Ms Curling was appointed to the Board on 23 April 2021 and joined from Invesco Income Growth Trust plc, of which she had been a director since 1 March 2011. Ms Curling is a non-executive director of BlackRock Greater Europe Investment Trust plc and Henderson Opportunities Trust plc and is a member of the Investment Committee of St. James’s Place. Prior to that she was Managing Director and Head of Pan European Equities at Russell Investments and before this at F&C Asset Management. Ms Curling started her career at Kleinwort Benson in 1987 before moving to run the European desks at Nikko, RSA and then ISIS Asset Management.