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EADS Confirms Top Management Changes

European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company EADS N.V. / Key word(s): AGM/EGM

31.05.2012 16:45

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EADS Confirms Top Management Changes

• Annual General Meeting appoints new Board of Directors

• Board of Directors appoints Arnaud Lagardère as Chairman and Thomas
  Enders as Chief Executive Officer of EADS, and composes its committees

• Board of Directors appoints new Chief Financial Officer and new Chief
  Human Resources Officer

The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of shareholders, which took place today,
adopted all resolutions proposed, including the composition of the incoming
Board of Directors.

Upon conclusion of the AGM, the newly appointed Board of Directors met for
the first time and proceeded to elect, from within its midst, its Chairman
and the new CEO; it also composed the Audit Committee, the Remuneration and
Nomination Committee and the Strategic Committee:

EADS Board of Directors

Effective as of today, the EADS Board of Directors is composed as follows:

• Arnaud Lagardère, 51, as Chairman of the Board; Arnaud Lagardère is
  also Managing Partner of Lagardère SCA;

• Thomas Enders, 53, Chief Executive Officer of EADS N.V.; prior to this
  appointment, Thomas Enders was Chief Executive Officer of Airbus;

• Dominique D'Hinnin, 52, Co-Managing Partner of Lagardère SCA;

• Hermann-Josef Lamberti, 56, heretofore member of the Management Board
  of Deutsche Bank AG; 1

• Lakshmi N. Mittal, 61, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of
  ArcelorMittal;

• Sir John Parker, 70, Chairman of Anglo American PLC;

• Michel Pébereau, 70, Honorary President of BNP Paribas;

• Josep Piqué i Camps, 57, Chairman of Vueling;

• Wilfried Porth, 52, Member of the Management Board of Daimler AG;

• Jean-Claude Trichet, 69, Former President of the European Central Bank;

• Bodo K. Uebber, 52, Member of the Management Board of Daimler AG;

1 As of 1 June, 2012, Mr Lamberti will be retired from Deutsche Bank AG.

All director mandates last for a term of five years, ending at the close of
the Annual General Meeting in 2017.

Audit Committee: Hermann-Josef Lamberti (Chairman), Dominique D'Hinnin, Sir
John Parker, Bodo Uebber

Remuneration and Nomination Committee: Sir John Parker (Chairman),
Dominique D'Hinnin, Hermann-Josef Lamberti, Wilfried Porth

Strategic Committee: Arnaud Lagardère (Chairman), Thomas Enders, Michel
Pébereau, Jean-Claude Trichet, Bodo K. Uebber

New EADS Chief Financial Officer and Chief Human Resources Officer

At their meeting, the Board of Directors also appointed a new Chief
Financial Officer and a new Chief Human Resources Officer for EADS:

• Harald Wilhelm, 46, was appointed Chief Financial Officer of EADS N.V.
  and of Airbus S.A.S, succeeding Hans Peter Ring, 61, who retires from
  the company. Ring will remain a senior advisor until the end of 2012.

• Thierry Baril, 47, was appointed Chief Human Resources Officer of EADS
  N.V. and of Airbus S.A.S. He replaces Jussi Itävuori, 56, who leaves
  EADS after ten years as Head of Human Resources, while continuing to
  represent the company in the Board of Directors of Patria in Finland.

The CEO will announce the composition of the EADS Executive Committee in
September, following the conclusions of his review of the state and
strategy of the company.

About EADS
EADS is a global leader in aerospace, defence and related services. In
2011, the Group - comprising Airbus, Astrium, Cassidian and Eurocopter -
generated revenues of EUR 49.1 billion and employed a workforce of over
133,000.

Contacts:

Alexander Reinhardt +49 (0) 171 765 0320
Martin Agüera +49 (0) 175 227 4369
Matthieu Duvelleroy +33 (0) 629 431 564
Philipp Lehmann +49 (0) 151 151 42921

www.eads.com

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Language: English
Company: European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company EADS N.V.
P.O. Box 32008
2303 DA Leiden
Netherlands
Phone: 00 800 00 02 2002
Fax: +49 (0)89 607 - 26481
E-mail: ir@eads.net
Internet: www.eads.com
ISIN: NL0000235190
WKN: 938914
Indices: MDAX
Listed: Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Freiverkehr
in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Hannover, München, Stuttgart

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