Pearson plc

("Pearson" or the "Company")

Committee Appointments

Further to recent and prospective Board changes, the Company announces the following appointments to its committees:

-    Esther Lee, Non-Executive Director, will be appointed to the Remuneration and Nomination & Governance Committees with effect from 1^st April 2022;

-  Omid Kordestani, who will be Non-Executive Director and Chair Designate on his appointment to the Board on 1^st March 2022, will join the Nomination & Governance Committee with effect from 1^st April 2022; and

-   Tim Score, Senior Independent Director and Deputy Chair Designate, will additionally be appointed as Chair of the Nomination & Governance Committee upon the conclusion of the Company's AGM in April 2022.

This notification is made in accordance with LR 9.6.11.