Company: WIA
Filing Date: 2025-04-14
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-080095
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Company: WESTERN ASSET INFLATION-LINKED INCOME FUND
Filing Date: 2025-04-14
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 8
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 certain of its affiliates.                                                                    |

| * | Indicates the earliest year in which the Trustee or Nominee became a Board member for a fund in the Fund Complex. |

| ** | As discussed below under “Share Ownership Information”, Mr. Larson disclaims beneficial ownership of the 
 Shares beneficially owned by Cascade Investment, L.L.C. and William H. Gates III.                        |

Additional Information Concerning the Board of Trustees

The Board believes that each Trustee’s and Nominee’s experience, qualifications, attributes or skills on an
individual basis and in combination with those of the other Trustees lead to the conclusion that the Board possesses the requisite skills and attributes. The Board believes that the Trustees’ and Nominees’ ability to

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review critically, evaluate, question and discuss information provided to them, to interact effectively with Western Asset, the Fund’s subadvisers, Western Asset Management Company Limited,
Western Asset Management Company Pte. Ltd., and Western Asset Management Company Ltd (together, the “Subadvisers”), other service providers, counsel and independent auditors, and to exercise effective business judgment in the performance
of their duties, serves to support this conclusion. The Board also has considered the following experience, qualifications, attributes and/or skills, among others, of its members and the Nominees in reaching its conclusion: his or her character and
integrity; such person’s length of service as a Board member of the Fund; such person’s willingness to serve and willingness and ability to commit the time necessary to perform the duties of a Trustee; and as to each Trustee or Nominee
other than Mr. Olson and Ms. Trust, his or her status as not being an “interested person” (as defined in the 1940 Act) of the Fund (an “Independent Trustee”). In addition, the following specific experience,
qualifications, attributes and/or skills apply as to each Trustee or Nominee:

Mr. Abeles, business, accounting and finance expertise and
experience as a chief financial officer, board member and/or executive officer of various businesses and other organizations; Ms. Dasher, experience as a chief financial officer of a private investment company; Ms. DeFrantz, business
expertise and experience as a president, board member and/or executive officer of various businesses and non-profit and other organizations; Ms. Kerley, investment consulting experience and background and
mutual fund board experience; Mr. Larson, portfolio management expertise and experience as a board member of various