Directorate Change

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Aviva PLC

26 February 2015

 



26^th February 2015

AVIVA PLC

Directorate Change

Aviva plc ("Aviva" or "the Company") announces that Gay Huey Evans, Independent Non-Executive Director, has decided to retire from the Board and as a member of the Nomination, Remuneration and Risk Committees with effect from the conclusion of Aviva's 2015 annual general meeting and will therefore not stand for re-election.

We also announce that Gay has been appointed to the board of Standard Chartered PLC, a company listed on the London and Hong Kong Stock Exchanges as well as the Bombay and National Stock Exchanges in India, as a non-executive director with effect from 1^st April 2015.

Commenting on Gay's retirement, John McFarlane, Chairman of Aviva said: "Gay has always expressed to me her passion for banking, and I'm pleased for her that she will now commence a new journey with Standard Chartered PLC, as I did similarly in 1993. I would like to thank Gay for her valued service to Aviva over the past three years and her significant contribution to the Board." 

This disclosure is made pursuant to rules 9.6.11 and 9.6.14 of the Listing Rules.

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Notes to editors:

·       Gay Huey Evans was appointed to the Board in 2011. She is currently a Non-Executive Director of ConocoPhillips, Bank Itau BBA International Limited and the Financial Reporting Council and is Chairman of the Beacon Awards and a trustee of Wellbeing of Women.

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