Board Changes

Informa PLC
14 March 2007


                                   Informa plc
                                  Board Changes


14 March 2007 Informa plc ('Informa' or the 'Group') announces the appointment
of Peter Rigby as Chairman and David Gilbertson as Chief Executive as from the
AGM on May 15th 2007.

The Board of Informa announces that it is to appoint Peter Rigby as Chairman
succeeding Richard Hooper, who is to retire from the Informa Board.

At Informa's inception upon the merger of IBC and LLP in 1998 Peter Rigby became
Chairman. He then became Chief Executive upon the merger of Informa with Taylor
& Francis in May 2004.

David Gilbertson will become Chief Executive. Upon the Group's inception in 1998
David became its Chief Executive and was appointed Managing Director upon the
merger with Taylor & Francis in 2004.

Richard Hooper was appointed Senior Non-Executive Director of Informa in 1998
and has been its Non-Executive Chairman since March 2005.

The Board has agreed to appoint a fifth Non-Executive Director to the Board.
Details of the appointee to that role will be made in due course.

As required by the UK Combined Code on Corporate Governance, the appointment of
Peter Rigby as Chairman has been discussed in advance with the Group's six
largest shareholders. In reaching this decision, the Board considered in
particular the complexity of the Group's global operations, the need for
management stability at the top of the Group following three years of
fundamental changes, and the long-term partnership and proven complementary
leadership provided by Peter Rigby and David Gilbertson since 1998.

In addition, the Board has resolved to make certain governance changes which
include annual re-election of all Directors from this year's AGM and the
enhancement of the role of the Senior Independent Director, Derek Mapp. This
will include Derek Mapp having his own reporting section in the Annual Report,
beginning with the 2007 Annual Report.

Richard Hooper stated:

'It has been a pleasure and an honour to serve Informa over the last nine and a
half years in the roles of non-executive director, senior independent director
and chairman. During that time the company has grown from a market
capitalisation of £137m (LLP) to £2.5bn today. We have successfully achieved two
large nil premium mergers and one transforming acquisition during that time. My
board colleagues and I have been working on my succession for over a year and I
am delighted to be handing over at the AGM in May to Peter Rigby, with David
Gilbertson becoming CEO. I know from close observation over many years how
crucial the partnership of Peter and David has been to the success of Informa.
This succession plan announced today cements that partnership going forward into
the next exciting phase of Informa's growth and development'.

Peter Rigby said:

'We will be sorry to see Richard depart. His support and advice through a period
of extraordinary growth and corporate activity over the years has been
enormously valuable. We have moved from being a small company to a big company
over a short period of time whilst retaining the small company focus which has
made us successful. I am honoured to be succeeding Richard and I look forward to
steering the company to further success.'


For further enquiries:

Informa plc
Susanna Kempe, Chief Marketing Officer Tel: [phone]

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Emma Burdett


Notes to Editors

Informa provides specialist, high value information to the global academic &
scientific, professional, and commercial markets via publishing, events and
performance improvement. At the heart of every Informa product and service is
research-based, proprietary information for an expert audience. Informa
publishes over 2,000 subscription products and services delivered electronically
and in hardcopy, and (45,000) books. Each year Informa produces over 10,000
events around the world, powered by a marketing database of over 20 million
contacts. Informa's brands include Lloyd's List, Routledge, Taylor & Francis,
IIR, IBC, AchieveGlobal, ESI and Euroforum. Informa operates in over 70
countries, and employs over 7,500 people.





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