---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001076598-25-000340"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ETO"
cik: "0001281926"
company_name: "Eaton Vance Tax-Advantaged Global Dividend Opportunities Fund"
filed_at: "2025-08-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T12:51:42.347061+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Chairperson Mark R. Fetting passes away; Susan J. Sutherland named acting chair

## Summary
- Mark R. Fetting, Chairperson of the Board, unexpectedly died on August 9, 2025.
- Susan J. Sutherland appointed acting Chairperson of the Board effective immediately.
- Board reduced size from ten to nine members effective August 12, 2025.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001076598-25-000340
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ETO
- cik: 0001281926
- company_name: Eaton Vance Tax-Advantaged Global Dividend Opportunities Fund
- filed_at: 2025-08-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1281926/000107659825000340/0001076598-25-000340-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1281926/000107659825000340/eto8k.htm

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