Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC announced that the Board has appointed Leslie Van de Walle as the independent, non-executive Chairman of the company. Leslie will join the Board and assume his role as Chairman on 1 March 2019 and will also become Chairman of the Nominations Committee. He has been Chairman of Robert Walters plc as well as SIG plc and held non-executive director roles at a number of public companies including Aviva plc and Aegis Group plc. His is currently Deputy Chairman and Chair of the Nomination Committee at Crest Nicholson Holdings plc, Senior Independent Director and Chair of the Remuneration Committee of DCC plc and a non-executive director of HSBC UK Bank plc. David Pritchard, the Company's Acting Chairman and Acting Chairman of the Nominations Committee, will retire from the Board on 28 February 2019.