The Board of Directors of Millennium & Copthorne Hotels plc announced that, on recommendation of the Nominations Committee, Christian de Charnacé, an independent Non-Executive Director, is to become a member of the Audit Committee with effect from March 23, 2018. In addition, the Nominations Committee has reviewed the structure of the Board's committees and the Board has decided to amalgamate the duties of the Risk Committee and Audit Committee given the commonalities of their remits and the establishment within the Group, since the formation of the Risk Committee, of a robust risk management framework. These changes will take effect following the conclusion of the Company's 2018 Annual General Meeting and accordingly the members of the Risk Committee, including Gervase MacGregor, Daniel Desbaillets and Kwek Eik Sheng, will relinquish their respective roles on the Risk Committee as from that date.