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. 

Previously, Ms. Stheeman served as an independent non-executive director and member of the Oversight Board and Audit Governance Board at Deloitte UK & North and South Europe (2024-2026), an external member of the Audit and Risk Committee of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (2021-2025), an external member of the Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee (2018-2024) and Financial Market Infrastructure Board (2017-2023), and a German-British Chamber of Industry & Commerce: Member of the Council (2016-2023). 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, Clariane SE (formerly 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 Council and various committees from 2011 to 2023. She has been a Fellow of Chapter Zero since January 2017 and an Ambassador of Women on Boards UK since October 2018.