◎Ant Group updated the official website information, newly hired Yang Xiaolei and Shi Meilun as independent directors, and the proportion of independent directors on the board of directors increased to 50%.
◎In February 2001, Shi Meilun, known as the "Iron Lady" of the stock market, accepted the invitation of the central government to serve as the vice chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, in charge of listing and financing supervision.
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Recently, Ant Group updated the official website information, newly hired Yang Xiaolei and Shi Meilun as independent directors, the proportion of independent directors on the board of directors has increased to 50%, and the proportion of female directors exceeds 1/3.In addition, the number of shareholder representative directors has been reduced from 3 to 2, and Jiang Fang no longer serves on the board of directors of Ant Group.This change shows that Ant Group is continuing to improve corporate governance and enhance the independence and professionalism of the board of directors.
It is worth mentioning that Shi Meilun, who was hired this time, is currently the chairman of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited.In February 2001, Shi Meilun, known as the "Iron Lady" of the stock market, accepted the invitation of the central government to serve as the vice chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, in charge of listing and financing supervision.
Another independent director, Yang Xiaolei, is currently an independent director of Hengfeng Bank Co., Ltd. She was a lawyer of CITIC Law Firm under China International Trust and Investment Corporation (now CITIC Group), a partner of Jingtian & Gongcheng Law Firm, and King & Wood Mallesons. partner.
After this adjustment, Ant Group's board of directors has a "2+2+4" structure: 2 executive directors, namely Jing Xiandong (chairman) and Ni Xingjun; 2 non-executive directors/shareholder representative directors, respectively Cai Chongxin, Cheng Li; 4 independent directors, namely Hao Quan, Huang Yiping, Yang Xiaolei and Shi Meilun.Among them, independent directors account for 50%, Hao Quan, Yang Xiaolei, and Shi Meilun are all women, and female directors account for more than 1/3.
In addition, the reporter noticed that Hu Zuliu, the founder of Primavera Capital Group, no longer serves as an independent director of Ant Group.
Independent directors are an important part of the modern corporate governance system, and are crucial to the transparency of board governance and the effectiveness of performance of duties.
At present, Ant's four independent directors include well-known economists, senior financial experts, senior legal experts and people with rich international regulatory experience. This combination can ensure the professionalism of the board of directors; 50% of the members of the board of directors are independent directors, and some It is conducive to the more independent performance of the board of directors, which is conducive to the long-term healthy and stable development of Ant Group.
It is reported that in order to meet the requirements of future financial control supervision, Ant Group has taken various measures to improve its corporate governance and play a key role in corporate governance in risk prevention.These measures include continuously strengthening the role of the board of directors, expanding the scope of directors' duties, and establishing the board of directors' conflict of interest committee, risk management and consumer rights protection committee, privacy protection and data security committee, etc.Ant Group stated that it will further increase the number of independent directors in the future, and gradually achieve more than half of the independent directors in the board of directors.
