The Board of BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust plc have been informed that Will Landers, portfolio manager, has notified BlackRock of his intention to leave the firm on 17 March 2019, and that two analysts based in Sao Paulo will also be leaving. BlackRock have proposed to the Board that the new portfolio managers for the Company will, with immediate effect, be Ed Kuczma, Latin American specialist within BlackRock’s Global Emerging Markets Equities team and Sam Vecht, Managing Director in BlackRock’s Global Emerging Markets Equities team. Ed Kuczma joined BlackRock in 2015 as a senior research analyst on the Latin American equity team from Morgan Stanley Investment Management where he covered emerging market equities, with a primary focus on Latin America. He has over 15 years of investment experience across all sectors and countries in Latin America. The proposed management arrangements will be subject to formal Board review in 2019.