Annual Report 2021

Directors and Senior Management 52 CHINA MERCHANTS PORT HOLDINGS COMPANY LIMITED Mr. Kut Ying Hay aged 66, is a retired solicitor and a retired notary public in Hong Kong and had been in practice in the name of Kut & Co. for more than 25 years. He obtained qualification as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales, the Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia, and the Supreme Court of Singapore, and as an associate member of the Institute of Chartered Arbitrators and the Institute of Arbitrators, Australia. He was appointed by the Hong Kong Government as a member of the Board of Review for the period from 1995 to 1998. He was also appointed by the Ministry of Justice of the PRC as a China Appointed Attesting Officer (now retired). Mr. Kut was formerly an Independent Non-executive Director of publicly-listed China Merchants China Direct Investments Limited from June 1993 to October 2011. He was appointed to the Board as Independent Non-executive Director on 6 June 1992. He is also the Chairman of the Nomination Committee and a member of the Audit Committee and the Remuneration Committee of the Company. Mr. Lee Yip Wah Peter aged 79, is a retired solicitor. Following the delisting of shares of SHK Hong Kong Industries Limited and Sinotrans Shipping Limited on 23 April 2021 and 16 January 2019, he ceased to act as Independent Non-executive Directors of SHK Hong Kong Industries Limited and Sinotrans Shipping Limited respectively on 27 April 2021 and 16 January 2019. He was appointed to the Board as Independent Non- executive Director on 20 June 2001. He is also the Chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the Nomination Committee and the Remuneration Committee of the Company. Mr. Li Ka Fai David aged 66, is the senior advisor of SHINEWING (HK) CPA Limited. He is also a fellow of The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, UK. He is an Independent Non- executive Director and Chairman of Audit Committee, member of Remuneration Committee and member of Nomination Committee of China-Hongkong Photo Products Holdings Limited, an Independent Non-executive Director, Chairman of Audit Committee, member of Remuneration Committee and member of Nomination Committee of Cosmopolitan International Holdings Limited, an Independent Non-executive Director, Chairman of Audit Committee, member of Remuneration Committee and member of Nomination Committee of Goldlion Holdings Limited, an Independent Non-executive Director and Chairman of Audit Committee of Shanghai Industrial Urban Development Group Limited, an Independent Non-executive Director, member of Audit Committee and member of Remuneration Committee of Continental Aerospace Technologies Holding Limited (formerly known as AVIC International Holding (HK) Limited), and an Independent Non-executive Director and Chairman of Audit Committee of Wai Yuen Tong Medicine Holdings Limited, shares of the above six companies are listed on the HKSE. He previously served as an Independent Non-executive Director of CR Construction Group Holdings Limited from October 2019 to June 2021, the shares of which are listed on the HKSE. He was appointed to the Board as Independent Non-executive Director on 1 June 2007. He is also the Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and a member of the Audit Committee and the Nomination Committee of the Company. Mr. Bong Shu Ying Francis aged 79, OBE, JP, is currently an Independent Non-executive Director of Cosmopolitan International Holdings Limited, shares of which are listed on the HKSE. Mr. Bong holds a Bachelor’s Degree of Sciences in Engineering from the University of Hong Kong and was the Chairman of the Hong Kong University Engineering Advisory Committee. He is a former President of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, a former President of Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences and a Fellow of the Institution of Structural Engineers (UK). Mr. Bong is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Hong Kong and he was appointed a Justice of Peace in 1992 by the Government of Hong Kong and he received an OBE award in 1997 for his outstanding contribution to the development of the engineering profession in Hong Kong. Mr. Bong was a former Director of AECOM Technology Corporation, a company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. He was appointed to the Board as Independent Non-executive Director on 14 July 2010. He is also a member of the Audit Committee, Nomination Committee and Remuneration Committee of the Company.