Issued - 28 September 2007, London

GlaxoSmithKline plc (GSK) announces that Professor Sir Roy Anderson has been appointed a Non-Executive Director and will join the Board of the Company with effect from 1 October 2007.

Professor Anderson is Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College, London and, until 30 September 2007, Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK’s Ministry of Defence.

In commenting on his appointment, Sir Christopher Gent, Chairman of GSK, said, “I am delighted that Professor Anderson has agreed to join the Board. In addition to fulfilling the usual responsibilities of a Non-Executive Director, he will spend time within our research and development organisation and, with his experience, will provide the Board with valuable insights to scientific developments outside GSK.”

Professor Anderson’s biographical details are given below together with a table showing the membership of the Board with effect from 1 October 2007.

Simon Bicknell
Company Secretary
28 September 2007

Notes

The Board has determined that Professor Anderson is independent in accordance with the Combined Code on Corporate Governance.

Biographical details

Professor Sir Roy Anderson

Age 60. Professor Anderson is the Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology in the Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, London and, until 30 September 2007, the Chief Scientific Adviser at the Ministry of Defence in the United Kingdom. It was announced on 21 June 2007 that Professor Anderson will succeed Sir Richard Sykes as Rector of Imperial College in the summer of 2008.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries and a Foreign Associate Member of the Institute of Medicine at the US National Academy of Sciences.

He has published over 450 scientific papers on the epidemiology, population biology, evolution and control of a wide variety of infectious disease agents, including HIV, BSE, vCJD, parasitic helminths and protozoa, and respiratory tract viral and bacterial infections.

His principal research interests are epidemiology, biomathematics, demography, parasitology, immunology and health economics. He also has a keen interest in science policy and the public understanding of science.

He received a Knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in June 2006.

Board membership with effect from 1 October 2007

Sir Christopher Gent, Chairman
Sir Ian Prosser, Senior Independent Non-Executive Director
Dr J-P Garnier, Chief Executive Officer
Mr J S Heslop, Chief Financial Officer
Dr Moncef Slaoui, Executive Director, Chairman, Research & Development
Professor Sir Roy Anderson, Independent Non-Executive Director
Dr Stephanie Burns, Independent Non-Executive Director
Mr H Lawrence Culp, Independent Non-Executive Director
Sir Crispin Davis, Independent Non-Executive Director
Sir Deryck Maughan, Independent Non-Executive Director
Dr Daniel Podolsky, Independent Non-Executive Director
Dr Ronaldo Schmitz, Independent Non-Executive Director
Mr Tom De Swaan, Independent Non Executive Director
Sir Robert Wilson, Independent Non-Executive Director

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