Diane Seymour-Williams

Diane has extensive experience in the asset and wealth management sector and is a Non-Executive Director at Mercia Asset Management Plc and Abrdn Private Equity Opportunities Trust Plc.

She spent over 20 years at Deutsche Asset Management Group (previously Morgan Grenfell) where she held various senior positions including CIO and CEO of Asia. More recently she spent nine years at LGM Investments a specialist global emerging and frontier markets equities manager.

Diane is currently a Non-Executive Director of SEI Investments (Europe) Limited and a Director of Acorn Capital Advisers and was previously a Non-Executive Director of Brooks Macdonald Group Plc. Her pro-bono roles include as an Investment Committee member of Newnham College Cambridge and the Canal & River Trust.

Diane holds an MA in Economics from Cambridge University and more recently completed the Cambridge University course in Sustainable Finance.