Schroder Japan Growth Fund plc

Jonathan Taylor*+ (Aged 66)
Chairman

Was appointed as a Director of the Company on 29 July 1999 and as Chairman on 20 April 2004. He is Chairman and Managing Director of Dragon Partners Limited. He is a Director of Greater China Fund Inc.and member of the international advisory board, Datawind Inc.He was previously a Director of Baring Asset Management Limited (1976–1997).He is a Barrister at law.

Richard Greer*+ (Aged 56)

Was appointed as a Director of the Company on 5 November 2009. Mr Greer has worked in Japan for fifteen years, for Jardine Matheson and subsequently, as branch manager, for Baring Securities (Japan) Limited, until 1993. He has extensive experience of company research, and headed the group
established by the Japanese Ministry of Finance representing the EU investment banks and brokerages.
On returning to London, he was global head of research at Barings, Caspian Limited and CommerzbankAG, before becoming a partner at WMG Limited, a wealth management group, and head of marketing at Toscafund Limited.

John Scott*+ (Aged 58)

Was appointed as a Director of the Company on 20 April 2004. He is Chairman of Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust PLC and Dunedin Income Growth Investment Trust PLC and a non-executive
director of Martin Currie Pacific Trust plc and JP Morgan Claverhouse Investment Trust plc. His other directorships include Xaarplc, EndaceLtd. and Miller Insurance Services Ltd. He previously worked in the Far East for Jardine Matheson (1974–1980), and in London for Lazard Brothers &
Co., Limited (1981–2001), during which time he spent three years in Tokyo with responsibility for Lazard Brothers’ investment banking activities in Japan.

Jan Kingzett+ (Aged 54)

Was appointed as a Director of the Company on 3 October 2001. He is an employee of Schroders. He is also a non executive Director of Thos. Agnew and Sons(Holdings)Limited.

Peter Lyon*+ (Aged 69)

Was appointed as a Director of the Company on 31 May 1994. In March 2008 he retired from Clay Finlay Inc., a US based institutional fund management group where he was a director from 1998 until his retirement.

Yoshindo Takahashi*+ (Aged 70)

Was appointed as a Director of the Company on 19 December 2005. He was, until the end of June 2010, Director of the Office of Pharmaceutical Industry Research, a research arm of Japan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association. He is a member of the Management Committee of Executive Partners Inc, a consulting firm for small and emerging companies and a statutory auditor
(Independent) of Netprice Corp, an internet shopping company based in Japan. He was previously Executive Director and Dean of Nomura School of Advanced Management(1996–2000) and Executive
Vice President of Nomura Research Institute Ltd. (1994–1996).He served as President and then Chairman of Nomura Research Institute Europe Ltd.and Nomura Research America Inc. between 1980 and 1991.