W. P. Carey Inc.

■The absence of a poison pill;

■A considered approach to executive compensation and reliance on a carefully constructed group of compensation peers;

■Sound compensation practices, including an anti-hedging policy, a clawback policy, meaningful limits on pledging, strong director and executive stock ownership guidelines, and a robust annual compensation risk assessment;

■Board review of management succession plans;

■Consideration of diversity in professional and personal experience, gender, race, age, ethnicity, and national origin when reviewing potential director nominees;

■A limitation on over-boarding by our directors, with a maximum of four public company boards (including that of the Company, but excluding any of our affiliates), with members of the Audit Committee limited to serving on three such boards and our CEO limited to serving on two such Boards;

■Adopted a new Dodd Frank Clawback Policy aligning with NYSE rules;

■Adopted a Human Rights Policy; and

■Publication of a standalone ESG report, prepared with reference to the disclosure standards established by the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).

These governance provisions are supplemented by our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, Human Rights Policy and procedures governing related party transactions, which are important elements of our overall approach to governance and are described in the "Corporate Governance" section.

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