Baillie Gifford China Growth Trust

Linda is the head of the China Equities Team, and a decision maker on our All China and China A share strategies. She is also a member of the Long Term Global Growth Team. Linda joined Baillie Gifford in September 2014 and worked in Edinburgh until relocating to Shanghai in 2019 as Head of the Investment Team. She became a partner of the firm in May 2022 and is now based in Edinburgh. Prior to joining Baillie Gifford, Linda spent four years as a global equity analyst with Aubrey Capital and two years in real estate investment in China. She graduated BComm in Accounting and Finance from the University of Auckland, New Zealand in 2007 and MSc in Finance and Investment from the University of Edinburgh in 2011. Linda is a native Mandarin speaker.

Sophie is an investment manager in the China Equities Team. She is a decision maker on our China Equities Strategy, which she has managed since 2014, and on our China A Share Strategy since its inception in 2019. She also provides China insight to the Emerging Markets Leading Companies and International All Cap Portfolio Construction Groups. She is a CFA Charterholder and graduated MA in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh in 2008 and MPhil in Eighteenth Century and Romantic Literature from the University of Cambridge in 2009.

Nicholas Pink has extensive senior management experience in financial services with previous roles at UBS Investment Bank including Global Head of Research and Head of Asia Research. Nicholas is currently the Chairman of Ruffer Investment Company Limited. He was previously an independent director of Redburn (Europe) Limited, and a nonexecutive director of JP Morgan Emerging Europe, Middle East and Africa Securities plc. He was appointed as a Director of the Company in 2023 and appointed Chair in 2024.

Magdalene Miller is a former investment director with Aberdeen Standard Investments’ global emerging market team. Based in London and Edinburgh, she spent 32 years managing listed equity portfolios, investing in Japanese, Asian Pacific and UK markets. In the 10 years before her retirement in 2018, she ran the Standard Life China Sicav, one of the top performing funds in its sector. A native of Hong Kong, Magdalene is fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin and has travelled extensively in China and Asia over the course of her career. She is a non-executive director of Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust plc. She also currently serves as a trustee for an educational endowment fund and participates in volunteering work.

Tim Clissold qualified as a Chartered Accountant and has worked in Australia, Hong Kong and extensively in China, where he was co-founder of one of the first private equity groups in the country. He later ran Goldman Sachs China’s distressed investment business in Beijing. Tim is a Senior Advisor to Highgate, where he assists resolving disputes between foreign investors and Chinese companies. He is a Visiting Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge University and a non executive director of Henderson Far East Income Limited. He was a member of the Strategic Advisory Board of Braemar Energy Ventures, a New York venture capital fund focused on energy efficiency technologies. He is the author of Mr China and Chinese Rules and speaks, reads and writes Mandarin Chinese.

Jonathan Silver is a qualified accountant and member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland. Jonathan has held various senior financial positions throughout his career, including 21 years as Chief Financial Officer on the main Board of Laird plc from 1994 until 2015. Jonathan was the chairman of the audit committee at Invesco Income and Growth Trust plc from 2007 until 2021. Jonathan is a non-executive director and chairman of the audit and risk committee of Henderson High Income Trust plc, a position he has held since 2019 and was also a non-executive director and chairman of the audit committee of Spirent Communications plc, a position he held between 2015 and 2025.

Sarah MacAulay has over twenty years of Asian fund management experience based in both London and Hong Kong, managing unit trusts and institutional assets. She was formerly a Director of Baring Asset Management (Asia) Ltd in Hong Kong, Asian Investment Manager at Kleinwort Benson Investment Management and Eagle Star in London. She is currently Chairman of Schroder Asian Total Return Investment Company plc and a non-executive Director of Fidelity Japan Trust plc and Bellevue Healthcare Trust plc. Until March 2024, Sarah was Chair of JPMorgan Multi-Asset Growth and Income plc and Senior Independent Director of abdn China Investment Company Ltd.