Company: WIA
Filing Date: 2025-04-14
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-080095
Chunk: 13

Company: WESTERN ASSET INFLATION-LINKED INCOME FUND
Filing Date: 2025-04-14
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 13
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which is available on the Fund’s website at www.franklintempleton.com/investments/options/closed-end-fundsand click on the name of the Fund.

The Governance Committee may take into account a wide variety of factors in considering Trustee candidates, including, but not limited to:
(i) availability and commitment of a candidate to attend meetings and perform his or her responsibilities to the Board, (ii) relevant industry and related experience, (iii) educational background, (iv) financial expertise,
(v) an assessment of the candidate’s ability, judgment and expertise and (vi) overall diversity of the Board’s composition.

The
Governance Committee requires that Trustee candidates have a college degree or equivalent business experience. Further, as required by the Bylaws, to qualify as a nominee for election as a Trustee and to be elected as a Trustee, an individual, at
the time of nomination and election (unless a majority of the Board then in office have determined by resolution that failure to satisfy a particular qualification requirement will not present undue conflicts or impede the ability of the individual
to discharge the duties of a Trustee or the free flow of information among Trustees or between the Fund’s investment adviser and any sub-adviser on the one hand and the Board on the other hand)
must: (a) have at least five years’ experience in either investment management, economics, public accounting, business or law, or other relevant substantive expertise, experience or relationships (as determined by the Governance Committee
or the Board); (b) at nomination or election, serve as a director of no more than five (5) companies having securities registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”) or 1940 Act or treated as public
reporting companies under any comparable regulatory regime; (c) not have been charged (unless such charges were dismissed or the individual was otherwise exonerated) with a criminal offense involving dishonesty or breach of trust, or have been
convicted or have pled guilty or nolo contendere with respect to a felony under the laws of the United States or any state thereof; (d) not be and shall not have been subject to any censure, order, consent decree or adverse final action of any
federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority barring or suspending such individual from participation in or association with any investment-related business or restricting such individual’s activities with respect to any
investment-related business, nor shall be subject to any “proceed