18 August 2017                                                                                                            

Serco Group plc

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Serco Group plc - Non-Executive Board Appointment

Serco Group plc ('Serco' or 'the Company'), the international service company, announces that Kirsty Bashforth will be appointed as a Non-Executive Director of Serco with effect from 15 September 2017.

Sir Roy Gardner, Serco's Chairman, said: "I am delighted to welcome Kirsty to Serco.  She will be a valuable addition to the Board, bringing deep experience of complex businesses managing critical projects around the world.  She also has built great expertise in change management and organisational effectiveness."

Kirsty is a Non-Executive Director of Kier Group plc and a member of all of its Board committees, as well as a Governor of Leeds Beckett University.  Prior to these appointments, Kirsty was a senior executive at BP plc having spent over 24 years with the company in a variety of roles, including Group Head of Organisational Effectiveness, where she led BP's global agenda on culture, diversity and change management.  Subsequently, Kirsty has been running her own corporate advisory business, QuayFive, for the last two years.  

On appointment, Kirsty Bashforth will become a member of Serco's Remuneration and Corporate Responsibility Committees.

There is no other information to be disclosed under the requirements of Listing Rule 9.6.13R in relation to this appointment.

For further information please contact Serco:

Stuart Ford, Head of Investor Relations: T +44 (0) 1256 386 227

Marcus De Ville, Head of Media Relations: T +44 (0) 1256 386 226

About Serco

Serco is a leading provider of public services. Our customers are governments or others operating in

the public sector. We gain scale, expertise and diversification by operating internationally across five

sectors and four geographies: Defence, Justice & Immigration, Transport, Health and Citizen Services,

delivered in UK & Europe, North America, Asia Pacific and the Middle East.

More information can be found at www.serco.com