David has been a member of the First State Global Emerging Markets investment team for the past seven years. In addition to his role as an emerging markets fund manager, David focuses on the promotion of sustainable investment and good corporate governance within the team, as well as acting as the team's economist. David is an honours graduate in Economics from Cambridge University, and holds an MSc in Investment Analysis from Stirling University. He is a member of UKSIP.

(First State Investments (UK) is a wholly owned global investment management division of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), and forms part of First State International, the public brand of the UK, Singapore and Hong Kong investment operations. The UK business manages £7.5 billion, of which around £4bn is invested in global emerging markets and Asia Pacific ex Japan. First State is recognised as a proven, highly successful and awarding-winning specialist manager of Global Emerging Market portfolios. We have achieved outstanding and consistent risk adjusted returns over a twelve year period).