Martin Currie Global Portfolio Trust plc (the "Company")
Legal Entity Identifier: 549300RKB85NFVSTBM94
Appointment of a new Non-Executive Director
The Board of the Company is pleased to announce the appointment of Lindsay Dodsworth as a Non-Executive Director of the Company, with effect from 1 November 2021.
Ms Dodsworth is chair of a family office and its investment oversight committees which she helped the family to set up following the sale of their business. She trained as a chartered accountant and a chartered tax adviser with Price Waterhouse (now PwC) before becoming a partner at Ernst & Young (now EY). She is a governor, member of the advisory council and member of the investment committee at Goodenough College and chair of governors at St. John's College School.
Ms Dodsworth does not currently own any shares in the Company and there is no further information to be disclosed in respect of paragraph 9.6.13 of the Listing Rules.
Doreen Nic
On behalf of Franklin Templeton Investment Trust Management Limited,
company secretary