Non-executive director of the Bank. Mr. Wei currently serves as Director of Human Resources of CITIC Limited, the employee representative director, General Manager of Human Resources Department, Minister of Party Committee Organization Department, Executive Vice President (Executive Vice Dean) of CITIC Group Party School (CITIC Business School), Deputy Secretary of Party Committee of Directly Affiliated Organs of CITIC Group, General Manager of the Human Resources Department of CITIC Limited, the employee representative director of CITIC Corporation Limited, director of CITIC Trust Co., Ltd. He previously served as Deputy Director of the Industry Injury Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Commerce, Deputy Director and Director of the Cadre Bureau V, Deputy Inspector and Second-level Inspector of the Cadre Supervision Bureau of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee. Mr. Wei graduated from Renmin University of China with a doctoral degree in law.

Party committee member, executive director and Vice President of the Bank. Mr. Hu concurrently serves as 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, vice president (presiding) and president of the Bank’s Chongqing Branch; secretary of Party committee and president of the Bank’s Shanghai Branch; and Chief Risk Officer, head of the wholesale business and risk director of the Bank. Prior to that, he successively worked for the Political Department of Hunan Provincial Procuratorate, the General Office of the CPC Hunan Provincial Committee, Beihaixiang Properties Development Company and Hongdu Enterprise Company (both affiliated to Hunan Zhongli Industrial Group Co., Ltd.) and Changsha Xiangcai Urban Credit Cooperative in Hunan Province. Mr. Hu graduated from Hunan University with a doctoral degree in economics and is a senior economist.

Non-executive director of the Bank. Mr. Wang currently serves as director at Shanghai Tobacco Group Co., Ltd., China Tobacco Jiangsu Industrial Co., Ltd., China Tobacco Anhui Industrial Co., Ltd. and China Tobacco Fujian Industrial Co., Ltd. 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; consultant and deputy chief of the State-owned Assets Management Division; and 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 Beijing Technology and Business University with a master’s degree in management (majoring in accounting) and is a senior accountant.

Non-executive director of the Bank. Mr. Fu currently serves as Vice Chairman and General Manager of Quzhou Urban Development and Holding Group Co., Ltd., chairman of Quzhou Xin’an Development Co., Ltd., and director and deputy general manager of Quzhou Industrial Development Group Co., Ltd. He previously served as director and deputy general manager of Quzhou Industrial Holding Group Co., Ltd., head of the investment and financing department and assistant general manager of Quzhou Industrial Development Group Co., Ltd., and legal representative, executive director and general manager of Zhejiang Xin’an International Trade Group Co., Ltd. Prior to that, he worked at Hengxin Securities Co., Ltd., Shanghai Xinyong Industrial Co., Ltd., Shanghai Jinyong Investment Management Co., Ltd., Quzhou Sub-branch of China Zheshang Bank, Quzhou Sub-branch of Shanghai Pudong Development Bank, Quzhou Branch of Wenzhou Bank, the Shanghai Incubator in Haier Group Hai Chuanghui Fund, the Hangzhou-Jinhua-Quzhou Regional Company of Zhongliang Real Estate, and Quzhou Communications Investment Group Co., Ltd. Mr. Fu holds a master’s degree in business management from Jilin University.

Independent non-executive director of the Bank. Mr. Zhou is an IEEE Fellow/CAAI Fellow, a long-tenured professor at the Department of Electronic Engineering and a professor of Huiyan Symposium of Tsinghua University, as well as director and chief scientist of Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. 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; 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; Director of Kingdee International Software Group Co. Ltd.; and the founder of Beijing Xianyuan Technology Co., Ltd. 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 cuttingedge technology research for more than 20 years. He has long-term 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 the Internet.

Independent non-executive director of the Bank. Mr. Wang currently serves as an independent director of Wanhua Chemical Group Co., Ltd. and Beijing Capital International Airport Co., Ltd. The positions he previously held include deputy director of Accounting Department at Renmin University of China, deputy dean of Renmin Business School and professor of the Department of Finance and Accounting at Renmin Business School, as well as independent director of numerous 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. and Tsinghua Tongfang Co., Ltd. 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. Ms. Song 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, as well as an independent director of China Silver Group Limited. She previously worked as a 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 at Peking University. She was a visiting scholar at the University of Minnesota. Ms. Song graduated from Peking University with a doctoral degree (majoring in finance). Her research focuses on monetary theories and policies, international finance and asset pricing. She published more than 50 academic papers in 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 of translated books. She hosted three provincial or ministerial-level research subjects under 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.