Empiric Student Property plc announces that Clair Preston-Beer has been appointed to the Board as an Independent Non-Executive Director, effective from 1 July 2022, following the conclusion of a comprehensive recruitment process supported by external consultants. Clair is an experienced leader of high performance retail and hospitality businesses in the UK and internationally. Clair spent 16 years with Costa Coffee, then part of Whitbread PLC, in a range of senior leadership roles including UK Operations Director, Chief Operating Officerin the UK with full financial and operational responsibility for UK property, business change and operations across 1,100 outlets, and latterly Managing Director for the Middle East and Asia where she wasresponsible for developing and driving the strategy for the significant expansion and profitable growth for the region.

Clair was a member of the Costa Executive Team. Clair joined Greene King as Managing Director in November 2020. She sits on the main Board and isresponsible for c.600 local community pubs acrossthe UK.