Elisabeth T. Stheeman was elected to W. P. Carey’s Board of Directors in 2022 and serves as a member of the Audit Committee and the Investment Committee. Ms. Stheeman has been the Chair of FTSE 250 listed Edinburgh Investment Trust plc since July 2022, where she has served as a director since 2019 and is also the Chair of the Nominations Committee. Ms. Stheeman has served as a non-executive director at M&G plc (LON: MNG), a FTSE 100 global investment manager, on the Audit and Risk Committees since August 2024. She is a non-executive director at Deloitte for North and South Europe, serving on the UK Oversight Board and Audit Governance Board since May 2024. She has served as an external member of the Audit and Risk Committee of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) since 2021.

Previously, Ms. Stheeman served as an external member of the Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee (2018-2024), Financial Market Infrastructure Board (2017-2023) and Senior Advisor (2015-2018). She served as a Senior Advisor to the Prudential Regulation Authority. Ms. Stheeman has served in various advisory roles at alstria office REIT-AG, Aareal Bank AG, Korian SA and TLG Immobilien AG.

Ms. Stheeman served as the Global Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Global Management Committee for LaSalle Investment Management (2013-2014). She previously worked at Morgan Stanley for 25 years, where she was the COO of the Investment Banking Division: Real Estate and Natural Resources (2011-2012) and the Global COO of Real Estate Investing (2007-2010).

Ms. Stheeman holds a B.A. from The Hamburg School of Business and a Diploma in Business Studies from the London School of Economics. She was a member of the London School of Economics (LSE) Council and various committees from 2011-2023. She is the Vice President of the German-British Chamber of Industry and Commerce Council since November 2016, a Fellow of Chapter Zero since January 2017 and an Ambassador of Women on Boards UK since October 2018.