Directorate Change

RNS Number : 1819X

JPMorgan Asian Investment Tst PLC

10 August 2009

 



JPMorgan Asian Investment Trust plc

Appointment of New Director

The Board of JPMorgan Asian Investment Trust plc is pleased to announce the appointment of James Strachan as an independent non-executive Director of the Company, with immediate effect. 

Mr Strachan is currently a non-executive Director of Legal and General plc, Welsh Water Limited, Care UK plc, Sarasin and Partners LLP and Social Finance Limited. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the LSE (risk and regulation) and a Vice President of RNID. Until 2006, he was Chairman of the Audit Commission, the public services regulator and watchdog and he served as a Director of the Bank of England until May 2009.

After reading Economics and English at Cambridge, he worked in the City both as a commercial and investment banker. Initially with Chase Manhattan, he then spent 13 years at Merrill Lynch, latterly as a Managing Director in London and a Board member of Merrill Lynch International. 

Since 1994 he has also worked in the public and voluntary sectors. He has been a Board member of Ofgem, the energy regulator; the DTI's Business and Energy Boards, the National Lottery's Community Fund; the Disability Rights Commission; Somerset House Trust and Save the Children. He has also been both Chief Executive and Chairman of RNID and a Leadership Patron of the National College of School Leadership. Having been a professional photographer and journalist, he is now an Honorary Fellow of the University of the Arts, London.

There is no further information to be disclosed under Listing Rule 9.6.13 R (2) to (6).

10th August 2009

For further information:

Alison Vincent

JPMorgan Asset Management (UK) Limited ......................... 020 7742 6000

 

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