Burford Capital Limited announces the appointment with immediate effect of Andrea Muller as a non-executive director. Ms. Muller (61) is an accomplished international finance professional who came to the financial services industry after more than a decade at global law firm Shearman & Sterling, where she was a European partner. Most recently, Ms. Muller was an Executive Director and Global Head Institutional Business at Principal Global Investors, where she was previously CEO of Asia. Before that, Ms. Muller was a Managing Director and Head of Asia Pacific for Fitch Ratings and a Managing Director at UBS in both Singapore and Paris. She began her career at Shearman & Sterling, where she worked as a corporate lawyer in both New York and Paris. Her law degree is from Georgetown University Law Center, where she served on the Law Review, as is her undergraduate degree (cum laude), from its School of Foreign Service. She also received a Masters in European Union Studies at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. Ms. Muller will also serve on Burford's audit committee, where three of four members are now directors appointed within the past twelve months.