President Eddie H.K. Ng c/o Jardine Fleming Holdings Ltd 42/F, Jardine House 1 Connaught Place Central Hong Kong Tel: +852-2843-8401 Fax: +852-2877-0058 Email: eddiehk@netvigator.com (see details below) Immediate Past President Michael R. Losey President and CEO Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) 1800 Duke Street, Alexandria VA 22314-3499, USA Tel: +1-703-535-6001 Fax: +1-703-549-7853 Email: losey@shrm.org May 30th 2000 New President for World Federation The new President of the World Federation of Personnel Management Associations (WFPMA), appointed today to serve for the next two years, is Eddie H. K. Ng, Head of Human Resources for investment bank Jardine Fleming Holdings, based in Hong Kong. The appointment was announced following a meeting of the Executive Council and Regional Delegates of the WFPMA held on the eve of the 8th World Congress on Human Resource Management in Paris, 29-31 May 2000. A former President of the Hong Kong Institute of Human Resource Management and for three years President of the Asia Pacific Federation of HRM, Eddie Ng is well known in the international HR arena, having spoken at numerous conferences / .../more follows

Vice President Juan Vicente Vera ANRI Centro Comercial El Recreo Entre Av'das Casanova y Venezuela Torre Sur, Piso 9, Ofc.07 Caracas Venezuela Tel: +582 762 7563 Fax: +582 763 2001 Email: juvera@telcel.net.ve Secretary General/Treasurer Geoff Armstrong Director General Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) CIPD House, Camp Road, Wimbledon London SW19 4UX United Kingdom Tel: +44 020 863-3260 Fax: +44-020 863-3261 Email: g.armstr@ipd.co.uk Website: http://www.cipd.co.uk cont'd around the world, including previous WFPMA World Congresses, and served on many committees. Before assuming the WFPMA presidency, he was Treasurer of the Federation. Organisations for which Ng worked before joining Jardine's include AT&T, Citibank and Motorola. A graduate of the University of Hong Kong, he is a voracious reader with a particular interest in futurology. Outgoing WFPMA President, who hands over to Ng at the end of the Paris Congress, is Michael R Losey, President and Chief Executive Officer of the US Society for Human Resource Management. Secretary General of the Federation is Geoff Armstrong, Director General of the Institute of Personnel and Development (UK and Ireland), who now also assumes the role of WFPMA Treasurer. Ends