The European Investment Trust plc announced that following the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting to be held on 22 January 2019, Mr. William Eason will retire as a non-executive Director of the Company. Mr. Eason joined the Board in 2007 The Company announced the appointment of Ms. Sue Inglis and Mr. Andrew Watkins as independent non-executive Directors of the Company with effect from 1 January 2019. Both Sue Inglis and Andrew Watkins will also become members of the Audit Committee. Sue Inglis, until June 2018 a senior corporate financier in Cantor Fitzgerald’s investment companies team, is chair-elect of The Bankers Investment Trust PLC and a non-executive director of Baillie Gifford US Growth Trust plc and BMO Managed Portfolio Trust plc. Andrew Watkins, until his retirement in June 2017, was head of client relations, sales and marketing for Invesco Perpetual’s listed investment funds business and is currently chairman of Ashoka India Equity Investment Trust plc and a non-executive director of BMO UK High Income Trust plc and Chelverton UK Dividend Trust plc.