Sarika Patel

Sarika Patel has been Chair of the Board of Trustees at Action for Children since 2019. She is a business leader with nearly 30 years of public and private organisational experience.

She is a Chartered Accountant and a Chartered Marketer. She is also a graduate in law. Her experience includes leadership of multi-sited teams, corporate development, and finance. Her skills include acquiring, integrating and developing businesses, as well as company restructuring and turnaround.

Sarika is an experienced Board Director and Chair. She is currently Chair of Aberdeen Equity Income Trust plc and chairs the Audit and Risk Committees of SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust plc and Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust plc and Smithson Investment Trust plc.

Her previous non-executive roles include Audit and Risk Chair and SID of Foresight Sustainable Forestry Co plc, Audit Chair of Sequoia Economic Infrastructure Income Fund Limited, and Director on the Board of the Office for Nuclear Regulation. Vice Chair of Centrepoint, Commissioner at the Gambling Commission, Imperial Healthcare Trust, and member of the Court, University of Greenwich.