Mr CHANG Hsin Kang

Mr Chang was appointed an Independent Non-Executive Director of HKT Limited (HKT) and HKT Management Limited (Trustee-Manager), the trustee-manager of the HKT Trust, in November 2011. He is the Chairman of HKT's Regulatory Compliance Committee, a member of HKT's Audit Committee, Remuneration Committee and Nomination Committee, and a member of the Trustee-Manager's Audit Committee. Mr Chang was an Independent Non-Executive Director of PCCW Limited from October 2000 to November 2011.

Mr Chang became an Honorary Professor of Peking University in 2006 and an Honorary Professor of Tsinghua University in September 2007. He was the President and University Professor of City University of Hong Kong from 1996 to 2007. Prior to that, he was the Dean of the School of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh in the United States from 1994 to 1996, Founding Dean of the School of Engineering at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from 1990 to 1994 and the Chairperson of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California in the United States from 1985 to 1990.

Mr Chang is a Foreign Member of the Royal Academy of Engineering of the United Kingdom, a Member of International Eurasian Academy of Sciences; and Chevalier dans l'Ordre National de la Légion d'Honneur as well as Commandeur dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques of France. He was appointed Justice of the Peace in July 1999 and awarded the Gold Bauhinia Star by the Hong Kong Government in July 2002.

Mr Chang obtained his bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the National Taiwan University, a master's degree in structural engineering from Stanford University in the United States and a doctorate in biomedical engineering from Northwestern University in the United States.

Mr Chang was an Independent Non-Executive Director of Hang Lung Properties Limited, Hon Kwok Land Investment Company, Limited, Brightoil Petroleum (Holdings) Limited and Nanyang Commercial Bank, Limited.

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