Standard Chartered PLC — Board/Management Information 2015

Jun 17, 2015

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STANDARD CHARTERED PLC

渣打集團有限公司

(Incorporated as a public limited company in England and Wales with registered number 966425)

(Stock Code: 02888)

17 June 2015

Standard Chartered PLC announces the appointment of a new Senior Independent Director

The Board of Directors (the "Board") of Standard Chartered PLC (the "Company") today announces the appointment of Naguib Kheraj as Senior Independent Director effective from 16 June 2015. Naguib has been an independent Non-Executive Director of the Company since January 2014 and has chaired the Audit Committee since May 2014. He is also a member of the Governance and Nomination Committee, the Board Risk Committee and the Board Financial Crime Risk Committee. Naguib replaces Ruth Markland as Senior Independent Director who, as previously announced, will step down from the Board by the end of 2015.

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As at the date of this announcement, the Board of Directors of Standard Chartered PLC comprises:

Chairman:

Sir John Wilfred Peace

Executive Directors:

Mr William Thomas Winters; Mr Andrew Nigel Halford and Mr Alun Michael Guest Rees

Independent Non-Executive Directors:

Mr Om Prakash Bhatt; Dr Kurt Michael Campbell; Dr Louis Chi-Yan Cheung; Dr Byron Elmer Grote; Dr Han Seung-soo, KBE; Mrs Christine Mary Hodgson; Ms Gay Huey Evans; Mr Naguib Kheraj (Senior Independent Director); Mr Simon Jonathan Lowth; Ms Ruth Markland; Mr Paul David Skinner, CBE; Dr Lars Henrik Thunell and Ms Jasmine Whitbread