The Board of Aberdeen New Thai Investment Trust PLC announced the appointment of Sarah MacAulay as an independent non-executive Director of the company, effective 1 January 2017. Sarah MacAulay brings to the Board twenty years of Asian investment experience as a fund manager in London and Hong Kong, including the management and marketing of Thai equity portfolios. More recently she has spent thirteen years on the board of an educational charitable trust, with involvement in risk management, regulation, compliance and governance. Sarah MacAulay is a director of JPMorgan Income and Capital Trust plc.