Mr. Hu has served as Independent Non-executive Director of the Bank since April 2019. He previously served as a senior economist at the International Monetary Fund, Head of Research at the World Economic Forum, the co-director of the National Center for Economic Research and a professor at Tsinghua University, an adjunct professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Peking University, the chairman for Greater China and a partner at Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., an independent non-executive director of Great Wall Pan Asia Holdings Limited (formerly known as SCMP Group Limited), an independent non-executive director of Hang Seng Bank Limited, the non-executive director of China Asset Management Co., Ltd., an independent director of Dalian Wanda Commercial Management Group Co., Ltd., an independent director of Shanghai Pudong Development Bank, the independent non-executive director of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited and the independent non-executive director of Ant Group Co., Ltd., etc. Mr. Hu currently serves in various positions such as the chairman of Primavera Capital Group, the non-executive chairman of Yum China Holdings, Inc, the director of UBS Group AG, the director of Taikang Insurance Group Co., Ltd., the co-chair of The Nature Conservancy’s Asia Pacific Council and the director of the China Medical Board. Mr. Hu is also a member of the Global Board of Advisors for the Council on Foreign Relations, the Harvard Global Advisory Council, the Harvard Kennedy School Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, the Jerome A. Chazen Institute of International Business at Columbia University etc. Mr. Hu obtained a Master’s Degree in Engineering Science from Tsinghua University, and a master’s degree and a PhD in Economics from Harvard University.