Shell appoints Gerrit Zalm as non-executive Director

10:02 AM, 14th December 2012

PARIS, FRANCE: Royal Dutch Shell plc has appointed Gerrit Zalm as Non-executive Director of the Company with effect from 1 January 2013. Zalm is the Chairman of the Board of Management of ABN AMRO Bank. The announcement came after Jeroen van der Veer, a Non-executive Director of the Company since July 2009 and a Member of the Corporate and Social Responsibility Committee, and previously Chief Executive from October 2004 until July 2009, has elected to retire from the Board at the close of business of the 2013 AGM.

“When Jeroen van der Veer steps down in 2013 he will have completed 42 years of exemplary service to the Company of which 16 years as a director of the Company, including as the Chief Executive during a difficult period followed by a transition and successful unification,” said Jorma Ollila, Chairman, Shell.

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