Directorate Change

Schroder Oriental Income Fund Ltd
24 April 2008



                                                                   24 April 2008


                       Appointment of Additional Director


The Company is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Fergus Dunlop as a
Director of the Company with effect from 21 April 2008. Fergus, aged 49, is a
resident of Guernsey.  He has twenty years' experience in investment companies,
in London, Frankfurt, Munich and the Channel Islands.


Fergus joined Mercury Asset Management (later Merrill Lynch Investment Managers)
in London in 1987 and managed their joint venture with Munich Reinsurance, and
its Jersey subsidiary.  In 1997 he moved to Mercury's office in Frankfurt.
After leaving Mercury at the end of 2001, he joined SUDPROJEKT, an investment
advisory boutique in Munich as partner.


Fergus is a director of Signet Global Fixed Income Strategies Limited as well as
several Channel Islands-based investment funds. He has a BA (Hons.) in History
from Bristol University, and an M.Phil. in Management Studies from Oxford
University.


In accordance with the Articles of Association, Mr Dunlop will be proposed for
election at the Annual General Meeting to be held in December.


It is confirmed that there are no other details to be disclosed concerning Mr.
Dunlop under Listing Rule 9.6.13 R.


Enquiries:

Schroder Investment Management Limited


John Spedding                                 (020 7658 3206)



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