Members
Sustainability Committee
Mr. Luan Zusheng
Mr. Luan is the Executive Director and the Chief Executive Officer of the Company, and the director and the general manager of Everbright Environmental Protection (China) Limited* (a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company). He is also the Member of the Risk Management Committee and the Chairman of the Disclosure Committee of the Board, and a director of several subsidiaries of the Group. Mr. Luan is currently the director of Sun Life Everbright Life Insurance Co., Ltd. He holds a master’s degree in accounting from the Department of Accounting of Nankai University and a doctorate degree in political economics from the Department of Economics of Nankai University. Mr. Luan is also a certified intermediate accountant in the People’s Republic of China. Mr. Luan was the director of Everbright Financial Holding Asset Management Co., Ltd. Prior to joining the Group, Mr. Luan was the director of the office and the officer for deepening reform of the leading group office for the comprehensive deepening reform, and the secretary general of the office of China Everbright Group Ltd., the controlling shareholder of the Company, the president of Shijiazhuang and Wuxi Branches, the vice president and risk director of Shenzhen Branch, the assistant to the president and risk director of Fuzhou Branch, of China Everbright Bank Company Limited (“Everbright Bank”, the shares of which are listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited and Shanghai Stock Exchange), the general manager of small and medium enterprises business department and the general manager of the microfinance business department of Everbright Bank. Mr. Luan joined the Board in June 2021.
Sustainability Committee
Ms. Li Shuk Yin, Edwina
Ms. Li is an Independent Non-executive Director of the Company, the chairman of the Audit Committee of the Board, and a member of each of the Remuneration Committee, the Nomination Committee and the Risk Management Committee of the Board. Ms. Li is an independent non-executive director of CNOOC Limited (the shares of which are listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the “Stock Exchange”)and the Shanghai Stock Exchange). She is also an independent non-executive director of China CITIC Bank International Limited and a director of Elite Beam Limited. Ms. Li was formerly an independent non-executive director of Bank of Zhengzhou Co., Ltd. (the shares of which are listed on the Stock Exchange and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange) and an external supervisor of PICC Property and Casualty Company Limited (the shares of which are listed on the Stock Exchange). Ms. Li is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Ms. Li formerly worked in KPMG from 1994 with her last role as the partner in charge of KPMG China’s financial services assurance team until her retirement in March 2018. Ms. Li has significant experience in accounting, capital market, market entrance, regulatory compliance related internal control and risk management in Hong Kong and China. Prior to joining KPMG, Ms. Li qualified as a Chartered Accountant with a large multinational accounting firm and worked as controller with a real estate company and a financial services group in London. Ms. Li holds a Bachelor degree with Honours in Accountancy from University of Exeter, England, a Postgraduate Diploma in Enterprise Risk Management from HKU SPACE, a Master of Science Degree in Risk Management from Glasgow Caledonian University, United Kingdom and a Master of Social Sciences Degree in the field of Sustainability Leadership and Governance from the University of Hong Kong. Ms. Li joined the Board in May 2022.
Sustainability Committee
Professor Zhang Xiang, JP.
Professor Zhang is an Independent Non-executive Director of the Company, and a member of each of the Nomination Committee, Remuneration Committee and the Sustainability Committee of the Board. He is currently the President of the University of Hong Kong, a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and an elected member of the US National Academy of Engineering. He is also an external supervisor of China Merchants Bank Co., Ltd. (the shares of which are listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited and Shanghai Stock Exchange). He served as an assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University, and served successively as an associate professor and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2004, Professor Zhang returned to the University of California, Berkeley and served as an associate professor and professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department and the Institute of Applied Science and Technology, and served as the inaugural Ernest S. Kuh Endowed Chair Professor, at the same time, he served as the director of the US National Science Foundation Nano-scale Science and Engineering Centre of University of California, Berkeley, and a director of Materials Science Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He obtained a bachelor degree and a master degree in Science from Nanjing University, a master degree in Science from the University of Minnesota and a doctoral degree of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Zhang joined the Board in March 2025.
The Sustainability Committee currently comprises Mr. Luan Zusheng, the executive Director and Chief Executive Officer (Chairman), and Ms. Li Shuk Yin, Edwina and Professor Zhang Xiang, JP., both are independent non-executive Directors. Its primary responsibilities include but not limited to oversee the management of the Company’s sustainability measures, including the review and oversight of policies and practices related to environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters, and to provide recommendations to the Board on relevant developments and implementation issues. The terms of reference of the Sustainability Committee have been established in writing.
