Den Haag, 7-11-11



KPN announces that today its Supervisory Board has formally appointed Mr Thorsten Dirks to the company's Board of Management.

Shareholders were informed during an Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders (EGM) in The Hague, which was held Monday November 7th.

Jos Streppel, chairman of the Supervisory Board: "The international mobile business is one of the cornerstones of the strategy that KPN outlined earlier this year. His appointment brings the obvious international focus within the Board of Management. With Mr Dirks we appoint someone who has been leading our mobile international operations successfully and who brings valuable experience to the Board."

Thorsten Dirks (48) joined E-Plus in 1996, where he held various management positions culminating in his appointment as its CEO in 2007. Mr Dirks was most recently given responsibility for all of KPN's international mobile activities, following Eelco Blok's succession to the post of CEO and Chairman of the Board of KPN. He will henceforth maintain this responsibility for Mobile International at Board level as well as remaining CEO of E-Plus.