Board and Committees

Christopher Jonas   
Chairman

Christopher Jonas (chairman), is a past president of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. He has over 45 years' experience in the property sector, principally with Jones Lang Wootton and Drivers Jonas. He has held a number of directorships, including Canary Wharf Group plc, British Railways Board, BR Property Board, Bank of Scotland (England), Port of London Authority and Chelsfield Partners LLP. He has provided strategic property advice to a number of institutions, including
BAA plc, Brixton plc, Morgan Stanley, Newton Investment Management Ltd and Royal Bank of Scotland. He is chairman of Goldsmiths, University of London and a trustee of the Westminster Abbey Staff Pension Fund.

Peregrine Banbury   
Director

Peregrine Banbury is a Managing Partner at Coutts & Co responsible for the teams looking after the bank's traditional clients. Previously he was Head of Coutts Asset Management, a director of Coutts Investment Management Ltd and a director of the Securities Institute. He has also been a director of a number of investment trusts and a trustee of a number of charities.

Christopher Sherwell    
Director

Christopher Sherwell is a resident of Guernsey. He is a nonexecutive director of a number of investment-related companies. He was managing director of Schroders (CI) Limited from April 2000 until January 2004 and served as a director of various Schroder group companies and investment funds. He remains a non-executive director of Schroders (CI) Limited. His other directorships include chairmanship of Hermes Absolute Return Fund (Guernsey) Limited, and of Goldman Sachs Dynamic Opportunities Limited, both funds of hedge funds. Before joining Schroders in 1993 he worked as Far East regional strategist with Smith New Court Securities in London and then Hong Kong. He was previously a journalist, working for the Financial Times.