The Board of abrdn Asia Focus plc announced the appointment of Mr. Lindsay Cooper as an independent non-executive Director of the Company with effect from 15 June 2022. Mr. Cooper is a Singapore permanent resident and member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland. After working in corporate finance in Hong Kong in the early 1990's, Lindsay co-founded Arisaig Partners in 1996, an independent Investment Management business where, for 20 years, he had investment responsibility for the USD3bn Arisaig Asia Consumer Fund.

Following semi-retirement Lindsay founded Chic & Unique Pte Ltd, a boutique hotels and hospitality business with operations in Asia and Europe and, more recently, founded Chi Tree Health, a preventative healthcare enterprise in Singapore. Mr. Cooper is also closely involved with two charities: representing Singapore on the Magic Bus Global Board; and as a non-executive director on the board of Angkor Hospital for Children (AHC) in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Lindsay brings a significant amount of Asian investment and small cap expertise to the Board and, being based in Singapore, is perfectly placed to assist in overseeing the execution of the Company's expanded investment mandate that was approved by shareholders in January 2022.