Directorate Change

RNS Number : 1685I

Prudential PLC

09 June 2011

 



9 June 2011

CHANGES TO PRUDENTIAL PLC BOARD AND BOARD COMMITTEES

Prudential plc ("Prudential") today announces that Bridget Macaskill will step down from the Board on 30 September 2011, having served as a non-executive director of the Company since September 2003. Lord Turnbull will succeed Bridget Macaskill as Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and will become a member of the Nomination Committee, with effect from 14 June 2011. Bridget Macaskill will cease to be a member of both the Nomination and Remuneration Committees also with effect from 14 June 2011.

Bridget Macaskill has been a member of the Remuneration Committee since 2003 and became its Chairman in May 2006. She has also been a member of the Nomination Committee since 2004.

Harvey McGrath, Chairman of Prudential plc, said: "I would like to acknowledge Bridget's considerable contribution to Prudential, particularly as a chairman and a member of Board committees. Indeed I also wish to thank her, in advance of her retirement from the board in the autumn, for the service she has given to the group consistently over many years as a non-executive director."

This announcement is made pursuant to the obligations under UK Listing Rule 9.6.11 (2) - (3) and Hong Kong Listing Rule 13.51 (2). Save as disclosed above there is no further information required to be disclosed pursuant to Hong Kong Listing Rule 13.51 (2).

Additional information:

Prudential plc is not affiliated in any manner with Prudential Financial, Inc, a company whose principal place of business is in the United States of America.

Contact name for enquiries:

Clive Burns, Head of Group Secretariat

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Company official responsible for making notification:

Clive Burns, Head of Group Secretariat

Tel: [phone]

 

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