Aberdeen Standard Asia Focus PLC announced as a previously process succession planning the Board welcomed Charlotte Black and Deborah Guthrie as independent non-executive Directors of the Company with effect from the Annual General Meeting held on 16 January 2019. Chris Maude retired from the Board on 31 March 2019. The company also announced Haruko Fukuda has indicated that she intends to retire as a Director on 31 March 2020. Haruko joined the Board in 2003.