JPMorgan Asian Investment Trust plc announced that the Chairman, James Long, will be standing down from the Board at the conclusion of the Company's 2017 AGM. The Board announced that James Strachan will succeed him as Chairman. Mr. Strachan joined the Board in 2009. Previously he was an Executive Board Member of Merrill Lynch International. As part of its succession planning and in anticipation of the retirement of the Chairman, the Board is also announced the appointment of Peter Moon as a non-executive Director of the Company with immediate effect. Mr. Moon was chief investment officer of the Universities Superannuation Scheme. He is a current chairman of The Scottish American Investment Company plc and Bell Potter (UK) Limited and is a director of First Property plc and Gresham House plc.