Directorate Change

RNS Number : 0549Q

Edinburgh Dragon Trust plc

12 October 2011

EDINBURGH DRAGON TRUST PLC ('DRAGON')

Board Appointment

The Board of Edinburgh Dragon Trust is pleased to announce the appointment of Peter Maynard as an independent non-executive Director of the Company with effect from 12 October 2011.

Mr Maynard qualified as a solicitor with Slaughter and May in 1977. He was Group Legal Director at Prudential plc from 1998 to 2009 and Company Secretary from July 1999. Prior to that he was with HSBC for 14 years during which time he was variously a Director of HSBC Investment Bank, President and Chief Executive Officer of James Capel Inc in New York and finally Deputy Group Legal Adviser. Recently he has been the Head of Group Governance and Regulatory Compliance at Old Mutual plc. He is a former chairman of the GC100 and was a supervisory board member of the London Business School Centre for Corporate Governance. He is a non-executive director of Brunner Investment Trust plc.

Mr Maynard currently has no beneficial interests in the shares of the Company.

There are no disclosures required under Section 9.6.13 (2) to (6) of the Financial Services Authority Listing Rules.

For Edinburgh Dragon Trust plc

Aberdeen Asset Managers Limited, SECRETARY

12 October 2011