PPL Corporation announced that the chief executive officer of International Power plc will join the company's board of directors on May 1, 2013. Philip G. Cox, who has served as CEO of International Power since 2003, will join the company board after retiring from International Power in March. Cox serves as an outside director of Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc in the U.K. and Meggitt plc He will serve on the Finance Committee and Nuclear Oversight Committee of PPL's board.

Cox's appointment will bring PPL's board membership to 12, 11 of whom are outside, independent directors. Due to a revision of the date of Mr. Cox's retirement from International Power plc, from March 31 to April 30, 2013, the board of directors has modified the effective date of Mr. Cox's election as a director of the company to May 1, 2013, for a term expiring at the company's 2013 Annual Meeting of Shareowners.