Charles Plowden

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Charles Plowden is a retired investment manager who spent nearly 38 years at the Edinburgh firm Baillie Gifford, joining its UK equities team in 1983 and later leading it. He worked on the firm's Global Alpha strategy from its launch in 2005 and became joint senior partner in 2006, with responsibility for the investment department, before retiring in April 2021.

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