Board of Directors
INDEPENDENT NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS
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· INDEPENDENT NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS
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Mr. Ma Yongwei, born in 1942, Chinese
Mr. Ma became an Independent Director of the Company in 2006. Mr. Ma has been a member of the Standing Committee of National Committee of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference since 2003. He was the Chairman of China Insurance Regulatory Commission from 1998 to 2002. From 1996 to 1998, he served as the Chairman and General Manager of former China Insurance Group Company. From 1994 to 1996, he served as the Chairman and General Manager of the former People’s Insurance Company of China. From 1984 to 1994, Mr. Ma served as Governor of the Agricultural Bank of China. Mr. Ma graduated from the Finance Department of Liaoning Finance and Economic University in 1966. Mr. Ma, a Researcher, has over 39 years of experience in the banking industry and the insurance industry.
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· INDEPENDENT NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS
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Mr. Sun Changji, born in 1942, Chinese
Mr. Sun became an Independent Director of the Company in May 2009. From January 1968, Mr. Sun worked in Sichuan Oriental Turbine Factory, serving as Section Head, Workshop Director, Deputy Factory Manager and Factory Manager. In July 1991, he was appointed as Deputy Director-general of the production department of the Ministry of Machinery Industry of the PRC, and he became Vice Minister of the Ministry of Machinery Industry of the PRC in April 1993. In April 1998, he became First Deputy Director-general of the State Administration of Machinery Industry of the PRC (deputy ministerial level). He became Deputy Party Secretary and Vice President (deputy ministerial level) of Bank of China in January 1999. From September 1999 to August 2001, he served concurrently as President of China Orient Asset Management Corporation. He became Vice Chairman of Bank of China in November 2000, Vice Chairman of Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited in September 2001 and Secretary of Commission for Discipline Inspection of Bank of China in June 2003 concurrently. From August 2004, he has served as Vice Chairman of Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited and Vice Chairman of China Machinery Industry Federation concurrently. Mr. Sun, now a Researcher-Level Senior Engineer, graduated from Tsinghua University in September 1966.
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Mr. Bruce Douglas MOORE, born in 1949, American
Mr. Moore became an Independent Director of the Company in May 2009. From 2002 to 2007, Mr. Moore was Partner-in-charge of Asian actuarial services for Ernst & Young. He was based in Beijing for this job. He had served in actuarial leadership roles with Ernst & Young in New York and Tokyo. From 1995 to 2000, he was the head of international actuarial services in New York with Ernst & Young. In 2000, Mr. Moore worked with Ernst & Young in Beijing and was in charge of the business in Asian markets (including Japan). In 2001, he was responsible for Japan actuarial services in Tokyo. Since 2002, he was responsible for actuarial services in Asian market (excluding Japan) in Ernst & Young’s Beijing office. From 1982 to 1995, he worked in various senior financial management roles at Prudential Life Insurance (U.S.). Mr. Moore graduated from Brown University in 1971, majoring in Applied Mathematics. Mr. Moore has obtained FSA, FCAS, MAAA and CFA qualifications. Mr. Moore has over 36 years of experience serving the insurance industry as an executive or a consultant.
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Mr. Anthony Francis NEOH , born in 1946, Chinese
Mr. Neoh became an Independent Director of the Company in June 2010. He currently serves as a member of the International Consultation Committee of the CSRC. He previously served as Chief Advisor to the CSRC, a member of the Basic Law Committee of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region under the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of China, Chairman of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission, etc. From 1996 to 1998, he was Chairman of the Technical Committee of the International Organisation of Securities Commissions. He was appointed as Queen’s Counsel (since retitled as Senior Counsel) in Hong Kong in 1990. Mr. Neoh graduated from the University of London with a degree in Law in 1976. He is a barrister of England and Wales and admitted to the State Bar of California. In 2003, he was conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa by the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was elected Honorary Fellow of the Hong Kong Securities Institute and Academician of the International Euro-Asian Academy of Sciences in 2009. Mr. Neoh was a Non-executive Director of Global Digital Creations Holdings Limited from November 2002 to December 2005, and an Independent Non-executive Director of the Link Management Limited, Manager of the Link Real Estate Investment Trust, from September 2004 to March 2006. Since August 2004, he has been serving as an Independent Non-executive Director of Bank of China Limited.
