The Board of The Edinburgh Investment Trust plc announced the appointment of Steve Baldwin as a Non-Executive Director of the Company with immediate effect. Steve is senior independent non-executive director at TruFin plc and Elegant Hotels Group plc, a non-executive director at Plus500 and a Trustee at Howard de Walden Estate Limited. He was formerly a non-executive director of Panmure Gordon & co plc. He was the Head of European Equity Capital Markets and Corporate Broking at Macquarie Capital until February 2015.