Tim is Chief Resolution Officer at Peony Advisors Limited, a director of Peony Investments Limited and a non-executive director of Baillie Gifford China Growth Trust plc.