Company: EMD
Filing Date: 2025-09-16
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-204754
Chunk: 12

Company: WESTERN ASSET EMERGING MARKETS DEBT FUND INC.
Filing Date: 2025-09-16
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 12
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 of stockholders.

Each of the Audit Committee, Nominating Committee, Compensation Committee and Pricing and Valuation
Committee is composed of all Directors who have been determined not to be “interested persons” of the Fund, FTFA, Western Asset or their affiliates within the meaning of the 1940 Act, and who are “independent” as defined in
the New York Stock Exchange listing standards (“Independent Directors”), and is chaired by an Independent Director. The Board in its discretion from time to time may establish ad hoccommittees.

The Board of Directors is currently comprised of eight directors, seven of whom are Independent Directors. Eileen Kamerick serves as Chair of the Board.
Ms. Kamerick is an Independent Director. The appointment of Ms. Kamerick as Chair reflects the Board’s belief that her experience in business and finance, including financial reporting, and experience as a board member of a highly
regulated financial services company, facilitates the efficient development of meeting agendas that address the Fund’s business, legal and other needs and the orderly conduct of board meetings. The Chair develops agendas for Board meetings and
presides at all meetings of the Board. The Chair also leads executive sessions of the Independent Directors, serves as a spokesperson for the Independent Directors and serves as a liaison between the Independent Directors and the Fund’s
management between Board meetings. The Independent Directors regularly meet outside the presence of management and are advised by independent legal counsel. The Board also has determined that its leadership structure, as described above, is
appropriate in light of the size and complexity of the Fund, the number of Independent Directors (who constitute a super-majority of the Board’s membership) and the Board’s general oversight responsibility. The Board also believes that
its leadership structure not only facilitates the orderly and efficient flow of information to the Independent Directors from management, including Western Asset, Western Asset Limited and Western Singapore, the Fund’s subadvisers, but also
enhances the independent and orderly exercise of its responsibilities.

Audit Committee

The Fund’s Audit Committee is composed entirely of all of the Independent Directors: Mses. Colman, Kamerick, Kumar and Sale and Messrs. Agdern,
Grillo and Mason. Ms. Kumar serves as the Chair of the Audit Committee and has been determined by the Board to be an “audit committee financial expert.” Ms. Kamerick has also been determined by the Board to be an “audit committee
financial expert.” The principal functions of the Audit Committee are: to (a) assist Board