RIT Capital Partners plc announced the following change to the Board, effective January 23, 2014. Mike Power has been appointed to the Board as an Independent Non-Executive Director and member of the Audit and Risk Committee and the Valuation Committee. Mike is Professor of Accounting and Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR) at the London School of Economics, where he has worked since 1987.

He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, an Associate member of the UK Chartered Institute of Taxation and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Risk Management.