CDC Group Plc.

Mark joined CDC in October 2006 from Gartmore Investment Management plc, where he was Legal Counsel for two years. Prior to that, he was Legal Counsel at Threadneedle Asset Management Limited. Between 1994 and 2002, he worked in Vietnam as General Counsel of Indochina Asset Management Limited and as Executive Director of an investment company.

Marie Rosencrantz joined CDC in April 2008 to provide focus and drive in our efforts to enhance and monitor our development effectiveness as well as in our work to promote best-practice on environmental, social and governance issues throughout our investment portfolio. Marie has had an interesting and distinguished earlier career working for the World Bank, the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, McKinsey, and the Swedish Trade Council and Foreign Service. She has a MBA from Insead and a M.Sc. in Development Studies from the LSE.

Appointed in 1997. He is Chairman of the Business Principles and Development Committee. He is Professor of Agricultural Development Economics at Imperial College, London, a non-executive director of NR International Ltd, and a member of the Advisory Council of ECGD. He has extensive experience of Africa and the natural resources sector, together with a particular interest in the role of the private sector in development. His subject expertise is in agricultural policy analysis (especially links between the agricultural sector and the macro economy); economic liberalisation and structural adjustment; the role of the agricultural sector in the transition from central planning to the market; rural development and finance; food security and agricultural projects.