Schroder Oriental Income Fund appoints Alexa Coates to its Board as Non-Executive Director

– GUERNSEY, St. Peter Port – Schroder Oriental Income Fund Limited (LSE:SOI), is pleased to announce the appointment of Alexa Coates as a non-executive Director of the Company, with effect from 9 February 2018.

Mrs Coates, 47, was a senior executive at HSBC for nine years where she served as the Global CFO for the Group’s Asset Management business and more recently led the finance function for Commercial Banking operations in the UK and across Europe. She has 25 years’ experience in Finance, having worked in senior roles in retail, healthcare and professional services at J Sainsbury, BUPA, Williams Lea and CIT Bank. She started her career at Ernst & Young in 1991 where she worked in both the UK and France.

Mrs Coates is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and graduated with a first class degree in mathematics from the University of Birmingham.

Mrs Coates is also a Trustee and member of the Audit and Risk Committee at the University of Essex.

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