Ms. HUNG, aged 54, has been appointed as the General Counsel of the Group since November 1996 and the Company Secretary of the Company since March 2001. Ms. HUNG is mainly responsible for the overall legal, corporate governance, compliance, company secretarial, risk management and internal control, etc. and related matters for the Company. She also serves as a member of the Risk Management Committee of the Company. Ms. HUNG holds a Bachelor of Laws degree (Hons) from The University of Hong Kong. She is currently a practicing solicitor of the High Court of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and is qualified in England and Wales. She is also a Fellow of The Hong Kong Chartered Governance Institute. Ms. HUNG was named among the top 25 “in-house high flyers” and “the best in Asia” by Asian Legal Business Magazine (“ALB”) for three consecutive years (2006-2008). In addition, she was awarded the “Asian Company Secretary of the Year Recognition Award” for two consecutive years (2013-2014) by Corporate Governance Asia, a corporate governance magazine, and named among the top 15 general counsels of the 2015 China’s Top General Counsel Rankings by ALB. She was awarded the “Woman Lawyer of the Year (In-House)” at the ALB Hong Kong Law Awards 2021 and was awarded the “In-House Lawyer of the Year” at the ALB Women in Law Awards by ALB in the same year. In 2024, Ms. HUNG was again recognized by ALB as one of the Top 15 General Counsels in Asia.