The Board of Aberdeen All Asia Investment Trust PLC announced the appointment of Karen Brade as an independent non-executive director, with effect from May 01, 2013. Karen has over 20 years of investment experience in a range of sectors and markets. She began her career at Citibank, working on various multi-national project finance transactions.

From 1994 to 2004 she was an investment principal at the Commonwealth Development Corporation (later Actis), where she directed equity and debt investing, portfolio management, fund raising and investor development including India, South Asia and China. Since 2005 Karen has been an adviser to hedge funds, family offices and private equity houses. She is a non-executive director of Crown Place Plc.