The Board of Genesis Emerging Markets Fund announced that Hélène Ploix will succeed Coen Teulings as non-executive Chairman with effect from the day following the forthcoming annual general meeting on 29 October 2015. Coen Teulings has advised that he will not put himself forward for re-election as a Director of the Fund at the annual general meeting. Hélène Ploix joined the Board as a non-executive director in October 2012.

She is Chairman of Pechel Industries and has had an extensive career in finance and investment in the public and private sectors, both in France (primarily at the French state-owned Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations) and internationally (notably as an Executive Director at the IMF, World Bank and as a Member of the Investments Committee of the UN Joint Staff Pension Fund). She is currently a Non-Executive Director of Lafarge and Sofina (Brussels), non-executive Chairman of Sogama Crédit Associatif and was previously at a number of other companies, including The Boots Company PLC, BNP Paribas and Publicis.