Elisabeth Stheeman

Chair | Edinburgh Investment Trust PLC, United Kingdom

Elisabeth was an external member of the Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee (FPC) and of the Bank of England’s Financial Market Infrastructure Board.

Elisabeth is board member of NYSE listed REIT W. P. Carey, Inc. and Chair of Edinburgh Investment Trust, a FTSE 250 listed investment trust, and an external member of the Audit and Risk Committee of AIIB (Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank) since April 2021. Previously she was member of Aareal Bank AG, and of alstria AG’s Supervisory Boards, and Senior Advisor to the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Authority, where she focused on governance across the UK’s financial services sector.

She was a non-executive director of the Board of Korian, the listed, largest provider of retirement and nursing homes in France and Germany and a member of the Supervisory Board of TLG Immobilien, a publicly listed Commercial Real Estate company based in Berlin.

Elisabeth was Global Chief Operating Officer for LaSalle Investment Management, having previously worked at Morgan Stanley for over 20 years. Elisabeth has been a member of Council of the London School of Economics, of the LSE’s Finance and Estates Committee and a member of LSE Court.