Melanie Gee

Melanie Gee is Chair and originally joined the Board as a Non-Executive Director in June 2019. Melanie has over 30 years of financial advisory experience in executive positions in investment banking, advising clients across a broad range of sectors and geographies. She is a Senior Adviser at Lazard & Co Ltd, having joined as a managing director in 2008. Before that, Melanie spent 25 years with SG Warburg & Co Ltd and then UBS. Melanie also has extensive non-executive experience, with more than a decade as a Non-Executive Director at FTSE 100 and 250 companies. Until October 2021 she was a Non-Executive Director at abrdn plc, where she sat on the Nomination and Governance and Audit Committees and was the Non-Executive Director with responsibility for bringing the employee voice into the boardroom. She was also previously a Non-Executive Director at The Weir Group PLC and Drax Group PLC.

Importance of contribution

Melanie brings extensive non-executive experience in FTSE 100 and 250 companies, giving her an in-depth understanding of governance requirements and an understanding of how to build and maintain a highly effective Board as Chair of the Board and Nomination and Governance Committee. Her financial advisory experience is highly relevant to effective oversight of the Company’s investment and stakeholder strategies.

Date of appointment

1 January 2020 as Chair
(4 June 2019 as Director)

Committee Memberships

• Nomination and Governance Committee (Chair)
• Remuneration Committee

Current positions

• Senior Adviser, Lazard & Co Ltd
• Chair of Grosvenor Property UK
• Sits on advisory groups for two private family offices