Standard Life Aberdeen plc announced the following change to its Board of Directors (the 'Board'). As part of continuing Board restructuring, Roderick Paris (Rod), Chief Investment Officer will step down as an Executive Director from the Board on 31 December 2019. This adjustment reflects Board simplification; Rod remains the Company's Chief Investment Officer and a key member of the Company's Executive Leadership Team, with his reporting line into Keith Skeoch, Chief Executive Officer unchanged. Rod will continue to attend Board meetings to present on the performance of the Investment function. With Martin Gilbert, Vice Chairman, not seeking re-election to the Board at the Company's Annual General Meeting ('AGM'), scheduled for 12 May 2020, following that AGM the Board would be made up of the Chairman, seven Non-Executive Directors and two Executive Directors, Keith Skeoch, Chief Executive Officer, and Stephanie Bruce, Chief Financial Officer.