Reuters Appoints New Director of Corporate Communications

Business Wire, Dec 11, 2002

Business Editors

NEW YORK & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 11, 2002

Reuters (NASDAQ:RTRSY), the global information, news and technology group, today announced the appointment of Simon Walker, (49) as Director of Corporate Communications effective January 2003.

In this role he will lead a global team responsible for Public Relations, Investor Relations and Internal Communications activities in support of the Company's strategy and brand.

Walker, who was born in South Africa, joins Reuters with a strong, diverse and international background in communications, public affairs and journalism. Most recently, he has spent two years as Communications Secretary to HM The Queen, for which he was on secondment from British Airways, where he was Director of Communications.

Walker is a graduate of Balliol College, Oxford and was a John S. Knight Professional Journalism Fellow at Stanford University, California.

Walker will replace Peter Thomas who will leave Reuters at the end of February 2003, after a 32-year career in a number of international roles in the Company

Note to Editors

Simon Walker Biography

Simon Walker, 49, was Communication Secretary at Buckingham Palace. He was previously Director of Communications at British Airways and a non-executive director of Comair Ltd (South Africa). He was a special advisor in the Prime Minister's Policy Unit at No. 10 Downing Street from 1996-97.

He was previously a partner at Brunswick the public relations group, and Director of European Public Affairs for Hill & Knowlton in Brussels. He was born in South Africa and has worked as a journalist and consultant in New Zealand, Belgium and the United Kingdom.

He read politics, philosophy and economics at Balliol College, Oxford where he was President of the Oxford Union and he was a Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. He is married with two children. He was PR Week's PR Professional of The Year in 2002.

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