Bayer CropScience Limited. — Board/Management Information 2021

Feb 11, 2021

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February 11, 2021

The General Manager Department of Corporate Services BSE Limited Phiroze Jeejeebhoy Towers Dalal Street Mumbai - 400 001

SECURITY ID : BAYERCROP SECURITY CODE : 506285

Dear Sir / Madam,

Sub.: Appointment of Directors on the Board of Bayer CropScience Limited:

This is to inform BSE Limited that at the meeting of the Board of Directors of Bayer CropScience Limited (“the Company”) held on Thursday, February 11, 2021, the following items inter-alia were noted, considered and approved:

• a) Appointment of Dr. Harsh Kumar Bhanwala (DIN: 06417704) as an Additional Director – Independent with effect from February 12, 2021.

• b) Appointment of Dr. Sara Boettiger (DIN: 09012747) as an Additional Director – Non-Executive & Non-Independent with effect from February 12, 2021.

The above appointments are subject to approval of the shareholders at the ensuing Annual General Meeting of the Company.

Bayer CropScience Ltd. CIN: L24210MH1958PLC011173

Registered and Corporate Office: Bayer House Central Avenue Hiranandani Estate Thane (West) – 400 607 Maharashtra, India

Tel : +91 22 2531 1234 Fax : +91 22 2545 5063 www.bayer.in www.cropscience.bayer.com

Information as required under Regulation 30 of the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 is given in the Annexure enclosed.

Request you to kindly update your records.

Thanking you.

Yours faithfully,

for Bayer CropScience Limited

Digitally signed by NIKUNJKUMAR JAYSUKHLAL SAVALIYA NIKUNJKUMAR DN: c=IN, st=Gujarat, 2.5.4.20=f4b6303c6a9fe05eb04e62759179373cbcf4b728c73ed803 2294e09b9e3e0c98, postalCode=390024, street=102 TITHI FLATS, BHADRAN NAGAR, NEW SAMA ROAD, CHHANI RD, VADODARA, JAYSUKHLAL serialNumber=d3cad62ac6fcdd76e7d78a49dee85262351ff6c69d1 c3b84d7669f10a495714a, o=Personal, cn=NIKUNJKUMAR JAYSUKHLAL SAVALIYA, SAVALIYA pseudonym=edc1463c7f2e505c0cb80b5170d37433 Date: 2021.02.11 17:17:51 +05'30'

Nikunjkumar Savaliya

Company Secretary & Compliance Officer

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Annexure

Information about appointment of new Directors

Reason for change viz. appointment, resignation, removal, death or otherwise	1) Dr. Harsh Kumar Bhanwala is appointed as an Additional Director – Independent category on the Board w.e.f. February 12, 2021, subject to shareholders approval. 2) Dr. Sara Boettiger is appointed as an Additional Director – Non – Executive category on the Board w.e.f. February 12, 2021, subject to shareholders approval.
Date of appointment/ cessation (as applicable) & term of appointment	1) Date of Appointment of Dr. Harsh Kumar Bhanwala: with effect from February 12, 2021. 2) Date of Appointment of Dr. Sara Boettiger: with effect from February12, 2021.
Brief Profile (in case of appointment)	Brief Profile: Dr. Harsh Kumar Bhanwala: Dr. Harsh Kumar Bhanwala is the Executive Chairman Capital India Finance Limited, an India-focused, integrated financial services company since August 2020. It is a listed company & categorized as a systemically important NBFC by RBI. Dr Bhanwala is also on the Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Management, Rohtak, a premier management institute of India. He is also an Independent Director on the governing board of MFIN (Microfinance Industry Network) the Self-Regulatory Organisation (SRO) for the sector. He is also heading the Technical Group appointed by SEBI on the Social Stock Exchange. He is a Postgraduate in Management Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and holds Ph.D. in Management as well. He has been awarded honorary doctorate in Science by Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, and Indian Council of Agricultural Research-Central Institute of Fisheries Education (ICAR-CIFE), Mumbai. Prior to joining Capital India Finance Limited, he was the Chairman of National Bank for Agriculture and Rural

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Development (NABARD), is the Apex Development Bank of the country, from December 18, 2013 to May 27, 2020. Over these six and half years, under his stewardship, the assets of NABARD increased from USD 37 billion to USD 74 billion and the institution took significant steps to fulfil its mandate.

Dr. Bhanwala was also the Vice Chairman of Asia-Pacific Rural and Agricultural Credit Association (APRACA). He guided many national level institutions as a member of their Boards. Notably, he was on the Board of the Deposit Insurance & Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC), IRMA (Institute of Rural Management Anand) and the National Institute of Bank Management (NIBM) premier institutes of India. He also headed multiple subsidiaries of NABARD which target to reach the last mile through credit and advisory services.

Prior to joining NABARD, he was Executive Director and for a brief period Chairman cum Managing Director Infrastructure Finance Company Ltd (IIFCL), a national level Government of India promoted Financial Institution focused on infrastructure development. He pioneered the development of credit enhancement product for infrastructure finance, the first of its own kind in India.

In past he also served as the Managing Director of the Delhi State Cooperative Bank. Brief Profile: Dr. Sara Boettiger :

Dr. Sara Boettiger is Senior Vice President, Head of Public Affairs, Science & Sustainability for the Crop Science division of Bayer.

Prior to joining Bayer, Dr. Boettiger co-led the McKinsey Center for Agricultural Transformation. She has also served as: Deputy Director at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Chair of the Board of Trustees of the international ag research institute CIMMYT; Senior Advisor at Syngenta Foundation; faculty fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center

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for Internet & Society; advisor to the satellite company Planet Labs; co-founder of several non-profits; adjunct professor at UC Berkeley; and member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Councils.

Dr. Boettiger has published in the fields of law, economics and innovation. She has a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Boettiger is passionate about our generational responsibility to work across public and private sectors to create a more sustainable global agri-food system for the future.

Disclosure of relationships between None of the Directors are related to each other personally, directors (in case of appointment of financially or otherwise. a director)

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