Rai Fung CH’IEN, GBS, CBE, JP, Director

Dr Ch’ien has been an independent Non-executive Director of the Company since 2002. He is chairman of CDC Corporation as well as the chairman and a director respectively of its subsidiaries China.com Inc., publicly listed in Hong Kong, and CDC Software Corporation. Dr Ch’ien is also the chairman of two companies publicly listed in Hong Kong, namely, MTR Corporation Limited and Hang Seng Bank Limited. Dr Ch’ien also serves on the boards of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange Limited, Swiss Reinsurance Company Ltd and publicly-listed Convenience Retail Asia Limited. He was formerly an independent non-executive director of publicly-listed VTech Holdings Limited from 2001 to 2008.

In public service, Dr Ch’ien is the chairman of the Hong Kong/European Union Business Cooperation Committee and a member of the Standing Committee of the Tianjin Municipal Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. Dr. Ch’ien is an honorary president and past chairman of the Federation of Hong Kong Industries. From 1992 to 1997, Dr Ch’ien was a member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong, then under British administration. He was appointed a member of the Executive Council of the Hong Kong SAR on 1 July 1997 and served until June 2002.

Dr Ch’ien received a doctoral degree in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978 and became a Trustee of the University in 2006. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1993 and a Commander in the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1994.

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