Colin Campbell was appointed Chairman of Pradera Europe with effect from 1 January 2010, having been Chief Executive since 23 October 2006 and a Director since he joined Pradera on 4 January 2000. In addition, Colin is the Chairman of the Pradera Investment Committee, a Luxembourg Manager of all Pradera Funds and a Pradera Member on all Unitholder Advisory Committees.

From 1996-1999, Colin was the Director of Parkes and Company responsible for the European property investment activities of DLJ Real Estate Capital Partners, a U.S.$660 million equity property opportunity fund raised and managed by Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (now part of Credit Suisse) in New York. Previously, Colin worked for a subsidiary of the Lend Lease group of Australia, during which time he was responsible for its investments in the out-of-town retail sector in France and for the origination of its Bluewater Shopping Centre project, then Europe?s largest regional shopping centre. In addition to his 25 plus years? experience in property investment management, Colin Campbell worked for three years in the corporate finance department of Kleinwort Benson Limited at the end of the 1980s.

Colin has a BSc in Estate Management from Reading University and an MBA from INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France. He is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

Saydam Salaheddin is a Managing Director of Credit Suisse in the Investment Banking division, based in Moscow. He is responsible for Consumer, Real Estate and Healthcare sectors in CEE/CIS and Turkey.

Mr. Salaheddin joined Credit Suisse Group in September 1998 from Morgan Stanley where he was an Analyst in Investment Banking. Prior to that, he worked as a commercial lawyer for two years at a leading London practice.

Mr. Salaheddin has wide-ranging experience of all forms of advisory and financing transactions across Europe with a focus on Emerging Markets. His areas of particular expertise include the Consumer Products, Retail and Business Services sectors, with an particular focus on Real Estate since 2004.

Mr. Salaheddin holds a double English and French Law degree from the Universities of King's College, London and La Sorbonne-Pantheon, Paris.

Grant Fitzner joined Jones Lang LaSalle in January 2011 as Head of EMEA Research. He joined from the Department for Communities and Local Government in the UK, where he was Chief Analyst and Chief Economist.

Grant Fitzner has over 20 years previous experience in economics, financial markets and strategic analysis in both the public and private sectors, including senior positions at HSBC, the UK government's Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Australian government. Grant is also a part of the Global Research Executive, which provides strategic direction and policy for JLL's researchers worldwide, to represent EMEA.

Sir Geoffrey Owen is Senior Fellow at the Department of Management, London School of Economics, where he conducts teaching and research in the field of corporate strategy, corporate governance and international competition.

Sir Geoffrey was educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied classics. After two years' national service in the Royal Air Force, he joined the Financial Times as a feature writer in 1958. He held several posts on that paper, including those of Industrial Correspondent, Industrial Editor, and US Correspondent based in New York. Between 1968 and 1973 Sir Geoffrey left journalism, serving first as an executive in the Industrial Reorganisation Corporation and then as personnel director in the overseas division of British Leyland Motor Corporation. He was deputy editor of the Financial Times from 1973 to 1980 and editor from 1981 to 1990. He was knighted in 1989.

Sir Geoffrey joined the London School of Economics in 1991, working first in the Centre for Economic Performance before switching to the Institute of Management.

He is the author of two books - "Industry in the USA," and "From Empire to Europe: the decline and revival of British industry since the second world war." He is the co-author, with Tom Kirchmaier and Jeremy Grant, of "Corporate governance in the US and Europe: where are we now?," and with Tom Kirchmaier of "The changing role of the Chairman." Other published papers include: "Where are the big gorillas? High technology entrepreneurship in the UK and the role of public policy." He has contributed to several management journals including the Harvard Business Review.

Sir Geoffrey was a non-executive director of Laird Group plc from 2001 to the end of 2006. He is currently chairman of the Wincott Foundation and a governor of the Olayan School of Business at the American University of Beirut.

Neil Forbes Davidson, Baron Davidson of Glen Clova, is a Scottish lawyer and former .Advocate General for Scotland

Neil Davidson was born on 13 September 1950 to John and Flora Davidson. He was educated at the University of Stirling (BA), the University of Bradford (MSc) and the University of Edinburgh (LLB, LLM), and was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1979. His private practice is in commercial and administrative law.

He was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1979, and appointed Standing Junior Counsel to the Registrar General in 1982, and theDepartment of Health and Social Security in 1988. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales at the Inner Temple in 1990, and appointed Queen's Counsel in Scotland in 1993. From 1993 to 2000, he was a Director of City Disputes Panel, a private dispute resolution service, and on 24 February 2000 was appointed Solicitor General for Scotland, which office he held until November 2001. He is a member of 11 King's Bench Walk Chambers, founded by former Lord Chancellor Lord Irvine of Lairg.

On 21 March 2006, it was announced that the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, had appointed him to the office of Advocate General for Scotland, which had been vacant since the resignation of Lynda Clark, Baroness Clark of Calton on 18 January that year to take up office as aSenator of the College of Justice. He was created a life peer, as Baron Davidson of Glen Clova, of Glen Clova in Angus, on 22 March, and sits on the Labour benches.

Davidson is the co-author of Judicial Review in Scotland (1986). He was the International Commission of Jurists' chef de mission to Egypt on sequestration of the Egyptian Bar in 1998. He was the convener of the Human Rights Committee of the Faculty of Advocates.

James Roberts is a partner in the Corporate department at Taylor Wessing

James joined Taylor Wessing with a team from another major City law firm where he was Head of the Corporate Finance department. Prior to returning to private practice in 1998 James was in-house Counsel at BAT plc and latterly commercial director with responsibility for the Indian sub-continent.

James has rare experience having worked as a partner in private practice, is an accomplished business manager (having run businesses) and has also worked as in-house counsel. He has also worked in Latin America, throughout Europe, the Middle East and Russia.

James's clients range from large financial institutions, but he also has extensive experience in acting for super-high net worth families in advising on running their corporate businesses. In the "Legal 500" his clients stated that he was "creative and solution focused".

Simon C.Y. Wong is a partner at London-based investment firm Governance for Owners, Adjunct Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago, and Visiting Fellow at London School of Economics and Political Science. In addition, he advises the OECD, Tomorrow's Company, and a strategy consulting firm on policy and corporate-related matters.

Previously, Simon was Head of Corporate Governance in the London office of Barclays Global Investors and a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. Simon started his professional career as a securities lawyer with Linklaters & Paines and Shearman & Sterling in London, and also served as Principal Administrator/Counsel at the OECD in Paris.

Managing Director, PowerHouse Global Ltd. and formerly President and Executive Director China Unicom (Europe) Operations Ltd.

Mr. William So is the former President of China Unicom (Europe) Operations Limited, a fully owned subsidiary of China Unicom, one of the largest full service telecom operators in China. Mr. So was born in Hong Kong, and subsequently educated both in Hong Kong and the UK. Having obtained an honors degree in Computing Science from Imperial College London in 1981, he joined IBM and embarked on his professional career. He held various management positions with IBM China and IBM Hong Kong until 1993 before moving on to become the Managing Director, and equity partner, of a subsidiary of Legend Computers (now Lenovo) based in Austria. There, he was in charge of both the Eastern and Central European markets until 1996.

From 1996, Mr. So continued his career in Beijing, helping Western companies develop joint ventures in China. Combining his exceptional management expertise and international experience, Mr. So established a Sino-US joint venture, a European Wholly Owned Foreign Enterprise (WOFE), and a Foreign-Foreign Joint Venture in China within a 4-year period. In addition, he managed these joint ventures as the General Manager, engaging in satellite communications and telecom equipment manufacturing in China. Moreover, as an entrepreneur, Mr. So co-founded a company which introduced the use of internet technology to transmit fax and voice in China in the late '90s. Mr. So commenced his career with China Netcom Group, a Chinese State-Owned Enterprise, in 2000 as the Head of International Operations. He developed the group's international business from scratch and established several overseas branches for the group. The company later merged with part of China Telecom, and later with China Unicom, thereby becoming one of the largest full telecom service providers in China. Mr. So held strategic senior management positions at the company headquarters in Beijing until 2007, when he was transferred to Hong Kong as the CEO for Asian and Middle East operations.

In 2008, Mr. So came to London as President of the European and African operations until July 2010. He has now established his own companies engaging in telecom, natural resources and infrastructure business in China and the emerging markets. Mr. So is a renowned expert both in the telecom industry and in Chinese government policies, as well as a frequent speaker at industry conferences and trade organizations.

Daniel Broby is Chief Investment Officer at Silk Invest, a boutique focused on early stage emerging markets. He joined Silk Invest after selling the Danfonds Frontier Fund SPC to the company.

Prior to Silk Invest (and Danfonds), Daniel worked for Renaissance Investment Management as Global Head of Asset Management and Chief Investment Officer. The company is Russia's largest non-Captive Asset Manager and Daniel was responsible for 44 investment professionals. He also held the role of Chief Executive Officer of Renaissance Investment Management (UK) Ltd, its FSA regulated subsidiary.

Prior to Renaissance, Daniel worked at Bankinvest, Denmark's third largest asset manager. He joined the company in 2000 as Chief Investment Officer, responsible for the investment process and the day-to-day running of the quoted equity, bond and guaranteed products. He transferred these responsibilities in July 2004 and launched Denmark's first and only regulated hedge fund on behalf of Bankinvest in November 2005.

Daniel has an MPhil in economics and an MSc in investment analysis. He was a board member of UKSIP and IIMR for over 10 years. He represented the IIMR on the board of the European Society of Financial Analyst Societies for five years. Following that he became the CFA Institute's President Council Representative for Europe, Middle East and Africa for four years, and was subsequently presented with the Institute's Society Leader Award in 2006. He now serves as a member of the Capital Markets Policy Council.

He makes frequent appearances on Bloomberg TV and CNBC.

Dr. Ekniti was appointed as Minister (Economic and Financial) of the Office of Economic and Financial Affairs for the United Kingdom and Europe at the Royal Thai Embassy in London in September 2010. Previously, he was Spokesperson of the Finance Ministry of Thailand and Executive Director of Macroeconomic Policy Bureau of the Fiscal Policy Office from 2008-2010.

After graduated with B.A.(Hons) in Economics from Thammasat University in Thailand, Ekniti began his career in private sector as a securities analyst at Phatra Tanakit Finance Company. He then joined public sector as an economist at the Ministry of Finance after receiving the Thai Government Scholarship to pursue Master and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from University of Illinois and Claremont Graduate University in the U.S.A. Dr. Ekniti has extensive experiences at the Thai Finance Ministry, having served as Director of Development Financial Policy Division and Director of Macroeconomic Forecasting Division. He also has international experiences working as Senior Advisor to Executive Director for Southeast Asia at the World Bank, Washington D.C.

Dr.Ekniti has a number of publications in academic journals, newspapers, and books, such as 'the Asian Crises Reexamined' (2004) published in the MIT Press Journals of Asian Economic Papers and, most recently, the book on 'the Domino Effects: Solutions for Thailand amid the Global Financial Crises' (2009). In 2009, Dr.Ekniti Nitithanprapas received "Rising-Star Economist of the Year" award from the Thammasat Economic Association of Thailand.

Neil McIndoe is Director of Partnerships at Trucost, the world leading environmental data company.

During the past 9 years Neil has overseen the development of Trucost's environmental accounting services for investors, businesses and the public sector and has managed supply chain projects for Next Plc, Highland Spring, BSykB, The Environment Agency, Lewisham Council and Mid-Essex NHS Trust.

Neil has also advised Trucost's clients on environmental reporting requirements and written a number of reports including one for the UK Environment Agency which analyzed the first 100 FTSE All-Share companies to report under the EU Accounts Modernisation Directive.

Previously Neil was with Hewlett-Packard where he held a number of management roles, most recently responsible for sales and marketing of IT services to the financial and professional services sectors.

Neil is a member of the Society of Business Economists, and holds an honours degree in Economics and Economic History along with a post graduate degree in Accountancy Studies.

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