RELX : Governance 23 February 2023

96 RELX Annual Report 2022

Governance

In this section

98 Board Directors

100 RELX Senior Executives

1. Chair's introduction to corporate governance
2. Corporate Governance Review

1. Report of the Nominations Committee

1. Directors' Remuneration Report

1. Report of the Audit Committee

1. Directors' Report

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Overview

Market segments

Corporate Responsibility

Financial review

Governance

Financial statements and other information

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Board Directors

Executive Directors	Non-Executive Directors

Erik Engstrom (59)		Paul Walker (65)	R N C		June Felix (66)	A C R
Chief Executive Officer		Chair			Non-Executive Director; Independent

Appointed: Chief Executive Officer of RELX since November 2009. Joined as Chief Executive Officer of Elsevier in 2004.

Other appointments: Non-ExecutiveDirector of Smith & Nephew plc.

Past appointments: Prior to joining was a partner at General Atlantic Partners. Before that was President and Chief Operating Officer of Random House Inc and President and Chief Executive Officer of Bantam Doubleday Dell, North America. Began his career as a consultant with McKinsey. Education: Holds a BSc from Stockholm School of Economics, an MSc from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and gained an MBA from Harvard Business School as a Fulbright Scholar. Nationality: Swedish

Appointed: March 2021

Other appointments: Chair of Ashtead Group plc.

Past appointments: Chair of Halma plc and Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Sage Group plc. Non-Executive Director of Experian plc, Diageo plc, Sophos Group plc and Mytravel Group plc.

Education: Has a degree in Economics from York University, and is a qualified UK Chartered Accountant.

Nationality: British

Appointed: October 2020

Other appointments: Chief Executive Officer of IG Group Holdings plc. Member of the Board of Advisers of the London Technology Club. Past appointments: Served as a Non-Executive Director of IG Group Holdings plc from 2015 until the time of her appointment as Chief Executive Officer in October 2018. Previously held various executive management positions at a number of large multinational businesses in Hong Kong, London and New York, including Verifone, IBM, Citibank and Chase Manhattan. Earlier in her career, was a strategy consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton. Nationality: American

Nick Luff (55)		Wolfhart Hauser (73)	R N C		Charlotte Hogg (52)	A C
Chief Financial Officer		Non-Executive Director; Independent		Non-Executive Director; Independent
		Senior Independent Director
		Chair of the Remuneration Committee

Appointed: September 2014	Appointed: April 2013	Appointed: December 2019
Other appointments: Non-Executive Director of	Other appointments: Non-Executive Director of	Other appointments: Executive Vice President and
Rolls-Royce Holdings plc.	Associated British Foods plc.	Chief Executive Officer for the European Region of
Past appointments: Prior to joining the Group was	Past appointments: Chair of FirstGroup plc until	Visa Inc. Executive Director of Visa Europe Limited.
Group Finance Director of Centrica plc from 2007.	July 2019. Chief Executive Officer of Intertek Group	Non-Executive Director of NowTeach and a
Before that was Chief Financial Officer at The	plc from 2005 until 2015. Prior to that he was	Director of Kettlethorpe Sport Horses Limited.
Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company	Chief Executive Officer of TÜV Sud AG between	Past appointments: Chief Operating Officer at
(P&O) and its affiliated companies. Began his	1998 and 2002 and Chief Executive Officer of TÜV	the Bank of England. Before that Head of Retail
career as an accountant with KPMG. Formerly a	Product Service GmbH for ten years. Formerly	Banking for Santander UK, Managing Director UK
Non-Executive Director of QinetiQ Group plc and	a Non-Executive Director of Logica plc.	and Ireland for Experian plc, and held senior roles
Lloyds Banking Group plc.	Education: Holds a master's degree in Medicine	at Morgan Stanley in New York and London.
Education: Has a degree in Mathematics from	from Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich and	Nationality: British, American and Irish
Oxford University and is a qualified UK Chartered	a Medical Doctorate from Technical University
Accountant.	Munich.
Nationality: British	Nationality: German

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Board Committee membership key

1. Audit Committee

1. Remuneration Committee N Nominations Committee
   C Corporate Governance Committee

Committee Chair

Overview

Market segments

Marike van Lier Lels (63)	N C
Non-Executive Director; Independent
Workforce Engagement Director

Appointed: July 2015

Other appointments: Member of the Supervisory Boards of NS (Dutch Railways), Dura Vermeer, Post NL and Innovation Quarter.

Past appointments: Member of the Supervisory Boards of TKH Group NV, Royal Imtech NV, Maersk BV, KPN NV, USG People NV and Eneco Holding NV, and Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Schiphol Group. Prior to joining Schiphol Group, was a member of the Executive Board of Deutsche Post Euro Express and held various senior positions with Nedlloyd. Member of various Dutch governmental advisory boards. Nationality: Dutch

Suzanne Wood (62)	A C
Non-Executive Director; Independent
Chair of the Audit Committee

Appointed: September 2017

Other appointments: Non-ExecutiveDirector of Ferguson plc.

Past appointments: Served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Vulcan Materials Company from September 2018 until September 2022. Served as Group Finance Director of Ashtead Group plc from 2012 to 2018. Chief Financial Officer of Ashtead Group's largest subsidiary, Sunbelt Rentals Inc, from 2003 until 2012. Previously, also served as Chief Financial Officer of two US publicly listed companies, Oakwood Homes Corporation and Tultex Corporation.

Nationality: American

Corporate Responsibility

Financial review

Robert MacLeod (58)	R N C		Andrew Sukawaty (67)	A C
Non-Executive Director; Independent		Non-Executive Director; Independent

Governance

Appointed: April 2016

Other appointments: None.

Past appointments: Was previously Chief Executive of Johnson Matthey plc for eight years after five years as Group Finance Director. Prior to this spent five years as Group Finance Director of WS Atkins plc, having joined as Group Financial Controller in 2003. From 1993 to 2002, held a variety of senior finance and M&A roles with Enterprise Oil plc in the UK and US. Formerly

a Non-Executive Director of Aggreko plc. Nationality: British

Appointed: April 2019

Other appointments: Chair of Inmarsat. Director of Hg Capital LLP and Matrix 42. Founding Partner of Corten Capital.

Past appointments: Was formerly the Senior Independent Director of Sky plc between 2013 and 2018. Previously was Chair of Ziggo NV, Xyratex Group Ltd,and Telenet Group holdings NV, and deputy Chair of O2 plc. Also served as a Non-Executive Director of Telefonica Europe (following its acquisition of O2 plc) and Powerwave Technologies Inc, and additionally as Chief Executive of Inmarsat plc, Sprint Corp and NTL Group Ltd.

Nationality: American

Financial statements and other information

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RELX Senior Executives

Mark Kelsey	Kumsal Bayazit	Mike Walsh	Hugh M Jones IV
Chief Executive Officer	Chief Executive Officer	Chief Executive Officer	Chief Executive Officer
Risk	Scientific, Technical	Legal	Exhibitions
	& Medical

Joined in 1983. Appointed to current position in 2012.

Has held a number of senior positions across the Group over the past 30 years. Previously Chief Operating Officer and then Chief Executive Officer of Reed Business Information. Studied at Liverpool University and received his MBA from Bradford University.

Joined in 2004. Appointed to current position in 2019.

Previously President, Exhibitions Europe, Chief Strategy Officer, RELX, Chair, RELX Technology Forum and Executive Vice President of Global Strategy and Business Development for LexisNexis. Prior to that worked with Bain & Company in New York, Los Angeles, Johannesburg and Sydney. Holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and

is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley.

Joined in 2003. Appointed to current position in 2011.

Previously CEO of LexisNexis US Legal Markets and Director of Strategic Business Development Home Depot. Prior to that was

a practising attorney at Weil, Gotshal and Manges in Washington DC and served as a consultant with The Boston Consulting Group. Holds a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School and is a graduate of Yale University.

Joined in 2011. Appointed to current position in 2020.

Previously Group Managing Director, Accuity, ICIS, Cirium, and EG within Risk. Prior to that was Chief Executive Officer, Accuity. Holds an MBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and is a graduate of Yale University.