InterContinental Hotels Group PLC announces that Paul Edgecliffe-Johnson will step down from the Board and his role as Chief Financial Officer and Group Head of Strategy to take up a new position outside of IHG. Paul will leave IHG in six months' time and the Company has begun the process of appointing a successor. Paul joined IHG in 2004 and held a number of senior roles before being appointed CFO and to the Board and Executive Committee in 2014.

He additionally took on the leadership of IHG's strategy function in 2019.