ING nominates Tineke Bahlmann and Jeroen van der Veer as new members of the Supervisory Board

Amsterdam, 19 March 2009

ING Group will propose to the 2009 annual General Meeting (AGM) the appointment of two new members to the Supervisory Board: Tineke Bahlmann and Jeroen van der Veer. Upon decision by the AGM, which will be held on Monday, 27 April 2009, the appointment of Tineke Bahlmann will be effective as of 27 April 2009, whereas the appointment of Jeroen van der Veer will be effective as of 1 July 2009. The proposed appointments have been approved by the Dutch central bank (DNB). Tineke Bahlmann is recommended for nomination by the Dutch government. As a State nominee, Tineke Bahlmann will replace Peter Elverding who will succeed Jan Hommen as Chairman of the Supervisory Board.

Tineke Bahlmann (1950, Dutch) is a member of the Dutch Media Authority and will become the chairman of the Authority as of 1 April 2009. She is a professor of Business Administration at the University of Utrecht. She is vice-chairman of the Supervisory Board of Nedap and a member of the Supervisory Board of Deloitte Holding. Previously she was the director Strategy Rabobank Groep and she was a member of the Supervisory Board of Triodos Bank. Tineke Bahlmann is currently also a member of the Board of CSR Netherlands and a member of the Board of De Baak.

Jeroen van der Veer (1947, Dutch) was appointed as chief executive of Royal Dutch/Shell in March 2004. He joined Shell in 1971 and held a number of senior management positions around the world before he was appointed as a group managing director in 1997. He is a non-executive director of Unilever and nominated as vice chairman of the Unilever board. Since June 2007 he is chairman of the European Round Table Energy and Climate Change Working Group. Jeroen van der Veer will become a member of the Supervisory Board of Philips and of Het Concertgebouw as of 1 July 2009.

Eric Bourdais de Charbonnière and Wim Kok will retire from the Supervisory Board after the 2009 AGM.

Additional information on the composition of the Supervisory Board of ING Group is included in ING’s Annual Report that was published today on www.ing.com

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