Governance

Executive Directors

Erik Engstrom (46)

(Swedish) Chief Executive Officer since November 2009. Joined Reed Elsevier as Chief Executive Officer of Elsevier in 2004. Prior to joining Reed Elsevier was a partner at General Atlantic Partners. Before that was president and chief operating officer of Random House Inc and, before its merger with Random House, president and chief executive officer of Bantam Doubleday Dell, North America. Began his career as a consultant with McKinsey. Served as a non-executive director of Eniro AB and Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget SCA.

Mark Armour (55)

(British) Chief Financial Officer since 1996. Prior to joining Reed Elsevier as Deputy Chief Financial Officer in 1995, was a partner in Price Waterhouse.

Andrew Prozes (64)

(Canadian) Chief Executive Officer of LexisNexis since 2000. Non-executive director of Cott Corporation. Prior to joining Reed Elsevier was an Executive Vice President with the West Group, part of Thomson Reuters and prior to that was Group President of Southam Inc.

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Non-Executive Directors

Anthony Habgood (63) Square Circle Diamond

(British) Chairman since June 2009. Chairman of Whitbread plc. Previous directorships include: Chairman of Bunzl plc and of Mölnlycke Healthcare Limited; a director of SVG Capital plc; Marks and Spencer plc; Powergen plc, National Westminster Bank plc; and Geest plc. Served as chief executive of Bunzl plc, chief executive of Tootal Group plc and a director of The Boston Consulting Group lnc.

Dien de Boer-Kruyt (65) Diamond

(Dutch) Appointed 2000. Member of the supervisory boards of Koninklijke Douwe Egberts (a subsidiary of Sara Lee Corporation), Imtech NV and Allianz Nederland Group NV. Member of the supervisory board of the National Registry of non-executive directors and leadership adviser to business, government and educational bodies.

Mark Elliott (60) Square Circle Diamond

(American) Appointed 2003. Chairman of the Remuneration Committee. Non-executive director of QinetiQ Group plc (of which he will be appointed Chairman from 1 March 2010) and G4S plc. Serves on the Dean’s Advisory Council and the Technology Advisory Council at Indiana University. Until his retirement in 2008, was General Manager IBM Global Solutions, having held a number of positions with IBM, including Managing Director of IBM Europe, Middle East and Africa. Served on the board of IBAX, a hospital software company jointly owned by IBM and Baxter Healthcare.

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Lisa Hook (51) Triangle Diamond

(American) Appointed 2006. President and Chief Operating Officer of NeuStar Inc. A director of The Ocean Foundation. Was President and Chief Executive Officer at Sun Rocket Inc. Before that was President of AOL Broadband, Premium and Developer Services. Prior to joining AOL, was a founding partner at Brera Capital Partners LLC. Previously was Chief Operating Officer of Time Warner Telecommunications. Has served as Senior Advisor to the Federal Communications Commission Chairman and a Senior Counsel to Viacom Cable.

Robert Polet (54) Square Diamond

(Dutch) Appointed 2007. President and Chief Executive Officer of Gucci Group. Before that spent 26 years at Unilever working in a variety of marketing and senior executive positions throughout the world including President of Unilever’s Worldwide Ice Cream and Frozen Foods division.

David Reid (63) Triangle Square Circle Diamond

(British) Appointed 2003. Senior independent non-executive director. Non-executive chairman of Tesco PLC, having previously been executive deputy chairman until December 2003, and finance director from 1985 to 1997. Chairman of Kwik-Fit and previously a non-executive director of De Vere PLC, Legal and General PLC and Westbury PLC.

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Lord Sharman of Redlynch OBE (66) Triangle Circle Diamond

(British) Appointed 2002. Chairman of the Audit Committee. Non-executive chairman of Aviva PLC and a non-executive director of BG Group plc. Member of the House of Lords since 1999. Was chairman of KPMG Worldwide until 1999, having joined KPMG in 1966. Previous directorships include: chairman of Aegis Group plc; deputy chairman of G4S plc; member of the supervisory board of ABN AMRO Holding NV; non-executive director of Young & Co’s Brewery plc; and non-executive director of AEA Technology plc.

Ben van der Veer (58) Triangle Diamond

(Dutch) Appointed September 2009. Member of the supervisory boards of AEGON NV, TomTom NV, Siemens Nederland NV and Koninklijke FrieslandCampina NV. Was chairman of the executive board of KPMG in the Netherlands and a member of the management committee of the KPMG International board until his retirement in 2008.

Marike Van Lier Lels (50) Diamond

(Dutch) Appointed January 2010. Member of the supervisory boards of KPN NV, USG People NV, TKH Group NV and Maersk BV. A member of the Audit Committee of the Algemene Rekenkamer and of various Dutch governmental advisory boards. Previously executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Schiphol Group, a member of the executive board of Deutsche Post Euro Express, and held various senior positions with Nedlloyd.

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Board Committee Membership

Triangle
Audit Committee: Reed Elsevier Group plc, Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV
Square
Remuneration Committee: Reed Elsevier Group plc
Circle
Nominations Committee: joint Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV
Diamond
Corporate Governance Committee: joint Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV

All of the executive directors are directors of Reed Elsevier Group plc and Reed Elsevier PLC and members of the Executive Board of Reed Elsevier NV.

Mrs Dien de Boer-Kruyt, who will retire at the conclusion of the 2010 Annual General Meeting, and Mrs Marike van Lier Lels are members of the Supervisory Board of Reed Elsevier NV. All of the other non-executive directors are directors of Reed Elsevier Group plc and Reed Elsevier PLC and members of the Supervisory Board of Reed Elsevier NV.