NOVAGOLD EXPRESSES GRATITUDE TO RETIRING DIRECTORS SHARON DOWDALL AND CLYNTON R. NAUMAN FOR THEIR EXEMPLARY SERVICE

The three new candidates standing for nomination to the Firm’s Board of Administrators shall fill one emptiness and change two present administrators who’ve chosen to retire from the Board after a few years of devoted and wonderful service to NOVAGOLD.

“On behalf of the Board of Administrators of NOVAGOLD, I want to categorical my most honest gratitude to Sharon Dowdall and Clynton R. Nauman for his or her very good insights and memorable contributions to the Firm throughout their tenure,” mentioned Dr. Thomas S. Kaplan, NOVAGOLD’s Chairman. “Their fantastic camaraderie will likely be missed on each stage, personally and professionally. That they each had been absolutely engaged within the profitable recruitment course of for unbiased candidates to succeed them speaks volumes — not solely about their appreciation for the attractiveness of a seat on NOVAGOLD’s Board, but in addition about their dedication to making sure that our dedication to transparency and greatest practices stays steadfastly upheld sooner or later with the number of really superb candidates.”

“Sharon is a gold normal for integrity. Her fixed engagement and distinctive steering over the previous 11 years at NOVAGOLD have performed an vital half within the success and development of the Firm. Her appreciable and broad experience within the mining trade, coupled with an equally spectacular authorized background, have offered super worth to the Board. We’re grateful for Sharon’s management position as Chair of the Governance Committee and for her rigorous work on the Compensation Committee. It has been a real pleasure to collaborate with Sharon for greater than a decade and all of us want our pricey buddy nice success in her future endeavours.”

“Clynton has been a merely phenomenal asset to the NOVAGOLD Board over the previous 24 years. Drawing on a wealth of technical and operational expertise, he has made a collection of pivotal contributions to the Board — serving to advance the Firm by way of a number of phases of development to develop into the success it’s at the moment. Because the Chair of our Technical Committee for a few years, Clynt offered excellent assist and steering by way of the extraordinary useful resource development and technical evolution of the Donlin Gold challenge in Alaska. We are going to always remember how a lot NOVAGOLD benefitted from his in depth data and unwavering dedication to the Firm and are immensely grateful for his service.”

NEW NOMINEES TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

In surveying the candidates introduced for election, Dr. Kaplan highlighted the next:

“It’s a testomony to the distinctive mixture of attributes of the Donlin Gold asset, the NOVAGOLD administration crew’s confirmed excellence in advancing crucial challenge of its variety, and our Board’s repute for transparency and shareholder engagement, that our search would lead to a number of superb candidates from which to decide on. All three of the newly chosen nominees are first-rate, bringing to our Board particular person observe data of each success and integrity, in addition to an beautiful collective body of reference that does justice to their predecessors and shall present the Firm with a number of areas of experience as Donlin Gold continues its ascent up the worth chain as one of many ‘greatest at school’ within the gold improvement area.”

NOMINATION OF HUME KYLE TO NOVAGOLD’S BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Mr. Kyle has over 35 years of personal sector and public accounting expertise working with pure sources firms. He lately retired from his position as Government Vice President and CFO of Dundee Treasured Metals Inc., a multinational gold mining firm, the place he served from 2011 to 2022. Previous to that, Mr. Kyle was Vice President, Treasurer and Controller of TransAlta Company, a multinational energy technology and wholesale advertising firm (2009 to 2011), and Vice President, Finance and CFO of Fort Chicago Vitality Companions L.P., a pipeline, pure fuel liquids processing, and energy firm (2003 to 2009). He additionally held more and more senior finance and accounting roles at Nexfor Inc., Noranda Inc., Deloitte & Touche, and Worth Waterhouse & Co.

As well as, Mr. Kyle served on the boards of Stornoway Diamond Company (2014 to 2019), Alliance Pipeline (2004 to 2009), Aux Sable (2004 to 2009), and the Canadian Affiliation of Revenue Funds (2005 to 2009), serving on a number of committees, together with as Chair of the Audit Committee. He holds a bachelor of arts in economics and accounting from the College of Western Ontario, a graduate diploma in public accounting from McGill College, a CA designation from the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants, a CFA designation from the Institute of Chartered Monetary Analysts, and an ICD.D designation from the Institute of Company Administrators.

The Board of Administrators of NOVAGOLD has decided that Mr. Kyle ought to function a Director for the Firm to learn from his in depth senior govt and board expertise working with giant, publicly-traded, capital-intensive, multinational firms working within the mining, vitality and pure useful resource sectors, in addition to from his experience in a broad vary of areas, together with finance, worldwide accounting and monetary reporting, company technique, enterprise planning and efficiency administration, taxation, threat administration, mergers and acquisitions, and company communications, management and governance.

NOMINATION OF DANIEL MUÑIZ-QUINTANILLA TO NOVAGOLD’S BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Mr. Muñiz has greater than 25 years of expertise in worldwide legislation, capital markets and finance within the mining, logistics and infrastructure industries. His experience in mining is wide-ranging, from operations to mergers and acquisitions. After serving as Managing Director (CEO) of Industrial Minera Mexico, the underground mining division of Grupo Mexico from 2010 to 2014, Mr. Muñiz was elevated to the position of Managing Director (CEO) and Government Vice Chair of Americas Mining, the holding firm of the mining division of Grupo Mexico, a place he held from 2014 to 2018. Throughout this tenure, he was immediately accountable for tens of hundreds of staff and operations spanning Mexico, Chile and Peru. As well as, he served as a member of the Board of Administrators and Government Vice Chairman of Southern Copper Corp., a 90% subsidiary of Americas Mining.

Previous to his profession in operations, Mr. Muñiz served as CFO of Grupo Mexico, the place he efficiently raised over US$11 billion in capital by way of a wide range of securities, together with loans, bonds, structured bonds and challenge finance in a wide range of actual belongings, corresponding to mining, railroads, electrical energy, fuel, oil, toll roads, airports, development, engineering, and actual property. Mr. Muñiz holds a legislation diploma from Universidad Iberoamericana, a grasp’s diploma in legislation from Georgetown College, and a grasp’s diploma in enterprise administration from Instituto de Empresa.

Mr. Muñiz at the moment serves as a member of the board of administrators of Brookfield Infrastructure Company and serves on the board of administrators and as chairman of the Audit Committee of Brookfield Infrastructure Companions LP, the world’s largest infrastructure personal fairness fund. He additionally serves as a Director of Hudbay Minerals Inc., and Gatos Silver Inc. He’s a founding accomplice of Whetstone Assets, a personal base and EV metals acquisition firm; Government Chair of privately-held Minera Adularia, and Government Vice-Chair of privately-held Sunshine Silver.

The Board of Administrators of NOVAGOLD has decided that Mr. Muñiz ought to function a Director for the Firm to learn from his wide-ranging and long-standing expertise as an govt and director of assorted mining and infrastructure corporations within the areas of capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, finance, and company management.

NOMINATION OF DAWN WHITTAKER TO NOVAGOLD’S BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Ms. Whittaker has greater than 30 years of expertise as a lawyer working in capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, company finance and company governance. She at the moment serves because the Impartial Board Chair of Triple Flag Treasured Metals Corp., an NYSE and TSX-listed treasured metals streaming and royalty finance firm. Ms. Whittaker served as a member of the corporate’s advisory board main as much as its preliminary public providing in Might 2021, which constituted the biggest treasured metals IPO globally by market capitalization since 2008. She then served as Chair of the Board by way of the corporate’s transformative acquisition of Maverix Metals accomplished in January 2023, thus positioning Triple Flag because the main rising senior streaming and royalty firm.

Ms. Whittaker is a member of the Board of Sierra Metals Inc., and beforehand served on the Boards of Detour Gold Company (2018 to 2020) and Kirkland Lake Gold Inc. (2012 to 2016). Previous to her retirement in 2018, she was a senior accomplice at Norton Rose Fulbright LLP, a world legislation agency, the place she was the nationwide chief of the agency’s Mining and Commodities Staff in Canada from 2012 to 2015 in addition to a member of the agency’s Canadian partnership Committee from 2014 to 2017. As well as, Ms. Whittaker beforehand served on the Steady Disclosure Advisory Committee of the Ontario Securities Fee. She holds a bachelor of arts and a bachelor of legal guidelines from Queen’s College.

The Board of Administrators of NOVAGOLD has decided that Ms. Whittaker ought to function a Director for the Firm to learn from her vital expertise as a lawyer and board member of assorted mining trade corporations, in addition to from her appreciable experience within the areas of company governance, insights on greatest practices in representing shareholder pursuits, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, and company finance.

NOVAGOLD VIRTUAL MEETING AND SHAREHOLDER PARTICIPATION

NOVAGOLD’s 2023 Annual Common Assembly of Shareholders will likely be held just about solely. Shareholders might forged their vote upfront by proxy or might forged their vote in the course of the Assembly. Shareholders can also take part within the Assembly from any geographic location. Please consult with NOVAGOLD’s Administration Data Round dated March 24, 2023 for detailed directions on voting. We imagine this constitutes an vital step in enhancing accessibility to our annual Assembly for all of our shareholders in addition to decreasing the carbon footprint of our actions.

Shareholders might watch a stay webcast of the Assembly, whereas registered shareholders in addition to duly appointed proxyholders might submit questions digitally in the course of the Assembly at: www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/NG2023 .

Questions can also be submitted to administration and to the Board of Administrators previous to the Assembly through e-mail at information@novagold.com . Shareholders are inspired to log in to the Assembly quarter-hour previous to the scheduled begin time. Please ensure to have the 16-digit management quantity out of your voting supplies out there when logging in to the Assembly.

NOVAGOLD’s Administration Data Round dated March 24, 2023 and Annual Report back to Accompany the Administration Data Round can be found on the Firm’s web site, www.novagold.com/traders/mic/ , on SEDAR at www.sedar.com , and on EDGAR at www.sec.gov .

NOVAGOLD Contacts:
Mélanie Hennessey
Vice President, Company Communications

1-604-669-6227 or 1-866-669-6227

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¹ NOVAGOLD defines a Tier One gold improvement challenge as one with a projected manufacturing lifetime of at the very least 10 years, annual projected manufacturing of at the very least 500,000 ounces of gold, and common projected money prices over the manufacturing life which are within the decrease half of the trade value curve.
² Alaska ranks quantity 4 globally within the Fraser Institute Annual Survey of Mining Corporations 2021 Funding Attractiveness Index.