Directorate Change

RNS Number : 9627S

Baillie Gifford Japan Trust PLC

28 June 2018

 

The Baillie Gifford Japan Trust PLC

Appointment of Director

The Board is pleased to announce the appointment of Joanna Pitman as a non-executive Director of the Company with effect from 28 June 2018. 

Joanna Pitman read Japanese Studies at Cambridge University and speaks Japanese. She was Tokyo Bureau Chief of The Times from 1989 to 1994 and for the past eight years she has worked as a corporate research analyst focussed on Japan. She is Vice Chair of the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, Advisor to the UK Japan Young Science Workshops, a Director of the John Kobal Foundation and UK Chair of SAIDIA.

There is no further information required to be disclosed under Listing Rule 9.6.13.

The appointment of Ms Pitman falls to be ratified by Shareholders at the Annual General Meeting of the Company to be held in December 2018.

Baillie Gifford & Co Limited

Managers and Secretaries

28 June 2018

 

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