Henderson High Income Trust plc announced that Zoe King has been appointed a non-executive director, such appointment to become effective on April 1, 2016. Zoe has been a director of Smith & Williamson Investment Management Limited for over ten years, specializing in the management of private client portfolios. She also acts as an independent adviser to a number of charities.

She was formerly a Vice President at Merrill Lynch Mercury Asset Management and a Fund Manager at Foreign & Colonial Investment Management, having graduated from Oxford University in 1994.