Directorate Change

Directorate Change

WS Atkins plc (Atkins) announces that, having served on the Board for nine years, Lord Boyce, senior independent director, will retire following the conclusion of the Company's annual general meeting to be held on 31 July 2013.

Fiona Clutterbuck, who joined the Board as a non-executive director in March 2007, will assume the role of senior independent director from the conclusion of the Company's annual general meeting on 31 July 2013.

Allan Cook, chairman, said: "Lord Boyce has made a tremendous contribution to Atkins. His carefully considered advice and counsel has been much appreciated by the Company and the Board of directors. I wish him every success for the future. I am delighted that Fiona has agreed to assume the role of senior independent director."

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Atkins (www.atkinsglobal.com) is one of the world's leading design, engineering and project management consultancies*, employing some 17,900 people across the UK, North America, Middle East, Asia Pacific and Europe. Over 75 years, from post-war regeneration and the advent of nuclear engineering to high speed rail and the integrated sustainable cities of the future, our people's breadth and depth of expertise and drive to ask why has allowed us to plan, design and enable some of the world's most complex projects.

*14th largest global design firm (Engineering News-Record 2012) and the third largest multidisciplinary consultancy in Europe (Svensk Teknik och Design 2012).