The Board of European Opportunities Trust plc announced the appointment of Manisha Shukla as an independent non-executive Director of the Company. Manisha will join the Board on 1 September 2023. Manisha is a highly experienced legal adviser with over 20 years of specialisation in investment funds.

She qualified as a solicitor in 2000 and has worked in both private practice and in-house, focusing on a broad range of closed-ended listed investment funds. She has been the knowledge counsel for funds at Travers Smith LLP since 2014. Manisha holds a joint LLB in Law and Japanese from Cardiff University.

Manisha will be appointed as a member of Audit & Risk, Nominations, Remuneration, and Management Engagement Committees with effect from her appointment to the Board. As previously announced, Virginia Holmes, the Company's Senior Independent Director, intends to retire from the Board at the upcoming Annual General Meeting. Virginia has served on the Board since 2017.

Lord Lamont will succeed Virginia as Senior Independent Director with effect from the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting.