Appointment of Director

Appointment of Director

Genesis Emerging Markets Fund Ld

Genesis Emerging Markets Fund Limited
(“the Fund”)(“the Fund”)

16^th February 2011

Appointment of Director

The Board is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Geng Xiao as a Director effective immediately, subject to regulatory consent.

Professor Geng Xiao is director of Columbia Global Centers (East Asia • Beijing), Columbia University. He is also an honorary professor at the University of Hong Kong and an Independent Director of HSBC Bank (China). Previously Professor Xiao was the founding director of the Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, tenured professor of economics at the University of Hong Kong, head of research and advisor to the chairman at the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong, vice president of the Chinese Economists Society (USA), a member of the board of supervisors at the Shenzhen Development Bank, faculty associate at Harvard University, and a consultant at the World Bank.

Geng obtained his BSc in Management Sciences from the University of Science and Technology of China and his MA & PhD in Economics from UCLA.

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