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Directors

	Rupert Pennant-Rea Appointed as non-executive chairman in July 2009, having served as a non-executive director since August 2006. Chairman of Henderson Group, and a non-executive director of Go-Ahead Group, Gold Fields, Times Newspapers and Hochschild Mining. Editor of The Economist from 1986 to 1993 and deputy governor of the Bank of England from 1993 to 1995.
	Andrew Rashbass Appointed as Group chief executive in July 2008. Formerly publisher and managing director of The Economist.
	Sir David Bell Appointed as a non-executive director in August 2005. He retired as an executive director of Pearson and as chairman of the Financial Times in 2009. He is chairman of Sadler’s Wells.
	John Elkann Appointed as a non-executive director in July 2009. Chairman of Fiat, Giovanni Agnelli e C, Exor, Editrice La Stampa and Itedi, and a director of Fiat Industrial, SGS and Gruppo Banca Leonardo. Also vice-chairman of the Italian Aspen Institute and the Giovanni Agnelli Foundation.
	Rona Fairhead Appointed as a non-executive director in July 2005. Chairman and chief executive of the Financial Times Group, an executive director of Pearson and a non-executive director of HSBC Holdings and the Cabinet Office of the UK government.
	Philip Mengel Appointed as a non-executive director in July 1999. Operating partner of Snow Phipps Group and director of Orient Express Hotels. Previously chief executive officer of US Can Corporation, English Welsh & Scottish Railway and Ibstock.
	John Micklethwait Appointed as a director in May 2006, and editor of The Economist since April 2006, having joined the editorial staff in July 1987. Previously US editor. A trustee of the British Museum.
	Sir Simon Robertson Appointed as a non-executive director in July 2005. Chairman of Rolls-Royce Holdings, deputy chairman and senior independent director of HSBC Holdings, director of the Royal Opera House and Berry Bros & Rudd, founder of Simon Robertson Associates and a trustee of the Eden Trust.
	Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild Appointed as a non-executive director in October 2002. Sole member of EL Rothschild and a non-executive director of the Estée Lauder Companies. A trustee of the Eranda Foundation, the Tate Foundation, the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the American Patrons of Tate.
	Chris Stibbs Joined the company as Group finance director in July 2005, and also appointed as managing director of the Economist Intelligence Unit in April 2010. A non-executive director of Motivcom. Previously corporate development director of Incisive Media, finance director of the TBP Group and managing director of the FT Law and Tax Division.
	Luke Swanson Appointed as a non-executive director in July 2011. Director of communications at Pearson and a member of the Pearson management committee. Also a director of South African business publisher BDFM. Previously a board director of Interactive Data Corporation.