3. Board of Directors According to Givaudan’s Articles of Incorporation, the Board of Directors may consist of between seven and nine members. Membership of the Board is composed in such a way as to ensure it possesses all the competencies required to execute its strategic oversight and control over Givaudan. The Board’s knowledge and diversity of experience are important assets in leading a company of Givaudan’s size in a complex and fast-changing environment. Each of the current nine Board members has an in-depth knowledge of his or her relevant areas of expertise. Together, they ensure that the Company has all the competencies required. Given the Company’s business and its current 2025 strategy of ‘Committed to Growth, with Purpose’, the most relevant and important required competencies include: – international senior business leadership – Strategic oversight and implementation track record – in-depth industry knowledge – financial expertise – innovation and technology (including digital) – sales and marketing – regulatory affairs. The Board considers sustainability and ESG matters an integral part of the Company‘s strategy. Therefore, familiarity with ESG matters is required from all Board members, as are strong ethical values. The Board regularly reviews the list of competencies and has established a long-term skill matrix for the assessment of existing and required competencies, which is used as a basis for Board succession planning. In 2021, the Board did not add any new members. At the Annual General Meeting in March 2021, Calvin Grieder was re-elected as Chairman. Prof. Dr-Ing Werner Bauer was re-appointed Vice-Chairman by the Board. Thomas Rufer retired from the Board at the Annual General Meeting 2021 after 12 years on the Board. 3.1 Members of the Board of Directors As of 31 December 2021, the following were members of the Board of Directors: Calvin Grieder Chairman • Engineer • Swiss national, born in 1955 • Non-executive • First elected in 2014 • Chairman since 2017 In 1980, Calvin Grieder started his career as Marketing Manager with Georg Fischer Ltd in Switzerland and continued in various executive positions at Swiss and German companies in the field of automation and control, including Swisscom Telecom Ltd, where he served as Head of the Mobile and Internet business. He was CEO of the international engineering group Bühler from 2001 to 2016, a worldwide leader in food processing technology. Calvin Grieder holds the following mandate in a company quoted on an official stock exchange: Chairman of the Board of SGS SA, world leader in testing, inspection and certification. He holds the following mandates in companies that are non-quoted: Chairman of the Board of Bühler Group, Chairman of the Board of AWK group, member of the Board of Trustees of Avenir Suisse, owner and member of the Board of Carivel7 AG. Calvin Grieder holds a Master of Science from the ETH Zurich and has completed an Advanced Management Program (AMP) at Harvard University. Prof. Dr-Ing. Werner Bauer Vice-Chairman • Businessman • German & Swiss national, born in 1950 • Non-executive • First elected 2014 Prof. Dr-Ing. Werner Bauer started his career as a university professor in chemical engineering at the Technical University in Hamburg, Germany. After serving as the Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Food Technology & Packaging and as Professor in Food Bioprocessing Technology at the Technical University of Munich from 1985 to 1990, he joined world leading multinational food and beverage company Nestlé as Head of the Nestlé Research Centre in Lausanne in 1990. After heading commercially Nestlé South and East Africa he joined general Corporate governance Governance Report Compensation Report Consolidated Financial Report Statutory Financial Report Appendix 7 Givaudan — 2021 Governance, Compensation and Financial Report