Dr Hu Tsu Tau
Chairman

Dr Hu Tsu Tau, a Non-Executive Independent Director, joined the CapitaLand Board on 13 April 2004 and was elected Chairman on the same day. He was last re-appointed as Director at CapitaLand’s Annual General Meeting on 28 April 2006. He is also Chairman of CapitaLand’s Investment Committee.

Dr Hu is presently Chairman of GIC Real Estate Pte Ltd and Asia Financial Holdings Pte Ltd. He is also a Member of the Board of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation Pte Ltd (GIC) and a Director of Buildfolio.Com. Inc. He was previously Chairman of Mapletree Investments Pte Ltd.

From 1985 to 2001, he was a Cabinet Minister holding posts in the Trade and Industry, Health and Finance ministries. Prior to his ministerial appointment, Dr Hu held the posts of Managing Director concurrently in the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and GIC from 1983 to 1984. Before his appointments in MAS and GIC, he was with the Shell Group of companies in 1960, and his last position in this global company was as Chairman and Chief Executive of the Shell Group of companies in Singapore.

Dr Hu is a graduate of the University of California, USA, with a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry. He also holds a Postgraduate Diploma (Chemical Engineering) and a Doctorate in Chemical Engineering, both from the University of Birmingham, UK.

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Mr Hsuan Owyang
Deputy Chairman

Mr Hsuan Owyang, a Non-Executive Independent Director, joined the CapitaLand Board on 20 November 2000 and was elected Deputy Chairman on the same day. He was last re-appointed as Director at CapitaLand’s Annual General Meeting on 28 April 2006.

Mr Owyang is Chairman of CapitaLand’s Finance and Budget Committee and Deputy Chairman of CapitaLand’s Investment Committee. He sits on CapitaLand’s Executive Resource and Compensation Committee and Nominating Committee. Mr Owyang is also Chairman of CapitaMall Trust Management Limited and CapitaRetail China Trust Management Limited.

In addition, Mr Owyang is Chairman of East Asian Institute, N.M. Rothschild & Sons (Singapore) Limited and Ayala International Holdings Limited. He is also a Director of MobileOne Limited and former Chairman of Transpac Industrial Holdings Limited, both companies listed on the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited (SGX-ST); and a Director of N.M. Rothschild China Holding AG.

He served on the Board of Singapore’s Housing & Development Board (HDB) from 1977 and was appointed Chairman of HDB in 1983 until his retirement in October 1998. Mr Owyang has extensive banking experience and worked on Wall Street for 12 years as an investment advisor. He was also Director and General Manager of Overseas Union Bank which he was associated with for more than 18 years before his appointment as Executive Deputy Chairman of Post Office Savings Bank until 1988.

Mr Owyang is a graduate of the University of Dubuque, USA, with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. He also holds a Master of Business Administration from Harvard University, USA.

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Mr Liew Mun Leong
President and Chief Executive Officer

Mr Liew Mun Leong is President and CEO of CapitaLand Group. He joined the CapitaLand Board as Director on 1 January 1997 and was last re-elected as Director at CapitaLand’s Annual General Meeting on 29 April 2005. He also serves on CapitaLand’s Investment Committee, Nominating Committee, Corporate Disclosure Committee and Finance and Budget Committee.

Mr Liew is Chairman of CapitaLand Residential Limited, CapitaLand Commercial and Integrated Development Limited and CapitaLand Retail Limited. He is Deputy Chairman of CapitaLand Financial Limited, The Ascott Group Limited (a subsidiary of CapitaLand listed on the SGX-ST) as well as the Deputy Chairman of CapitaMall Trust Management Limited (the manager of CapitaMall Trust, the first real estate investment trust listed on SGX-ST), CapitaCommercial Trust Management Limited (the manager of CapitaCommercial Trust listed on SGX-ST), CapitaRetail China Trust Management Limited (the manager of CapitaRetail China Trust listed on SGX-ST) and Ascott Residence Trust Management Limited (the manager of Ascott Residence Trust
listed on SGX-ST). He is also a Director of CapitaLand Hope Foundation, the Group’s philanthropic entity.

Mr Liew has more than 30 years of experience in construction and real estate in Singapore and overseas. He has participated in a number of public sector infrastructural development projects in Singapore, including the development and construction of Changi International Airport. For five years, he was CEO of Singapore Institute of Standards and Industrial Research (SISIR), a statutory board responsible for national standards and industrial research and development to support the manufacturing industry in Singapore. Later, he headed a regional public listed engineering and construction company, headquartered in Singapore.

Mr Liew was elected the President of International Organisation for Standarisation (ISO) from 1997 to 1998. In 2006, he was named Outstanding CEO of the Year in the Singapore Business Awards. He currently chairs the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS).

Mr Liew is a graduate of the University of Singapore with a Civil Engineering degree and is a registered professional civil engineer.

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Mr Lim Chin Beng
Director

Mr Lim Chin Beng, a Non-Executive Independent Director, joined the CapitaLand Board on 23 February 1998 and was last re-appointed as Director at CapitaLand’s Annual General Meeting on 28 April 2006. Mr Lim is also the Chairman of CapitaLand’s Executive Resource and Compensation Committee and Nominating Committee.

Currently, Mr Lim is the Chairman of The Ascott Group Limited, CapitaLand Hope Foundation and Singapore Airshow Pte Ltd. He sits on the Boards of StarHub Ltd (listed on SGX-ST) and Pontiac Land Pte Ltd. Mr Lim is also Chairman of Pontiac Land’s Audit Committee and a Member of the Public Service Commission.

Mr Lim has 30 years of experience in the aviation industry beginning with the Malaysian Airlines in the 1960s. In the 1970s, he helped start up Singapore Airlines and was its Managing Director from 1972 to 1982. Mr Lim retired as Deputy Chairman of Singapore Airlines in 1996. He was the Chairman of Singapore Tourism Board from 1985 to 1989. Between 1991 to 1997, Mr Lim was Singapore’s Ambassador to Japan.

Mr Lim is a graduate from the University of Malaya with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Economics. He also attended an Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School, USA, in 1973.

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