Company: EMD
Filing Date: 2025-09-16
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-204754
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Company: WESTERN ASSET EMERGING MARKETS DEBT FUND INC.
Filing Date: 2025-09-16
Form: DEF 14A
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 network of contacts, and in its discretion may also engage a professional search firm. The Nominating Committee meets to discuss and consider such candidates’ qualifications and then chooses a candidate by majority vote. The Nominating Committee has not established specific qualities or skills that it regards as necessary for one or more of the Fund’s Directors to possess (other than any qualities or skills that may be required by applicable law, regulation or listing standard). However, as set forth in the Nominating Committee Charter, in evaluating a person as a potential nominee to serve as a Director of the Fund, the Nominating Committee may consider the following factors, among any others it may deem relevant:

| • |     | whether or not the person is an “interested person” as defined in the 1940 Act and whether the person is 
 otherwise qualified under applicable laws and regulations to serve as a Director of the Fund;            |

| • |     | whether or not the person has any relationships that might impair his or her independence, such as any business, financial    
 or family relationships with Fund management, the investment manager of the Fund, Fund service providers or their affiliates; |

| • |     | whether or not the person serves on boards of, or is otherwise affiliated with, competing financial service organizations 
 or their related mutual fund complexes;                                                                                   |

| • |     | whether or not the person is willing to serve, and willing and able to commit the time necessary for the performance of the 
 duties of a Director of the Fund;                                                                                           |

| • |     | the contribution which the person can make to the Board and the Fund (or, if the person has previously served as a Director 
 of the Fund, the contribution which the person made to the Board                                                            |

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| during his or her previous term of service), with consideration being given to the person’s business and professional experience, education and such other factors as the Committee may 
 consider relevant;                                                                                                                                                                      |

| • |     | the character and integrity of the person; and |

| • |     | whether or not the selection and nomination of the person would be consistent with the requirements of the Fund’s 
 retirement policies.                                                                                              |

Further, the Fund has adopted Director qualification requirements which can be found in the Fund’s bylaws and are applicable to all Directors that may be nominated or elected to serve as Directors, unless a majority of the Board of Directors then in office determine by resolution that failure to satisfy a particular qualification requirement will not present undue conflicts or impede the