OCI N.V. announced that its Non-Executive Board of Directors will propose to the next general meeting of shareholders the appointment of Mr. Kees van der Graaf as an independent non-executive member of the Board of Directors of OCI N.V. Mr. van der Graaf (1950) is a Dutch citizen with more than 35 years of global management and consulting experience. From 2004 to 2008, Mr. van der Graaf was a Member of Unilever's Board of Directors and Executive Committee. Mr. van der Graaf is a member of the Supervisory Boards of Carlsberg, EnPro Industries, Ben&Jerry's, GrandVision BV, MyLaps BV and the University of Twente.

From 2008 until 2011 Mr. van der Graaf served as an Executive-in-Residence of IMD, the Lausanne-based Business School, in Switzerland. Mr. van der Graaf has acquired extensive international management experience through his many years in management positions in Unilever. He is the founder and president of the FSHD Foundation, which is raising funds to support scientific research into this muscular dystrophy.