Belmond Appoints Lord Livingston to Board of Directors

Belmond has appointed Lord Ian Livingston of Parkhead to the company’s board of directors, effective 9 November 2015.

Lord Livingston is a member of the U.K. House of Lords after being made a life peer in 2013 and serving in the U.K. Government as Minister of State for Trade and Investment from December 2013 to May 2015.

Prior to this appointment, Lord Livingston was the Group Chief Executive Officer from 2008 to 2013 at BT Group plc, one of the world’s leading communications companies and a member of the FTSE 100. Prior to serving as Group Chief Executive Officer, he performed a number of other executive roles during his eleven years at BT, including serving on the BT board as an executive director throughout his tenure, and leading BT Retail, its consumer and business division, as its Chief Executive Officer from 2005 to 2008, after having commenced his BT career in 2002 as Group Chief Financial Officer.

“We could not be more delighted to welcome Ian Livingston to Belmond’s board of directors,” said Roland Hernandez, chairman of the board. “Ian is one of the leading lights of U.K. business, with a sophisticated understanding of global markets and a track record as an innovative leader, who will bring to the board a wealth of commercial, technological, regulatory and policy experience. We are honored to have Ian join the board, and we will benefit from his singular achievements and insights as we move forward during this important period for Belmond.”

In addition to Lord Livingston’s tenure at BT, he held various leadership positions from 1991 to 2002, including Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director, with Dixons Group Plc (now Dixons Carphone), one of the largest consumer electronics retailers in Europe.

He was also a non-executive director of Hilton Group plc (now Ladbrokes Plc), which operated the non-U.S. Hilton hotels, from 2003 to 2006.

Lord Livingston is currently a non-executive director and chairman of the audit committee of Celtic Plc, a London Stock Exchange-listed professional football club based in Glasgow, Scotland. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales.

Lord Livingston said, “It is a pleasure to accept this opportunity to serve on the board of one of the world’s leading luxury travel companies. I look forward to working with my fellow directors, including Roeland Vos, Belmond’s newly appointed President and Chief Executive Officer, and the rest of the Company’s executive team. With its superb collection of assets, Belmond represents the type of well-positioned business that I have always found to be attractive when competing in an industry as dynamic as the global lodging sector. I look forward to my role on the board in guiding Belmond to deliver on the strategic opportunities.”