Party Committee member, executive director, Vice President and Chief Risk Officer of the Bank. Mr. Hu concurrently serves as a director of CITIC Bank International Limited. He used to be deputy head of the preparatory team for the establishment of the Bank’s Changsha Branch, Party committee member and vice president of Changsha Branch; Party committee member, vice president, secretary of Party committee and president of the Bank’s Chongqing Branch; secretary of Party committee and president of the Bank’s Shanghai Branch; Chief Risk Officer and head of the wholesale business of the Bank. Prior to that, he successively worked for the Political Department of Hunan Provincial Procuratorate, and served as deputy section chief at the Personnel Department of Hunan Provincial Party Committee Office, Assistant General Manager and General Manager of Beihaixiang Properties Development Company, vice chairman of Hongdu Enterprise Company (both affiliated to Hunan Zhongli Industrial Group Co., Ltd.) and chairman of Changsha Xiangcai Urban Credit Cooperative in Hunan Province. Mr. Hu has nearly 30 years of experience in the Chinese banking industry. He graduated from Hunan University with a doctoral degree in economics and is a senior economist.

Non-executive director of the Bank. Ms. Huang has served as a director of Zhejiang Xinhu Group Co., Ltd. since August 2013. Previously, Ms. Huang worked at Agricultural Bank of China (ABC)where she successively served as deputy general manager of the international business department at the Zhejiang Provincial Branch business department, vice president (presiding) of Hangzhou Baojiao sub-branch, deputy general manager of the corporate banking unit at the Zhejiang Provincial Branch business department, deputy general manager (presiding) and general manager of the personal finance unit at the Zhejiang Provincial Branch business department; and was vice president and chief financial officer of Xinhu Holdings Limited, a director of Xinhu Zhongbao Co., Ltd., and vice president and chief financial officer of Zhejiang Xinhu Group Co., Ltd. Ms. Huang graduated from Zhejiang University with a bachelor’s degree in law. She is an intermediate economist.

Non-executive director of the Bank. Mr. Wang has served as chief of State-owned Assets Management Division of the Financial Management and Supervision Department (Audit Department) of the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration since August 2016. Previously, he worked at the Financial Management and Supervision Department (Audit Department) of the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration where he successively served as cadre, deputy chief staff member, and chief staff member of the Audit Division; deputy chief of the First Audit Division; deputy chief of the State-owned Assets Management Division; and consultant and deputy chief of the State-owned Assets Management Division. He was once temporarily appointed as the deputy county chief of Yunxi County, Hubei Province. Prior to that, Mr. Wang worked at the Finance Department of Tsinghua University and was assigned by the National Audit Office to the Audit Bureau of the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration. Mr. Wang graduated from Renmin University of China with a bachelor’s degree in accounting, and obtained a master’s degree in accounting from Beijing Technology and Business University. He is a senior accountant.

Independent non-executive director of the Bank. Mr. Zhou is an IEEE Fellow/CAAI Fellow, has been a long-tenured professor at the Department of Electronic Engineering and a professor of Huiyan Symposium of Tsinghua University since May 2022, and has served as director and chief scientist of Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory since April 2024. Previously, he was the President of the Basic Research Institute of Artificial Intelligence at IBM’s headquarters in New York, USA, Chief Scientist of IBM Watson, and IBM Distinguished Engineer from March 2003 to September 2017; Vice President and Senior Vice President of JD.com, Inc., Chairman of Technology Committee of JD.com, Inc., President of JD Cloud & AI, and President of JD AI Research Institute from September 2017 to November 2021; Director of Kingdee International Software Group Co. Ltd. from March 2020 to December 2021; and he founded Beijing Xianyuan Technology Co., Ltd. in December 2021. Graduated from the University of Colorado with a doctorate degree in electronic and computer engineering, Mr. Zhou has been engaged in AI basic theory and cutting-edge technology research for more than 20 years. He has long-time academic research experience in the new generation of information technology represented by artificial intelligence, and accumulated an abundance of hands-on experience in the field of Internet.

Independent non-executive director of the Bank. He currently serves as a professor and PhD supervisor at the Department of Finance of Renmin Business School. He is one of the first batch of outstanding scholars (Post-A professor) appointed by Renmin University of China, a state-level famous teacher, the deputy director of the China National MPAcc Education Steering Committee, Vice Chairman of Accounting Society of China, Vice Chairman of Cost Research Society of China, and an independent director of Tsinghua Tongfang Co., Ltd., Wanhua Chemical Group Co., Ltd. and Beijing Capital International Airport Company Limited. The positions he previously held include Deputy Director of Accounting Department and Deputy Dean of the business school at Renmin University of China as well as an independent director of many companies such as Huatai Securities Co., Ltd., E Fund Management Co., Ltd., China Railway Construction Corporation Limited, BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Hua Xia Bank Co., Ltd., China Great Wall Securities Co., Ltd., etc. Graduated from Renmin University of China with a doctorate degree in management (majoring in accounting), Mr. Wang has abundant research achievements and extensive experience in fiscal, accounting, and financial fields.

Independent non-executive director of the Bank. She is currently deputy secretary of the Party Committee of the School of Economics, professor and PhD supervisor at the Department of Finance, director of the China Center for Financial and Investment Research, Peking University and independent director of China Silver Group Limited. Ms. Song has been teaching at the School of Economics, Peking University since 2003. She once worked as lecturer, associate professor, Party Committee member of the School of Economics, deputy director of the Department of Finance and assistant to the dean of the School of Economics. From 2006 to 2007, Ms. Song was a visiting scholar at the University of Minnesota. Ms. Song graduated from the Department of Finance of the School of Economics, Peking University with a doctoral degree. Her research focuses on monetary theories and policies, international finance and asset pricing. She published more than 50 academic papers on key journals of economics, books such as Asset Allocation Mechanisms and Interest Rate Liberalization in China’s Transition Economy and Comparison of Currency Internationalization Between China and the United States and a number translated books. She hosted three provincial or ministerial level research subjects in the National Social Science Fund Project and the Beijing Philosophy and Social Science Project and participated in a number of national and provincial level research subjects.