The Board of The Monks Investment Trust PLC announced the appointment of Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt as a non-executive Director of the Company with effect from 9 March 2017. Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt is Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, Professorial Research Fellow in the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford and a visiting Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Southampton. He specialises in open data and artificial intelligence and is currently also Chairman of the Open Data Institute. The appointment of Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt is subject to ratification by shareholders at the Annual General Meeting of the Company to be held in August 2017.