Anita Frew is to join the board of Lloyds Banking Group as a new non-executive director on 1 December.

She will serve as a member of the Risk Oversight and Audit Committees. As is the case with all new board appointments, she will stand for election at the company’s next AGM in May 2011.

Frew is currently chairman of Victrex, the FTSE 200 global manufacturer of high performance polymers, having previously been the senior independent director.

Since 2000, she has held a portfolio of non-executive directorships, currently holding positions as a non-executive director of Aberdeen Asset Management, IMI and Northumbrian Water Ltd. Prior to this she was executive director of Abbott Mead Vickers, director of corporate development at WPP Group, and has held various investment and marketing roles at Scottish Provident and the Royal Bank of Scotland.

Sir Win Bischoff, chairman, said: “We are delighted to welcome Anita to the board and look forward to working with her. Her extensive experience of public companies across a range of sectors