Pacific Horizon Investment Trust

Roddy is an investment manager in the Emerging Markets Equity Team. He joined Baillie Gifford in 2006 and became a partner of the firm in 2023. He has managed the Baillie Gifford Pacific Fund since 2010 and Pacific Horizon Investment Trust since 2021 (having been deputy since 2013). Roddy became a member of the International Alpha Portfolio Construction Group in 2024. Prior to joining the Emerging Markets Equity Team in 2008, he also spent time in the UK and European equity teams. Roddy graduated BSc (Hons) in medical biology from the University of Edinburgh in 2006.

Ben is an investment manager in the Emerging Markets Equity Team. He has managed the Pacific Fund since 2021 and became deputy manager of Pacific Horizon Investment Trust in 2023. He joined Baillie Gifford in 2017, and has also worked in our UK, Global Discovery and Private Companies equity teams. Prior to joining the firm, he worked for RBS in their Group Strategy and Corporate Finance Team. Ben is a Chartered Accountant and a CFA Charterholder, and graduated BSc (Hons) in mathematics from the University of Edinburgh in 2012.

Roger Yates was appointed a Director and Chairman in 2024. He was Chief Executive of Henderson Global Investors from 1999 to 2008, prior to which he had fund management roles at Invesco/ LGT and Morgan Grenfell Asset Management. He is currently Senior Independent Director (‘SID’) of Mitie Group plc, non-executive Director of Jupiter Fund Management plc and Chair of The Biotech Growth Trust PLC. He is the former SID of Jupiter Fund Management plc, FTSE‑100 St James’s Place and of IG Group plc. Amongst his other roles, he is also a former Chair of Electra Private Equity plc and a former non-executive Director of JP Morgan Elect PLC.

Sir Robert Chote was appointed a Director in 2020. He became chairman of the Northern Ireland Fiscal Council in 2021 and will begin his tenure as President of Trinity College, Oxford, in November 2025. He served as chairman of the UK Statistics Authority from 2022 until he stepped down in September 2025. He served as chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility from 2010 to 2020 and previously served as Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, as an advisor to the International Monetary Fund and as Economics Editor of the Financial Times. He is a visiting professor at the Department of Political Economy, Kings College London and serves on an advisory board at the Centre for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics.

Angela Lane was appointed a Director in 2018. She is Chairman of the Audit Committee and is the Senior Independent Director. She is a Chartered Accountant and has held several non-executive and advisory roles for private and quoted companies across a range of industries. Previously she spent 18 years working as a private equity investor for 3i plc. She is a non-executive director and Chair of the Audit Committee of BlackRock Throgmorton Trust plc and Seraphim Space Investment Trust. She is also a non-executive director of Aapogee, the holding company for Kinstellar, a leading law firm in Central and Eastern Europe and South East Asia.

Richard Frank (‘Joe’) Studwell was appointed a Director in 2018. He has spent over 25 years working in East Asia as a journalist, independent researcher at Dragonomics and author under the name of Joe Studwell. His published works include Asian Godfathers: Money and Power in Hong Kong and South-East Asia and How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World’s Most Dynamic Region.

Wee-Li Hee was appointed a Director in 2020. She is an experienced Asian analyst and fund manager. Brought up in Singapore, she speaks fluent Mandarin and studied in the UK at the University of Leeds and the London School of Economics and Political Science. After graduation, in 2002 she joined First State Investments in Singapore as an analyst, subsequently moving to the firm’s Edinburgh office in 2005. Having co-managed Scottish Oriental Smaller Companies Trust plc she became lead manager in 2014, stepping back as a result of family commitments to return to a co-manager role in 2017 and retiring at the end of 2019. She is a CFA Charterholder and a director of Melville Paisley Investments.