Directorate Change

WPP Group PLC
20 December 2004


For Immediate Release                                         20 December 2004



                             WPP GROUP PLC ("WPP")



              WPP appoints Jeffrey Rosen as non-executive director


WPP announces the appointment of Jeffrey A. Rosen, deputy chairman and managing
director of Lazard LLC, as non-executive director, with effect from January 1
2005.  A highly experienced international financier,  Mr Rosen brings to the
Board more than 30 years' working knowledge of international investment banking,
in which time he has advised leading corporations in the US, Europe and Asia
on mergers, acquisitions and related corporate finance issues.



Before joining Lazard in 2002,  Mr Rosen was a managing director of Wasserstein
Perella,  which he helped found in 1988, and chairman of Wasserstein Perella
International.  When Wasserstein Perella merged with Dresdner Kleinwort Benson,
he became deputy chairman of the newly enlarged company, Dresdner Kleinwort
Wasserstein, and head of its continental European investment banking business.



Prior to Wasserstein Perella, he was executive director of Credit Suisse First
Boston in London and subsequently a managing director of The First Boston
Corporation in New York.



Mr Rosen is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and of the
International Advisory Board of BABi, the successor of the British American
Chamber of Commerce. In addition he is executive vice president and trustee of
the International Center of Photography.  A Yale graduate, he also holds an MBA
from Harvard Business School.  He lives in New York City.



For further information please contact:


Feona McEwan, WPP                        44-20 7408 2204
www.wpp.com






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