Standard Chartered PLC — Board/Management Information 2016

Nov 4, 2016

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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)

Standard Chartered PLC announces the appointment of Chair of the Board Financial Crime Risk Committee ("BFCRC")

The Board of Directors (the "Board") of Standard Chartered PLC (the "Company") announces that Gay Huey Evans has received regulatory approval from the Prudential Regulation Authority with consent from the Financial Conduct Authority to Chair the BFCRC. Gay has been performing the role of acting Chair since 1 August 2016, when she replaced Simon Lowth who, as previously announced, stepped down from the Board on 31 July 2016. Gay has been an independent Non-Executive Director of the Company since April 2015 and is also a member of the Board Risk Committee.

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3 November 2016

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

Chairman:

Sir John Wilfred Peace (stepping down on 1 December 2016)

Executive Directors:

William Thomas Winters and Andrew Nigel Halford

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Independent Non-Executive Directors:

Om Prakash Bhatt; Dr Kurt Michael Campbell; Dr Louis Chi-Yan Cheung; David Philbrick Conner; Dr Byron Elmer Grote; Dr Han Seung-soo, KBE; Christine Mary Hodgson; Gay Huey Evans, OBE; Naguib Kheraj (Senior Independent Director); José María Viñals Iñiguez (succeeding as Chairman on 1 December 2016) and Jasmine Mary Whitbread